IndioGirl55

RestlessMonkey It's open to anyone & everyone - no secert knocks or code You are welcome to join/post whenever you like ... Hugs Janet

Charlene - I agree with the calories I don't do them often but I will have them everynow and then - I don't think they make me gassy. CONGRATS on the Curves - That's GREAT !!!! Just do your best till Monday - just try and eat low calorie stuff - don't worry to much about the quantity if you are eating veggies cuz they are free food - You can make it and remember you may or may not get restriction with that 1st fill - it was my 2nd one that did the trick.. Dionna For me the band does NOT take away my hunger - I still get hungry between meals. I don't like the commercial where it says it does.. I think that's why some pple this is the cure to their obesity and they don't have to work at it.. For the most part it not the band that fails but the people who are banded who fail to do the work that is needed to use their new tool. First of all alot of our hunger issues are head issue - as you have most likely have read before cuz I am saying it all the time - I will eat my dinner be physically full - but still want to eat. I feel that my body wants more food - remember my stomach is full - but my head isn't - I want to keep enjoying the taste of the food. When I was 1st banded - I would eat my 1/2 - 1 cup of food and stop and really try to concentrate on was I physically full or not. I found that I was full physically - but I still wanted to eat. As obese pple we are use to eating large quantities of high fat high sugar foods and yes some time just too much healthy foods. We like the taste of the food - the food boost our seratonin & dopamine levels that makes us feel good. Well now with the band and proper restriction we are no longer feeding those hormones - so we still want to eat - but we can't cuz we have restriction. Last nite - ate my 4 oz of fish was pretty full - had a couple bite of rice and moved to my veggie - well I got full - but tried to eat one more brussel sprout - well get what happened - I pb'd.. I ate one bite to many and my band forced me to stop. But with in 1 hour I could eat again as my food had gone from my pouch to my old tummy.. Yes, I did eat again - but it was 100 c snack pack of popcorn and truly I wasn't hungry - I just wanted to eat and for me popcorn is a slider food. I find that when I eat hard Proteins (food with substances) that I do stay full longer - I ate lunch at noon - salad - really ate just the top of the salad (bacon cheese turkey avocado some lettuce and dressing) and I can say right now I am full and don't want to eat and am not looking for food. But some days by 2 I am hungry again - but usually those are days that I eat softer foods. For everyone it's diff as to when they want to eat - for me it's 7 p.m to 11 p.m that are the toughest times for me - my DIL likes to eat between 3-6pm.. The band IMHO is only a tool to restrict your portion size - and that being said - even banded slider food still go right through and they are normally high calorie foods (candy - ice cream - cookie - chips) I have good restriction but a couple of weeks ago on vacation I ate 4 oatmeal cookie in the span of an hour.. The band didn't stop it.. But had I tried to eat 8 oz steak - no way in heck could I have.. This is my opinion of the band - It controls my portions - it's a piece of plastic - it doesn't make my food choices - I do that - It doesn't go to the gym and exercise for me - It's only a tool In order to lose the weight I need to eat healthy (lower fat foods - lower or sf food) and exercise to become a healthier person the band isn't going to do it - it doesn't have a brain. They have banded your tummy not your brain and this is truly where the problems lie Again another phrase that I am always spouting - this is truly a lifetime lifestyle change in our eating - diet's don't work cuz when you go off them you go back to eating "normal" which is what got us fat in the first place.. This takes work and determination - the lap band with proper restriction does make a hard job easier - but it's still work. I think that this is why the statistics say that we are only suppose to lose 50 to 60 % of our excess weight - it's not the magic cure - but that being said - I think that says something negative about obese pple too that they can't even with help we can't succeed - Even pple who have bypass do gain their weight back - again - I think it's cuz their healthy eating and exercise doesn't become a lifestyle change and they slowly slip back into old habits. There are pple here on the board who do utilize the help of counselor to help them understand their eating problems - for some have major issues such as abuse and for some it just boredom that makes them over eat. I miss eating at times - yes I do - I miss eating large quantities of food - I miss my high fat food - my brownies - candies - but I do have to say that I feel so much better now and that feeling really out weighs the taste of the food. I dabble everynow and then - but not too often as I don't want that ugly monster to rear it's head again (unhealthy eating). I never want to go back to 250 lbs never. For me I have had my Ah Ha moment - Major surgery and just like a drug addict - I am a food addict - I can't worry if I will be sober tomorrow - I must learn to just control today... I was trying to do a poll on this exact subject but I couldn't figure out how to do it - I p.m. someone and they haven't answered so I guess I will have to ask for someone else to help me.. But I wanted to know from pple at or near goal if the band took away their hunger... Hugs - Janet

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Lori - CONGRATS YOU ARE FANTASTIC... It IS doable...

