IndioGirl55

Jackie - I am sorry about the 2+ on the pounds :embarassed: :clap2: BUT AM SO PROUD OF YOU FOR MAKING HEALTHLY SNACK CHOICES..:clap2: Ok - Jackie just brough up a good point - are you guys reading labels??? I am so surprised when someone doesn't know how to read labels - I had 2 people in my office who didn't - one was eating a stoffers bell pepper tv dinner thingie and she said it was only 150 calorie - i told her look at the serving - it was 2 - so the whole thing was 300 calories not 150 - and then another friend didn't know that you take carb and subtract fiber to get what the total carbs really are. I guess i should be a nurtionist... I guess i have just done more dieting that they have - but yes everything you pick up at the grocery store - read the labels... See how many servings the container holds - it's usually more than just one... I don't count fat or carbs - I only count calories and protein... I read here on this board (not our thread) where someone was eating those lunchables - so last time i was at the store i picked one up - i saw what the calories where and put it right back - OMG for those amount of calories I could get 2 meals of real food.. I am a volume eater - i alway ate the most amount of food for the least amount of calories when i was on ww - and this is what i do now - if I am still hungry after dinner - i eat extra veggies.... most amount of food for least amount of calories that's my motto - candy bar 200 calories - a sandwich made with lite bread has the same amount of calories ( i made and eggbeater egg sandwich 2 slices of lite bread - 1/4 cup egg beater 1 slice 2% cheese = 160 calories) - which is going to fill you up and stay with you longer - it's sure not the candy bar... If you aren't doing it now - i want everyone to start today - every package you pick up read the calories per serving - go on line and look up your calorie on your fav meal - omg zuchinee from carl's junior and 1 pket of house dressing 775 calories - if you go and ck out the calories - you wll be so suprised at what you use to eat.. No wonder we were fat... 1 99cent red burritto from Del Taco 430 calories - I always ordered extra sauce & cheese so we are most likely talking 600 calories - then add a quesidilla - another 400 calories - 1000 calorie for just one meal...

Thanks Kirajh - I am just parroting all the lesson I have learned over the year from this program or that - I just put it in plan every day english and i think it's so much eaiser hearing it from another FAT person rather than some skinny chick standing up front telling you what to do or not to do... We all are on this journey together and here to support each other. We are ALL TIRED OF BEING FAT.. That's why we took such drastic measures by having a surgery - That in it's self was a major step forward imho... So we can't loose sight of that - we have to be reminded daily of our goals and what sacrifices we have made to have this surgery - heck some are self pays - some of us had insurance but still had to pay the bucks.. Heck for all my pre-testing & program fees I could have gone to mexico and has mine done.. Car I don't know what to tell you about Turkey day - I am lucky and can eat all kinds of meat as long as it's slow and chew well - I get semi stuck on my fish when i eat too fast... My Son and his family are most likely going to his MIL'S for turkey day - my gs will have his license and be out and about - he's not big on turkey anyway or ham for that fact. So I don't think i will be cooking - I have a few friends house i can go to and that's what I will most likely do. a Good thing about this is I won't have the left overs to tempt me... IMHO a couple of bites of gravey isn't going to add 5 lbs - I will most likely eat regular turkey day meal Turkey gravey - mash tatoes - veggies , stuffing and a little pie - No bread though - but it will be in a lot smaller portions that what I have in the past and anyway - after i did all that cooking - i never want to eat anyway.. I have pretty good restriction - but for those who don't I suggest that you go get a fill if you can. And for those of you who have to cook - make it lite like Car suggested - and if there are tons of left overs send them home w/your family - your kids & hubbys don't need to eat cakes pies for the next 4 days... My down fall will be xmas - and xmas cookies - my grandaughters come and we make sugar cookies with frosting - OMG i LOVE xmas cookies 2 here - 3 there - 6 more during the night - So here is my plan - 98% will go home with them - 1.5 % will get put in a ziplock and given to my grandson to keep in his room for when he might want one - and I will keep .5% = 5 cookies for me to eat. Thats my plan... Oh ya we have tamales here too.. made with lard and the masa is my fav part - I love the cheese tamales with chili pepper inside - This will be another problem - but the way to solve it - I will only buy 1/2 dozen instead of 2... if it's not here then i can't eat it. We gotta eat normal -we just can't eat the whole thanksgiving meal which is overloaded plates of food on Thursday - Friday - Saturday and Sunday - Allow yourself to eat on Thrusday and have a little bit of everything even a piece of pie or whatever kind of dessert you serve - But on Friday - we are right back to our healthly eating ... And since alot us will be off (guessing) - walk that extra mile to counter the food you ate on thrusday - this is what skinny people do.. It's not that one piece of cake or pie that will make you fat - it's all the pieces that follow that will... OH YA almost forgot - for those on our mini weekly challenge - today is weigh in day - I lost 3.5 this last week - 206.5 last Thursday 203 this morning :clap2: - I have pm phyl with my update like she asked - so everyone who was in on the mini weekly challenge - it's time to own up.... :biggrin1:

