IndioGirl55

Candice - You aren't the lone ranger - there are so many pple who when they quit posting it means they aren't doing well. #1 - You gotta tell pple in your office not to bring you candy - donuts - food period !!!! No one in my office would dare bring me that stuff - I would tell them - Thanks but no thanks - a gf brought me easter cookie - they did sit on my desk for awhile - but then I gave them to my boss - heck let him get fatter - better him than me... I like your exercising before you can quilt - thats very very good - yes the quilting keeps your hands busy but you are just sitting on your butt you need the exercise - so from today forward no quilting unless you have done your exercise Also - do the boxing - that's a work out that and tennis - I played at my DS house this last weekend - boxing had me sweating - They don't have the Wii fit part so I don't know what it contains - but I think your wii came with boxing You need to sit down and really think about why you keep going back to the candy.. I have a sweet tooth too and I usually go to it when I need comforting.. But really after the first few - are you reallying enjoying them - or just eating to be eating - it's our drug - once we start the sugar the more we want - so from today forward you are going to go on a sugar fast - no more fricken sugar.. Only SF foods if you just have to have your choc - last night I had to have choc - I love the dark choc sf jello cups - had 2 = 120 calories.. What's going on - why are you so stressed - how's work? Has things calmed down there at all?? How's it with DH being retired. You need to enlist everyone in this quest to get healthy - tell them not to let you eat the junk - and don't go to the darn candy store - that's frickin off limits ok... Candice you are such a sweet nice beautiful person why don't you think you are worth the work to get healthy what's going on... Like I always say this whole weight loss getting healthy is more about our mental issues than our physical ones - as we all know even with the band the junk is no problem and we all have figured out how to eat around it and if you could eat 2 pieces of pizza - do you think you may need a fill - or were you stuffed to the gills after eating theml How's Ginnett??? Tell her Hi !!!

For me FB is just for fun stuff - like playing pathword -parking wars - mob wars - yep I play these thing with my lbt buddies - but we really don't get into the issues that we do here - it's just another distract from food for me when I am bored...

Steph I don't know about new rules - heck I don't follow the old ones.... But agree one space after a comma and 2 after a period. google it see if you can find anything about the new rules and let us know :0)

Karri - Yes your trainer $$ is well worth it - and working with weights will make you stronger - improve your running ablities and burn more calories - So take that extra $$ and bite the bullet and get a trainer... Food choice - I am the oppisite of you - at work I am fine - it's not that I don't want to eat - but I don't have food at my desk - yes there is food here in the office that I could go get - but - no way in hell am I going to eat it - I have a postition to up hold - I have lost all this weight - I tell pple I did it not the band by changing my eating habits - so you won't catch me eating a donut - cake - candy or cookie at work. I am hungry but I just work thru it during the working day - My problem is at home !!! This is where I have to be super dilegent... What's up with your counsler - The stress of the issues at school are awful - but adding eating to it - is just going to make your stress level that much worse. Can't wait till you get here - you need r&r you need to turn on off your brain - you need to understand that not everything is in your control - you gotta go with the flow - worrying about what might happen - isnt going to change the out come of what will happen and since the decisions are in other pples hands you have no control - just think of plan a - then plan b and then move on... OMG Marcy - how in the heck are you girl - I think you need a butt kicking for staying away so long - I think you need us !!! Thanks - yep 138 - size 4 pants - go back a few pages and there are some current pictures or on my profile Yes I am all about the health and Yep I did it - so if I can do it everyone else can too - I am no stronger than any of you all. I just wanted my health back - I wanted my life back Karla Ok GF - I know you have been under alot of stress - but come on - cookie and milk and you were just banded. Why is this crap in your house??? Get rid of it - if it's not there you can't eat it. I weighed 3.12 at birth I was a premei (sp) - Hope is not a word we use here - you have to take that word out of your vocabulary and replace it with I WILL. Try and hope aren't options - it's I Will do this - postitive affirmations - You are just a few yrs younger than me - and this is about extending the years we have left - improving the quality of our lives - we don't have any more chances - we need to get this right now - not tomorrow but today !!!