Roll Call Ladies I haven't heard from you all in a few days now - What's up ?? Are we doing good - or are we struggling ?? Don't want you guy to think that I don't think about you cuz I do.. So just checking in... Hugs, Janet

It's the nature of the band for some - it can be very fickled The only time I every feel tight is after I exercise - other than that it doesn't change - I can eat in the mornings,,

Sounds a little racist to me - so you think all pple with an arab name are bad - you think just because a person is a muslim they are bad (obama is not a muslim by the way and if he was so what- you have to be a christian to run for the presidency - heck so that cuts out Jewish pple)- heck for all you know I am a muslim even with an american name. - it's a religion - not all muslim/islamic pple are bad/terrorist. Just like all white pple aren't rednecks - I really really hate that pple in this world are so judgemental against a persons race - we all bleed the same blood - we were all created by the same supreme being and for me that's God.. I thought McCain did very well last night and love that he held his hand out and says he wants to make a change with all of our help - but per the stuff you read his voting history has been along bushes lines 90% - I will give him a chance to change my mind - I can't wait to hear the debates.. I guess I am more open minded than most...

701 Calories 45 Carbs 18 Fat 92 Protein - I think ??? He gets credit... Good Job Earl :w00t: Denise are you home yet - How is everything - No looter or damage I pray.. Thought that McCain did very well last night in his speech - I loved that he put his hand out and wasn't nasty or condensending.... Can't wait for the debates !!! Food for the day B - Protein Bar 210 c 19 pt S - String cheese 80 c 7 pt - Nectarine 150 c L - Pinto Beans & Ham - 250 c 15 pt S - Chips & Cheese - 200 C 5 pt D - Fish 150 c 20 pt - 1/2 c rice 120 - Brussel sprouts -25 c S - Popcorn 100 c - watermelon 150 c - Juice 40 c Water - 59 oz Total Calorie 1475 - 66 pt ok of to ck my desk - cbl :tt2:

I don't have any 9 yr olds but I didn't think that they taught Sex Ed at that age - 7th grade is when it should start.. It's just not pregancies that we have to be concerned with but AIDS... Do you know how many teenagres have AIDS ... Family value - yes we need more of them and I would say that both dems & repubs would agree on that one - it's isn't exclusive to one party..

OK i'm bored.... Tonite isn't gym nite so am home waiting for 7 to eat (well fish is still defrostiing) I'm hungry... Had 15 chips with a little pepper jack cheese - now drinking a crystal lite. Waiting for 7 to watch McCain - I guess I could go read.. or clean - but I don't want to do those things..

congratulations kari - you need to post a new picture !!!

Yes - hit reply - then go scroll down to manage attachment - then browse - then upload it and it will display in the message field...

I know you know we are friend - just pulling your chain :tt2: Yes I loved that discussion that nite - I wish we had more of those night and that Linda & Phyl were there. I asked a girl at work if it was just me or were the speeches last night just a little nasty - mean spirted - I agree 100% I hate the bashing and I don't care which side is doing it - It's what makes me tune out.. It will be interesting to hear McCain's speech tonite Ya I would think that American Politic's would be interesting to other countries since we are big brother and especially since we are neighbors. We don't get much on what goes on in Canada - I use to know who your prime minister was at one time - Truedua (sp) but I don't know who it is now - He must have been very popluar or very much disliked but that's the name that comes to my head - I don't even know what year he was the pm..:smile2: Tell DH you have alot of American friends and you worry about us

But Candice We are REAL FRIEND cuz we have met and not longer just cyber friends.. But really we were real friends even before we met - I don't think any of us felt uncomfortable when we did meet the 1st time. We already knew each other... Oh that picture brings a smile to my face - it's too bad we live all over the country & canada eh !!!! Linda must be super busy w/new GD - I sent her a email a while back congratulating her - but haven't gotten a response - plus I want see pics from the wedding... Linda come out and say HI...

