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Jachut

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  1. It depends. If your abs are rock hard underneath then there's probably not much more to be achieved. If you cant do push ups and planks and a gazillion sit ups then you could probably still achieve significant improvement. Flabby knees and thighs? Well, I'm finding that to a degree that depends on your goal weight. Set a reasonable one that you can easily achieve and live with and probably nope, those last areas of flab wont go. But I'm finding that losing down toward the bottom end of my healthy weight range, well every kilo is just coming directly off the fat areas now, and I can see that were I to get light enough, they would disappear. Not sure I can quite achieve that or wether its worth trying to maintain a really light weight for the sake of it, and of course, my knees may look great but my face will look haggard, lol.
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    Aussie Bansters Chat Thread Part 2

    I cannot recommend Cardio Coach highly enough, I really enjoy it. Its interval training via mp3 - kind of a personal coaching type of thing, with instrumental music especially written for it and instructions of when to go fast, go slow, increase resistance etc. It makes time on machines like the elliptical or the treadmill really fly, completely eliminates the boredom factor and its relatively cheap - you can get instant MP3 downloads. Cardio Power Fitness Music | Download Workout | Cardio Music Workouts | Cardio MP3 Downloads for iPods It REALLY increases your fitness fast too, interval training is very effective but you can use it for walking as well, just walk extra extra hard in the intervals or even run them.
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    I hate a lot of you. I really do.

    Oh gosh, dont remind me. Fat has crept up on me mostly at major life events (births of babies specifically) not as a constant thing. At 40, my next major life event is probably menopause, lol (though hopefully a way away yet!). I have given lots of time to hoping I can maintain this loss past menopause. Because when I look at women who I think look fabulous in their 50's and 60's that I would like to emulate as I get older the one thing they have in common is a youthful figure. Its not about keeping flowing blond locks that you can flick around or having 20 facelifts to look like some macarbe impersonation of a 30 year old, its that around the middle weight gain that to me identifies women as old or middle aged. Those that stay slim always look more youthful to me, even if they've aged completely normally skin wise. I fear looking "old" more than anything I think, I dont need to be stunning or beautiful, I just want to maintain that fit, healthy and vital look becuase that's what I think is really attractive, not beauty itself which fades for everyone. And that is entirely within MY control. I will be that 70 year old woman still running. That makes me feel good about myself regardless of what I actually look like.
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    Plateau Busting Diet

    I'm sorry but there's absolutely no way I'd do that to my body. That's awfully unhealthy! That's just fad dieting that does not result in real and lasting weight loss. You'll drop a ton of water that will show on the scales and really, what's the point in that? So you eat nothing but meat or other protein sources for 10 days? No fruit, no veg, no fibrous foods? I always find adding more exercise and recommitting to good eating works for me. Back to 3 meals per day NO extras, and adding in a good long walk as well as my usual runs and circuits gets me moving again.
  5. I've found exercising five times a week worked for me and when I exercise I exercise HARD - I run. Three times a week is fabulous but its more a maintenance level, you lose better when you do more. And I think I just relaxed into the whole "my body will do what it wants to when its ready" mentality, there were loooooooong plateaus in there. I just had faith that if I did the right thing over time the weight would come off. Dont panic that you're plateauing out a bit now, its very common after an initial fast loss and you will get going again. But weight just doesnt come off week in week out unless you're super duper dedicated and disciplined with DIETING, something I stank at before and still do. I figured if I acted like a normal weight person, I eventually would be one. That to me meant eating well, not eating too much but not obsessing over it. It will work for you, have faith. Just keep plugging away and at the end of a year you wont know yourself.
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    Herbal teas?

    I can stand peppermint tea if I have to, I drink it if I have an upset stomach and sometimes (very rarely) I actually feel like some. but overall I hate herbal teas and I'm not a black tea lover either. I'll drink the occasional cup of tea. Unfortunately, I'm a die hard coffee lover. Tea tastes so insipid to me after good coffee.
  7. It will definitely make you feel better. Just strolling, not powering along. But I felt well enough to go for a 3km stroll 24 hours after surgery.
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    Fiber and Digestion

    I dont have a lot of trouble with it - but I cant eat apple skin. Fruit is a pretty go slow food for me. I cut up apples now, but I can eat them carefully. Tinned fruit in natural juice is good too. As for vegies, well anything really. But I dont do low carb either so I"m not afraid of potatoes, pumpkin, sweet potato either. I absolutely cannot choke down corn anymore though. Lettuce has never bothered me either.
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    Port Replacement with a local?

