I'll be the first to confess that I am not the model LapBander. For the most part (about 95% of the time) I have lived by the Golden Rules of an ideal LapBand Lifestyle...............However, I have gone astray on occasion. Here are the top 5 of my personal LapBand sins that I have been guilty of: What are y'alls (Texan Talk)?

1. drink liquids with meals

2. eat way too fast

3. drink an occasional diet coke

4. chew gum

5. eat beyond the first feelings of fullness

I always drink with meals (wlyers diet)

Snack to much (nuts)

Eat PB and eat again and PB

Think I need to finish all the food on the plate

Eat at night

LOL! All of the above a too much of the time. I'm trying really hard to watch the carbs right now. Not too much of a problem most of the time cuz breads don't go down well at all BUT..CHIPS?? CHEETOS? Never a problem! They go down so gooooooooood! Shame Shame!

Ok, Ill answer this while I sit at my computer desk eating Turkish Delight at 9am.

* I drink about 5 mins after I finish eating.

* Diet coke and chocolate

* Not enough exercise

* Too much snacking

* Watching the scales too much

I love this thread - sometimes I think I'm the only one with these bad habits, so it's reassuring to know I'm not alone.

1. I repeatedly eat potato chips even though they sit like lead in my stomach and hurt like He**.

2. I eat too much ice cream.

3. I eat too quickly.

4. I split a bottle of wine with my hubby about once a week.

5. I weigh myself every morning. And every night. And every time I pee.

Ok, I'm only 6 days out and I weigh myself twice a day - I need to stop this NOW!

Oh I so relate to the cookie dough thing!

My mantra is "Cookie Dough is the DEVIL". I even wrote it on my shopping list that way. Today I was in Target chanting it to myself as I walked in the valley of the shadow of the dairy aisle.

My pre-band bad habits are not exercising every day, wanting sweets, and eating way to large a portion.

Always

Hunzi

not banded yet, but trying!

• Eating after a PB (didn't know this was a no no until I just read it on this list!)
  

• Sipping my husband Dr. Pepper (oh how I miss Dr. Pepper!)
  

• Snacking on cookie dough at 10 pm when I KNOW better then to have cookie dough in the house!
  

• Ocassionally taking a drink after dinner to get the taste out of my mouth
  

• Comparing my self to everyone that is losing faster then me and being very discouraged and down about it (hmmm... maybe if I got rid of the cookie dough I might lose faster? something for me to think about )
  

I know in the future when I'm banded I will:

drink coffee straight after dinner. I dont care if it washes food through, I have no problem beating hunger at night anyway, its not a time when I eat much.

I know on occasion I will drink wine with my meals too - when out or eating with family

I know I will also occasionally choose to consume alcohol rather than food.

I will continue to consume liquid calories in the form of yogurt for Breakfast. I love yogurt.

God, I'm so glad I'm not alone! My no-no's:

1. Drinking wine with Sunday dinners at the inlaws

2. Eating way too fast and not chewing enough

3. Having a cookie or brownie about 2 times a week

4. Sharing those damn orange cheetos with my kids

5. Not exercising enough

6. Too much alcohol, period. I love red wine and margaritas! Talk about empty calories...

True confessions:

1. Eat too fast

2. Bites too big

3. Eating snack before bed

The people who can eat too fast or big bites probably wont be able to do that once they have reached a good restriction. I know if I ate too fast or big bites it would HURTTTT!!! So just know it wont be a bad habit you have for much longer I know for the first few months before I got proper restriction I could still eat fast etc and wondered why people on here would say they could never do it. Well I know why now hehehe.

I must say my worst sin (and I rarely do it anymore) is PBing then immediately eating some more! Horrible thing to get in the practice of doing!!!

This thread rocks!

I dont eat nutritional foods...or Protein, veggies, carbs.. in that order

I eat too much junk food like cheetos, hard candy and Cookies and LITE sherbert at nighttime.

I drink way way way too much 1% milk and half the sugar grape and OJ juice.

I drink with my meals sometimes.. Sometimes I cant, it hurts.

I dont follow any rules .... just trying to think if I have kept any of them.....

I dont chew gum ...but thats only 'cause I hate, it not 'cause I am being good.

Bring on my first fill!!!!

I've never read this thread and didn't realize it was confession time. I'll play. My bad habit, two words:

ICE CREAM

I'm hoping that cooler weather will help me break this habit; I've been stopping almost every day for frozen yogurt after work.

Don't excercise enough - I walk twice a week for 20 minutes. Have bought some new plus size yoga DVD's to help with moving more.

Don't drink enough Water - only choke down maybe 1 large 32oz everyday.

Don't eat healthy enough - I do eat more veggies but its hard for me to get them in on a regular basis.

I am pretty good about not drinking with meals - occasionally I do, but most of the time I put my drink in the fridge for at least 30 minutes after I eat that way I'm not even tempted by having it in front of me.