Denise You have been losing an average of 5 lbs a month - that's great:clap2: you have lost 55 lbs since 12/6.. Come on - give yourself some credit... I wish i had only 15 to go - I just increase or should i say deceased my goal from 170 to 160 - so I have 43 more to go.. and truely 145 would give me a good bmi - but at my age - i don't know how i will look - so I am now aiming for 160 - We will see how it goes.. One day at a time.

Happy Camper here too... I would eat the meat and cheese from the hamburger but not the bun - don't want the calories or to get filled up on bread which has no nurtional value. I still love my beef - hamburger - steak (love it like you used to wheestin)- but eat red meat only once a week - eat mostly fish and a little chicken...

Thanks Linda Do you know that I benefit from giving all this advice too - When I want to eat something or not go and exercise - I say to myself "what would you tell the girls?? You have to practice what you preach, you have to be a good example to be able to motivate" Yep - we have been eating very good for the most part for the last 4 month - and we think - I have been so good - I can treat myself to my fav food - but that's where it starts - Let me tell you a new blouse or pair of jeans - in a smaller size is a better reward for those last 4 months of eating healthy - than a stupid candy bar imho...

I agree with Crabcake - Don't think it is cuz of your lapband... Maybe your diet - what are you eating.

CeCe -GO GET A FILL !!! where in the h*ll did you get all that food !!!!!! I understand the pizza - thin crust a coupld of pieces that is food (not great food but it's a meal) - But donuts cookie choc & friggin pie... Come on now - you don't want to slip back into your old food habits - PLEASE PLEASE don't hurt yourself that way... Ok stress eating - During that type of situations - you need to have foods that are low in calories but taste good - veggies to munch on with a little dip - sf puddings - sf ice cream bars - you have to be prepared to deal go to the store today and buy food that are crunchy - low in calories to eat when you are stressed - PLEASE DON'T BUY THE JUNK... Gang - I understand that for a lot of us (myself included) that honeymoon period is over - we are going on 4 months of our new lifestyle change.. We think it's ok to have a little of this or that - but that always leads to once a week to every other day to daily - eating the bad stuff... Come on we have all done this a milliion times before - we can lose the weight but then we put it back on - this is a life style change not a diet... If you just have to have something - be it chips - cake - pie - candy - just buy one cookie - have just one piece of cake or pie - have 10 chips - 1 candy bar - it's not that one piece but all the ones to follow that will add those pounds. DON'T BUY IT -- IT WON'T BE THERE TO EAT... How about this - pick one day a month to eat your fav thing - bake that cake or pie buy that box of donuts - have one piece and throw the rest away - you will feel so strong when you do that - it is liberating to throw something away that you just love - it show that you have control over it and it doesn't have control over you - try it.. See how it feels - to me it makes me the winner - not the food - come on we can't let food control us - we are STRONG WOMEN... Today is a new day - get back on that bandwagon and for your penance (sp) walk and extra mile today CeCe - We love you and want you to be a healthy strong woman and we are here to help you obtain that goal - Remember i am on that shoulder - and no you can't tell me to go jump in a lake and eat anyway - cuz i won't go - i am very stubborn:rolleyes: To funny had me cracking up :bounce: Mango - Sorry about the root canal - not the most enjoyable experience in life Why are you eating candy everyday (7 day as of last nit) Please go throw it out - candy is our alchol/drugs - please please don't start doing your drug of choice again - this is your heart on drugs (to bad i can't insert a clogged up heart - but you remember the commercial) Come on Good choices Ladies - 1 day a month go out and have your fav thing - but go out and have only one piece of what you want- (unless you can do like me and just throw the SH*T away and it is sh*t) Please - Please let's not go back to where we were - let's move forward and learn from our mistakes ....

