IndioGirl55

Suggestion - weigh only once a week - same day same time I've never counted my carb - I just eat my pt first - then veggies and eat limited starchesand sugar and exercise - The only thing I counted during my weight loss phase was calories & pt grms. Carbs make you retain Water along with the salt - Also - take the word cheat out of your vocabulatry - replace it with Treat - You gotta remember this is a total lifetime lifestyle change in our eating not a diet.. I eat healthy 98% of the time allow for treats 2% - and have been able to lose 114 lbs and maintain that loss with this approach..

Sorry Peeps - Sometimes experienced banders get a little annoyed w/newbies who think the band is going to do all the work for them and a statement like I can eat everything - well so can I - but I have to choose not too.. The band is just a piece of plastic - it doesn't make your food choices nor does it exercise for you - I disagree w/the doc who said eat like you did pre-band - WTH my pre-band eating is what got me fat in the 1st place - I ate high fat - high sugar - just cuz I eat a smaller portion of unhealthy food - that's going to make me healthy - I don't think so !!! chips, cakes, Cookies all go with that eating - along w/fried everything - tons of cheese... IMHO even with proper restriction I've done 75% of the work to lose the weight (changed eating habits & exercise) and the band helped 25% of the time w/restriction. And as to being able to lose the weight only because of the band - not true.. There are many pple who do it without the band - the band is no guarantee - there are many here who have not or who have lost it but regain.. The majority of our issues w/food is in our heads not our stomachs imho.. When you post that you can eat everything - need to be more specific - all types of healthy food or Hamburgers & fries LOL and specific what amount of these foods you can consume.. To answer O/P no - I haven't had less restriction after a fill - Call your doctor.. I agree w/Spartan - even w/o restriction - eat like you do have it !!!

Karen Welcome !!! Full is a new and diff feeling for me ;0) if you are staying full for 3 or 4 hrs that's good - just keep doing what you are doing - are you keeping a food diary and walking is good... My port site hurt the longest too - I think a couple of weeks - almost 4 yrs ago - so you know how it is for 50+ to remember stuff LOL.. You will tell better when you move to reg food to know if you have good restriction - but the time between healing and 1st fill can be hard cuz once the swelling goes down - you may be more hunger and have less restriction - during this time just keep eating healthy.. Jump right on in...

Good Morning Again... It was quite here this weekend ;0) Lori in hawaii - me apples eva out and about - I am at work - would love to be chilling at home - but alas I gotta work Cheri - why can't you eat out - if you can only eat sliders then do you think you maybe on the tight side... Well I'm lucky that kate bailey theory on popcorn doesn't include me LOL - cuz I don't know what I would do without it... It's my salvation... 100 cal snack pack tames the head hungiers for me... I am lucky my boding isn't that sensative to carbs - Hell during my weight loss I ate rice every night.. Charlene - Glad you are feeling better... How's your Mom.. Sandy Belated happy bday !!1 Medically necessary TT really isn't a tummy tuck from what I have read - they just take off the excess skin they don't do anything to the muscle.. The weekend was great - we had great weather - good food and great company.. Busy the whole time even if it was sitting and chatting - but Sat nite after we came home from Phyl's both Eva & I fell alseep watching t.v. LOL aren't we the party animals ;0) but after walking around all day - looking at stuff - having a great dinner - sun - we were pooped ;0) Well back to work... cbl

Good Morning Peeps.. Had a wonderful weekend... Girls got here around 12:15 - visited - lunch at my fav mex restaturant - then Phyl & Earl got here - dinner was good - Saturday had wonderful weather - even hot in the sun but not too hot - shopped at the street fair - went to Palm Springs and Phyls - Had a lot of good visiting time.. Eva makes wonderful sausage !!! She brought me home made pork sausage... To die for.. Like Eva & Karen said GREAT weekend but I too am pooped - after girls left went and got nails done - then Target home by 2 - tired to nap but only got in 20 minutes - but was in bed by 8:30 ... I was pooped and still am ;0) Will go back and read later - Phyl did post 1 picutre on FB - I got a couple and will try and post tonite - on fb not here it's too hard ;0) Happy Valentines Day !!!! Love you all....

