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Believe me the constipation issue is a huge one for me right now. I think I acutally pulled a muscle last night. See I can share unwanted info too:biggrin2:. They are using a small needle but it always slips off the port because I have soooooo much scar tissue built up around the port. I am really not looking forward to my next fill because of that, but I desperately need one. I don't know that I have any restriction right now. Just in the last week or so my restriction has gone out the window!!!!

I haven't had anything like that, but I have only had 2 fills. On the last one the only thing I had was a baseball sized bruise over my port because I have so much scar tissue. If you are okay with staying on liquids it wouldn't hurt. Have you tried the gas-x strips? I know that most people swore by them after surgery. They never did anything for me, but that doesn't mean they won't help you! Let us know if you find anything, and becareful if you zip around the room. Make sure not to let anyone be near you witha pin if you don't have your helmet on!

Lessnless - That sounds fantastic to me. So to clarify my routine, I do NOT do 1.5 hours on the treadmill. I guess I will just give you my routine. I don't do it by time, but rather by distance, but I stay on the treadmill for 1 hour. Each lap is .25 miles. Lap 1 - 3.5 mph Lap 2-6 (1.25 miles) - I run (Start at 5 mph and then vary it, sometimes hitting 6 mph) Lap 3- 3.5 mph Lap 4 - 4.0 mph Lap 5 - 4.0 mph Incline 2 Lap 6 - 4.0 mph incline 4 Lap 7 - 4.0 mphs incline 6 Lap 8 - 4.0 mph incline 8 Lap 9 - 4.0 mph incline 6 Lap 10- lap ? (until my time runs out) - 3.7-4.0 mph incline 4 I usually end up doing 4.5 miles. Then I do the bicycle or eliptical for .5 hours. While I know I need to do weight training, I am focusing on cardio right now. I want to get into the habit of doing cardio because lifting weights is the part I like, cardio is not. So I am getting in the habit of doing the cardio. Once I plateau or hit my goal, that is when I am going to incorporate weights. My goal for the gym everyday is to burn off the calories that I had eaten so far. That way I have a little bit of leniency for dinner. :tt2:

Alright this is about bathroom issues, so if you do not want to read this please just skip my post. But for those of you who are willing to sit through this I am wondering if you have experienced this before. Last chance to skip my post.... Okay, I have not been going to the bathroom very often and figure it is just because I don't eat much volume of food. Also, when I go, it is very painful because it doesn't happen often (1x/week!) However, lately I have been eating a lot of Fiber (beans, popcorn :tt2:, lettuce) so I have been kind of gassy. Well last night, I spent over an hour in the bathroom with terrible cramping, and now it hurts to sit and I am still having cramps. When I got to sit down I have to brace for the pain and hope that they angle I hit the chair with won't cause me to shoot straight up! Plus this morning I woke up with the ucky feeling in my tummy. I took a very hot bath last night and it helped while I was in there but now...I am back to the same feeling. It almost feels like a strained muscle. Seriously if I had to go to the bathroom right now, I would rather just have someone shoot me. :smile: That is how painful everything feels right now. So I doubt this has anything to do with the band outside of the fact that I just don't go potty very often, but thought maybe someone would have experienced SOMETHING like this and might have a remedy. I really don't want to have to go to the doctor, but I don't know how long I can last like this either. I know that hemroids (way misspelled:tt2:) can be common after this surgery because of lack of bathroom trips, but I don't know what they would be like.

Ugh I woke up with the flu bug I think. My tummy just feels ucky! I brought some salad and Beans to eat for Breakfast but the thought of eating that just about sent me running to the bathroom so I ate my Protein bar instead. Maybe I will feel like a salad in a few hours! Steph if I could boost my basal metabolic rate by 1000 calories HOLY COW! That would be fantastic. Though I already know I am not getting to the gym tonight. We have plans with some friends of ours and I just won't have the time between work and dinner. (We have to drive 2 hours to get there!) Hopefully I feel up to going. I am sure I will feel fine once the day gets started. Positive thinking! Well I gotta make my copies and destroy more forests to educate these wonderful children! Later.

Got another 1.5 hours in today. There is no way that I am going to make my challenge but I did have some major setbacks this month: I was ill, my BF schedule is changing and we won't see each other much (that will HELP in the future, I won't be in such a hurry to get home and spend time with him) and we had a lot of late meetings at home. But I am going to get in as many hours as possible. I ran another 1.25 miles. Thought I was going to die, but I did it!