P.S. - You might not know it but I am the food cop aka food angel for the Lucky #7's So from now on - i am sitting on your shoulder - watching what you eat. And when you want to eat something you shouldn't - I am there telling you not to....:tired:heh:

Blooeyez - You have lost 40 lbs :clap2::clap2: You are not a failure - you have just had a little lapse which is normal - even skinny people eat cake & candy - but just every now and then - it's not that 1st piece of cake that adds the weight but the 2nd & 3rd one.. - You are doing the right thing in getting another fill. You did the right thing by having your son hide the candy You have lived with out sugar for 3 months - Throw the peanut butter away now - and from now on don't buy your most fav cake - cuz you know you will eat too much - buy what the kid's like and you don't - for me that wouldn't work - cuz i love cakes - for my DIL I made her a cake and made her take it home with her - I kept just one piece for me... I eat sf double choc puddings & healthy choice fudgecicles almost nightly for my choc fix... If it's something that you can't control how much you eat - don't have it in the house - you wouldn't put a drink in front of an alcohalic - so don't put sugar in front of you.... Just pick yourself up by the boot straps - tomorrow is another day - eat healthy and add a bit more exercise and those 3 lbs will come off quickly... Good Luck - you can do this - you are woman you are strong !!!

Adult Tylenol - Ralph's or Kroger Grocery Store depending on your area - They don't have it at my Target and I don't shop at Walmart.

Jackie :clap2::clap2: YA for throwing them away :clap2::clap2:- i threw my peanut butter away too cuz i kept eating a spoonfull here and there - I am very anxouise (SP) right now - don't want to exercise - but just like on biggest loser this is my last change before weigh in tomorrow so i will. Jackie even with restriction i still want to eat - head hunger - i hate it...

I was banded on a Tuesday - back at work on the following Monday (6 days out) have a desk job - did fine...

Kathy we are here for you !!! - I know how hard this is for you - I lost my stepmom & Dad within 1 month of each other and my Mom had lung cancer too - My prayers to you and your family - we are here for you anytime.. xoxo Janet Thanks Linda - last night raid - pudding cup and got little golf ball (i'm tight) - love my band !!

Congrats Jackie :clap2::clap2: 4 lbs - that's Great :clap2::clap2: I have sf choc pudding cups & healthy choice fudgecicles for my chocolate cravings - candy is all gone as I can't be trusted in the middle of the night even with my band - I have zip control at night... well really i do have some - but i am far from beings strong in the middle of the night as i am during the day - i know my weakness so that's why i save my snack from the day for night time.. IMHO Throw the stupid candy away.... it's evil....

Ssankofa - I never really slime bad- i just get the golf ball and have pb'd and once on pudding and there was tons of slime in the pb - i know tmi:) I had a small pb last night on a piece of meat - that I did chew - but then drank some Water - (midnight kitchen raid) and the water came right back up - I love dry salami (sliced kind) can't think of the brand and even if i chew - i get that small golf ball My doggies don't understand the time change - so Angel woke me up at 4 a.m to go potty - I had went to bed really earlies the night before - like at 9 so i had had my sleep - so i just stayed up drank my coffe and went to the gym @ 5 a.m - did 2 miles then tonite went back for another 2 - :clap2: - I think i may have hit a platue (sp) - I have been getting on the scales too much this last week and they don't stay down. like right now weigh 204.5 - but in the mornings weigh 206 or 205.. I have been weighing less in the mornings - but i am off the one blood pressure med that did have a water pill in it. so may be its that - NOT - i have been hitting the Peanut Butter lately - so i threw it away tonite... better in thee than in me.... I am so close to Onelander - that i can taste it... Well Thrusday morning is my offical weigh in day - so we will see what's up then hopefully I can get up in the morning and go to the gym again..

Your doctors office should have info on the financing options..

Lucky you not being hungry - I still find myself hungry - especially at nite.... I have pb'd only a few times.. never really slimed to much - i see we are the same weight just a few yrs dif in our age:eek: - my goal right now is 170 - but may go for 150 - gotta see how i will look... You are doing GREAT !!!! - Special K make a Protein Water packet 5 grms pt 30 calories - i have lemon aid not bad - you may want to try them..

