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So far so good for the new year. Yesterday's weight was 189, up 4lbs from Xmas goodies but doable!! I did mostly liquids yesterday except for one small cookie (my demise) and at midnight I was starving and had a Protein Bar. But I logged it all on My Fitness Pal and I started logging today! I have signed up for semi-private circuit training classes 4 days a week an I going in for my 1 yr weigh in and measurements on 1/26. I can't wait to see the difference! So Niki I am up for your challenges!! I think I will also try to continue to log my weight on Sunday/Mondays just to keep me going!

Happy New Year January Bandsters of 2012!! I am all set for 2 days of liquids to restart my system! New Years resolution: 1. Log my food!! Even when I know I have gone over!! 2. Continue to workout 3-4 days a week but add an extra 20 minutes of cardio before my class. 3. Meet my goal weight of 165 and maintain for 6 months. The VA will pay for my tummy tuck if I do this!! 4. Finally get my divorce and live free!! Typed the papers today!!! 2013 looks like it will be my year!!

Thank you all for your well wished. I am feeling much better. I did a private fitness session Saturday and it kicked my butt!! I am still sore! I will start going beck to the gym on Wednesday and see how I feel. I would love to do a challenge! Get us started JDI!

Thank you all for your well wished. I am feeling much better. I did a private fitness session Saturday and it kicked my butt!! I am still sore! I will start going beck to the gym on Wednesday and see how I feel. I would love to do a challenge! Get us started JDI!

Hello!! Happy Holidays! Sorry I have not posted since my fill a few weeks ago, I got pneumonia and have been out of commission for 2 weeks. Talk about a diet, I slept through most meals. Yesterday I weighed in at 185, down from 193 (I didn't weigh myself while sick). I felt well enough to enjoy Christmas and the fudge and cookies that went with it. I allowed myself to eat anything I wanted for 3 days and today I am trying to be good, but I have already eaten 2 cookies today. FYI on junk food going down easier!! - so I talked to my doctor about this at my last fill and she said it doesn't get stuck and digest really fast making you hungry within an hour, because it is made up of mostly sugars and carbs that basically melt like chocolate in your stomach, so most junk food is like a liquid instead of a solid that takes time to breakdown and keep you feeling full for a long time. It is also why we don't feel satisfied and always want more because it never really fills us up. Also she wants me to take a bit the size of my pinky nail and chew 20 times, swallow, "feel" it hit my band (I never "feel" anything) and once I feel that then start chewing my next bit, but stop eating after 30 minutes. Well the last part will never happen, I tried it once and dinner took forever and after my 30 minutes of eating I was still hungry. Mish-you might need a slight unfill to let the "good" food pass. NJNC- good luck on the 5k, what was your time last 5K?? Amica-congrats on the too big x-mas gifts!!! I asked for size XL belts to hold up my sagging pants a few more months and when I tried them on I realized I should have gotten a L since I was using the 3rd hole!! SueBee- Congrats on your weight loss!! I can't wait to be down 100 lbs, I am down 85 lbs. How in the world do you survive on so few calories?? I have not counted calories too much, but I stay under 1300 for the most part. Less than that and I get hungry!! What are your meals like to allow you to eat every 3 hrs or so and stay so low on calorie count?? JDI- I think you should wait for the 1st of the year and just enjoy in moderation until then. It is a goal you set for yourself and you typically keep them. So stop beating yourself up and enjoy life until the 1st. I would recommend doing what Chrissy is doing and do a few days of shakes just to reset your system and get the sugars out. We should do a New Years Day pack that we will all do 2 days of liquids and give ourselves a fresh start for the New Year!! My daughter has to have surgery on her mouth on the 2nd and will be on liquids with me!! Misery does love company!! LOL Nessie 126 & Prairie Dog- you are more than welcome to join our group, but thought you might want to know we are January Bandsters "2012" and we had our surgeries about a year ago. Our earlier posts might be more helpful than the posts you will see today on...You might want to also join a January Bandster "2013" group, it is really nice to have a group to go through all of this with that are at the same stages, but feel free to contact any of use with questions...and yes the liquid thing pre-op is really hard!! Stick to sugar free applesauce, jello and pudding for special treats, it makes it a little easier. Give yourself that treat at the end of the day for making it!! Good Luck!!

