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I agree Steph- I hate the dirty politic's - it really turns me off - I am one who tunes out when there is to much bashing about stupid stuff.. Stick to the issues PLEASE..... :biggrin: Ruby is it Aunt Flo that's causing you to be so tight???? You can eat toast and crackers but not soup??? I guess I have never had that problem - the only time I seem tight is after I exercise and that's it.. Today I have had 2 sauages 113 c - 1/2 cup beans with cheese 150 c and 12 bite size chips 70 = 220 c- grilled cheese sandwich 2% cheese & lite bread.. 195 c - Total so far 528... so I have 1000 left - but am going out and I know I will have a couple of drinks 3 - tequilla tonic 600 calories so have 400 for food :lol:

butter No I do miss it butter I am a Paula Dean Girl butter

Denise - Me too... I do fine when home - but when I am away - the rules are out the window - but gotta say I have only gained like a pound the last 2 times i was away from home - you are right though home, gym back to eating healthy - and it will come right back off..

[/url] Yep this year is going to be very interesting - I agree with Phyl on his choice - we know Biden could step up to be President - but can she.. Where's Marcy when we need her - she could give up a little info on her governer... And again Obama doesn't have years of experience but who knows - new blood either way you go I do think that's needed. - it's not about red or blue it's about our country and who will do the best job - I don't care if it's a republican or a democrate it's the person and their ideas that I am concerned about... I don't vote party I vote person... Also, since we are on a topic that can cause alot of friction - lets all talk in general terms and respect each person right to their opinion - USA is about freedom of speech.. I don't care if you are for McCain or Obama and I will always respect your choice as that is your American right. USA ALL THE WAY Steph - on the steak - I marenate mine in a little red wine vinager and worstershire sauce and garlic - Yummy and cook rare (I am a canibal) Scallops I have never grilled so can't help there - but Phyl's idea sounds good - When I am entertaining I will go to Foodtv.com and look up receipts - Emeril or Bobby Flay should have some good receipt for the scallops that aren't too hard..

Kathy, Lucky you !!! I don't feel so sorry for you now .. Have some clam chowder for me or some crab or lobster... Remember Protein - just reduce the butter part - it's allowable... Have fun .. Hugs Janet

[/url] CONGRATULATIONS GRANDMA LINDA Yes we all want to see the pictures. Phyl - DH is too funny - but I am glad you gotta cook - My Xdh took over the house and do you know what I missed washing clothes, ironing and yes even cleaning... Ruby - Hugs - I don't have Aunt Flo anymore but still get the cravings at times. Candice - 1700 isn't too bad - it wasn't 3000 and today is a new day to focus on good food choices.. Steph - You and me the closet introverts... Yes I would never have guessed that you were one too Kari - Karri - Densie come out and play... Denise I hope Gustof (sp) misses you... Well, ladies I slept in til 7:15 this morning - can't beleive it's Friday already my vacation is over :biggrin: I don't count weekends - haven't done anything I had planed to - ironing still needs to be done - garage still a mess - bedroom still needs vacuming and floors need mopping - Well there is always tomorrow:lol: Why do they keep moving our smileys around - the laughing one was on top now in 3rd row..

Kathy You are doing GREAT... I really give you props on how you have done with your traveling obislility you have been making good food choices. Also, for me my band is hasn't taken all my hunger away -for me it's still really hard to distiguish between head and real hunger - What I have done is said to myself that I am going to eat healthy I am not dieting.. So I just make healthier food choices. Have a productive and safe trip - today is Friday -ou work on the weekends ?? I guess I was happy with my - That would be hard for me.. I was out shoppping w/Andrew yesterday for school clothes - I was hungry - food court was the only thing to choose from - didn't want a salad at 11 a.m. had one piece of a quesidilla (sp) not the best thing to eat but the band provides me with restriction not to eat the whole thing.

Katie - First Welcome - LBT is a great place for info and support - as you can see by the responses you have already gotten from Long2bthin who is just a little more than 2 1/2 months out and Joannmaire who should be banded in October.. 1st thing you have to do is take diet out of your vocabulary and replace it with healthy eating and physical activity... I have not dieted since I was banded on 7/17/07 - As you have most likely heard me say before - diets don't work - what happens when you go off of them and return to your normal diet - you gain the weight back.. So if you want this to work - take diet out of your vocabulary and replace it with I am eating healthy.. What I have done is learned to eat healthy - I eat to provide my body with nutriants. I don't eat to soothe my feeling - to self medicate - to calm my stress - I eat my 3 meals and 2 or 3 Snacks - I eat good healthy foods that are low in fat and sugar... I exercise.. Lori - Yes Yes my jedi warrior Positive Thinking - I am not on a diet - I am learning to eat healthy to provide my body with the foods it needs to give me life.. Joannemarie - You got it girl you are going to be a great success..

