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Thanks ladies for explaining, I realized after I had posted that the thread was part of a Maryland state forum (oops sorry for not noting that before) Thanks for the invite. I will post here with you all as I need all the extra encourgment I can get as I have been plateaued for SOOOOO long now.

In case you want to, you can check out how far I am walking daily, (Link is below),There is a "walk across America" map site where I log on every time I walk and the goal is to Walk across America with the map starting in San Francisco CA, and ends in Washington DC, covering a total of 2,830 miles. As I enter your workouts, check back to this map to see how far I have traveled! Let's hope I don't make any detours on the way to Washington! I really need silly stuff like this to keep me motivated! Hey whatever helps I say.....sad I gotta play mind games with myself...

Walk across America Log - Daily Walking chart http://www.fitnessjournal.org/map/?see=scrappyethel

Nancy, yes darling, the pain is normal after surgery. :phanvan Take the pain meds they gave you and take it easy. Walk as much as you feel like you can to help get the soreness out, and I slept in my recliner for the first 2 weeks just because I was too sore to lie down in the bed. :notagree I promise the pain will get better. Do drink lots of fluids right now and do everything they suggest.

Secrets to my success:

My biggest pointer to my success I guess would be I really stick to the bandster diet as close as possible, followed a relatively low-carb diet, drinking lots of Water, exercising 30 minutes at least 4x per week and praying really hard! The Lord has helped me more than I could have done on my own. I really wanted to lose the weight and I guess that was motivation enough for me to stick to the rules better. Plus, why pay out all that money and not do it? I was very blessed that my insurance paid for my surgery (thank goodness).

The bandster diet rules to really follow religiously are:

• No drinking with meals
  
• No carbonated beverages - ever
  
• No breads and pastas (they get stuck on me, some people can eat them but not me)
  
• Drink at least 84 oz Water per day
  
• No snacking between meals (slip on that one occassionaly)
  
• Increase exercise (still struggle doing this, busy schedule prevents me doing it like I need to)

Good luck on your new journey of life! You will love the confidence you get after losing weight. Although I had slippage and had to have another band put in, I would do it all over again. Having lost 140 pounds really has helped me to feel so much better and hopefully live longer than I would have before the band. I truly am a Band Fan and would highly recommend it. I will pray for you! Take care.

p.s. My doctor has almost told me he thinks my first band slipped due to it being to small for my stomach (I had a 4 cc then and second band is a 10 cc band) so therefore it was too tight around my stomach. Still would do it all over again.

Ladies, Welcome to bandland here at lapband talk. I live in Sweetwater TN about halfway between Chattanooga and Knoxville, I used Dr Walter Rose and had my band surgery 2 years ago at Memorial Hospital. Feel free to send me a private message for any questions. I will be happy to help in anyway I can.

Best advice I can give you both is to TRULY and HONESTLY follow all the advice your surgeon gives you about following the diet and exercising. I will post on my next post here what I have done to be successful. The Lord and my band has helped me lose 132 pounds so far and I have followed the rules to the letter. Good luck on your new journey.....

I have been reading some of this thread are you all posting here to each other when you walk or are you actually meeting in person and walking together? I would love to have a virtual walking partner here to report to daily. I walk on the treadmill on cold days but am starting to go to our local walking park. Any one interested in being my online virtual walking partner? We could report to each other when we walk and encourage each other. I live in East TN so I was not sure if you all were meeting in person to walk or just in cyberspace.

Susan, sure steal away! I got the exercise smileys from Smiley Central.com they are free. They are supposed to be moving, something must be wrong with their site right now, as they were moving when I first put them in my signature line.

I will look for exercise posts in the different forums too. Take care!

Am I just missing this? Is there a board/forum here dedictated to exercise? Thanks for any info.

YOU GO GIRL!!! I know you are so proud of yourself. Keep up the good work, we need to see some before/after pics now.....

Just checking in.

I am still working out, did 30 minutes on treadmill yesterday and 20minutes of weight machines at the YMCA. 60oz Water.< /p>

GOAL FOR TODAY:

I plan walking again today 45 minutes Stationary bike 15 minutes

90 oz water.

Thanks for all your support. Good luck to all of us...