Good Morning Peeps Had a great weekend - but was POOPED when the girls left yesterday... Had a great time Friday & Saturday... Dinner here was good & so was the dinner Earl fixed us... Girls left around 11:30 yesterday went and got nails done then target - came home watched a little t.v. dinner and was in bed by 8:30.. Candice - don't think going to a friend would be a good idea for a doc - I think she thinks you were 2nd guessing her... Yes it's good to be informed.. Karla - you need to get unfilled plan and simple - I hope you do it today.. Phyl - Hugs on Earl issues - I'm still pooped - gotta get ready for work - will cbl Hugs

Good Morning Gang.. Phyl - I am cooking aspaurgus tonite ;0) found it at stater bro for 99 cent a lbs.. How about broc - or cauliflower or green beans... Hugs on Uncle Ed issues.... They don't have an rv place here to service your rig??? With all the motorhomes here I would think there would be - in fact there is somekind of place across the street from my gym (weight/Idrise one as I have 2 gyms ;0) 24 hr fitness & weight gym) Karri - Hugs and prayers that it hasn't erroded.. Karla - stick to liquids - make soup this weekend - blend it - becareful.. Candice - I looked into buy window 7 for home computer - but I know that you have to back up what's on your computer before you install the new programs - sounds like too much work for a non tech - I was waiting for Phyl to install hers first to see how it went - I have a clickfree back up - but hell it would just be easier to buy a new computer then add my stuff back thru my clickfree - but again alot of work.. Well I'm only here till noon so gotta get my buttt in gear.. Hugs

Good Morning Peeps Hugs Lori on your fall - glad you didnt break anything.. You need to get those thingies for your shoes so you don't slip on the ice. How scary to be robbed like that - I have had my house broken into a few times - even once while we were alseep (garage not locked - back in the old days when you didn't - pre automatic door days ;0). Meredith LOL on you and Andrew - opposities attrach ;0) Linda - Can't get over that girl in the grocery store - I have seen that situation played out on what would you do.. Yep there are a lot of pple who don't want to get involved.. I would have most likely cussed her out. LauraK - Yep pple don't pay attention to fat pple - when I went to the lapband conference a few years ago - so many of the women talked about not getting jobs - being discrimated against because they were fat.. Cheri - As usual you are so eloquent in your words!!! Well really a drive by - I'm at work - got my food shopping done last night - Andrew had changed the sheets on my bed but hadn't used softner- so I had to strip and re-rinise in softner and remake - I hate stripping and remaking beds.. Talked to Sister - bbq steak - ate maybe 2 oz - it was a rib eye but too tough - I really can only do Costco's filet migon.. Work is busy - we are getting new computers and I have been elected to be the tester - we are going from window xp and 2003 outlook to windows 7 and 2010 outlook - suppose to be major changes - so I'm the tester - guess I am going to have to get windows 7 for dummies and 2010 outlook for dummies ;0). Only here til noon - Eva & Karen are to arrive around 2 - but bet it's earlier... CBL Love to all that I missed...

Good Evening Gang !!! Well my house is clean (Andrew came) but I got these new sheet for my bed - he washed them and put them on the bed - but no softner - so I had to strip bed and re-rinse.. Got my food shopping done - need to go cut up chicken and marinate.. Oh we are getting new computers at work - Window 7 and Outlook 2010 - and guess who gets to test it out first me !!! I think I am going to have to go and get Windows 7 for dummies and outlook for dummies.. Karla - I am glad you saw the doc - I hope you got some sleep ... I can text but it takes to long cuz I don't have a texting phone - and hell I don't like typing that much anyway... Well going to go get out of these clothes - cbl

