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Ok I am totally upset and DO NOT want to confess this but today is the way in day and I have gained the 2 pounds I lost back.:think I am now BACK to 216. Next week seems so far away. :faint: I went to the grocery store tonight. Figured if I am going to be scouting the kitchen I need healthy choices for snacks. Normally I don't buy snacks for myself because it doesn't bother me when I had the proper restriction. Now.....WATCH OUT!!! First I have to tell you guys. Has anyone ever looked at the calories in those lunchables? WOW!!! I picked up a turkey breast, american cheese with wheat crackers thinking it would be a healthy snack. Hell when I looked at it it was 380 calories!!!!!!!! Yup you read it right. My gosh you know how many of those things I have bought for my kids over the years for Gods sake?!?! Put that back in a hurry and then went to the deli and bought fresh sliced roasted turkey breast and some FF cheese slices. Also picked up some SF pudding cups and some more yogurt. Came home and my son helped me get groceries out and put them away. He complained because I didn't buy any good snacks. I told him 'they are very good and someday you will thank me." LOL I have been 'breaking him in' slowly. He loves the cold meats and such but not the yogurt. Anyway, Phyl put me back at the 2 pound lose instead of 4.
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Kathy I am so sorry to hear about your father. I fortunately have not gone through any major illnesses or losses with either of my parents. My prayers are with you. Good for you for keeping up with the exercise while away from home. I am struggling right now with not enough restriction. I am hungry all the time and fighting those demons. I am setting at home right now eating a SMart Ones. I was supposed to be in town about 20minutes ago but I thought I better eat before I went shopping because otherwise I would be amoungst the 'bad' stuff and end up over eating and eating all the wrong things today. Being a little pro active today. Janet I gave in last night and had 2 of the mini Peanut Butter cups. There were only 9 of them left and I ate 2 and then thought I can't eat these and threw the rest away. We still have a lot of bubble gum and some tootsie pops here but I never eat those anyway. Congrats on hitting back with the night demons. I like you get hungrier at night. Since the time change I go to sleep earlier though so that helps. I have sugar free frozen strawberries and yogurt here so once in a while I while have a little of that. Hanging on and can't wait til next week.
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Good evening!!! Lynette it was so great to hear from you. Congrats on your loss. You are doing wonderful. Hope to hear from you soon again. Well don't know how the hell it happened but I am elated!!!! I am down 2 more pounds so 4 for the challenge. Can you believe it?!?! I am eating more the past couple of days and NOW the scale moved? UGGGHH I am happy about the loss but I am still eating to much and need a tweek. I am setting here tonight and thinking about that Halloween candy that I HONESTLY HAVE NOT touched yet. I bought that stuff 3-4 weeks ago and had forgotten all about it after we filled the pinata for the little kids.........until tonight. Now I hear it screaming 'Jackie we're over here!" LOL I haven't gave in yet. I am going to go drink a carnation instant breakfast even though it is 9pm because that tastes like chocolate and I am hoping it will curb my chocolate craving. Holy bajeebas pray for me ladies!!!!
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Indio- I am reading the VC Andrews books again. I just love her writing. Very mysterious and dramatic family novels. I have read all of them once over the years but I started reading them over again. She had a new one that came out this past March and I hadn't read that one yet so I am now onto that one. I agree with the scale thing. One day I am down and the next I am up. I figured I better get the fill now since I am hungry so much. Especially with Thanksgiving around the corner. Heck I will end up eating half the turkey before it is served. LOL I have always lived in Iowa so those temps you talk about for Christmas are crazy sounding to me. I guess if I wasn't used to the snowy Christmas I would want the other. I hate the cold but honestly I don't think I could ever live any where else. We talked about going on a cruise over Christmas last year and I said I didn't want to go because it just wouldn't seem like Christmas for me. The family thought I was nuts but I like closing up in the house on cold days in December and baking Christmas Cookies and making the candy. Of course I won't be eating it but I never really did anyway. I love to make it and then we make platters and give it to friends and family. Last year we WAY over made and had so much left we made up ice cream buckets full and started giving it away. LOL At least I am not a big candy nut. If I were I would definately be in trouble. LOL Your supper sounds good. Have you tried those ziplock steamer bags? I love chicken breast and veggetables out of those with a little garlic seasoning. MMMMM Have a great night. I am going to go back and try sleeping again. HOHUM
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Hello Ladies!!!!!:wave: It looks like there are alot of congratulations due here. Congrats to everyone!! You are doing wonderful with your weight loss. Unfortunately I am back up 1 pound. I tell you that scale and I are about to go. :fencing:LOL I have loosened up alot since my last fill and find that I am eating more. I have been stopping myself most of the time but the klinker was this morning. I was SOOOOOO hungry! That NEVER happens because I can not usually eat in the AM but I actually started to feel naseous so I made a piece of toast. Not only did I eat that one but I was still hungry so I made another. I used the fat free butter and sugar free jelly but I have not eaten bread since pre banding to start and have always had a hard time eating Breakfast since banding and this morning it all went down find and I actually could have eaten more but refused to let myself. Faught myself at lunch because I was so hungry but didn't over eat. Done the same thing at supper and now here I am setting at 8:05pm and I am thinking of food again. I always ask myself subconsiously before I eat