It's not the band that doesn't work - it's some people don't do the work that goes along with being banded.. The band is only a little piece of plastic - it doesn't make your food choices - it doesn't exercise. You have to go into this knowing that this is truly a lifetime lifestyle change in your eating habits and your physical activity level.

Oh I don't know how I missed this - CONGRATULATION !!!!! Ya I remember that - all the drama ..... Great on getting a belt - isn't it such a great feeling...

[quote=aubrie;984433 His background is questionable. What's questionable?

Jb yes .2 can make a diff - I had fillin January 1.cc was way too tight had .08 taken out and so that meant my actual fill was .02 and I have been fine ever since - I'm at my sweet spot. As to goal weight there was a big fight on another thread about this a while back - one person thought everyone should strive to hit a normal bmi - some pple were under their bmi but still a normal weight and pple were saying they were too skinny. My doc and I never discussed a goal in the beginning - my original goal was 170 (that was the lowest weight I had ever gotten to on any diet when I was in my 30's) well - when I got to 180 I moved it to 160 - then moved it to 150 but was afraid i couldn't attain it - so put it back to 160 I got there 5/8/08 - but really wanted 100 lbs off - so kept plugging away by 6/24 I got to 150 - but I still really wanted to say I had a normal BMI - I had lost 100 lbs what's 5 more - so i pushed and I got there 105 lbs gone.. I asked my doc at my last visit what I should strive for and he said 145.. So that's where I am at.. I really think it's a personal decision - our age plays alot into it - we don't want to look too thin - I'm 5'4 120 is a normal weight for my height - but if I lost another 25 lbs I would look sickly - I would be nothing but skin and bones - I am a size 6 - I look good and most importantly feel great - am told I am tiny which is hard to believe that someone says I am tiny.. My personal opinion strive to have the best bmi you can have.. If you want a lower one then go for it.. Another motivating factor for me was that with the band statistically says we will only lose 50-60% of our excess weight - What's that saying a fat chick can't lose 100% - well - I wanted to prove them wrong - and I have...

Tann EXCELLENT JOB ON THE WEIGHT LOSS !!! :crying: WTG:thumbup: Just gotta give props when props are due - I know this is vp thread but amazing on your weight loss

Kathy - Glad you are home safe and sound - I hope you enjoyed so of that Lobster for me... Some of that weight is most likely Water from all the sodium in restaurant food - but it good to know that being home you will get back on track Katrarina Fill levels are diff for all of us - this is why I never asked how much he put in - all I cared about was that it worked - I think I have 5 cc in but the only reason I know this is that cuz I was too tight from my last fill in January and I think he said that I now have 5 in it after he pulled out .08. But sounds like your doc gives good aggressive fills which I think is good there is no reason not to get someone to their sweet spot as fast at they can - as long as you don't get too tight. I am guessing here on the burp - but it's that the water went down and their was air trapped when you took the gulp ... I don't know guess - I only have tiny burps if I have over eaten some times. I think it's the food trying to go thur the pouch into the little hole before it hits our old stomach... I am far from a medical person but that sounds reasonable to me could be full of trapped air myself :crying: Do you have to be on liquids for awhile - what are your post fill instructions??

The info is false - ck snopes

What experience does any poteintal presidential candiate have prior to being president - none of them have had any experience in being president. It's on the job learning for all of them. They both understand how the government works So that one really needs to be done with by everyone on the experience issue.

Ya my boss use to send me all this crap and I would ck it on snopes and tell him it's not true. Now he has me ck it before he forwards these types of email - He had already given this one to me to ck - He is Mr. Republican & I'm Ms Democrat :0) So when he was trying to tell me Obama was going to raise my taxes - I told him BS - I'm not rich like him..

Well I guess you can if it fits your agenda to spread BS - but again - it can make you look pretty silly..

amen to that !!!!