Good Morning Peeps Busy last night gym - talked to my BIL - talked to Andrew - Cold Stone (where he works) got robbed an hr before his shift - then he had to work alone - It's all good - he's not afraid (well I think that he would be if someone had a gun on him) I think alot of kids will be quiting (parents making them) no one was hurt - 3 girls on duty - guy got away with $240 - How stupid to go to prision for only $200 DUMB - but I guess if you are a bad guy you don't think like I do - If I'm going to chance going to jail it would be for a whole lot more than $200.. Andrew's boss is installing panic buttons in the store & freezer (that's where the girls ended up) the store does have cameras and they are having a meeting today about this and what they should do if it happens again... Why I was banded June 2006 went to Mexico with 30 other pple for gf wedding anniversary - it was june and very humid - the resort where we stayed had small hills you had to climb to get around - the elevators didn't have a/c - I was freaking miserable - would have to stop and rest just going back to the room - weight at that time 240ish. Feb 2007 when on a cruise w/sister & dh and gf Deb - she had never been on a cruise - she wanted to explore the ship - I didn't want to cuz that would mean too much walking and my feet would be killing me and I would get too pooped out - My sis room was forward - ours was aft - we always met in the middle - walking to her room was just too far - My life was so limited about what I could or couldn't do because of the extra weight - I took the elevator - parked at the closes spot - measured everything i did around how much phyiscal activity it would take - going to mall w/Andrew he would always be 5 paces ahead of me - he would have to stop and wait for me - I would drive the car if it was more than a block to walk.. I would breakout in a sweat just vacuuming the living room... I was 18/20 in my pants - 2 x tops - weight 246 on my 1st visit to the doc 5/31/07 - gained 4 lbs by the time I had my preop on 7/6 (last supper mentallity) 250 at surgery .. I realized that since I am a young grandma - that I do have the chance in my life time to see some great grand kids - I also wanted to be around to see my grandkids grow up... I was tired of not being able to do things I was sad that I couldn't walk around a ship without being totally exhausted.. I was tired of my weight limiting what I could and couldn't do - I was 52 when banded and knew that I have less yrs ahead of me than what are behind me - and I didn't want to waste the years I have left not being able to live life. Fast forward to today - I'm the Grandma who catches air!!!- I zipline - I can hike - I can get on a horse w/o assistance - I scuba dive - I parasail w/my grandkids - Andrew now ask why am I running when we are together at the mall - he has to keep up w/me - I can leg press 500 lbs - I go to bootcamp - I go to the gym period - I love that I have been working out for almost 4 yrs and haven't quit -- I love being able to do all these things and more- I having my life back - I am living my life to the fullest - I am happy happy happy and I am so sad that I wasted all those yrs of my life being fat. But as you all know - can't waste time regretting the past - I am just a very very happy person that my light bulb finally went off... Well I gotta get back to work... cbl

Good Morning Gang Karla - Hugs no I told you so - cuz you already know - just get it fixed !!!!! You can only rely on your band for so much of the work - but the majority of the work is up to you .... Eating Healthy & Exercise.. Phyl - Ok 4-4:30 is the plan - Wine - I know karen drinks vodka - but not sure about eva - may just make some margaritas who knows- I have to shop tonite - I think we are having chicken shikabobs (sp) Wild Rice and a veggie - Dessert my yogurt cream cheese - but going to add sf lemon pudding i think Saturday COD - 10:00 - 10:30 --- Then your house and if it's to windy (I don't know the weather for the weekend LOL I guess I should ck) we can just all go back to my house What to make - I don't know your white chilli ??? Just ate bf (popcorn LOL) and not hungry ;0)... or we can eat late lunch (out) and just come back to your house for finger foods & drinks - way we may beat the wind cuz it usually doesn't start until evening time.. But we maybe lucky... As to my weight - I am very mindful of the types of foods I eat - I was talking to Idrise about it last nite and I really beleive I finally understand I do have control and am exercising it.. Candice - You are so right - it's all about what you wants and needs. Well gotta get back to work.... PS. THE ICE CREAM STORE WHERE ANDREW WORKS GOT ROBBED YESTERDAY ABOUT 1 HR BEFORE HE WENT TO WORK - NO ONE HURT - JUST 3 SCARED GIRLS - GUY HAD A GUN - PUT THEM IN THE FREEZER - GOT A WHOLE $240 STUPID TO GO TO PRISION FOR THAT THEN HE HAD TO WORK LAST NIGHT - ALONE !!! BUT HE CALLED SOME GIRL TO COME IN AND HELP HIM CLOSE UP - HE'S THE TEAM MANAGER AT NIGHT ...