I did another 1.5 hours at the gym tonight. I just keep thinking that 6 months after I began going to the gym that it will just be part of my natural habits. I read that or heard it some where from a behavioral psychiatrist (not one that I visited:tt2:). Ran my 1.25 again, but I really did think that I was going to die. I didn't get in much water today and I could tell. My workouts are much tougher when I haven't had water. But I gave my water money to a student who hadn't eaten since yesterday at breakfast so that she could eat something today. Plus I ran out of my bottled water at home, so I didn't bring any with me. First thing I bought at the store tonight was another box of bottled water:thumbup:. My doc always does fills under fluoro so I will see when I go in on the 10th. I am 99.99999% positive that everything is fine and I need an atitude adjustment. I don't think that I stop eating when I am satisfied. I just plain need to stop no matter what my head says. I will be fine tomorrow. In reality I worked off 750 calories and only ate a total of 915 calories so in my book I did spectacular:w00t:. So even though I ate more fruit than I should have today, I still made the right choices and that is key. So my piece of advice is that if you know you can eat more you REALLY have to make the right choices in food. And I did, and proud of it! Okay well I am off to bed. Been up for MANY hours, and I don't want to get tired like I was. Plus this is my last week with my BF before the schedule change so I think we are going to go and do something fun. There is this fun arcade center that has bowling, arcades, pool, (go karts, mini golf, and batting cages during the summer) so I think we are going to go there. Nighty night

Steph - I love the biggest loser DVD. I was doing that before going to the gym. My problem is that I needed the accountability of the gym, because once I go home, that is it. I am done for the day. Okay, my fill has completely loosened from the last time I was there. I could eat a horse I am convinced. At least I made good food choices today, but am still eating WAY too much. I was starving and so I went to the store and got some fruit. It always makes me nervous when my eating habits change so drastically. I am certain that everything is fine, but still I wish we had a little window that we could peak through to make sure that our bands are still there and working! Well off to the gym. I am determined to do 2 hours!

Yep, yep, yep. I still think that I probably spent 17000 on a brain adjustment and it was totally worth it. Obviously the band works, but the majority is the adjustment to my behaviors and thinking. And as for slipping, before if I made a mistake the rest of the day was GONE. If I had eaten 1 wrong thing at any point in the day the rest of the day was filled with doughnut binges and as much fast food as I could shove down my throat! Yesterday, after 2 bags of popcorn I just went back to what I have been doing best. Following the rules. I had some salad with beans and salsa and that was it. Didn't follow the popcorn with an unbelievable amount of bad foods. I was so proud of that fact that I don't even let the popcorn concern me. I will not give up. I am have come to far to go back. My body, my health, my mind is more powerful NOW that it can overcome any mistake.

Good morning. I am back and ready for anything now. I was so tired and run down yesterday that I truly didn't think I could function. Went to bed at 4:30 yesterday afternoon, got up for about 20 minutes then went back to bed until 4:30 this morning. It felt so good. Now I am at work and ready to face the world again. So I have not made it to the gym in two days because of the meeting and then needing to sleep so I will be going today. My car started this morning so I really have no idea what is going on with it. It frustrates me, but one of my students said he would look at it if I could get it here this morning!:biggrin2: On the food front, I can OBVIOUSLY eat more that I am supposed to, so it is back to salads at every meal (yes even breakfast!) I can eat anything at any time so that is actually beneficial to me. I found some spicy pinto beans that only have 90 calories per serving and they are TASTY so I mix that with some lettuce and salsa and there you go. I usually eat it with 1 taco shell that I break up and use as chips. They are 50 calories each, so not bad. Only 2.5 weeks until my fill so this is totally doable. Well I had best get working considering that is why I am here at 5AM:scared2:. Have a good morning!

OMG I am terrible today. Seriously I ate so much popcorn today and I didn't even realize that I was doing it. I think I ate equivalent to 2 bags. No kidding. Okay so this is the first time that I have really LEAPED over the edge and gone back to an old eating habit, and I have stopped it so I won't do it again. I don't think it will hurt me too much because I am going home and going to bed. I ate the popcorn because it felt good on my tummy which is upset right now. I think I might be coming down with something. So I am going to go home and go to bed. Probably won't eat dinner because I am hoping that I just sleep through it. I think that a 12 hour sleep tonight will be just what I need to get out of the funk that I am in today. Plus I really need a fill. My fill nurse told me that since my system isn't primed yet (too few fills) that I will tend to lose more out of my band than normal. So she did say that I might loosen way up and boy have I. I didn't even know I could eat that much food at one time. This is the first time I have tried popcorn since being banded, and well...I shouldnt' have. I was just craving carbs like there was no tomorrow. Okay back to proteins tomorrow! No beating myself up, I just wanted to be accountable and not be closet eating!! So tired and hungry just don't mix. When I am as tired as I am today, I really don't think!