    I've heard of it here, and I would choose it in a heartbeat. Not that being put under is so terribly high risk these days but why take it if you dont ahve to?
  10. My hair suffered for a while but is much better again now. My skin hasnt changed really, I've always had pretty good skin. Fingers crossed for you, it really does improve the way you feel about yourself. I know my current glowing looks wont last, lol. Just back from holidays, gloriously brown ALL OVER thanks to the bikini, lol. I love love love having a tan although in Australia its drummed into us from birth how bad the sun is, its so strong here and most Australians will have bits of themselves removed due to precancerous changes as they age. But for now, damn I look hot. Gonna get a spray tan next week to desperately try to hang onto it for a week longer, lol. Hopefully your improvements are here to stay!
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    Soup last night, CHILI tonight!

    Yummmmmmm, I absolutely love chili, I make it all the time. These days I skip the rice (or for the kids I serve it on organic corn chips) and just have it as is, with a good dollop of thick natural yogurt and some chopped avocado and tomato. I like mine FULL of Beans though. Its healthy, cheap, high in Protein and fibre (if you have the beans) and also vegetable based with all the tomato. Perfect food really.
  12. Its impossible to answer. See, I would call that WAY too tight. I'd absolutely hate that. But proper restriction is where you're losing too, so if that's what it takes, I dunno...maybe that's proper restriction for you? I can eat say, half a sandwich for lunch. I can eat meat and 3 veg for dinner and I can eat a good Breakfast. So I call that proper restriction. I can do that comfortably. I can also slip in a variety of Snacks, crap food or get down a McDonalds cheeseburger if I so choose. So somebody else would be screaming "I'm not tight enough". Personally, I think Healthwise its better to be a bit looser to eat more variety, allow a more normal lifestyle and just rely on a little self control if that allows you to eat a bit too much or foods you really dont want to be eating.
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    Gaining weight Back

    Robin that is just SO true. That's exactly how I find my band. I had to work to get the weight off but the benefits of the band are showing a thousandfold in weight maintenance. I can eat poorly and make bad decisions and I can eat around the band. Im not perfect so I sometimes do it. But I just truly cannot eat enough to seriously gain weight. If I pig out in the afternoon, I cant eat my dinner. It keeps the calories honest, if not the nutritional content.
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    Fiber and Digestion

    No no, not Protein, but eating no vegetables or fruit, or way too little will affect your teeth! You need 2 cups total of five different vegetables a day and 2 different fruits a day as a general rule. How many bandsters could really say they get that?
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    Gaining weight Back

    I really find that lots of running cuts me a lot of slack in this area. I mean, I try to stay on track and eat well and I do 90% of the time, but for those times when I dont do so well, like holidays, being very active really prevents weight gain. I always found this prior to banding too.
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    Running on a liquid diet

    I reckon I'd run out of fuel in the tank. I can run without Breakfast on a weekend morning, I usually try to do a long run of 10kms or so then. But I struggle with nothing in my stomach, I hit a wall at about 6kms, where I just plain run out of energy. If I'd been on a liquid diet for days or weeks, I think I'd simply run out of energy. I dont have hanging skin after my weight loss, but I do have "some" loose skin, as in, its definitely not in the condition it would have been had I never got fat and never had 3 babies. But I can tell you I dont think running has influenced that. What running has done for me is that IF I elected ever to do anything about it, I most definitely would not require a full tummy tuck with muscle repair. I have abs of steel, a perfectly flat abdominal wall, its just that there's a bit of smooshy skin over the top of it that creates a tiny bulge. Regardless of what people say about long sessions of cardio burning your muscle, I have built tons of muscle on my body and look absolutely unrecogniseable from when I weighted 73kg at 28. Entirely different body shape, much better! But truly, there's time for that when you're eating again. I'd walk at this stage.
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    Soft Fills during surgery

    I wonder what the rate of people ending up overfilled is with that. I'd be nervous about that because I definitely did not need any fill at all for about eight weeks. I had plenty of restriction. But I guess its adjustable, so yeah, if it puts you ahead of the game that's fabulous. It was still my period of fastest weight loss anyway, I didnt personally need fill at that point.
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    Adding protein shakes

    I dont personally think replacing solid calories with liquid ones is sound bandster practice, nor do I think Protein is the key to busting a plateau. But we can all only go by our own experience, I've done fine without gazillions of grams of protein a day but if it works for others, its worth a try. I'd be more inclined to do more exercise myself. I always find that if I add a daily walk to my daily run and my strength training, it got me moving again.
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    Fiber and Digestion