I am 3.6 yrs out - How - Why do I stay motivated ??? I stay motivated cuz now I am able to live life to the fullest - my weight no longer limits me - it completes me - I am healthy - I am active - I hopefully have added a few more yrs to my life - these are all the reason I am still motivated..

I eat 100 snack pac popcorn almost every nite - it's a slider for me ...

You need to eat more... You need Breakfast !!!! During my weight lost phase kept my calories between 800-1200 and vaired them daily.. On the exercise - every few weeks you need to up the intensity & time.. During weight loss phase I exercised 5 x week - hr max - Today I still exercise 4 x week 1 hr I really think you need to log your food - guestimating isn't always a good idea in the weight loss phase especially if you aren't losing...

Good Late Morning Gang.. Well I have been addicted to my games on FB - these quest/mission have me going - I am just a little bit to competative with the stupid computer - but guess it's better than gambling & or eating - hell I didn't get off till like 8:30 last night - too late to cook plus didn't take anything out cuz nothing sounded good in the morning - so had egg beater omelett and then some popcorn - juice and bed.. Meredith - wine is a liquid :0) - carbs make you retain Water too - my trainer says that before a competition they eat pt & veggies only so that they can lean out.. WTG on the pouch test.. I go on the scale this a.m. haven't in the longest (maybe since after vacation) - my clothes are fitting fine and that's my usual way of telling if I have put on a couple lbs - well I'm just fine 137 - so within my 4 lbs range 136-140 - but I though I just better ck.. Well gotta get back to work - just cking in

Good Morning Gang... Karri Too funny (not really) you hated the cold in OR and you move and still are in the cold... Hugs.. It would be cool to work from home - but I think I need the interaction w/pple - even though I don't like to be around pple 24/7 - I would miss it to a degree.. But would love not to having to be controlled by the clock ;0) Good luck on the new bypass - I think it might be the best thing for you since you have never really been able to find a sweet spot - that's the biggest issue w/the band - there are so many pple who can't get to sweet spot. Just make sure you are very very very very and I mean very good about taking your vitimans daily if you get the revision.. Glad Lee is going to be working soon... Karla - You know you are going to get crap for being too tight - especialy from me - it goes along with reading lables - this is not about stravation - I know you still have that mentality but gf - if you pb'd in the parking lot you should have turned around and had some taken out.. The one time I was too tight it didn't hit till the next day... You promise me if you can't eat meat in a couple of days then you go back and have some taken out.. You have had 2 freaking surgeries since Nov and haven't had 1 oz of exercise - so gf don't beat yourself up about the 4 lbs... Hell if I couldn't exercise - I would gain weight - that's another reason I don't have any plastic surgeries cuz I know I couldn't exercise for x # of weeks - not an option for me... Candice - the only reason she's drinking tea (Karla) is cuz she can't drink her coffee cuz of ulcers.. So did you find new songs to sing... Phyl - What time are you coming over on Friday - about 4 ish I am thinking - the girls want to get pedicures - so I was thinking maybe Friday afternoon - instead of Sat morning - since we are going to the swap meet - Well gotta get back to work - CBL

Good Evening Gang... Eva totally understand life gets in the way - I know it happens to me all the time - Drive Safe !!!! Karen will get to see the DESERT LOL... Charlene - You are busy w/your Mom - Hugs & Prayers Laura - You got a mile in - if the game is outside or even outside - pace up and down the stairs :0).... Well drive by - got bootcamp tonite cbl