Hello everyone! Glad to hear all is well Meredith! We missed you!! My Monday was crazy. I weighed in at 193. Just floating around the same numbers this month but compared to last year where I probably would have put on 10lbs I'm doing pretty good! I got a .2cc fill Monday and am on mush for 2 more days. So hopefully that will jump start my weight loss again! Fingers crossed!! I love you all!!!

Monday weigh in 193lbs. No movement but I got a fill today so maybe it will help.

Ladybandito I so glad you posted I have been feeling the same way! Not enough water for sure and saving room for the bad food!! I do great all day until I get home at 5 and it is down hill from there searching for something bad. And the weekends are the absolute worst. I do laundry all day Saturday, sit on my butt, catch up on TV shows and snack snack snack!! Sunday is better but if I go to the grocery store alone I am totally screwed!! I always gets myself "something special" the one good thing I am doing is eating right from 6am-5pm and an 1 1/2 of strength training 3-4 days a week. You guys should never feel embarrassed to post a bad day, week or month. That is what we are all here for is to know we are not alone in this. I kind of feel like we just need to survive December and get back to the basics in January. Ok I thing I beat you post in length. LOL

Monday 191.8 still floating within the same 5 lbs. fine with me considering the stress and holidays! So I had an interesting weekend. I got stuck & threw up for the 1st time and it was totally due to eating a massive no no. I ate cookie dough. But the worst part was not getting sick it was what my kids said. They said it was a good thing I didn't eat as much as I always did or I would have been really sick. They said they knew I snuck the cookie dough then went out late at night to buy more so they wouldn't know, but they did. And I thought I was good at hiding it. Makes me wonder what other bad habits they knew about. I am just glad I am not that person anymore and my kids are still around to watch me learn good habits too. Nite everyone!!

Shocker!! At 191.4 today. I guess Sees candy has not caught up yet. Maybe I can beat it by going to the gym tonight!! Happy Monday everyone!!

Ugh the family bought a box of Sees candy for the ride home. I had forgotten about that tradition. We spent the full 3 hrs passing it around I had 8 pieces!!! Well I'm going to workout today and fingers crossed for tomorrow.

I went to a buffet Restuarant too! Kept us away from leftover and buying one of each of our favorite huge Costco pies!!

I survived thanksgiving thanks to the band. I felt full pretty quick so I barely touch what little I took. I did have some pumpkin pie minus the crust. Then I went to the amazing gym at the hotel and did a full hr workout!! I hope everyone is enjoying Black Friday. A good day to get new skinnier clothes at a deal!!

Ok I feel better back down to 191.1, not the 189.9 2 weeks ago, but I deleted my Starbucks app yesterday and my daughter went grocery shopping with me yesterday. So all of that will help! Happy Monday!!

rkimom- you are definitely welcome to join us!! Others have joined us after having a bad experience with either the chat room or other forums. This group has always been caring, supportive and honest. We have about 12-13 followers with some who post weekly like Chrissylu, MeredithMcFee, NJ2NC, Amica, Ladybadito,JustDoIt (aka Nicki), Otaknam, Valann, horsegirl, kymie, and a lot of others!! I hope the group does not mind me saying, but Nicki, kind of has been our leader. She posts the most and keeps us going. She is always encouraging and responds to everyones posts. She is the Queen of the January Bandsters!! Our group has really stuck together through eating problems, stuck problems, fill problems, issues with doctors, family problems, vacation issues, etc. Everyone has supportive things to say and great suggestions and sometimes great recipes!! We have posted monthly goal for weight and at a time switched to posting behavioral goals. Now we are posting our monday weights. Also the best part is when everyone post their NSV (no small victory or no scale victory) those are the really special posts to me!! That reminds me I have a NSV!! My step-daughter (the one who I bump heads with) is coming home from the Peace Corp for the x-mas break and asked if she can borrow some of my clothes since she has gained weight!! I am sharing clothes with my daughter! Woho!!! I am still a size 14 and they will be a little big on her since she is about a 12, but it is pretty cool!! Bad for her, good for me!! Chrissy-Congrats on the fill, sometimes we have to push them to listen to us, we know our bodies!! I can't believe you have almost lost 100 lbs!! that is amazing!! I am stuck at 80lbs give or take a few, but after my next fill next week it will be a fresh start for me! Happy Thanksgiving to you too!!