Good Morning Gang !!! Happy Thrusday !!! Julie hope you are feeling even better today.. Yep 1day & spray we can over eat the sf stuff -low fat stuff etc - it's not just about whats in our foods - it really boils down to calories plan and simple - this is why I am a huge advocate of tracking your food - we need to learn how many caloire are in our daily food choices You might not have eaten that candy bar that had 200 calories - you ate 3 sf WW fudgecicles and that totaled 300 calories and we think we are ok cuz it was sf it is allowable and we can have as much as we want - well a calorie is a calorie no matter what you eat.

Phyl - you took the sun and heat with you ... It's 59 and today was only 68 and windy.... Well, just came to turn the computer off.. Candice - were are you you haven't popped in... Easter is over :0) Sweet Dreams..

Denise Hugs & Prayers being sent your way - you guys really have your hands full... Know that we are thinking good thought for you... xooxoxo Janet

I meant top 2:tongue2: - Adam is going to win idol :0) If you can't eat meat you are too tight... You can't be so tight that you can't eat real food... Let us know..

You go girl - Congratulations !!!! I bet you are on cloud nine and this kind of stuff helps keep you on track !!! No we aren't leaving LBT :thumbup:- it's just on fb you can play games - I love pathword - parking wars - it's all Phyl's fault she is the one who got us hooked... There' possum toss - mob wars and some farm thing that I haven't figure out yet.. Between 3 threads - the p.m.s I get and FB - I don't get anything else done - that's why there are days I just stay away from the computer all together :00 Well it's 4 I get to go home - gym weight training legs - so will talk to you all later I bet Matt or Lil get kicked off Idol tonite - or maybe Chris I love Matt & Kris - but I think the bottom 2 may be Adam & Allison - or Adam & Danny???

OMG Denise - my GS is the same way !!! every now and then he will come out of the blue and tell me "luv you LaLa" and then I will asked - "whadda ya want Andrew or what did you do" :lol: and some time - he does say nothing. Last night he wasn't home when I go home from work and I usually will call him and ck on where he is.. Well you know he's now 18 and graduated.. It was 9:15 and the phone rang and it was him - asking why I hadn't called to check on him :wub: I said I was waiting til 9:30 to call - I thought that was so cute - they want to be so grown up - but they are still kids :eek: Karla - Hugs GF my stepmom had lung cancer - just make sure that he get's the morphine when it's needed.. I would say her passing was peaceful - and my Dad's too - he die 1 month after her funeral from complication from colon bursting and he had congestive heart failure.. Kari - you use to be our water queen !!!! Hugs on the loss of those babies - enjoy your GS bday - but not too much cake ok :wub: Phyl glad you arrived safely - yesterday the wind was suppose to be bad - but in Indio it wasn't - It's cold here right now 61 with a good breeze Steph - I understand your frustrations - but please please don't punish yourself for the past - it is the past you can't change it all you can do is move forward - leave the past where it belongs and just make better choices going forward.. Well late in cking in this morning - had stuff to do -- Will cbl ladies

Meredith We all look at skinny pple and see them eating a pint of ice cream - a 1/2 of a cake or a bag of chips - or donuts whatever - and we love to thing that they do this all the time - the diff between them and us is they do it OCCAISSIONALLY and then they will eat liter the next day and up the exercise - where we ate like that EVERYDAY and didn't move our butts. Wishful thinking... I can tell you back in my skinny days (early 20's) I would make a box of rice a roni on the weekend and I would eat it all weekend - but then I moved to eating the whole box in just one sitting - I would buy candy and eat it over a period of time - not one sitting.. So I do know the diff - in High School - I came home from school eat Cookies & chips - but I did a lot of walking so I lost weight even eating those foods and it wasn't every single day... I do have a faint memory of being that skinny chick - I know how I use to eat and how I progressed in to eating more and more and moving less and less... There really aren't too many pple out there who can eat tons and tons of junk - not move and not be fat - Yep there are a very few who can - but sooner or later it will catch up with them... Cheryl - Have a good time !! Talk to you when you get back It's cuz you are on FB instead of here :wub: Charlene we have alot of pple (myself included) who are on facebook too - on the 50's thread they have been refering to it as cheating on LBT - heck some have even joined twitter - oh heck No - between lbt - fb and work and my life there just aren't enough hours in the day :0)

