IndioGirl55

it's up to your doc - for most i think 6 weeks - that was mine anyway..

Here is a typical days food & exercise. BF - Dannon Lite & Fit Yogurt with 1/4 cup LF granola or 1/2 Cup Eggbeaters with a tad of cheese & ham or a weight control oatmeal (calories for bf 100 - 160 - Protein 6 - 12 g) Lunch- Ususally left overs - Veggie 1 - 2 cups & small can of tuna About once every 2 weeks go out to lunch and eat a Taco or el pollo loco chick & bean 1 corn tortilla (Calories lunch 200 to 250 - PT 15) Afternoon - Clear Protein Drink that my Doc Sells (calories 70 - 15 grms pt 15) dinner - 4 oz baked catfish - 1/2 cup rice or small red bake potato 1 or 2 cup yellow crooked neck squash & zuchinne. or spinach (calories 320 - 400 - pt 25) Evening - 2 SF Choc puddings & 1 heathly Choice SF fudgecicle (calorie 200 to 300 - pt 7) Exercise - 5 day a week go to gym - walk minimum 2 miles - am now doing a 16 min mile - started at 22 min mile goal is 15 min mile - may do 3 miles on one day and on saturday mornings i strive for 3 or 4 miles and once in a while do a little work on the weights - but mostly just the walking... Those calories are not exact nor is the menu - I figure i eat about 1000 to 1200 calories a day and get minium 60 grms of protein. I mostly use I can't believe it's not butter spray on my veggies & rice and some times a tad or real butter and olive oil to bake my fish - I eat fish 5-6 days a week red meat once a week- I count calories and protein and diary all my food in a little notebook that i carry. Prior to this last fill - i was usually eating 2 cup of food per meal - excluding Breakfast.. I got my 2nd fill on 10/24 and will start the whole banding diet over - 1 week full liquids - 1 week mushies - 1 week soft - 4th week back to reg food. I am working hard at this and i am hungry at times -- it's a mental challenge to change your eating habits. If i am extra hungry at nite - i eat extra veggies - may have lite toast & butter along with 1/2 cup o.j. (lite) - I dislike exercise very much - but i know that it is a MUST to help you loose weight- good luck

Cindy - My port site hurt for a few weeks - that's most likely all it is.. but i'm not a doc - maybe you should ck with them...

Ok new banders - you will only feel your band if you over eat - it will cause you to pb - slime - golf ball in chest. IMHO the band only does 25% of the work (restrictions) but the other 75% of the weight loss is up to you. You have to make healthy food choices and add exercise to your lifestyle.. I have followed my doctors & nutristinst rules, eat sugar free, low fat make healthy food choices - I don't eat chips, Cookies, regular ice cream, candy, tons of mashed potatoes - rice or Pasta (i have these carbs but only 1/2 c at dinner) All these foods are high in calories and go through the band just as if you didn't have one. I weigh & measure my food and keep a food diary and I also log my exercise. I am working towards a healthier life - you have to make changes in the way and what we eat. The band is only a tool - that piece of plastice does not make you lose weight - it is not the magic cure to your food issues - they banded your tummy not your head - and the real problems lie in your head not your tummy. OP you are in banderst hell - time between surgery & 1st fill and even with your 1st fill - you might not hit your sweet spot - but you have to remember why you got banded in the 1st places - and make healthly food choices - you do have to work - this is no different then any other weight loss programs - you have to make life time changes in the way that you eat and what you eat... Good Luck...

CeCe - If you aren't at your sweet spot - go in for another fill and we just gotta say no to all the junk - it's not healthy. Linda - I think our honeymoon period is over - now our old brains are trying to re-surface... It's ok one slice of brownie is ok - well for us food addicts it isn't. Is one drink ok for an alcohalic??? Nope - This is what we have to remember - once we start - it's a little here - Oh i have it under control - but then the next day oh this little bit won't hurt - Most of us have already started this game playing (myself inculded) STOP STOP STOP SPOT !!!!!! We have the hardest period coming up - I have done this before during the holidays - and I have won - when you see that your fav piece of See's candy - look at it - look at the darn box and say I AM STRONGER THAN YOU.... Play good mind games like that - not the ones that tell you 1 piece is ok... Phyl I too retain water when traveling and get stopped up too (tmi ) I only drink when in social situations - but the problem with that is you have only 4 oz x 5 day a week we'll say -I drink all that in one evening at a party Thank God the next party is just down the street so i can stager home:D Ruby - JUST DON'T BUY IT THEN,.... Problem solved... Don't have it can't drink it :biggrin1: CC CONGRATS on the 2lbs :clap2::clap2: - the body bugg maybe a xmas present to myself - it just seems that the $$$$ is going out faster than it's coming in - but I think it would be a great challenge tool for me. Ribearty - :clap2: 4.5 LBS OMG THAT'S GREAT - what's your secert :biggrin1: Distant - I too hit the gym last nite - it IS the secert to weight loss besides the healthy eating - OK gang - I'm not going to keep tabs of the mini challenge - but all who want in let's report next Thursday 11/8 - your weight loss... Maybe we should all do this from now until the end of the year - We always don't look at each others tickers - maybe this will help in having to be accountable - That does help some - remember weigh in days at WW - omg - the couple days prior you would really watch what you ate. I know this doesn't fit all of us - but some of us need the accountablity factor - so those who do - Thursdays is Weigh in Day - Those who want will post their weight loss for the week?? Let me tell you ladies - sweet spot is Sweet but Difficult too... Ok that sounds stupid but let me explain - I can eat - but my portions have REALLY been cut in half - great for the weight loss - but hard on the brain - i am only able to eat 4 oz fish 1/4 c veg - and maybe stuff in a 1/3 c of brown rice - am really full phyically from just the fish but that stupid old brain says you haven't had enought to eat. Happy Friday - hope everyone is back on the Band Wagon - ...