Otaknam- what happened Thursday? Did they do an unfill? Are you able to keep stuff down yet? I'm thinking of you! Hope all is well!!! NJ2NC-how was your 5K?? and good luck on your fill on 11/19!! I was afraid to get a fill too close to Thanksgiving!! Chrissy- how did your check up go? I have been having problems with this sites notification too, but I am still glad it is here!! Amica- I am glad you are doing better!! I hope you still get at least half of your fill back, again the day before Thanksgiving?? You've got some kahunas going on liquids for thanksgiving!! Nicki-I like the PA's idea of no store bought ice cream. Besides if your going to have ice cream you might as well have the good stuff, and it gives you time to reconsider as you get ready to leave the house to go get some and time for you family to do the tough love and remind you it is not worth it. My daughter did that to me the other night and I was a little irked at her, but later glad she did it! As for the logging, if memory serves me right out of all of us you were always the best at logging, so that should be easy for you to get going again. Good Luck and we are here for you!! rkimom-welcome to our group! we are a pretty close bunch and have been through a lot together. Can you give us more detail about your process? did you go through this stuck phase like some of us are going through? If so how did you get out of it? How are things for you now? Here is a call out to all January Bandsters 2012, please post!! This is a difficult time of year and we need each other even if it just to see we are not alone in our struggles, besides we are approaching our LBS anniversary!!

So like Nicki I am struggling with my food demon-cookies! not just the oreo or in a bag kind, but the big bakery kind. I have been going to Starbucks a lot and no matter how many times I tell myself no cookie this time, once the person says, "Can I get you anything else?" I am dead and I order the damn cookie!!! Also I should be avoiding any stores that have those same big yummy individual cookies, but I find myself making excuses to go to those stores...alone!! Big no no for me is to shop alone!!! The dumb thing is I am doing circuit training 4 days a week, hurt like hell and still put that crap in my body!! I think it is time I tell my family I need their help again. They have been letting me do the grocery shopping again and I still just do not have the will power, especially with all of the holiday goodies coming out. I appeared to survive holiday #1 Halloween, but I have not done well with the 2 up and coming holidays! Also I need to delete the Starbucks app off my phone!!! Also these cookie moments tend to happen between the end of my work day and on my way home. Maybe I need to pack a healthy snack for on the way home, so my hunger does not drive me to a cookie stop. Well thanks for listening guys!!

Rk- thanks for the feedback. I am defiantly cutting back this next week on calories! I completely get your point about not punishing myself. But for me it is more of a cleanse. Once I get sugar in my system I keep craving it. So the liquids is to give myself a fresh start, but I guess I can play it a day at a time!!

So I have decided I am going to enjoy thanksgiving meal by eating until I feel full, now that I know what full really feels like, thanks LB! I am going to enjoy all of the deserts in small portions. Then do 2 days of liquids. What do you guys think?

I am still in the zone where I feel like I might be stuck but never vomit. So I am not sure I can help, but I'm here to listen! Some ideas: maybe look at what you ate the days before you got tight again. Did you eat very little or mainly liquids and it tightened everything up or skipped meals? I know I have not been logging, but if you have maybe you can see a pattern. I would still go to your fill and at least talk to them. As for the bagel I have been afraid to even try one! I hate vomiting! Well congrats on ur 2-3lbs loss. Take what you can get when and how you can get it!!

Ugh! Up 6lbs from last Monday!! 194lbs. Today. Maybe my TOM coming not logging. I knew 188 was too good to be true. Well I have to own it I defiantly did not eat right over the 3 day weekend!!