Julie you are doing better than I would in your place - I doubt I would be on the computer ;0) - I am glad they drained the problem and you got to eat - how did it taste.. Use the drugs if you are in pain - that's what they are there for.. Continued prayers - Hugs Janet

Denise Congrats on going to curves - yep that paper work will kill you - No school how nice ....

Hey Charlene - Glad the GS is doing Great - that's so good to hear... I hear that those shots steriods do make you hungry let us know how the fill goes... Apples - see how originize you are - I have the pt bars but they are sweet - I like both sweet and savory/salty stuff but I should pack popcorn for my car trips and the jerky - remind me the next time I go on a trip.. My problem is I forget about my band - til it come time to eat - and really I can't say I get hungry while traveling cuz I'm doing something but I do want to munch in the car cuz I get bored Claudine - Glad to hear you are ok today - I usually don't have any problems after I've pb'd - infact it opens me up.. I pb'd on dinner last night cuz I ate too fast :0) Laura - Hope this fill helps - nope I didn't have any problems with my port - so Im no help there sorry !! Heart monitor - Nope don't have that either - I just use the hand one on the treadmil and besides that I take bp meds and it keeps my heart beat down - I can get it up to 105 today on the treadmil by having the incline on 10 and speed 3.5 and do get it up to 120 if I jog - but I don't do that too often.. Have your trainer show you sissy squats you want a talk about a killer - and face plant (?)- we did those last week on our leg day - my legs hurt up until yesterday good hurt cuz I know I worked the muscle but still pain Well gang just checking in - I went to the gym and did 3 miles today - it's the 1st time I have been on the treadmill in 2 weeks !!!! I did walk a little on Saturday but not enough and climbed stairs at my DS house but really only had my 2 workouts with trainer last week. So I am now back in my routine - which feels good - Monday & Wed - Trainer - Tues & Sat - Cardio... Last night had to bag up GS Easter candy and told him to put it up in his room where I can't find it.. Since I am a sugar addict - I can't have the stuff looking at me cuz when the sun goes down so does my reslove... So out of site - out of mind - that's how I deal with my addiction

Daisy - Hugs !!! & Prayers !!! I haven't even looked it up (twitter) the kids told me it's suppose to be like facebook but safer??? I already have lbt & FB don't need anything else:0) Leeann - We are here for you !!!! Welcome !!! Sounds like you do have your motivation back - good for you girl - we will help you keep it..

[quote name='eeyore10479;1200137 I hope I didn't come across rude in my first post. That is one thing I am not' date=' I'm not rude. I maybe obese, but I'm not rude![/color'] I wasn't paying very close attention to what I was writing last night...I was watching Dancing With The Stars. What I didn't mention was I have Syndrome X, which most people do not know about (even doctors). It's called the "Silent Killer". PCOS, pre-Diabetes and many other health conditions are all included in Syndrome X. My endocrinologist actually recommended this procedure in hopes that it would help me lose weight. On top of Syndrome X, I also have Hypothyroidism which is another strike against me. I have grown up with my mom suffering from many metabalic disorders. My mom NEVER makes anything fried...it's always grilled or baked. An average dinner is 3-4 vegetables during a meal and an average of 4-5 ounces of meat and 1 cup of carbohydrates. I do not use butter on vegetables. I grew up not using it so I don't use it now. In fact, I don't even use margarine. I'm not trying to make excuses, but I want people to realize that food is not the only reason I am obese. I have medical problems also. I know I need help and I want to lose weight. I have been overweight my entire life. I'm so tired of watching people be able to eat whatever they want. I know I will never be one of those people. When it comes to exercising, I have not been doing much of it since I am banned from activities from tearing my ACL 6 months ago. I have done Weight Watchers many times. As soon as I stray the least bit from the 'diet' I gain weight back. It's sooo frustrating. Darling you didn't come off rude - I just didn't want you to take offense at what I was saying - I just wanted you to know that I wasn't being mean - your 1st post didn't indicate that you had medical issues.. There is a thread for PCOS go to the forum tab above and look for it - since I don't have these issues and am not well versed on them I really can't help. I just gotta put this out there you say "I have done WW and as soon as I stray I gain weight back" That's cuz you are not eating healthy when you stray I strayed this weekend ate too much candy - the scale was up 2 lbs on Monday - but I am back eating healthy and those 2 lbs will be off within a week infact it was down 1 lbs this morning.. Again - good luck on our journey - wishing you the best

