thunderbeast77

Excited to do my first challenge!!! Name, real or screen~ Jeni (Thunderbeast77) Goal weight for October 29th~ 270 Weight on October 1st~ 278.2 Age~ 27 Dietary goal for October~ Cut out liquid calories Exercise goal for October~ Start hitting the gym at my university Personal goal for October~ Continuing to work on self acceptance. Date banded~ July 11, 2012 Total weight loss since banding/pre op diet~ 42 lbs. What is your favorite Halloween Activity?~ Doing make up for all my friends costumes.

Thanks guys! It was so disappointing! I know I haven't gotten bigger I just was like what the!!? This weekend my project is to take in a lot of my band t-shirts! Hey at least the clothes I actually like will still fit!

Hell yeah!! Great job!

My old pants (size 24 bought at my heaviest) are literally falling off after 35 pounds and losing 22 inches off my bod so I went to Torrid to buy new pants. The first pair I tried was a size 20 that were great except a little too tight in the waist. They didn't have them in 22s so I tried some other styles. None of which remotely fit. Except a pair of 26. A size UP from what I was wearing at my heaviest! What the hell is that? Talk about discouraging.

Thanks guys for your responses! I'm hoping today will go well and that todays fill will nudge me along a little!

Thanks 2much! Hopefully sooner rather than later I'll be kicking back into gear. I do need to go buy new pants tomorrow so that should be some encouragement!

Hey all. This is mostly just a check in. I had surgery July 11th and I'm down about 35 pounds and I've lost a 22 total inches since surgery. I'm pretty pleased but starting to get discouraged. I've been at a plateau for about three weeks now. I've started doing Crossfit training about a month ago and initially saw good loss and now it's tapered off. I have no idea if I'm eating enough or too much. My daily calorie intake bounces around 1000-1500. On days I don't work out I tend to eat less, but a few hours after cross fit I want to eat everything.in.the.world. Trying to watch carbs - no more than a 100 gms a day and ussually less, and mostly from potatos. I've had a hard time getting ahold of the nutritionist so I'm feeling a little lost. I have my second fill tomorrow (which couldn't come soon enough) as I only have 1cc in my band and hardly feel any restricition at all. I'm hoping that tomorrow I can get a few more cc's in there to be noticeable. Anyway, if anyone has any feed back that would be wonderful. If not, hey just checking in and hope Bandland is treating the rest of you well.

Great job!

Hey all - I was wondering if any of you have this problem or have some ideas. I love salmon and I eat a lot of it. But I almost always end up getting stuck with it. Doesn't happen ever with tuna or halibut. But the salmon damn near every time. Smoked, grilled, poached, pan seared doesn't matter. Thr filets I have are all deboned as well. My theories are tiny bones that I'm not seeing or I eat it too fast cuz I love it so much. But I honestly have no idea. So anyone else having problems with salmon?

Awesome! I'm looking forward to this!

Hey all a barrel racing friend of mine has offered to start giving me riding lessons on the cheap in exchange for work around the stables. I know nothing about horse riding at all sounds like it could be fun and according to my fitness thingy it'll burn around 650 calories and hour (not counting bailing stalls haha). Seems like a win win situation and a new thing to add to my workout repetoire. Thoughts/opinion/advice?

I do Crossfit two to three times a week. The only issues I have is ab work outs partly because I have no core strength to begin with and partly because of scar tissue in the region. Sometimes my port feels pinched. If you're new to working out I don't know that I'd go straight to that kind of a work out since its pretty brutal. I did, but for being a fat kid I was in pretty decent shape so it's not been that big of a deal.