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I need some suggestions please. I am in serious need of weight training. I hate weights, I hate them with a passion. I equate them with S&M. I am still not in a position where I feel the least bit comfortable going to a gym in front of other people with weights. I have my own treadmill, but weights... I'd have to buy something or go to a gym. What do I buy? Where do I go? How do I start? What do I do? I hate weights, I hate weights, I hate weights. They are too damn heavy! I'm a girly girl all the way through, weights are for men. Yeah, I know, they aren't but they are! I don't know if I should suck it up and embarrass myself at a gym or buy my own stuff. Thing is, I don't know what to buy or where to start. I don't even know how to do weights. I just know that I HATE them. With that said, what would my next step be?

You know, when I first started out with a band I realized I never seriously exercised. I'd start, hate it with a passion, and stop. While it's not my favorite thing in the world to do I have to say that it makes a HUGE difference in weight loss. The difference for most is night and day. You feel like a big chocolate bar melting in the desert sun. When those pounds start melting away all the sudden you have motivation you didn't know you had. I find myself doing stupid things. Such as... yesterday I did 2 hours and 20 minutes of HARD cardio. It was dumb, now I have blisters on top of my blisters (bottom of feet) and today I did a grand total of 15 minutes. My blisters hurt. So use your head, think about what you are doing, start slow, if walking is hard for you because you are tired then start out with 10 minutes a day. If you don't have a treadmill start out easy and do one block a day. Every three days increase by one block. It will be sooo much easier when you see the difference on the scale and you have to go buy new clothes every three weeks. I think it's a matter of just making yourself do it. We ALL have to do things we don't like in life and this is one of them but you just kinda have to suck it up and do it. It becomes easier and easier over time.

I'm not sure of the reasoning behind that as the idea of the band is NOT to drink liquids, but that is after the healing phase. However, the goal is also not to get to solids as soon as possible, many docs take six weeks to get to full solids. The upside to this is that you'll have lots and lots of time to heal after surgery.

Dr. Lopez from Betancourt? If you want to go to him, by all means! Go. Nobody is stopping you. But you have been warned. You claim he is one of the top 3-4 bariatric surgeons in northern Mexico. Feel free to prove your case. I'll wait. You sure seem to have an agenda for someone who has a grand total of 10 posts. Your name wouldn't be Dee, would it?

Nope, I don't work for Dr. Aceves. I also don't consistantly trash TJ doctors. I don't care for TJ, I do believe it is a dangerous city. That's my opinion, you are not required to agree. I don't talk trash about other surgeons just because they are in TJ, I do refer to the city and the city is dangerous.

Yep, what Faith said. There is a VERY good reason for clears and that part of the diet is extremely important if the person wants the band to stay put.

I don't think so. She explains she is on "clear" liquids. That doesn't include anything that goes through a straw.

Getting a bypass won't be an option for her. I'll block the hospital doors so she can't get in. Besides, I don't believe her insurance pays for WLS and that means she'd have to go back to Mexicali and I have a hunch Dr. Aceves wouldn't just convert to bypass merely because of sugar issues. I think he'd insist she work on it a bit harder before resorting to another procedure. I didn't know dumping wasn't a life long issue. I'll have to mention that to her.

She's just a huge huge sugar addict. It's overwhelming. She's even considering bypass just so she'll dump if she eats sweets.

Thanks. Head hunger can be beneficial in my case. Makes me burn more calories! HA!

It is hard and it will get harder after you are banded. The first month seems to be really tough for many of us, myself included. You don't know how close I came to going back to Mexico and having the darn thing removed the first days after surgery. After surgery you'll start kicking yourself asking what the heck you just did, you'll even question your sanity. It's ALL part of the process, all completely normal. Everything from the thoughts that go through your mind before surgery until you are almost at goal. If it helps any, some issues still exist when you are close to goal, check out this thread: http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f109/passing-thin-support-thread-those-approaching-goal-37513/ It's a long process and it's hard. But you know what? Unlike diet and exercise (which is the kind of hard we can't do) we CAN do *this* kind of hard. Just hang in there, life gets better.

Just be really careful that you don't stretch your pouch or esophagus. Pouch packing isn't a good thing. Then you end up using your esophagus as an extended stomach. One thing I do that is a little on the neurotic side but it works for me is that when I want to consume calories when I'm not really hungry is that I figure out how many calories I am about to consume. Then I make myself burn it off BEFORE I can consume them. That usually does the trick. Yet, it doesn't always work. Let's just say that I spent 2 hours and 20 minutes on my treadmill yesterday. I really don't want to do that one again. Another thing, remind yourself that you CAN have "X" food again, just not right this minute. That helps me sometimes.

Ohhh... one other fact I should have added in my original post, she does eat an 800 calorie diet as required by our doc. However, she supplements it with 1200+ calories in candy and assorted sugar on top of her 800 calories daily.

Not quite .... She lost 20lbs on the pre-op diet and 20 pounds during Clear liquids. She's lost one pound in the last 5 months.

Dr. Simpson is okay, meaning he's a safe surgeon and all but it's unlikely you'll ever see him again after surgery. His staff will take over fills, etc. At least that is what I hear. I thought about going to him but I couldn't STAND a person that worked for him. She was let go shortly after I had surgery in Mexico.

I have a friend that has such a horrible sugar addiction and she just can't break the cycle of suger/craves more sugar that we are going out of town for three days. She won't be eating the stuff while *I* am there! We are hoping that breaking the blood sugar spikes/cycles that will help. She has about 200lbs to lose and in 6 months she's only lost 40lbs. It's a horror trying to break that cycle but once you break the cycle and stop all sugar for several days, then it is easier to maintain but the first few days are a buggar.

Nonono... berry Fullfilling is the BEST. ;)

Wow... is one bottle a single serving or several servings?

I'm forgetting what it felt like to be T-Day full. I try to remember but I don't think I do anymore. I think that is a good thing.

If you have food in there that would be true but with an empty pouch it will be fine.

If you drink it over about 5 minutes you'll be fine.

Well, I guess if that is what you want to make your diet that is your choice. I don't know of anyone that has to do that but to each his own I suppose.

Most that I know of are expensive, high calorie, high sugar, and low protein. I'm sure there are a couple out there but I am not sure what they are. Mine are easy, a half bottle of Water, one scoop of Matrix chocolate, two squirts of Da Vinci Raspberry syrup, shake and drink. Takes me less than 60 seconds to make. It is about $0.50/serving over $2.00/can of prepared high cal stuff. It ends up being 120 calories, 2gms carbs, and 23gms protein.

I like Walgreen's generic of Flinstones. They are better than Flinstones. And I take Xango daily as well.

You might as well realize that this is going to be life for a bit. The healing phase is soooo important. It is NOT just a matter of waiting until food WILL go down, there is much more to healing than that. Cut out ALL sugar and ALL carbs, keep your Protein up to around 60gms daily and you won't be hungry. You'll have head hunger but not stomach hunger.