Darling I am going to kick you friggin butt !!!! You just had back surgery - you were in major pain - how in the F do you think you could keep up with your exercise during this time - that's not an excuse that's a reason and there is a BIG diff between the two. You are allowed to walk - so walk and that's it !!! - once your doc has released you to do more then you can but you are still fricking healing !!!

Cheryl - Please forgive me - I know you posted while I was gone over easter - and I read everything really fast and didn't retain info to well - I forget when were you banded?? Yep 1 cup = 8 oz of food - I eat about cup to 1.25 for lunch - and dinner about 1.5 cups - I always have. I am not so tight that I can't eat. I eat off a dessert/sandwhich plate - I feel that I eat normal now - I eat normal portion sizes not go big portion sizes anymore. I am not good at eating while traveling especially if fast food is my only thing to choose from - I ordered a cheese burger and just ate the patty - they do have salads in most airport - I do take a pt bars with me - and now a days restuarants do have healthier food options... . Marty alot of pple dont feel their 1st fill - I felt mine right away but it only lasted a 2 weeks then I was calling for another fill. Ok - this is just my opinion here - my band doesn't take away my hunger.. It does keep me full longer on a smaller portion of food - I said full - not satisfied (satation) our full is a diff full than being satisfied - you know that uncomfortable feeling pre-band when you ate too much - well that's your new full after eating just 4 oz of meat... and there is still food on your plate - and our thinking or should say training is to have a clean plate and we also think - omg i only ate 4 oz of meat and I am full and I can't eat the rest of my food - I want the rest of my food - ie I this is why I say it's more a mental game for us obese chicks than physical... This isn't true 100% of the time - I ate lunch today 3 oz chick breast and 2 stuffed Pasta shells - I am full/satisfied but there is a cake in the lunch room - being full doesn't stop me from wanting that cake - and ya I could go in there and manage a few bites - but why... I don't need the extra calories - I had treats this past weekend and if I continue to eat sugar I will want more sugar so I don't do it daily - maybe every few weeks.. Marty - the band doesn't do the work for you - it's only a tool - 75% of the work is up to you and the band will do the other 25% once you get to your sweet spot (good restriction) It doesn't stop you from wanting food. Here's a what I did in the beginning BF- Weight Control oatmeal or Dannon Lite & Fit yogurt with a 1/4 banana (total bf calories 150-200) Lunch - 1 cup of food - usually a one pot wonder (veggie - meat - onions - bell peppers - tomatoe sauce) (total lunch calories 200 -250) Dinner - 4 oz baked catfish - 1/4-1/2 cup rice - 1/2 cup veggies - with I can't beleive its not butter spray on my rice and veggies (total dinner calories 250-300) I am a night time eater so I save my Snacks for night Healthy choice or WW fudgecicle 100 calories - 2 Jello sf choc pudding 120 calories - and maybe another yogurt (80 calories (total snack calories 200-400) So if I ate low on my calories is was about 800 calories for the day and if I ate high it was 1150 for the day.. Like I said I varied my calories - some days I was hungerier than others - and since I can stand to be hungry during the day and let me tell you I am hungry during the day some days I can naw off my arm by the time lunch gets here - but I don't have food at my desk so I can't eat - but at home at night I know that I don't have the same control - so I feed my hunger within my calorie budget - it is what works for me.. You have to give yourself a calorie budget - and spend it how you like - you need to say no to your hunger at times - being a little hungry isn't going to kill you - it's not like you don't know where your next meal is going to come from - but being obese is going to kill you - being obese is going to stop you from living your life - it's controls what you can and cant' do - it makes you ashamed. Also - I feel that for me my emotional hunger really does manifest itself into preceived physicall hunger - so be careful on that one - it takes a while to figure it out just like what your new full is. Give your fill 2 weeks - then call the doc and ask for another appointment - your tool isn't going to work properly if it's not maintained - and fills are part of the maintenance process. Your doc works for you - you don't work for them - Call and just tell them your tool isn't working properly and you need to come in for some maintenace :0) Yea Linda - not gaining is just as good as loosing sometimes - especially on vacation. !!!!

