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WOO HOO Juli...that sounds like such fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so jealous!!!! 35 mph....holy sh~t....I bet that was a blasssssssssttttttttt..... So do they ride in pairs down the road or single line or what? I think I am still a bit big because hills slow me WAY down!!!!!! I mean like almost to a snails pace....The other night we went 16 miles and my ass hurt sooooooooooooo bad, I could barely walk afterward. LOL...I also love biking and I have a Raleigh Venture 3.0 It is a comfy bike to ride with bigger tires but meant for commuting and pleasure riding. I put it through the tests though. My hubby is getting one this Friday...he loves mine. The better bikes are so worth it!!! They are better built and are nicer riding. Good luck on finding a bike. Deanna

wow, thanks for the advice from both of you... Juli, I am GLAD you answered because I like you !!!!! LOL...you are my bike hero!!! Ok, so I guess I am getting the no snacking thing is probably the way to do it. I do sometimes start eating snacks and don't stop. So, maybe I should try the three meals a day and see what happens. Also, I am thinking along the same lines of you Juli with the exercise, how am I going to do all this biking if I can't eat very much. If I was just walking around the block every other day if might be different, but I really work out!!! SO, I really appreciate both of your advice. I am going to stop snacking and just go with the three meals, and keep up the same exercise til next appt. which is July 23rd. I will see what my weight loss is from there and then if I am slowing down to 1-2 pounds a week, I will insist on a small fill. If I am still doing 4-5 pounds a week I am not going to worry about the fill. I totally know what you mean about thinking about the fill. Everyone talks about it...CONSTANTLY...so it is what you expect to do 6 weeks out of surgery. I guess maybe I should feel like a lucky one who CAN lose without a fill. I know I read a lot of people who are not losing at all or are VERY slow at losing before filling. Thanks again Jachut and Juli...Deanna

Also, my doctors team always stresses that they give people three years to lose all of their excess weight. I liked that approach, because in three years a whole lot is possible. If you had 100 pounds to lose then that would be 33 pounds a year...that is very doable to me. I don't know what everyone else's doctors say, but I am sticking with the three years...that gives me LOTS of room for getting the hang of this....GOod luck and you can make it happen!! Deanna

He is MIA and I LOVED reading his posts....such a shame that the new people can't "hear" what Jack has to say about the ramblings on of this site....Deanna

Sorry for some of the mispelled words...like at the first when I say "too" instead of "two"....oh brother.... and "loose" when I meant "lose"....geesh

NIce Jacqui, that says a whole lot about what muscle does for a person. Muscle makes you lean and sexy, fat makes you fat and fat!!! I way perfer exercise and muscle to eating very little and not having a lean muscular body!! Deanna

I had a thought about the pictures and three of us are seeing our faces as MORE fat in latest picture as compared to before pictures. I was wondering what you thought about maybe the fat comes off in your face first, then after your body has had some time to acclimate to the fat loss it might come back in your face a bit????? I don't know, I am just trying to do a guess here.....I was very disappointed in my latest pictures because I thought I should be able to see a HUGE difference in my face from the month before picture. Anyone else have any ideas???? Deanna

Yes, read the exercise threads....VERY inspirational!!!!! These people on this forum are the greatest!!! Deanna

I think losing is right..I think you are seeing minutes. The tickers are just a motivation and kind of like a "showing off" of what people are doing for themselves as far as exercise. Listen to your doctor, he/she will tell you what you can and can't do. Deanna

WOW...you ladies are such inspirations!!! I wish the exercise thread got as much traffic and posts as the other ones....this would be one STRONG site..LOL...Keep up the good work and remember that muscle is leaner, sexier and tighter than fat is....so EXERCISE!!! Deanna

I don't have carb cravings because I eat healthy carbs. I don't believe in the low carb diet. I believe it is your bodies way of saying..."hey, I need some carbs here to burn with all this exercise" Carbs are what we burn for fuel when exercising. That is the only thing I can think of...

Michelle, I had the same thing happen to me. My one month post op picture I look better then my two month post op picture. I have looked and looked at it and still see no difference and sometimes seems I am bigger in the two month picture. I don't know...sucks...Deanna

Ok guys. Made it. Ate it. It was good. My DH had his on a bun with tomato, lettuce and ketchup, I had mine plain with salad. It was not a burger, as in HAMBURGER, but it was good. I would make it again, though not every week probably. Deanna p.s. This is the first time ever trying a veggie burger too, so maybe why that is why it was not 4 stars from me. I will make again though.