Don't they make a lite version???

Janet I am with you and the 2 pound mini goal. I am way to tired to start kicking up the exercise tonight though. :bored I did really well today. I ate very little and was satisfied. I am not a breakfast person anyway, never have been, and not always a lunc heater either. I know I am supposed to eat 3 meals a day but honestly if I start out the day eating I eat all day. I do better if I only eat when I am hungry and I don't get hungry until 4-5pm. Jackie I use to be the same way - but not anymore now i want breakfast around 8/9 a.m.- guess cuz i am not eating so much in the middle of the night pt coffee - yogurt for breakfast - 1 cup spinach lunch clear pt drink this afternoon 3 oz fish & veggies & 1/3 cup rice for dinner - most likely 1 or 2 sf pudding for snacks tonight - went to the gym - 2.17 miles 32 minutes - going for 3 tomorrow... Just paid my bills - omg depressed - had to buy a new washer/dryer a couple of weeks ago - well such is life - I must look at it that I am very forturnate to have the $$ to buy it - alot lot don't... Distant - after readingmy response - sounded a little cold - here's the rope we are pulling you aboard - want to join me and Jackie for our mini 2 lbs my next thrus???

Plateau (sp) or you are eating more than you were - just little bits here and there or you aren exercising as much or skipping a day here or there.. I have read where people are doing everything the same and the scales just quit moving - you just gotta keep up the work and know that they will move again. We have lost quite a bit of weight awful fast - maybe our body needs to catch up with it's self... or maybe cuz sh*t happens :0) .... (hows that for an answer ;0)

ok that's not easily found here and not everyone directs you to the theard where instructions are. I got mine (Insturctions) from another board - she (Photonut) use to be here but for some reason got suspended from this board - but found the instructions on her site and was able to get mine. I wanted one when I first found this board too :0) - eveyone has them newbies want them too.. I don't think that a dumb questions - imho... I know that i get tired of seeing that - and the pb & slime quesstions - but from a newbie what do you really expect - its the really dumb ones like pbing after they are banded that gets me - didn't you do any reading before you got your band...

#1 where are you getting cost for surgery - did the doc tell you - i have bc ca hospital billed insurance 64,000 for 2 night - insurance paid $3500 I paid $350 - this very individual as to where you live what your doc charges - i have read tht in mex you can get it done for $7500 #2 it depends on your doc - does he include 1 month 2 month etc of fill for no charge - that's totally a doc matter we can't answer #3 It's the way of insurance companies - every thing must go by their doctors before you get approval. Good Luck...

Kirajh - do you really need the cookies in your house?? That's the thing with me - if it's there i will eat it - if it's not I won't... So I just don't buy things I like.. If your hubby just has to have the cookies then have him keep them somewhere else that you don't know about... just a suggesstion...

I have 2 of them myself - so i UNDERSTAND.... xoxoxo J

I think my doc said or read somewhere that the size of band that you are given depends on the size of your stomach... Not 100% sure on that one - but remember that from somewhere. I have the new band - most people who were banded in July do and my doc told me this last time i went that i have the new small band. Personnally i really don't care what size or the #'s of cc's are in the only #'s i concern myself with are the ones on the scales... Imho i don't get why any one cares if they have 1 cc 2 cc as long as they have restrictions...

Losingjusme I am sorry for your loss.... My heart goes out to you...

You are never going to see these people again - just wear a cover up until you go in the Water - ENJOY YOURSELF..... Don't worry - I went on a cruise in feb - i wore my bathing suit - who gives a sh*t.... I am down 43 lbs and sagging skin and all I would put on a suit tomorrow if i was on a crusie -

I have a pre-bander ask me what i ate - so gave her a list - then 3 post down ask someone else - guess she didn't like what i ate - humm do you all think it was the fish )

I'm back on the band wagon. I pledge to knock it off. BTW I got up this morning and I am back to 216. Must have been water wegiht yesteray. Cross your fingers for me. Staring over..........AGAIN!!!!!!!!!! OK Jackie - we are going for 2. lbs gone by next Thrusday - Our mini weekly challenge ok ..

help i have been banded and what do i eat???