Hey ya'll, I have not gone awall I promise. I have just been embarrassed because when I first joined bootcamp, I weight 233 and then in the weeks following had gained up to 242, so I was ashamed to post, but last week got serious about my diet again and am now back down to 234. I really need you all and your posts, so please keep em coming. I appreciate you all more than you know!

current weight: 234 on 2/27/2005

Hey ya'll, I just have a PRAISE! Today is the 2 year anniversary of my lapband surgery and I just had to share some before/after pics.

God has been so good to me and allowed me to lose 140 pounds to date. I still have a ways to go, but He will help me I just know it! I have to give all the credit to HIM because without HIM I could do nothing.

See ya! Have a great day!

I have bought the books for the south beach diet and was wondering if any of you are following that diet plan? My question for you if you are banded is this..... How do you get all the food required in per day? THere is no way I can eat my requrired amount of Protein and get in 2 cups of veggies per meal....would you just use the veggies as your snack?

Please enlighten me if you will.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Well, its me checking in. I HATE MY SCALES! On Saturday morning I weighed and had lost 2 pounds last week, well, I weighed Monday morning and they were back, and I really watched my intake last week and exercised 4 times last week and drank my Water. I get so frustrated, seems like I am not ever gonna lose any more. I have been at this plateau for 4 months now and am about to resolve that I will stay at 233 forever now. I will watch it again this week and exercise, but get so tired of trying when the scales don't move and stay going down.

I will resolve to do it all over again this week, although I am a day behind I got so discouarged with it yesterday I did not exercise. Please keep the tough love going here, I promise to post and check back daily.....

Well, I got my 1 hour workout covered this morning at the YMCA. I walked 1.5 miles in 30 minutes and then did stationary bike for 15 minutes and then did weight machines. Still working on my daily Water intake. I need to really get going on that because I tend to retain Fluid very badly making my scales crazy.

I am trying to eat lowcarb this week, wish me luck on that! I did the low-carb diet when I first had my surgery and it worked great for me, so I am going back to square one and trying that again. I have about 85 more pounds to lose and it seems to be a long, winding road.... Hope I can get over my plateau soon. Thanks for letting me vent....

Just me checking in - got 2 workouts in for the week already and will add another one this evening; trying to get my Water in , struggling with that part, NO ICECREAM out of the carton so far this week :clap2: , although I did have one sugarfree klondike bar both Monday and Tuesday. I am now logging my daily food intake at fitday.com to keep me focused. I need to get my measurements and post them, maybe will do that tonight. Thanks for letting me post and for all your encouragement. Today's food log so far:

Foods Eaten Today:

1 cup oatmeal with splenda

1.5 tbsp light margarine

jello lime sugar free 1 serving

Hot Tea, with splenda and carnation Creamer 24 oz

String cheese Borden Double Twist 1 serving

Cucumber, raw 1 cup, sliced

Hidden Valley Light ranch dressing 2 tablespoon

FRUIT WATER sugarfree ingles 33.8 oz

Chicken, breast no skin 0.5 cup, cooked, diced

1 Tbsp Peanut Butter

Small banana

1 can slimfast high Protein lowcarb shake

Desi80 and Jessibear.... Glad to see your posts Congrats on your losses!!! I think I needed this thread ( I just joined yesterday) I need to get my measurements and post them for a start status. Keep up the good work!!

Sorry about the triple post (oops) I don't know what I did to do that, but anywho....I am committed, maybe it took me saying it three times for it it so sink into my thick skull!!! I got the IM - loved it and needed it! Thanks so much.

I vow to drink 96 oz Water per day

Exercise at least 30 minutes 5 x this week.

NO ICECREAM until the weekend and then only one serving!!!

No snacking between meals!!

Ok, I am joining in with you fellow boot camp soldiers. I need your help and I need accountability. I have been at a plateau for months now, only losing the same 5-10 pounds back and forth and I am very mad at myself. January 1 I resolved to get off my tush and get to exercising and not being as lazy with my band program. I have to realize it will only work if I do my part. Here is my pitfalls: I like to snack between meals, eat too much sugarfree ice cream (although it is sugarfree I still eat too much) I had made a habit of getting this SF icecream every night before going to bed (an old before the band bad habit) telling myself because it is sugarfee that it was not that bad, but hello! There is so much fat in each serving, I don't need it every night. Just a bad habit of mine.