I also have more gas now. I really hadn't thought much about it that way, but I still eat a lot of beans and am going to continue to eat beans. I love them and they are great tasting. In fact I ate a can of ff refried beans for lunch today, my DH will be sleeping on the couch probably!!! Deanna

I'm with Jachut...I like to eat way too much to drink shakes for meals. That is not really a healthy way IMO anyways because really, in all actuality, how many years do you really think you could drink your meals. I was bored the first two weeks out of surgery, so I can't see drinking a meal. I understand that some people can NOT eat at certain times of the day and so they drink a protein meal. I am talking about those people who drink their meals just because. I eat a lot of food during the day though. I have no fills, but I do have restriction. I can not eat like I use to. I eat way more than a 1000 calories too. I like it that way though. I LOVE FOOD!!! I am losing about 4-5 a week so I don't really consider that a bad loss. Deanna

Good for you j.s. I know that I personally in the past exercise adventures of mine, once I got hurt, that was it. I would not do it one day and then the next and the next and then I thought oh well, I will just quit all together. You rock!!! Good luck with your walking and hope your back gets back in to shape so you can go out and do those weights. Deanna

Yes, it is a very sad fact that SOME people will not associate with fat people. I guess maybe the lesson to be learned here after you have lost all of our weight and have a new attitude is NOT change our attitude toward fat people. I know that I myself am always judging other fat people and comparing them to myself. I know it is not right and I hate myself for doing it but it is done in my mind not outloud. I always feel better when I can see someone who is bigger than me then I feel kinda like "at least I am not the biggest one here" attitude. I know its bad and rude, but I just hope that as I shed weight that I can truly not do that anymore because there will be a whole lot of people bigger than me when I get to my goal weight. I hope I haven't offended anyone...Deanna

There is a really good thread that goes into this also in the Lounge...right about the Rants and Raves thread. The name is something like Adult Warning....Rated XXX...can't remember the name now but it was started back in 2006 and has LOTS of replies to it

Monica, I understand your thoughts behind not exercising until you are under a certain weight, but you are going to be losing massive amounts of muscle if you don't exercise. You need to start exercising now to maintain the muscle that you DO have now, and make exercise a part of your life forever. You are going to lose more muscle than fat without exercise. Sure you will lose weight, but most of it will be muscle. So when you get down to 200 you are going to have less muscle and more fat on your body compared to if you started exercising now, you would have less fat, more muscle. Does that make sense. Just do it. Don't worry so much about what the scale says. It's just a number. Go by how you feel and look. I am now wearing clothes that I had to be 15-20 pounds lighter before, but because I have leaner muscles now, I am smaller at this weight than before when I did Weight Watchers and did no exercise. I would way rather have a bigger number on the scale and be smaller that vice versa....think about it and then do some research. Deanna

Speaking of mountain biking. I decided that I was just a fit as ever woman and decided I would take my bike and DH up on a pretty smooth hard dirt trail up in the mountains. I was all siked up and ready to go. Full of energy and raring with enthusiam. Well, not even a mile into this trail I can't even breath. It is too uphill and I just can't do it. There are some rocky areas as well, and my bike is not doing well. I turn around and go back. I am disappointed in myself for thinking that I was in that good of shape to be able to do this. I have not been riding that long and still have a lot of weight to lose, so I know this is a huge let down to myself. Hubby says...three months ago you wouldn't even of left the house to try something like that, so it is a huge accomplishment really!!! What a nice guy!! I felt better after that... Deanna

I also have one that just covers my nose but not my mouth. I like it a lot too.

That is so funny you mention WOW, the other night when dh and I were riding there was a van pulling a trailer that had that on it!!! I didn't write down the number, but was eyeing that trailer!!! That is sooooo cool!!! We went 16 miles last night and boy oh boy could I FEEL a difference from the 10 miles we usually do!! I was soooooo sore, during the ride even. My ass felt like like it was on fire!!! That was weird, I havent had that kind of numbness since first starting. And another car driving by with screaming people in it. BOY you gotta love that!!! Makes me just wanna hit someone!! Deanna

That is so cool Juli. Where are you going? Is it like a club? Have fun!!! Deanna

For the life of me I can't understand WHY my MIL asks me ALL THE TIME how much weight I have lost...and then proceeds to tell me how much she has lost.....Here's the conversation. MIL: "Now how much weight have you lost?" ME: "49.5 pounds" MIL:"Oh, well guess how MUCH I have lost?????" ME: "How much?" MIL: "FOUR POUNDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" as there is a LONG pause wanting some kind of reward ........ ME: "That's GREAT!! I bet that makes you feel good, huh?" Then there comes FIL.... FIL: said to me..."You need to come get MIL and take her for walks and bike riding with you. She needs to do that, you know." ME: In my dreams I say this...."Yeah, well get off your ass and take her then cuz I don't have the time or motivation to be someone else's exercise support groupie right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" In reality, I say...." Yeah, I will." GOD!! HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WISH I would of never told them. Last time we went out to eat with them I ordered and then FIL says, what do you want to drink? I told him nothing. He said, "well, you don't have to get pop, you could have Water." This is all taking place in front of the order taker. I say, "no, I don't want anything." He insists that they bring me water. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO water!!!" This is just annoying to me. Let me make my decisions and you make yours.

I thought the strawberry unjury was the NASTIEST think ever. I ordered a big container of the chocolate because everyone raved about the taste. It smelled good when I opened it. I tried it and it is really not that good. But I am not sure if it is just me or the soy or whey that is in it that I am not used to. I didn't even use the whole container because I found some really yummy already made shakes that I found at Albertsons. I am not remembering the name of the shake right now, but you could search my posts and find it. They were YUMMY in my opinion and tasted like a shake. Good luck on finding the right one, and remember you won't likely be on the protein shakes for long. Deanna