Hey gang - sorry I was gone yesterday- got my hair colored and then just fiddled around the house watched the DNC and read.. My food - 2 real eggs with green onions and feta cheese - 2 small pork ribs for lunch - snac kpopcorn & pudding - roast (which didn't sit to well had to eat very slowly) roasted carrots and 1/2 of a red potato- night snack popcorn & watermelon then mid nite - carrots that I pb'd on Exercise - 1 hr weights Arms with Trainer... Ok Steph & Ruby - IMHO you are both thinking about this as a diet.. It's not a diet it's a healthy way of eating and living your life by exercising.. This isn't a diet - we are cutting out (for the most part) the sweets and high fat foods cuz they aren't healthy - we know that if we eat them every single day we aren't helping our bodies.. We all had this surgery cuz we need help... And look it has helped - Ruby you have just gotten complacien and maybe you are just afaird of going for the gold - you don't think you are going to get it cuz you never have before - I sort of felt the same way - I look back at my journey and I thought in December that my 14's were it that it wasn't going to get any better than that - but I kept plugging away with my healthy eating and exercise and each month the sizes kept dropping. I never in my wildest dreams thought that I would get to 145.. Truly I didn't - but if you just keep plugging away at the healthy eating and exercise it does work... You will get to goal... Ju I never felt deprived cuz my way of thinking was allowing too many treats (rewards) were what got me to the place where I needed the band.. I know that a bit of this a bite of that all add up - so I just don't do it. Not doing it has made me feel so much stronger.. I know for the most part that food isn't the answer - I enjoy food - I miss it at times - but I have come to look at it as my drug and I know longer want to be a food addict - I really try and look at it as the fuel that my body needs to get me thru life - sweets aren't going to give my body that fuel but hard protiens will.. As to the logging - well each of us is diff - I did it for the 1st 12 months but I no longer do it... I don't think you are lazy - maybe you just don't want to be accountable on paper or online to what you are eating and that's why you don't do it after a few day or maybe doing it makes it too much like a diet - I don't know - I am rambleing as I am thinking outloud. If you want to do the Jillian thingie - just do it - don't worry about the heart monitor or pictures or measurement - just do it - the proof will be in the pudding (I know we have to find other comparision than food). Steph - Image - ok I totally get you on that one.. I am all about image even fat(I still dressed nicely makeup hair etc) - I was brought up to act proper do the right thing - and I think that is another reason that sometime we stuff ourselves with food - we were stuffing down our feeling of frustration and anger.. Our world is about image - and what we preceive the outside world thinks of us - that's life You are a good person you have done a great job - you are what like 13-14 lbs from goal - why don't you think that you are proof that changing your eating and activielty level wouldn't insprie others... You are a highly motivated and full of energy.. You are like the energizer bunny - You are a positive person - you have a good heart Ok remember when I kept changing my goal weight 160 to 150 then back to 160 - know why - cuz in the back of my brain I was AFRAID to say that I was going to get to 150 I didn't think I could do it - I didn't think it was possible - I had NEVER gotten to goal on any diet before.. I was afaird of failure and looking like a failure to all of you. I really just worked at my new habits knowing that this is a lifetime lifestyle change not looking at is as a diet - I truly have not looked at it as a diet but as the lifestyle change - and you know what - I got there - I got to a normal bmi and I am still in shock about that.. I have been afraid this whole time - I am still afarid that 2 yrs from now I will be 250 lbs again...but I have been telling myself you can't worry about tomorrow - all you can do is control what you are eating today. I have spoken these fears to my trainer - he says he doesn't think I will - he says that I have learned new habits - I gotta say that his beleif in me helps - I think I got it - not a diet a change in eating style & exercise. Yes - I really want you all to feel that feeling of getting to goal - I don't want any of you to short change yourselves in thinking you can't - Look I did it and I AM NO DIFF THAN ANY OF YOU - I am not any stronger - I am not any smarter (if fact I would say that you guys are smater and more articulate than me - most of you have college degrees - teach and I am just some little girl who got pg at 16 - got a high school diploma and that's it - see I have insecurties too..) Ok I hope the above made sense... But I know that you guy have gotten to know me and usually understand what I am trying to say... I just got a call and we gotta go to the bodyshop and pick out new rims... I gotta jump in the shower.. So don't have time to re-read and cirtice what I was trying to say - but I think you will understand... I really want you all to strive for your goals and don't short change yourselves thinking you can't.... You can... It is possible it truly is. Love Hugs & Peace Out... Gotta jam - will CBL :smile2:

Becky A handful of chips isn't going to derail you - it's life - you are suppose to have these things every now and then -but just not the whole bag or container of dip like we use to do - a few is normal... Remember this isn't a diet.. Please don't beat yourself up over it... it's not that handful that's going to add 5 lbs - but it's eating the whole bag and container of dip - I was never a big chip eater - but if I ate them the most of the container of dip would be gone.. Now if I have the urger I have a few and a little dip and put it away - again it's a food I can control - I wouldn't have a bag of reese's pb cups in my pantry - those I would be into too much - Boaring - ya that's a good way of thinking about it - cuz we use to fill up our time by eating now we aren't so we are bored and dont know what to do with ourselves... I don't have tummy problems - I have a cast Iron stomach - and usually don't have any bm problems - you may just have a little bug.. Sorry I wasn't around yesterday - got my gray covered :smile2: and Andrew wanted to go shopping but changed his mind - so I just watched the DNC - went to the gym and read... Well, cking in - CBL

I have a little one cup bowl that I eat out of along with my sandwich plates - I don't use grown up plates or bowls anymore.. After a year I am pretty good at knowing what 4 oz looks like. But I did weigh and measure for the first 6 months or so. Will still weigh things like pasta as I don't eat it often so I don't know what 2 oz looks like.. The goal of the band is to eat healthy food - to make the change in what you eat - I don't like the whole normal food title - normal food for most of us was high fat - high sugar.. For me my normal food got me fat... So now I eat healthy - I don't diet I eat healthy and I eat what is considered now a normal portion size not a fat chick's idea of a portion . Yestdays food - Fish - Pork Rib - Okra & Rice - Popcorn - Watermelon - SF fudgecicle - Pt Bar - Banana.. About 1300 calories (which is on the lowside for me as I am suppose to eat 1500 minimum) and 58 grms pt

Good Morning Ladies !!! Hope everyone had a good evening ... Well not much to report since last night - have hair appt this a.m. (the gray is awful) then I guess school clothes shopping.. Need to vacuum and clean my room and finish washing - but not really feeling in the mood as of right now - still drinking coffee :biggrin2: food yesterday Fish 200 (20 grms pt)- Watermelon 200 - Rib 150 (18 grms pt) Rice & Okra 175 Popcorn 100 - SF fudgecicle with banana & almonds in a cone 200 - banana 100 - pt bar 200 (20 grms pt) Exercise - 4 miles treadmill... Well, just cking in - CBL:tongue:

Steph I am a WW girl so for me carbs are ok - it's not that so much but that you aren't eating enough.. I don't always make my protein quota but do most days -I will have an lean cusine fettuccuni alfredo with scallops - I get the protien and carbs. Sounds llike you are awful tight too.. I totally get families not eating healthy - my gs is skinny eats crap - neither my son nor my gs eat any veggie - oh that a lie they may eat some corn but that's it... I eat popcorn almost every night - it's that hand to mouth thingie - I feed it - it's better than eating something else and I am satisfied after I have eaten it... Do you eat eggs or eggbeater.. do you have any protein bars to help supplement your protein. I take it you have pt shakes - if you are tight in the morning have one of those... I don't use them anymore but my doc had some clear protein drinks that are like crystal lite you just add to water - 70 calories and 15 grams - bariatice advantage has something close here's the link WonderSlim Bariatric Diet Fruit Drinks: Bariatric Weight Loss Protein Drink Supplements You may want to order some - I know that our goal is to eat our protein and not drink it - but some days you need the boost and you are still in the weight loss mode and you want to get to goal - so I understand - just want you in good health while you are getting there Hugs & love Janet

I voted yes - like others if I ever lost my band - I would look into another form of WLS and I could stay right here - this (LBT) has become my home..

I think that within our own fat society that we have predjucies Pple who are 350 lbs don't think that a person who is 250 is that fat and the person who 250 looks at some who is 175 and says they aren't that fat. (just say they are all the same height) and the 250 says oh I didn't get to 300 and the one 175 says I didn't get to 250 - Well pple fat is fat - an alcholic is no diff than a druggie.. If you are obese get the dang surgery - no one regulates if you can get a nose job or not - it's a personal decision... Heck I know a person who has 30 lbs to lose went to mexico and got banded.. Good for her - she felt she needed the tool she has the $$ so be it Who are we to impose our will on someone else... Don't we have enought of that in our everyday life.. I can't beleive this is still being debated..