Butting in from another thread, but right now you NEED to be focused on food. I went to a support group meeting last night and the nutritionist that facilitates the meeting said that for the first 6 months (at least) your life needs to be about food: choosing the right foods and the right portions. This is the time where we need to learn the good habits and replace our old ones. This is not an overnight process. It takes a good 6 months to learn something and turn it into a habit. You are barely 2 months out (if you even are 2 months out) so your brain is still fighting learning something new. I know how frustrating it can be to be able to eat everything, but even with this wonderful tool, you still need to have will power. I am 6.5 months out and even today I have to choose to make the right food choices and stop eating when I am no longer hungry. I rarely stop when I am full now...just when I am no longer hungry. Hang in there. In time the choices and adjustments will get easier.

The lady was really nice, but so far didn't feel comfortable coming here and posting. She started out at a lower BMI than I did (like 36 or 37) but is complaining that she has only lost 30 pounds and 10 of that was pre-op. When we were talking about the food stuff, I realized that she was just eating way too much and I told her that. She tried to assure me that she was only eating 1100 calories a day, but I assured her she was not. She does record everything that she eats and when I had her look it up in the nutrtion book they provide at the meeting she realized that she was eating upwards of 2000 calories a day. She was really shocked. What she had been doing is only calculating the calories for the major foods she would eat and then estimate the extras.:redface: Well it is the extras that really get ya. So now she knows what she needs to cut out. One of the things that kind of struck me about her is that she admitted that she thought this would be the easy way out. She has only been overweight for about 6 years (she is 55), but prior to that she had always been very thin and active. However she had a knee injury that she is still battling and has become sedentary and ate out of depression. hmmm.. I think I can relate! After six years of doing WW or atkins she had the surgery to "just get the weight off the fast way and not deal with it agian." That quote just about hit me like a truck. To this day she is still complaining about everything that she had to go through to the get surgery (diet, tests, etc). I tried to tell her that she had to let go of that because it was done and over with. I don't think I was successful. To be honest it was frustrating because she kept going in circles and making excuse after excuse for herself. I've been there done that and tried to help her see the light, but she just made more excuses. As for the biggest loser, they kicked Paul off and he deserved it. They went home for a week and while most people (especially the blue team) did amazing with the workout and the diet, Paul ate plate after plate of chicken wings, and I swear gallons of soda. So needless to say he only lost 5 pounds. Jillian was PISSED! The blue team did awesome and between the 4 of them lost like 56 pounds. It was quite remarkable. Well I had best get back to work.

I really do need a hug this morning. My car wouldn't start again this morning.:biggrin: We think we know what the problem is, but now it is just money to fix it. I did get my tax returns back so I do have the money to fix it, I just don't want to. Plus, I don't have the time AND I am exhausted. I watched the biggest loser when I should have gone to bed. :thumbup: The problem was that despite the fact that I got up at 4AM yesterday I wasn't tired. Then my alarm went off this morning and I could barely get up. All I wanted to do was cry. :cry_smile:Then I ate breakfast too early while I was waiting for someone to come and pick me up, so now I am hungry. My meeting last night was pretty pointless. There were some good issues that were discussed, but mainly I thought it was just a waste of an hour which I could have been working out. That was my first in person support group that I had been too, and I have to agree with Janet that this is 1 million times better. I wouldn't want to have to wait a whole month to discuss an issue. The beauty of this place is that if I have a question at 2AM I can ask it and within just a few hours someone will have responded. :biggrin2: Seriously don't know if I am going to stay awake today. I feel exhausted. I am going to go the gym after work, but then it may be straight home and to bed. :redface: Does look like a few of us are feeling a little blue.

So lindaa, drink tonight, but then tomorrow, back to the rules. Now is not the time to feel sorry and slip back into old ways. I do feel for you though. My doc went over the complications at the very beginning and did say that band slippage can sometimes be fixed with liquids only, so that is a possibility. I remember when I had to be completely unfilled because I didn't chew right and my doc told me that I would most likely gain my weight back. With determination and a lot of hard work I managed to not only NOT gain my weight back, but lost 10 pounds. It was the roughest month so far, but I was determined. You should be too. Use what you have learned in the last several months to prevent you from going back. I think the reason that we didn't keep off the weight before is because for me at least I didn't change my behaviors so that I could sustain them forever. Seriously does anyone think they can live on 10 grams of carbs a day forever. Ummm no. However this time since you have been following the rules you should be able to maintain and continue on in the process. THe weightloss may slow but that is not a guarantee that you will gain it back. So that is my pep talk for today. If you need another one tomorrow, I will be right here.