Maryrose I too am 54 - and I have more energy than my 18 yr old gs !!! I exercise no problem - and I work too - I just do it and I feel so much better after doing it and I know that it is key in losing the weight and maintaining it. But again I'm lucky I don't have any physical limitations As to miss buying junk food - heck no - I have replaced buying junk food for my size 4 pants - that's size is better then all the junk food in the world - the new found energy that I have is better than any junk food - being able to zip line and repel is better than buying junk food - being able to have a better quality of life where I'm not a slug bug - tired all the time - is better than buying junk food. I'm like restlessmonkey - I am not dieting - they just don't work - I eat healthy 98% of the time and allow for treats 2% of the time.. I finally understand what WW preached - this is about a lifetime lifestyle change - my band helps me in making those changes with the restriction it provides.

Phyl - Have a safe trip - Have fun in 3 rivers at your freinds party - that should help with the sadness of leaving the Desert..

Rose Yep a good fill being at your sweet spot is wonderful and is the reason we got the band - to help with our portion control - like my signature say eat healthy plus exercise plus the band = success Did dh have surgery?? My GD had msra and my DS got it too it's very dangerous and contagious and painful - clean everything with bleach... Rose as to where my DS lives - he & his family had some major issues last yr - they were victims of some major crimes and I don't want to say exactly where they live ) Hope you understand - this site can be seen by the whole wide world - doesn't take much - if you google indiogirl this site will appear - so don't want to be evasive but need to protect my DS & Family :sad:) Denise - You will know if you are too tight and it sounds like you just might be - I could only drink 1/2 cup of coffee in the morning and very very slowly - could barely sip Water - and just a few bites of food - I am not one who wants to only eat 1/4 cup of food per meal I was fine when I left the office on 1/23/07 he put in 1.00 cc but after a couple of days being that tight I called and went back (he does fills on Wed so I had to wait a whole week but knew after a couple of days that I was just too tight) he took out .09 cc of that fill - so really all I ended up with was .01 cc which is just a tweak - I haven't had a fill since then - my doc says that I most likely will never need another fill. Sometimes I think fills are more mental than physical - All we do is read about fills fills fills - and we think we need them all the time - we think we are eating too much - when all reality - some days we can eat more than others - but really that depends on the types of food we eat - I ate lunch fine yesterday - but pb'd on dinner (again reason is cuz I ate too fast cuz I was hungry). Since you have been tight for a week now and feel that you are too tight - I would go and get some taken out.. It's not good for your stomach to be too tight and not being able to eat isn't good - your calories are low and you may drop 3-4 lbs this week - but you can not live on those low calories for the rest of your life - I varied my calories 800-1200 during my weight loss phase - and I still vary them today. This is my unprofessional opition... )