Good Morning Gang... Karri - Understand how you feel about Lee not working - you need the $$ - Hell a job is a job until the one you want comes along... I know I have a freinds DD who thought she was too good to work burger king - I said wtf if you need $$$ your need money - it's better than sitting home broke or till the job you want comes along - hell - I don't like mine very much - but it's easy for the most part and it pays the bills - I have insurance and after 32 yrs - I'm not starting over.. Karla - I'll be your alibi LOL.. Use your 1 call for me I'll bail you out... Well drive by I got a meeting in 10 - CBL

Good Morning Peeps... How's everyone this morning.... Linda - I have a good balance of carbs/starches/veggies/fat and pt - I think we just all have to figure out what works for our bodies - cuz each act diff to the foods we fed it... Great - Have fun finishing the baby's room - I remember when we did Andrew's - I loved sitting in there rocking him ;0)... Laura - We will take pic's I will charge my batteries tonite.. Hugs on the heel pain - I use to have it prior to surgery - but no more.. Knees and itb at times but my body is aging - too bad youth is wasted on the young.. Julie - OMG if it wasn't for bad lucky you just wouldn't have any - Hugs Hugs Hugs Apples - Khols is a hit or miss for me - sometimes find tons of stuff - other times junk - just like Stein Marts - Well got a meeting in a few - gotta get some things done cbl

It's true - Starvation isn't going to do it - you gotta eat healthy - follow the band rules - As to how many calories you should it - you are a guy so it's totally diff than us girls - Your Doc should really be guiding you in this area Have you ck'd out the men's room ?? They might be able to help.. For me I ate 800-1200 cal a day and exercised 5 times a week - lost my weight in 1 yrs time..

Here's the link http://www.lapbandtalk.com/topic/60884-im-here-to-help/page__pid__1571617__st__16980#entry1571617 Anyone and everyone who post here are welcome to join in - most of us have been together for 2+ yrs now - so don't let that scare you off - Like I said most of us are 50+ have a couple young ones but they are pretty mature... Jump right on in - you will be welcomed with open arms....

Candice - it's just your liver - it's just the way it is - Joseph has high colestoral too - just had a blood test last week - they told him to lose 40 lbs and if that doesn't do it - he's on meds. I haven't had my blood ck'd in a couple yrs - my bad colestoral was a little high they said to increase my fiber - but that's hard to do w/the band - I watch Barbara Walters the other night - think I need to go to doc and get a blood test.. I'm still on high blood pressure med - was on 2 now just one.. It is what it is.. What do you want - not to take a pill or have your ateries clogged.. Phyl - yep market is back up but now 3 yrs later I have what I had 3 yrs ago.. just think what it would have been if it hadn't fallen - LOL maybe I could be retired.. Well who am I picking up on Sunday at 1:30 Candice or Linda - I have that time and date written on my calendar - but not a name LOL Steph - will have to do research on that breast thingie - Home you baby is feeling better

You got a bed - I have 2 bedrooms - remember Andrew doesn't live here anymore - and I'm not going to fuss just like you wouldn't either LOL So hush up and let me be a hostess with the mostest LOL - you will be told - Help yourself - me casa su casa... So act like you were at home....