Beginning of June! I wish We dont get out until the 13 of June. We haven't missed any days of school this year, but that is not shocking. They haven't had a school closure since 1998! Thanks on the congrats. It is a huge milestone. Congrats yourself on joining the gym. I have found that it is very good for me. It will actually be better when my BF gets his new schedule. Right now I try to get home at the same time he does so that we can spend time together. But when he is at work I will have no excuses for not going there right after work. Besides, it is literally across the street from where I work.

I did figure that I was going to encourage her to come here. I don't know if I want her knowing how much I am on here at school:tt2: Actually I really don't care. I have the highest evaluations that I can receive so I really don't think they would care. Her DH said that he didn't think she would be interested because she is shy, but so am I. I just have really come out of my shell here. I have felt very comfortable here from the moment I started. Maybe I can convince her that it is safe here.

I just got an email from the lady that I am going with asking me if I could send my before and current pics as she wanted to see them. Since I don't have them on my computer at work, I sent her to this website so that she could check them out. She emailed me back and said that she was in tears because she was banded just a few weeks after I was and that she was a total failure compared to me. She definetly needs help. We don't live very far from each other so I think that her and I getting together once a week may be a big help to her, and a reminder to me that my hard work really does pay off. Day to day I just seem to think that I am doing this work for nothing, but I think talking to someone that is struggling may be the benefit I need too. Now if I could just find that spare time during the week to do that it would be helpful. I was at work this morning at 4:30AM. AGGGGGHHHH. However I did get done what needed to be accomplished so it is making the day easier.

I did it! 1.25 miles running!!!!:laugh: I thought I was going to die the entire time I was doing it, but I made it. I have a support group meeting that I am going to tomorrow so I don't know how long of a workout that I am going to get, but I want to go back and try to run the 1.25 miles again. For all of you that want to give up on your workout just push through it because when you hit a new milestone it feels AMAZING. So I did 1 hour on the treadmill and then 30 minutes on the eliptical. I noticed that the eliptical is MUCH easier after I have done the hour on the treadmill. Maybe my thighs just have given up at that point and figure there is no point in whining:tt2:, I am going to push them no matter what.

I did it! 1.25 miles running!!!!:laugh::smile2: I thought I was going to die the entire time I was doing it, but I made it. I have a support group meeting that I am going to tomorrow so I don't know how long of a workout that I am going to get, but I want to go back and try to run the 1.25 miles again. For all of you that want to give up on your workout just push through it because when you hit a new milestone it feels AMAZING. So I did 1 hour on the treadmill and then 30 minutes on the eliptical. I noticed that the eliptical is MUCH easier after I have done the hour on the treadmill. Maybe my thighs just have given up at that point and figure there is no point in whining:tt2:, I am going to push them no matter what. As for the support group tomorrow, I talked to someone the other night who said that she stopped going because she couldn't handle the whining of the people who gain weight because they don't eat the right food. She had bypass and it is a mixed group. I am worried that I will be a bit too much like my band mommy and just put them in their place. Now we can do that on this board because we all know that it truly is out of love and friendship that we question your food choices, but these people don't me at all. Oh well, I am actually only going to help out the wife of our librarian. I personally don't think I need to go to a face to face support group because I have the best family in the world RIGHT HERE! But this lady DESPERATLY needs help. Her husband says that she is sneaking food and gets angry at him when he cleans all of the junk food out of the house. So he his hoping that maybe she will listen to someone who has been successful. When he first said that I had been successful, my first instinct was to say "well I could have done more" or some other saying that was not positive, but instead I found myself, saying "THank you, I really do think I have been successful." Don't know where the words came from, but it is true. Ruby - glad to hear that you are feeling better. As for housekeeping...I hate it. Not as much as I used to, but I still hate it. The only thing that I really like to do is vacuum. Remember I'm a young'en...part of that instant gratification generation so when I vacuum it always makes me see the progress instantly! Laundry is my least favorite. Probably why I have 40 pairs of underwear! Well I have to get up VERY early tomorrow. I didn't do any work this weekend (besides cleaning out the chemical store room at school) and I have an evaluation tomorrow, so I have some major planning to do. Best get to bed.