    Well I'm in the minority but I disagree vehemently with focussing on Protein to the exclusion of vegetables and grains. I absolutely think it is wrong. But I know that that's what you are told in the US and I would never tell someone to not follow their doctors orders. But I personally follow a high fibre, high carb diet - carbs as in good low GI wholegrain carbs, not sugary crap. I eat protein, of course, I probably manage 50g most days, not that I count. I base most of my meals around a protein source, supplemented with grains and fruit or veg. So lunch might be half a tuna and salad sandwich on wholegrain bread. Maybe a piece of fruit in the afternoon. Breakfast is normally a grain food like muesli, dinner usually contains no carbs, just protein and vegetables. I cannot comment on what protein actually does in terms of preserving lean body tissue, but I do know its not irrefutable scientific fact yet. I can also tell you that I have all my hair, have lost all my weight and have not turned into a blob with no muscle, I have way more lean body mass than I did 12 years ago when I last weighed 73kg. I look entirely different and much better. So you do not need to eat 80 grams of protein a day to lose your body fat. personally, I think most lap band doctors are surgeons first and foremost and subject to the same biases, misinformation and fads about food as most people are. I worry greatly for the bowels of the great lap banded public, lol. I do not think people with bands by and large eat anywhere near enough fruit and veg for their cancer prevention, general health and bowel health properties. I think protein first is a great way to lose your teeth and get bowel cancer. Boy oh boy, I'll get flamed for that, lol! I truly respect everyone's decision and right to do what they think is best though, just my 2c - and I never get constipated.
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    Weight A Minute!!!

    Its normal for some bones to show - collarbones, tips of shoulders and jawbones etc. I think our view of what looks normal is skewed by the fact that as a society we're plain FAT. What looks normal to a lot of people is actually overweight. Everyone has the right to look how they want, and its perfectly acceptable to like more meat on you. But 200lb on a five foot ten woman is overweight. It may "look" how you like to look, its still overweight. Its a darn sight better than weighing 300 and an awesome achievement. Its still overweight. 150 is about what you "should" weigh at five foot eight. It is not ribs sticking out skinny. Its a healthy weight. Again, everyone should weigh what they WANT to, not what a chart tells them too. But I really dont think I'm walking around looking anorexic or ghastly. Sorry to take issue with it Julie, I know that you're not picking fights or being argumentative. But I think its a really issue that overweight people have, not being able to allow themselves to imagine a normal weight. It seems so common to say "oh, but i look awful at that weight".
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    Weight A Minute!!!

    That always riles me a bit, although I know its not meant that way. But healthy weights are averages and 150 would not be "anorexic". It may not be the way you personally want to look, but its "normal weight", its FAR from anorexic - I've been 150 at 5ft 10 and I look normal and healthy, not terribly skinny. I think our vision of it gets skewed by being overweight.
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    What would you change?

    If you could change: 1) One physical (other than weight) thing about yourself, what would it be? I want smooth, freckle free, gloriously golden brown PERFECT skin! Beautiful skin would be a fabulous thing to have, not that I have bad or really awful skin but I'm just your average freckled caucasian. 2) One non-physical thing about yourself (mental, situation, etc.), what would it be? I want lots of money! I want to be more comfortable than we are so that we can have the home and lifestyle we want. We're about 10% short of it. I really should be more grateful for what I have, but yeah, I want lots of money. And how about the same two questions, only now applied to your partner/spouse I'd wish for Doug to be of normal weight too. Not because I find him unattractive but because I want him to live as long as I do. And I'd wish that he wasnt so darned anxious, pessimistic, depressed, negative, jealous all the time. He really has a down side to his personality, can never see the bright side of anything.
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    Weight A Minute!!!

    Yes, I had no major health issues, I was frightened of developing them, but basically I was still in excellent health and well able to begin running quite soon after my surgery. So for me, the focus of this operation has ALWAYS been appearances. I wanted to look good dammit. So I'm quite focussed on getting my weight down quite low. I can appreciate that a lot of people are just happy to be healthier.
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    Food Processor-Friend or Foe?

    I'd far rather get my protein from ground up meat than from protein shakes.
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    Sorry You Did it?

    Hand on my heart, totally and utterly honesty, I do not have "eating restrictions". I live a completely normal lifestyle, I just eat less than what I used to. I try to make healthy choices most of the time, I definitely choose better but I can do everything I used to. Holidays, going out to eat, socialising, none of them are a problem to me. I just ingest half of what I would previously have done and dont have to face the weight gain afterwards.

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