Salsa - Your restriction is better than mine and i think i have pretty good restriction- i think i am at my sweet spot - i would not want to be any tighter than i am. here is my menu for the day breakfast - 1/3 cup egg beaters w/cheese = 90 c - 10 pt Lunch - cabbage bell pepper onion pork rice (one pot wonder) 250 c - 10 pt (1 cup food am full) Clear Protein Drink - 70 c - 15 pt Dinner - 4 oz 0Fish - 1/2 cup veggies - 1/4 cup brown rice= 280 c = 25 pt ( i will be stuffed on this dinner) Snack - yogurt 5 gr pt - or pudding 2 grms pt - or fudgecicle 3 grms calories for snack 60 to 80 so thats about 1030 caloires for the day and about 65 grms pt. My doc says to try to eat HIGH protein food the very first thing so that by night time you can get some carbs & veggies 1 oz meat = 7 grms of protein.. Instead of an egg for breakfast - how about a Protein shake - that has 20 grms of pt or egg beater which has 1/3 the calories of a real egg and just as much protein... heck add some veggies to make an omlette - I love my veggies and i eat zuchinnee & yellow crooked neck squash almost every night (very low in calories) - cook them really well and it's like eating Soup - try that. I really don't count the calories from my veggies - i just add 50 c for veggies weither i have one or two cups... to me veggies are free - see i am a ww girl ;0) You are doing great !!!!!

Yes Hersheekisz it's normal - are you able to eat cream Soups - i made soupy mash potatoes - that really helped me... I read that alot of people think that the band takes away hunger - For me that's not a true statement - cuz even when I am full - I still want to eat it's cuz I know i only ate 1 cup of food and not 3 bowl fulls - I really don't think us fat people eat cuz we are truely hungry - we don't know what true hunger is - cuz we ate all the time - hugh quanities - high fat & high sugar foods. We are experts at head hunger issue... I will sit here today and tell you that I will be phyically full (i really concentrate on my phyical fullness) but will still "think" i am hungry... Well gotta get back to work - will ck in later - but ya you are normal...

Kirajh - that's what i heard i don't know if it's true or not -but it would be worth contacting a burn center. My 16 grandson lives with me and is truely my son in my heart - I couldn't not take his or either of my 2 granddaughter dieing - it's just not the way it's suppose to be - us grandma's are suppose to go first.. Again - blessing on you and your family...

ssankofa - how are you doing ??? no one is here ;o( - how's the exercising going?????

sandyray - you have taken the 1st step to regain your healthly life style You really do know what to do - you have gotten a fill and found this site. Now all you have to do is put yourself 1st - make you your #1 priority.... I don't care what nationality your are - it can be mex - afro american - what ever - all families revolve around food - just cuz they do doesn't mean you have too. That's like saying ok my sis does drugs so i am going to do them too. Us fat people play so many mental mind games with ourselves (imho) You are a strong woman - you know the work that needs to be done - as you are aware the band is only a tool and is no guarentee that they weight will stay off for life if you go back to bad food choices. Start making new healthy food choices - low fat sugar free - exercise - and for your hubby - he can eat healthy too - it's not going to kill him - control your portoins - get another fill - you can do this - you have to do this for you and only you...

IMHO - you need to get some taken out - you are too tight which can cause problems in itself - you should be able to eat regular food by now. You need healthly food not chocolate Good Luck

How is everyone this morning - I love this time change - my furries baby woke me up at 4 a.m. (she doesn't know time changes she thinks it's 5a.m) - took them out to potty - made coffee watched the last half of Dancing with the Stars - got dress - went to the gym @ 5 a.m. and did 2 miles !!! Came home showered dressed (pretty cute in a xlarge - not plus size dress) feeling really strong and very good today (prayers do work - i asked God in my nightly prayers last nite to make me strong today) and I am feeling really good today..... Well, hope you all have a GREAT DAY - make good healthy food choices and get your exercise in... Talk to ya'll later - gotta get to work

Brenda, you are too kind I just tell it like it is - I feel that we all have so many common issues - we are fat girls - we think like fat girls and we have the insecurities of fat girl - But we are on our way to a truely life style change and not just a diet. Diets don't work - it really is all about a lifestyle change and dealing with our food issues - the band really is a great tool to help in changing our habit.. Maybe it cuz we have choosen such a drastic soultion to our weight issues that I find it so very motivating. Congrats on your surgery date 11/30 :clap2: - I will keep you in my prayers on that day. Please know that for the first few days you won't feel your best but that every day it does get better by day 3 you should be feeling pretty good. Make sure you get the gasx strips - walk and drink your fluids.. xoxox Janet Denise you are doing so friggin great :clap2:- 15 lbs to goal - :clap2:I think you are way too hard on yourself... I think the band is just that tool we all need to help us make those good choices - and some days we don't - but for the most part we do and that's how you have gotten so close to your goal - Keep up the GREAT work... You are an inspiration...