No you are not the only one up...but I have to work. That is right we have to be the ONLY school district in this nation that is working on President's day. I have been pissed off about this for a month! Our kids have the day off but we are in meetings all day. WONDERFUL! I'll trade you...I will clean out your garage and you can sit in pointless meetings!?!?! Only good thing is that we don't have to be there until 7:30. Everyone enjoy your day. I will check in after the gym tonight.

The slime is the WORST. Okay not the worst, the FOAM was the worst for me. That is funny that he wanted you to go inside. What is a little slime between neighbor!:cheers2: I won't swim in the ocean either. My saying is "I don't swim with fish!" If fish are around, Karri is not! It stems from falling off an intertube and having fish rub against my feet. I almost drowned my mom when it happened and I haven't been back swimming since. Chlorinated pools for me! Get down what you can. Can you suck on ice chips? Oh and I just noticed your puking smiley. That is hillarious! I would call your doc and see if there is anything that you can have that will get some vitamins in you. Have you tried pedialyte. It isn't the best tasting, but you can make it into popcicles and it isn't too bad. Okay I have to respond to both Janet and Jackie here because apparently I did not click solidly enough of Jackie's post! Jackie if I read your post right it said that you had a total of 4 bites of cake. HELLO that is good. But Janet (as usual) is right. Pick yourself up and forget about what happened today or yesterday. You are putting yourself on the right track now and that is what is important. Just make sure you don't punish yourself with food. I know that is what I would always do before. I would have a bad day so then I would go completely the opposite way and restrict so much that it would inevitably cause a relapse of binge eating. So just go back to the basics and within a few days those 2 pounds will be gone. But before they are gone, you have to get rid of the guilt. Janet - You, as we all know, are so wise! I love your last statement. We know that professional athletes have to practice at what they do, and that is what we have to do. We are not going to be perfect at following these rules all the time. Just like athletes can have an off game, so can we. We are human. If we were robots with no emotions, no problems, and no decisions to make, we wouldn't be here in the first place. Well off to eat dinner. I am trying steak tonight. Wish me luck!

I think we are the only school district IN THIS NATION that does not get President's day off. No I am not kidding. The kids get it off, but we are in curriculum meetings all day long. I think I would rather be at the gym for 8 hours!!!! Got in a 1 hour workout today. I may or may not make it tomorrow. I think I just want a day off!

So the play we went to last night (Defending the Caveman) was absolutely hillarious. We were supposed to go to dessert with some friends afterwards but we were all too tired so we skipped it. However, since I didn't eat much for dinner so I could save up the calories we had to stop something to eat. I got a mushroom and tomato omelette from Denny's and only ate about 1/3 of it. Today I had part for breakfast and part for lunch. Then I decided to check and see how many calories there are. HOLY COW in the entire thing there was 725:scared2:. WHat in the hell do you do you put into an omelette to make it have 725 calories? So I decided that weighing 1 time per month was just not going to work for me. I need to make sure that I am not doing something wrong. I knew that I would be worrying the entire month that I was going to see a weight gain. At least if the scale goes up during 1 week you can quickly catch anything that is going wrong. However if you wait an entire month, that could be a few pounds. So I weighed and I was down another 1.5 pounds to 172.5.:biggrin2: Nothing much else to report here. I need to clean my house. It is terrible right now. The BF doesn't really care, but it is driving me nuts. THat is my task tomorrow!:wink_smile:

Got in my 1.5 hours yesterday and hoping to squeeze in an hour today. Don't know though because I have students that need to finish tests and then my BF bought tickets to the play "Defending the Caveman" tonight. So I have to find the time to workout somewhere between that. Whosya - That looks like too much snow to me. Supposedly we live where it snows too, but we haven't gotten much this year. I was glad for it early on because I don't know how to drive in it, however I have had some lessons now and it doesn't scare AS MUCH anymore. But I don't want that much snow unless it cancels school! Pizzicato - I am going to be at the gym Saturday too so when you don't want to go (because you know you won't) just think of me there and perhaps it will be like having a workout buddy! Frangi - Glad to hear that you are feeling better. I too felt better after getting to the gym when I was sick. gometros - I agree, better than in a bra. I know if I had to work out in my bra I would scare off the rest of the clients cause I am not pretty under the clothes. Besides, who needs to be fashionable at the gym. It always amazes me when people come in these designer workout clothes with their make up on and not a hair out of place. Do they think they are going to last like that, cause I certainly don't. I drag my butt out of there looking like I just got run over by a train! Alright back to work I go. Seriously I would rather be at the gym than here today. The kids have another 3 day weekend and they are UNRULY!