Becky - Yep I can tell you that when I met my other lucky #7 girls it wasn't ackward at it - it was like we had known each other for years. So Yes - I bet we would have fun.. I wish LBT would do a bash like the other lapband board did.. That would be great - but it would take alot of time and $$ to do it - but wouldn't that be great a LBT convention...

Steph Ok before I saw my co-food cops reply- I was going to tell you are hungry cuz you are not eating enough.. ' That's all you ate all day... I would be hungry too... I agrees with my comprade in blue.. You need more protein and food in general (since I'm not the atkins girl but the WW girl) if you ate more you might not be so hungry... Cereal 100 c - salad soup 150 calores - fiberone 130 - muffin 75 - dinner zip if it came back up.. so for your total calorie 500 max.. Darling what are you doing... You need food to live.. and more than 500 calories... This is coming with love ...

Lori - so sorry about the knee - I know that has to be hard - losing the weight will help but you may need a replacment - you know Phy she alread has had knee replacement and will need another one once she get's her weight off. The one she has loosend up since losing weight and will have to be replaced - you can talk to her about the specific - Hugs... Wish I could do more...

Congrats on your Date _ I will have to look for it - I like you will see stuff and then forget where it was at - but your doc's office should be giving you one - one of us will find it and post it for you... Becky you did great today - some days you might be lower in calories but then tomorrow you may be up - it even outs - I has worked for me.... Some days just not as hungry as others - then some days starving... WTG GIRL ON THE EXERCISE I guess everyone can tell I am on vacation - I keep posting and posting .. Well it's better than eating and eating :thumbup:

Becky - I am glad you are doing so well - Yes this is a new learning experience and each day we learn something new... Good Going... Thanks Barb - I thought it was 4 lbs of pressure but wasn't sure and didn't want to give miss information. Congrats on your weight loss and getting off your paid meds - thats wonderful !!!

WTG KARI Aren't you so proud of yourself - Comparing exercising to breath - What a change from a year ago... I feel the exact say way.. Are you serious - These are teachers.... OMW ... That's to frickin scary...

Ellen Thank you...:w00t: I am just as blessed to have you all in my life too.:biggrin2: Nope 62 isn't to old - it's the new 40 (I guess since the 50's is the new 30's) plus my bff is 62 so I know it's not old... We aren't our parents - they were old at our age - we are still young and willing to learn new things each day.. The personal growth is what I have loved the most during this journey - I have changed so many bad habits (still have some:sneaky:) The one thing I am really proud about is my exercise and my awarness of what goes in my mouth and why.. Again thanks for the praise.. Yes we understand - we have walked down the same path you are walking.. You will succeed... Don't ever doubt that.. Hugs & Love Janet

Harmonygirl Welcome ... The size of my clothes is icing on the cake - the way I feel (which is 10 yrs young) is the reason I got banded - I did it for my health... My feet and back use to hurt all the time - I had no energy - now I am up early every morning - I am almost the energizer bunny - well that would be a tad of an story - but have 10 folds more energy. They say something like for every pound you lose you take a considerable amount of pressure off your knees - I can't quote the exact amount. What is the cause of your leg pain - do you have bad knees - hips arthritis?? Harmony - I can tell you that you will be improving the quality of your life when you get your weight off - I can't promise all your aches and pains will be gone cuz we have done damage to our bodies from being overweight but I can tell you that most likely your symptoms will improve dramatically. I can tell you that this is the best thing that I have ever done for me. I would do it over again in a heart beat.. My band is the tool I needed - it's my interior motivator. I have gone from a total slug bug to a women who is at the gym 4 days a week and sometimes more often (like this week I will go as I am on vacation and can go in the morning and energize my day) I have gone from a women who ate high fat - high sugar - high carbs to a women who eats healthy 98% of the time who allows for treats 2% of the time and who is enjoying life.. LBT is a great place for info and support - read all you can - and understand that everyones journey is a little diff - but for me it has been a blessing - it's given me back my life.. Hugs Janet

Lynn Making me jealous... Lobster yum... Yes that's how I eat most bang for the buck...

Where is everyone today !!! After the gym I showder and took my choc protien powder to gf who is having surgery (bypass) next week - then went food shopping - got some ribs and Famous Dan sauce like we had on our MofA trip... Going to have them and some okra and rice for dinner - can you beleive I am not eating fish :w00t::cool2: Well, just cking in - gotta go see what Hilary is going to say tonight at the DNC