if I am eating because I am REALLY hungry or is it head hunger. Lately I have been really hungry. Right now it is head hunger but today I was hungry and yesterday was worse than today. I have an appointment for a regular check up next week so I called today and asked if they could schedule me for another fill while I was there as well. I just have to make it until next Monday now. I can do it though. I have to be able to control myself to some degree. :faint: Sorry I sound like a whiner tonight. I am just so frustrated!!! It is freezing cold in Iowa tonight. It was even spitting snow this evening. :clap2: I know alot of people don't want it but I do. Last year we had a black Christmas (no snow) and it just doesn't seem like winter/Christmas in Iowa without it so I am hoping we get lots this year. Crazy huh?!?! LOL Well I am off. It is verey windy and cold and I am going to get in my bed and snuggle down and read my book and fall asleep. This time change is kicking my butt!! G-Nite!!:notagree
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Frustrated I think we are all going to meet some more challenging things than we had up until this point with the holidays around the corner. We will have to lean on one another. LOL Thank GOD I have never tried the stuff and don't plan to. My sister just loves that stuff also. She is lucky though she is a skinny. LOL I on the other hand noticed McDonalds ice coffees about 2 months ago and have struggled a few times with those. Now that it is getting cold though I could careless about those. I have moved on to hot green tea. LOL
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Brandy I jsut noticed your weight loss too. COngrats are in order f or you as well. You are doing wonderful!!!!:clap2:
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OK Jackie - we are going for 2. lbs gone by next Thrusday - Our mini weekly challenge ok .. Janet I am with you and the 2 pound mini goal. I am way to tired to start kicking up the exercise tonight though. :bored I did really well today. I ate very little and was satisfied. I am not a breakfast person anyway, never have been, and not always a lunc heater either. I know I am supposed to eat 3 meals a day but honestly if I start out the day eating I eat all day. I do better if I only eat when I am hungry and I don't get hungry until 4-5pm.
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distant-we are swinging by and aren't goign to stop so I am holding my arm out.......grab hold and I will swing you up like the lone ranger did tonto. LOL
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CECE I AM SOOOOO PROUD OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't wait to get to onderland. So happy for you. Congrats
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Today is a new day - and I pledge to make healthier food choices this next week... How about the rest of you??? I'm back on the band wagon. I pledge to knock it off. BTW I got up this morning and I am back to 216. Must have been water wegiht yesteray. Cross your fingers for me. Staring over..........AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!
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Ok I am NOT happy. I had lost 2 lbs for the Thanksgiving challenge and now I have gained those 2 plus .6 of another. UUGGHHH!!! I haven't eaten really well the past couple of days and I need to get back on this band wagon and start moving!! The food the last couple of days and then the strawberry schnapps last Saurday are caught up. CRAP!!! Oh well. Dusting off and starting to move again. Back to the basics starting tomorrow. BTW, the food I have been eating has not been candy or anything like that. Mashed potatoes and gravy with beef and cheesy broccoli soup. Things like that. HIGH CALORIE!! Janet I think you have larengitus (sp?) because I haven't heard you very well the past couple of days. Everyone else you are all doing amazing on your challenge losses. Congratulations!! I am so proud of you. Marcy you experience really scares me. I too am getting a cold and thought of trying some pill form but not now............back to the liquids. Went trick or treating tonight with my neices. They were so adorable. They kept trying to share their candy. The little one is 2 and she would take a bite and then want me to take a bite. She got mad because I wouldn't take a bite. I had just eaten supper and there really wasn't any room in there to put a bite if I wanted one. LOL I took it from her hand and pretended to eat it but didn't. Made her happy. I miss those days with my kids. My DD is 16 and my DS son is 14. They are way over the tricker treating stage. That is 'just not cool' LOL Happy Halloween everyone!!!!
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Hello my Lucky # 7's. Well we went to our Halloween party last night and guess what...............DH and I (raggedy ann and andy) won 3rd place!!!!! HAHA It was sooooo fun! We lost to a little boy (kids always win though because they are just so darn cute!!) and my mom and her boyfriend. They really deserved it though!! They went as a 1920's flapper girl and gangster. They looked awsome!!! I danced the night away and had a couple of strawberry strippers. Didn't look at the calorie count on those because I prob would have freaked out!!! I don't feel guilty though because it was a special occassion and I do not do that very often. I have to tell you though I was so proud of myself. All this yummy food around and I didn't over eat and didn't even think of the food after I ate. I had made my maidrites (93% lean ground beef and salsa) and I ate the meat and a very few (not even a full serving) of chips and that is all I ate. I was very satisfied and didn't feel deprived at all. I think I might just be winning this head thing and my thinking is definately changing. I wasn't worried about 'how am I going to get more food and not be noticed' or eating just a little and starving myself because I didn't want to look like a pig. I was more worried about getting out on that dance floor and gettin my groove on. LOL What a NSV!!! Anyway sorry I was rambling. I am down 2 pounds for the Thanksgiving challenge!! Haven't gained yet today from my last night adventures but sometimes it takes a couple of days. I have ramped up my exercise and kept myself moving today hoping to ward of gain and maybe burn extra because of last night. Hope everyone else is doing great!!!