Asking this question after they have been banded --- grrrrr

Another word is PREFECTIONIST - this is what a counsler told me once along time ago - as I am the same way - but since i am older i am more likely to clean than I use to .. I have a brand new house and work hard at keeping it looking nice... I think with age I have lost maybe some of the edge of a perfectionist that i use to be...

Denise - I am this way too!!! I get really pissed off when something interfers with my exercise... I have to do it right after work or i won't go.. and i want to get to the gym before everyone else does. Well the week of Thanksgiving and the week after I will be on vacation - so I will go every morning... and really be able to get in good work outs...

notmzperfect - the 1st 3 days are the worst - each day after that gets better - I has surgery on Tues 7/17 and was back to work the following Monday - Your port site may be uncomfortable for the 1st week or 2 -Surgery affects everyone differently - When I woke up felt like an elephant had kicked me in the stomach and stil had his foot on me but by Thurs was 100% better than day one. Walk as much as you can - get all your protein in - drink your water and follow your doc's orders - you will survive and be happy that you were banded :biggrin1: Welcome to Band Land :bounce:

Jackie - I am here - just busy at work - 5 people got laid off this month 4 we found out about yesterday morning - i am really going to miss one "Gary" our mail guy - such a great guy - he & his wife are the ones who gave me a ride home Saturday after drinking too much wine... I have been sort of bummed out for the last few days (i knew this was going to happen for a few weeks now) I too haven't been making the best food choices this last week - wine, a little candy and last night thin crust pizza. Only walked 4 miles this last week - Sat & Tues 2 miles each day but did a 15 min mile on Tuesday. The scales are proof - only down 1/2 lbs this week. But guess better than nothing. Well all the candy is GONE - next party is on the 17th - which will involve drinking - am going to have to watch myself since i can't eat much so the wine really hits me fast... ' Took my GD out tricker treating last night - she's 3 - she was Spiderman (she's a little tom boy) - and it was great - my son is 36 and other 2 grand kids 16 & 12 so it's been a while since i have been tricker treating - so i did get a slow .50 miles in yesterday. Ce Ce - CONGRATULATIONS :clap2::bounce::whoo: That is so great - ONELANDERS - YOU ARE DOING FANTASTIC.:bounce::whoo::clap2: Phyl - Please have a safe trip - hope you are bring some cool clothing - it's still in the 90's here this week. OK hasn't been a great week as stated above - but i do have a NSV Yesterday went to Wendys' for lunch - had the chicken club minus the bread - while waiting in line looked up at the security monitor and saw this thin pumpkin (I had an orange pumpkin tee shirt on) and at first didn't realize it was me - for the last few year - i did look like a big old pumpkin in it :biggrin1: OK Ladies who like me have sorta been making little bad choices - we have to stop now - as this is how those bad habits come back - just a little of this a little of that - then next thing you know - BAMB we are right back where we started... Today is a new day - and I pledge to make healthier food choices this next week... How about the rest of you???

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I really don't pay too much attenion to that but I think I have about 3 in and all i know is i have the new band small - all those #'s are too much to keep track of - all i care about is the restriction and that I have and the weight loss and that's coming... I bought good candy cuz i don't the the little kids to suffer cuz i can't eat it - but you know what - i can - i had 1 reeses pb cup last night (again) but it was only one... and i was truely satisfied with one - and my midnight run to the kitchen only ate 1/2 of my sf fudgecicle. So my brain is working..... Linda - Thanks so much !!! I believe in truth - even if it hurts some times :0) - I have played all the mind games with myself for many years, i am a private eater - I am the one who would say - 1/4 of a pint of ice cream isn't a serving - the whole pint is just one serving - I watched a skinny girl in our office yesterday pull out a pint of ice cream - she had 5 bites and put it back - oh to be normal - but i guess i am getting there - 1 reese pb cup and not a whole bag last night :0) CC sorry about the hair loss - I am told that it happens to some - but that it does grow back- but that doesn't help while it's happening so here's a hug:girl_hug: My bmi started at i think 43 so that mean for us who weigh more we are going to lose faster than those who done (this is mho - i don't know if it's sciencifict or not) Are you keeping a food diary??? You may have just hit a platuea (sp). Increase the intensity of your exercise if you can - they say that's what burns the fat not the lenght of time but how hard you work out - drink plenty of water as that's one of the ways our body gets rid of the fat - talk to your doc/nutritionist about this.. I don't think i will be losing much this week with my little wine drinking this weekend and skiping exercise on Monday and tonite. this morning scale was down only 1/2 lbs from last week - i have had a fill and not eating half as much as i was the week before.. So who knows why our bodies seem so attached to our fat - Just keep up the good work and it will all work out in the end. I bet you do notice a diff in your clothes though and that's always a great NSV...