babygrl1234

Where the heck is everyone?

Faith, Out of curiosity what was his reasoning for the staples vs sutures?

5 am is....so.....early....when you have been out at the Spree riding the rides and watching fireworks until midnight..... I hate working early.

Popcorn goes down really easy for me. I make a lot of it for the kids in the air popper at home. You know I went to the movies last night and for the first time in my life did not have any popcorn. I really thought it was going to change the whole experience. Nope. I am still alive, still had fun, and not battling the sodium intake that would have occurred. It is one thing to air pop some popcorn and put some fat free butter spray on it, or make a low fat bag of microwave popcorn, but theater popcorn is so bad for me that it is just not even worth it anymore.

I go crazy if I weigh myself once a day. Too much up and down stuff for me. But it is still hard for me not to. I mean I want to know daily but once i do know I get frustrated. But weekly is working for me. Dh and I went to the movies to see Oceans 13 last night. And for the first time in my life I saw a movie without any popcorn. And I didn't die or feel like I was missing out. So now that I have done it once I can do it again right? I do love popcorn but I think that it would have taken me all week to get rid of all that sodium. How is everyone doing?

It gets easier. I spent a lot of time hating my band. Especially when I was upset or sad and just wanted to stuff my face to feel better. The first few months were very difficult emotionally on me. Slowly it has gotten better. I still have head issues. I still want to just eat fast and not chew so much. But slowly it is becoming second nature to me. I don't have to think as much about the chewing, I just do it automatically. And as I slowly feel better about it, the weight starts to come off and that makes me feel even better. I have had plenty of issue crying, literally crying, over not being able to eat something. I have just had to find other ways of soothing myself, like taking a nice hot bath, or going for a walk. Believe me it will get better.

Oh and I got the best compliment from my best friend yesterday. I haven't seen her in a few weeks and when we were driving in the car she looks at me and says "Oh my God your chin is gone" I started laughing and said well I am maybe down to 1 and a half. She said no really you only have one now. I must admit it feels good when people notice things. Oh crap and I fit into a go cart with my son yesterday. The last time I went several years ago with my daughter I almost squished her to death. I think I am just having a great week. Travelgirl I expect some stories like this from you soon since you are getting your ass in gear this week!

You guys are not the only one who wants a budybugg!!! I just can't afford it. It is times like this I wish I had a credit card (though this is the exact reason I don't!) I have been slowly putting money away as I am saving gas riding my bike to work (I figure at $3.15 a gallon I save about $4 each time I ride there). So I am going to get myself something with the money one day. So maybe next summer lol. I figure if I want it still in a few months then maybe I can try to get it (Christmas present?) or something. But I don't want it to be a waste of my time. Right now I am losing weight so I am not as concerned about it as i would be if I wasn't. I did go out and buy a thermogenic though. I remember Telly writing about taking Lipo-6 and since I got a big paycheck I went and splurged. I got the more expensive stuff since hey it should work better right? The pill is huge though. But it has like a liquid outer core that works immediately with a smaller capsule on the inner core that is extended release. SO I took it with some hot water and it seems to have gone down. So I will see what kind of difference that makes on my weight loss this week. I don't have port pain if I over eat...just bad heart burn.

Okay you want some tough love I will give it to you. Just do it all ready. You know what you have to do. Stop the cheating and stop the whining. Get up 30 minutes early and walk. Make a protein shake to drink while you walk. You were blessed with this amazing tool for weight loss that others would kill to have, so now you need to buck up and use it. Do you realize that you are only 37 pounds away from weighing 199? DO you know how much closer that is than weighing 285? Do you actually want this or not? You have the tool now stop half assing it! Okay can I stop now? I really don't like doing the mean thing. Travel girl you can do this, you have done it this far. You are doing a great job. You need to figure out what part of the day is the hardest for you and find something to do other than eat. Girl you have come so far and you don't want to do this to yourself now.

Well I am down two more pounds this week!!!! Woohoo!!!!!!

***Drool*** I love Texas Roadhouse. On the occasions that we go there I have either share off of DH's full rack of ribs and eat some of his salad, or order a half rack of ribs and turn it into 4 meals. I love cold leftovers so that works out well for me also. But I think I have only eaten out maybe 5 times since my surgery in Feb.

Didn't your Momma ever teach you to avoid the "chocolate" ones?

Well can I just start off by thanking the Gods that when my surgeon came up behind me in the cafeteria today that I had only a sugar free jello on my tray lol. Not that I eat badly but it sure made me look good. I rode hubby's bike into work today. Seeing as mine is still broken I did not really have much of a choice. I managed to get there in just under 1 hour. So yeah go me at 11mph on the bike. I was pretty proud, that is my best time yet. How was everyone else's day?

Wow that takes edible undies to a whole new level.