Good Evening Gang #1 We can't have a private thread - It was suggested pming - but I think that you are limited to like 5 pple - So we are stuck here - We could move to the 50's thread - it doesn't get much action.. But really I don't want to quit this thread - cuz we could have someone who needs help... BUT FOR YOU WHO LURK AND DON'T POST.. PLEASE DON'T P.M. SOMEONE TO FLAME THEM.... THE PPLE WHO POST HERE ARE EXPERIENCED BANDERS AND WE KNOW WHAT WE ARE DOING... WE WOULD NOT ALLOW ANY OF OUR MEMBERS TO HURT THEMSELVES. I'm still pissed off about that and ready to kick some butt.... Joyce - You may be too tight - and did you take your pills after you ate??? How soon ?? I usually take pills on an empty stomach then eat - the only pill I don't is my blood pressure pill and it's tiny so I don't have a problem and it's the only pill I take - besides my occasional xanax L0L .. Why Freaking computer is lagging again - typing and word don't appear - ok stopped now - Why does DH want you to remove your band - the yogurt and granola should be all that you can eat... You should be full till lunch on that and not take any pills afterward - but I guess you know that know lol - always take meds before you eat on an empty stomach - WTG on the gym Meredith - Learn to say NO... It may be hard at first - but the more you use it - the easier it gets ... You should be able to eat real food - just not much of it... I know that truly I can only eat about 3/4 of a lean cusine - I know that sometimes if I take one bite too many or eat too fast I will pb - did it yesterday on chip & gucamole - had 3 bites too fast (I was hungry) and up it came. I will get stuck on yogurt - but again it's normally eating too fast.. Jessica 1.5 is a big fill... You can do mushies without to many carbs - fish - like tuna is considered a mushie.. scrambled eggs refired Beans - (i don't know carb count on them but again I only really count starches - not true carbs) well cooked zuchinne & yellow squash - butternut squash - get your pt from shakes - but eat the other stuff.. Laura - Ok girl you have a goal - now you just have to make 1 hr a day for you and hit the gym - and you can do it - Make good food choices - you know how - quit a bite of this or that ;0) make a plan and stick to it - just like you did in the beginning.. Hell if you don't have the time to go to the gym - then do some exercise tapes in the house - but Charlene - I will have to ck out the other ones - but really like the ones I got - I am going to feed Eva & Apples from them Well I gotta jam girls - it's 7:30 and I still have to cook - I'm starving - had good workout tonite.. Food today - Jerky & 1/2 bag of pt snack puffs - chicken Soup with 1/2 red potato - dinner fish & veggies - Snacks????

Thanks for the props peeps - I gotta tell you I am VERY PASSIONATE about this whole getting healthy .. IMHO our #1 problem is in our brains - not our stomachs... Our issues with food are very deep - Food is our drug of choice.. We are food addicts... So just like a drug addict who's trying to stay sober - they aren't buying or keeping drugs on the kitchen table - the same thing goes for us - we can not surround ourselves with junk food.. I am no freaking diff than any of you - I LOVE FOOD - I MISS PIGGING OUT - I went the store yesterday - oh how I longed for choc chip Cookies - , nacho's - candy - potato chips (heck they did make it in the cart saying to myself - you can have a few - but I know that those few will turn into a whole bag in a day or two - so I took them back out cuz I know I was kidding myself) I long for sugar and fat most of the time - I look at my old fav foods with such longing - I miss my best friend a lot of the time.. But you know what - my best freind or who I thought was my best freind was killing me slowly and limiting the quality of my life.... So is it or was it really ever my best friend - cuz a friend wouldn't do that to you... I have dealt with the death of my baby Brother - with my DS & Family having MAJOR PROBLEMS (carjacking - stabbing) - all since I was banded - But I did not turn to food, why cuz I know it really doesn't comfort you for long - only for those first few bites - then after than - the guilt comes - oh why am I so weak - why did I do that - now I have to un-do that Well I don't want to un-do the damage... Yep I go to they gym 4 days a week - but I don't want to go 5 or 6 and it take 1 hr walking on a treadmill for burn 300 cal.. I don't like exercise that much - I am very aware of the calories I eat and how much work it take to burn them off - this is one of the reason I feel that everyone should be counting them - it's a learning tool - you need to know how many you are eating - other wise you are just like an ostriach with your head in the sand.. Ignoring them doesn't make them go away.. I am not a super woman - this is work - it's work every single day - but I am so worth it and so are all of you.. Now just pull up those bootstraps and move forward - You CAN ALL DO IT...