I will resolve to commit to the program that "Sarge" posted in the beginning. Here are my stats today:

food eaten:

1 Low Carb Slimfast shake

1 medium banana

1 Tbsp Peanut Butter

Exercise: Walked for 30 minutes 1.5 miles

Worked out on weight machines 20 minutes

Stationary bike for 15 minutes

Water intake:

32 oz hot tea with splenda

23 oz bottle of Propel

Sarge, please PM me if I don't post, I need the accountability, thanks for your future help and support!

Ok, I am joining in with you fellow boot camp soldiers. I need your help and I need accountability. I have been at a plateau for months now, only losing the same 5-10 pounds back and forth and I am very mad at myself. January 1 I resolved to get off my tush and get to exercising and not being as lazy with my band program. I have to realize it will only work if I do my part. Here is my pitfalls: I like to snack between meals, eat too much sugarfree ice cream (although it is sugarfree I still eat too much) I had made a habit of getting this SF icecream every night before going to bed (an old before the band bad habit) telling myself because it is sugarfee that it was not that bad, but hello! There is so much fat in each serving, I don't need it every night. Just a bad habit of mine.

I will resolve to commit to the program that "Sarge" posted in the beginning. Here are my stats today:

food eaten:

Breakfast - 1 Low Carb Slimfast shake

32 oz hot tea with splenda

23 oz bottle of

Is it too late to join? What are the requirements, just posting once a day what we want to do and what we did? Please let me know, I need this kind of accountability. Did I read somewhere you will IM anyone for boost of encouragement? Thanks for any info.....

I have a history of Migraines since my teen years (now am 37 years old) and taken Zomig for mine. I still have migraines but they have seemed to lessen tremendously in frequency since I have lost over 100 pounds and exercise regularly. I still get nauseous with them sometimes but when the nausea hits, I try to do biofeedback with my mind of telling myself to focus on deep breathing. Just my 2 cents worth.

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Has the band had any impact on your migraines or medications. I am scheduled for the band and am concerned about the nausea that accompanies my headaches. Does anyone take Axert or anything else from that family (Imitrex, Relpax, Zomig)?

Hold on to something tight.(you might feel the earth shake)....happy dance in progress for you..... WooHoo!! GOOD FOR YOU!! Keep up the good work!

I love this thread.....I too need accountability.... I vow to do these two things today:

I vow to exercise for 45 minutes - I did already one hour at the gym walking 30 minutes and then weight machines other part of time there.

I vow to write down everything that goes in my mouth on fitday.com. (My public journal is at http://www.fitday.com/WebFit/PublicJournals.html?Owner=BEFAIN (Feel free to go there and check on me daily....)

Thanks for starting this thread...

Delarla. I too have lost complete restriction I am almost 2 years out from banding and have been blessed to lose 132 pounds! Praise the Lord. Anyway...I had wonderful restriction until last week then all the sudden virtually NO restriction. I have been searching the boards hear trying to figure it out myself since my Doc can't get me in to see him for fluro until January.

So your restriction was gone mysteriously and then appeared again mysteriously?

I am a peeled-nerve wondering where my restriction went and why.... I too miss that full feeling... Did you do anything different? Or it just suddenly came back?

Did you have a leak? If so what did they do about it? DO they do another surgery? I appreciate any insight you can provide.

Thanks Brenda

No Jack, I am not gorging by any means, just regular small bandster size portions that used to fill me up fine 1/2 cup to 3/4 of good solid food. Just don't have any feeling of restirction with this amount now, and did have good restriction with this amount prior to my food getting stuck on Wednesday. I am still stopping at the bandster size portions even though I feel I could eat more, just want my restriction back! I have a voicemail in to my surgeon... thanks for your support....

Jess, thanks for your advice and reassurance, I hope indeed that is all that it is -that I simply need another fill/adjustment, but it is weird I feel no restriction.... when it was there prior to the PB episode. I will keep you posted. Hope they can fit me in this week. Take care...