old bandster looking for support, direction, advice

[SpecialK 22]

I am on Year 2 of my longer journey too because I want to lose a total of 200 lbs - at -125 now and coming up on my 2nd bandiversary on March 17 - about a month now. By my 3 year anniversary, I am trying to be in Onederland for sure but I'd like to try to lose 1 lb per week approximately in 2010. Lost 3.4 in January so I am very happy with that. I was still dealing with work stress things that have dramatically improved since mid-January now.

I am going to the gym at work and also the gym after work when I don't go in the day at work. Trying to do something each day. Sunday and friend and I did mall walking and that was fun - we not only did the upper level and lower level mall but we zipped in and out of all the big anchor stores like Sears, Penney, Macy, etc. so we got to do some window shopping while we did our exercise! An hour passed pretty quick doing that.

P.S. I did birthday celebration splurging on food so that is not a good thing to confess - clearly I still have a problem with food and have to continue to be diligent.

[GonnaBfree 0]

Well my birthday is coming up soon and I vote we get to splurge a little. We're not dead, we're just trying to make the right choices 99% of the time. Happy Birthday!

I head back to my fill doctor tomorrow. Haven't been there in a over a year. I don't even remember what I weighed when I last went. I think i was sent a letter to come in and they wanted some lab work done. Ooops! Took me a while and I've lost the lab slip. Wonder if he'll still give me a cc? I'm not even sure if I want one. Why does all the healthy food seem to get so stuck? I'm doing well right now without a fill. I don't have a lot of restriction, but I do have some. I should just go for it. If it's too much, i can always get some taken out. right?

[Lisa65 3]

Ok, I'm back looking for more support. No activity in a while. How are we all doing? I'm chugging along, but not really making much progress.

I got a fill last month. I extended my schedule of getting back to regular foods in the hopes of breaking some bad habits. In other words, instead of 1 day of liquids, one of mushy, etc, I did a couple days of each step. I told myself all along that this fill would be the perfect one for me and by the time I got to regular food I would be very satisfied with 1/2C of food. I was, believe it or not!

I lost 4# the first week (not unusual for me as I tend to hold Water weight and drop quickly when I cut back a lot). Then the 2nd week, was still eating the same and lost nothing. Again, not unusual for me as I tend to do that too - my body takes a bit to catch up to the week before.

My problem is that the week with no loss even though I was eating tiny amounts of good food wreaks havoc on my motivation. It shouldn't, I know this, but it does. So I susconsciously started letting myself eat a little more, a "bite of something sweet" after a meal, etc. So therefore I haven't lost any more since. I've also had trouble getting back into the groove of working out at Curves. I used to really enjoy it, now I'm struggling to want to go.

I guess I'm just looking for some moral support, to know I'm not alone on this journey, and a little pep talk/kick in the pants - whatever you feel like dishing out, I'm ready for it. :-)

I'll do the same for you!

Lisa