Skin sucks. I am finally starting to see a difference in how I look. I know on another thread we were talking about how when you see yourself in the mirror you are not always seeing yourself as you actually look but sort of as you want to see yourself. Kid of like a defense mechanism to keep yourself from realizing how fat you really are. I always looked in the mirror and thought I was big but never saw myself at 278. It would confuse me once I saw pictures of myself and I could not figure out why the pictures were so much bigger than the reflection in the mirror. SO for the longest time I did not notice any difference in the mirror but I did notice a difference in pictures. Now the mirror image is starting to shrink. Clear as mud? I hate the whole 1.5 to 2.5 pounds per week thing. I am so darn impatient. I know in a year it will be a lot of weight but dang can't a year have gone by already?

And how am I overruled? I want to do the weight thing lol.

Yeah I probably should go see the doc. She is probably going to be pissed at me since she was not too much of a fan of the surgery lol. When I had my IUD my periods were only 3 days long and light enough to have only 1 tampon per day. I hate this heavy bleeding crap. I go through like a box of tampons a day. Zannie I totally crapped my pants once at the store while on Metformin. That stuff is brutal. The reason I am all for the weight loss challenge is because it helps me with my eating. If I am not looking to lose weight I am looking at food going in my mouth. But maybe we can just have our own personal weight challenge and not a group one. Oh and I saved the best news for last. My smallest pair of jeans (size 20) were getting a little baggy in the legs and butt. Very saggy in the butt. Now mind you these are regular jeans not stretch and they were starting to look awful. So I went to the store and fit into.....some Levis slim fit bootleg jeans in size...ready for it?.....16. I almost crapped my brand new pants right there at the store. I actually teared up I was so happy. They are stretch but who cares. They are a 16. They were in the misses department. And I am down to about 1.5 chins. It is getting really exciting.

Hey you know I will be around for the long haul. Maybe you can help me with the food and I can help you with the exercise lol. I think a 5 days a week challenge is a good one. Do you think that setting weight loss goals for the month would be helpful too? Obviously not crazy ones but maybe like 7 pounds. You, travelgirl and I are all right around the 50 lb mark so maybe that would be something good to add. Is anyone else having messed up periods since having the surgery? I had one for 5 days then another 2 weeks later, then another 3 weeks later and now it is about 3 weeks later but I bled for like 1 day than nothing for 2 days and now I am having a regular (but heavy) one. Anyone else having weird crap going on down there?

Suzanne you are so going to make it this month!!!!

Ugh. My stomach is so queesy right now! I love cinnamon and peppermint but man that extract was just a bit too much. The amount I used would have probably been enough for 20 shakes! Good job on the bike ride. My bike is still broken and if it does not get taken care of tomorrow I am going to stop putting out lol. Then I'll bet DH will jump to fix it right up.

Oh and as a side note to all. Peppermint extract, even just a tiny bit is way, way, way too strong for a chocolate Protein shake. But it really does clear up the sinuses. Guess I am going to have to get some Davinci syrup lol. I do feel as if I don't have to brush my teeth for fresh breath though.

Let me start off by saying I HATE this effing mouse my hubby bought for the computer. The damn buttons are so sensitive on the sides that it just deleted the huge post I made when I moved it to spell check. grrrrrrrr. Skinnyjeans I know the feeling on the food. I had an incident at work friday involving some spray cheese and my whole weekend just went downward from there culminating with the barfing of chocolate cake last night. Yeah cake does not like me. Anyhow that is why I like the exercise. I can still eat a more "normal" way and not feel like I ma dieting all the time. Zannie, it is not ever been about winning the 5K but I do want to run the whole thing. I know I can finish it since I walk 5K every day on my lunch break. I did do a little better with my running today. A little over 1.5 miles in 25 minutes, a 3.8mph pace. I am just so frustrated with my physical limitations from being so big. Hell my workout partner is a smoker and she can run circles around me. She is also a bit overweight but probably only 30-40 pounds. I am just so damn impatient. But I won't give it up just yet, I will see how July goes.

Good for you travelgirl!!!!! It seems you, Zannie, and I are all right around in the the same boat of making it to 50 lbs!!! I have had a rough few days. I lost my pedal off my bike again on the way to work last week and had to walk 4.5 miles home. It has still not been fixed and I am getting majorly pissed at DH for not taking care of it. I ran a whole mile yesterday in 15 minutes and almost died. I don't think I am going to be able to run the 5K next month, maybe in Aug or Sept. And my only friend that likes REO and was supposed to go to the concert with me is ditching me and going out of town instead =(. Oh and I ate like a pig this weekend...ugh. At least I ma back on the bandwagon today lol. Hope everyone is having a good week and Zannie I hope you can get into the thread!

You know the ones in the back of your head that are saying that you are going to fail on this band? I am doing great, more sucessful than I ever was on any diet plan. But I am still so scared that I am going to mess this up. That I am going to out eat this band. The little voice in my head is screaming that I am going to fail because, well, why wouldn't history repeat itself. Does it ever go away?

Chickie have you ever considered becoming a motivational speaker? You are right. I need to have a bit more confidence in myself and what I am capable of. I have a more powerful tool now than I ever had and I just need to know that as long as I work with it I am going to succeed.