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Janet you are so right about the will power and closet eaters. I admit here that I was a closet eater. I would buy things or make them and while the kids were at school and hubby was at work or during the night even, I would eat them and then when they would go to get some and it was gone or almost gone I would say 'I ate one or 2 but dropped some on the floor so I had to throw it away.' Isn't that awful!!!!!!!!!! I actually just told my daughter this the other night while we were talking. I would go to Taco John's drive through because I would order a value meal and wanted an extra super burrito and didn't want them to see me eat that much so I would go park in an empty park and eat. It was awful. I have always have problems with food though. When I was a teen I would not eat for 3-4 days in a row for fear of gaining any weight. I was very thin throughout high school and was afraid of eating. It was after I had my kids that I gained. Then about 6-7 years ago I lost 74 lbs and was very thin and felt great. Then I kept thinking like you said oh 1 cookie isn't going to make me gain 74 lbs and gradually everything started becoming more quantities and bigger protions and even when I would step on the scale I would think 'I lost it before I will start dieting again tomorrow.' THe problem was tomorrow never came for me because when it did I was ready for my next meal or snack. Now it is 2007 and I had gained all of the 74 lbs back and another 53 lbs to go with it. Not anymore. I am very true to myself thanks to my band and to all of you. I have come along ways. I would have never shared this information with anyone before. Here I am comfortable and can tell all. Thank you all for being here. I would be lost without you guys and the band.
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:happybday2:LINDAA HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR LINDAA A HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU. AND MANY MOOOORRREEE
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Phyl my weight for the start of the Thansgiving challenge is 218 hoping to be 208 by Thansgiving. Good luck everyone!!!
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:happybday2: CHIM HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR CHI IM HAPPY BIRTHDYA TO YOU...........AND MANY MOOOOOOORREE
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Ok now on to my news................I went shopping today............needed new jeans...........others were too big :biggrin1:.............mind you before surgery I wore a TIGHT 22........today I put on a pair of.........DRUM ROLL PLEASE............................16 AND THEY FREAKIN FIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am now down to 218 lbs. I took the 18's and the 16's to the dressing room. Of course I tried the smaller ones on first and I was stunned!!!!! I could have sat down and cried!!! Then being all brave and feeling great I decided I wanted to try on one of those trendy belts that alot of people wear so I went and found one. I have not been able to wear a belt for a VERY long time because I couldn't find one to fit around me. I GOT ONE!!!!!!!!! AND IT FITS!!!!!!!!! Can't wait util tomorrow when I can wear my new jeans and belt. I had set a mini goal of 210 by Halloween and I still have 8 lbs to go and a week and a half to get there so I am not thinking that is going to happen but I really am not bummed about that. I will get there soon. Distant I would like to be in your Thanksgiving challenge. Sign me up for 10 lbs by Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!! Everyone is doing so wonderful here. I am so proud of all of us!!!! We are winners and we are kicking arse!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :whoo:
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shand- I had a fill a couple of weeks ago and I felt like there was a lump in my throat and just didn't feel right. I went back in 2 days after my fill and I was too tight. MY PA told me I done the right thing because you don't want to be to tight. That is just what MY docs said. I would call your doctor and let them know. If you are too tight you run the risk of reflux in the esophagus and over time that can cause dilation of the esophagus and could result in having to remove all of your fill or if bad enough removing the band. That is what I was told again by MY docs. Give them a call sweety.
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Nicole- WHAT A DIFFERENCE!!! You are doing so great!! You are right about the bigger we are the faster we lose. Everyone's metabolism is diffrent!! mango- I was really scared about this and I asked my beautician about this (she is a great friend of mine and knows about my band) and she said to take vitamin B1 complex. She said that helps with hair growth, nail growth and complexion. She wasn't sure about my chemistry after the band but I was already on the complex anyway (as my doctor wanted before surgery) so I have just kept taking it. My hair is actually growing pretty fast now and I have had to cut my nails back 3 times since surgery because they get to long. They are really strong also so I am not sure but I honestly think the vitamin B helped and is helping.
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Hello all.
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Phyl you can really tell the difference. I can see it in your face, legs and tummy. You look really good. Keep it up!!!!!!!
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Janet- YOU CAN DEFINATELY SEE A DIFFERENCE. yOUR FACE IS SO SLIM!!!!!!! You look wonderful!!!!!!!! Keep it up girl!!
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Thank you. I have been told before that I have beautiful eyes and several times others have asked if I have colored contacts in. The answer is no they are my natural eye color. That is one thing about myself I have always liked. Thanks!!!