PB Some pple can go the 1st 6 months with no fill - just the band in place provides enough restriction. As to fills every doc is diff some are aggresive some aren't and just like every doc is different in their fills - each one of us is diff with the amount of fill in our bands I am at my sweet spot - I think I have 5 cc in and I think I have a large AP band that came out in July 07 - but you can have the same band as me - and it could take you 7 cc to feel restristion IMHO - I never understood why pple were/are so concrened about how many cc's were in their bands - it's not like there is a magic # where they are going to be at their sweet spot It's highly individual as to the amount of fill that's needed for you.. Bottom line don't worry - you will know when you have restriction and there is no magic # and most doc's don't fill til 6 weeks out

Phyl - I know that after visiting the kids this weekend - I want to move that way - but then I would be leaving my life and would I really see them that much if I did live closer - ya I would be helping more - but I mean quality time with them - I don't know if I could live in 2 places - that would be kinda hard - plus I always hate saying good by - in fact I try to avoid it as much as possible.. So I understand - Hugs and being sick doesn't help at all.. Well ya those white choc reese bp cups just jumped in my basket - so I will be glad they are out of the store too... Karla - I have a hard time with cafereraita type food - it's too fatten or isn't band friendly - before I would think of notheing of getting the alfreado what ever - but now I know it's loaded with fat so I don't order it - plus too I don't want to pay full price for something I can't eat it all and unhealthy food for one meal isn't bad - but for 3 or 4 which the leftover would make - hell no - I usually just wait til I get home.. Plus those types of sistuations takes away my hunger - I can't eat if I'm upset like that (worried) Steph - I gotta play Wii with DS & family this weekend - boxing really a good work out - I really sucked at bowling - couldn't get the hang of when to push be or let go of b which ever it it - I don't think I would buy it for myself - but had fun playing it with the family.. Water - second nature - ya right - today 1 cup coffee (which I never count at water) and 3/4 of 16.9 water bottle that has been it for me - I am terribel most days - but have been getting 2 16.9 bottle in since I started with the pomegrante lemonade - and when I don't get enough I get terrible cramps in my ankles and feet... I will most likely get 3 6 oz glasses of my grape cranberry juice down before bed.. So that will make be at the 1/2 mark of my water for the day..

Martyh Don't worry I repeat myself often - heck I'm 54 you know how it goes with us old pple.. :0) Pbing - Productive burp - it's like throwing up but without the stomach acid - a forceful burp with food in it.. You get it when you have eaten too fast - not chewed well or your meat is very dry - you get this stuck feeling - some say golf ball in your chest - then your body produces mucus/salvia (we refer to it as slime)to try and move the food threw your stomach - sometime it will and other times it won't and bubbles back up and you end up spitting up your food.. Sweet spot is when you get filled to where you feel proper restriction - full on like 1/2 to 1 cup of food per meal.. It's when your band is working...

Julie I'm glad to hear that at least they have figured out what's wrong and that they can fix it without major surgery and like I said before some times crap happens - hope everything went well - Continued Prayers.. Hugs Janet Yep Claudine - that one bite too many - I still do it and I am almost 2 yrs out - Great on working out !!! Meredith - I gotta say that for me I really eat out of boredom and cuz I love the taste - it's a control thing too - I hate being told not to eat - I hate being told what to do -- We don't always have control over what happens to us at work - our kids and also we do so much for other - food is what I had control over -it's what I did for me ... Ya some pple have great motabolizoams - they can eat what they want - but I bet your sis doesn't eat exactly like you did - and not have a weight issue - ya she had a piece of cake -but I bet not the whole thing - We see skinny pple eat stuff that we think omw I wish I could eat that and stay thin - we they aren't eating as much as we do and they move more too. Ya some is their motabolizam - but weight is all about calories in vs calories out - they may over indugle every now and then where as we did it every day - every meal.. Well gang just cking in - I started this an hour ago - then the phone rang and I just got off the phone w/my GF who had bypass - comparring notes and talking about food & exercise and now it's 8 and I need to go cook... I will cb after I get my veggies started..