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Be warned - its very addictive, lol. And just when you think you're running along looking all so professional and good at it, you pass a window and catch sight of yourself, eeeeeek. But nonetheless its a great sport.
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Same as it did before, once or twice I've eaten too much and feel ready to BURST. That was uncomfortable enough that I dont care to repeat it. But generally I get the same signals I always did only much sooner.
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SHARE... what you've learned after Banding
Jachut replied to NewSho's topic in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums
Its an individual journey. For instance I would say the band doesnt have to be tight to work and that tight is not good. But I'm aware that that's just my personal experience. My band has worked perfectly well while being loose enough for me to eat bread etc. Ditto what you eat is a personal thing - there is no rule that is right for everyone. Protein first is great if its the way you like to eat but the band works just as well when you dont eat that way. Its a fine line between enjoying nice new smaller clothes and getting TOO confident. Hehehe, I feel so fantastic at 84kg but I do have that muffin top happening still and I tend to forget that. Your body will be marked by having been overweight. How much excess skin you have is individual but nearly all of us will have it to some degree or another. Exercise is the key. I reckon its more important than what you eat. But the amount of exercise it really takes to shift substantial fat is HUGE and its more intense than people think. Build up to running an hour a day or similar AND getting plenty of nice long walks AND being much more active just in general and you'll get fantastic results. Diets dont work. I'm not ever going on one ever again. I just eat what I feel like when I feel like it and I dont overeat. This is sane, sensible and sustainable. -
I can eat it no problem, rice, seaweed and all. If I'm out and have to buy a takeaway lunch, a hand roll is my first choice. One is very filling coz of the rice but only $2.50.
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How many calories a day do you eat?
Jachut replied to Sammysue78's topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
About 1500 calories a day. I dont know quite how I get away with so much and keep losing but I"m milking it for all I can. I am VERY active though, I run regularly and also do a lot of walking, plus running round after the kids etc - I dont work and am at home with my kids and also attending uni. I hardly ever sit down really. -
Yeah, I'm in Australia, you cant often take doggy bags, its actually against health regulations. I just look at the cost of a meal not as the cost of food but the cost of catching up with friends or having a nice night out with my family. I really dont look at not eating a whole lot as "wasting" that money. That's way too food focussed and the wrong way to look at it.
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I started the way you arent meant to, lol, just went out and did it. I made 3kms my first time. But all you need to do is add in jogging stretches and go for as long as you can with them, then walk. Probably do that 3 times per week and walk or do something entirely different maybe 2 or 3 other days. Gradually increase the jogging/decrease the walking until you are jogging for a short distance, probably 1 to 3 miles. Then when that's easy-ish you can start to work on distance - the idea is to do a long run each week adding 10% to that distance weekly until you reach your goals. If you have a look at www.coolrunning.com there's a couch to 5K program there to get you started and the forums have heaps of advice for newbies. Above all take it slowly, the biggest mistake people make is doing too much too soon and getting injured. Be sensible if you do get injured and take time to recover. Seek out soft surfaces if you can - gravel or grass rather than concrete, it really is a lot easier on your joints. And get yourself some proper running shoes. Stretching really does make it easier to avoid injury - there's no proof that stretching before running achieves much but afterwards when you're warm its very beneficial. I do hamstrings, quads, calves and achilles, ITB's and lower back, oftentimes I spend half an hour on the floor in front of the telly stretching.
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How much weight has everyone loss since there surgery ?
Jachut replied to virginia's topic in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums
28kg, I drink plenty of coffee, no I dont think it makes you gain weight unless perhaps you have some weird allergy to it. I eat regular food like anormal person. No high Protein regimes here, I eat carbs, bread, Pasta, rice, sometimes I eat takeway, I have the odd alcoholic drink, I eat a bit more if I go out or go away, in fact I lead a totally normal life. There's no real science to it. Eat a bit less, move a bit more and say bye bye to the weight. -
Oh, and I'm at 2.5 in my 4ml band and I can easily eat bread. But I cant eat a LOT of anything. Eating bread in and of itself is no drama, its what you eat overall and how much you eat that matters. I eat a slice of bread or so a day, usually toast for breakfast and I've lost weight just fine.
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Take a deep breath, make a commitment, fill it up more and get to work. That's the beauty of the band, its always there when you decide to work with it. But it takes almost as much work with a band as without to lose weight consistenly over the long haul, its very much a head game.
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Hahahaha, we had a hilarious conversation on holidays about this very topic. Ewan was in the car singing an Alex Lloyed song "Vagabond". The words are "all you lonely vagabonds, looking for a place to call your own" and Ewan's happily singing "all you lovely faggotbones". Hehehe. Then instead of the line "lets rewrite an ending that fits" in some Nikelback song, he was singing "lets remind an Indian Fist". What on earth he thought it meant, I have no idea. I used to think the words to Our Lips are Sealed were "Alex the Seal" and there was an Australian Crawl song about Errol Flynn, which probably never had airplay over there, but it went "Oh, Errol, I would give anything just to be like him" and I was happily singing "oh werewolf....".
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I've never heard of anyone doing self unfills before either, but I guess there's plenty of people who wish they could have done so at one point or another. Barring an emergency though, I'd never go near my own port with a needle. I think its something best done by someone else, not awkwardly with your left hand kinda thing. But then, I dont even do my own manicures, lol.
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I've got about 10kg to go to my first goal of 75kg, I'd really love to be 70. At the moment I'm not struggling to lose, well, its slow compared to some others, about 3 or 4lb per month but to me that's healthy and realistic weight loss. I'm not fussed that it may take me another 6 months to get to my goal. I've got a fair bit left up my sleeve fill wise too - I'm at 2.5ml in a 4ml band. I think I'm going OK because I really am putting in exercise wise, I run regularly and am training for some longer distance runs, so I get loads of slow fatburning aerobic exercise, I run for an hour at a time usually, about five times a week.
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It can take quite a while to get good restriction, but you know that you must start eating more regularly to knock this night time eating on the head. You simply must start eating a decent breakfast and make sure you eat a good lunch, perhaps even an afternoon snack to try to stop being so starving hungry at night. I get the running out of food thing, that happens here too. By the end of the week we are scraping the bottom of the barrell food wise and its when the takeway happens etc. But I've found eating well MOST of the time does the trick.
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I can accept the idea that having been heavier, one may not get down to the ideal weight, but I didnt get the band to purposely set a goal that was achievable but still well above my healthy weight range. As it is I'm nearly into my ideal healthy weight range, and I will see how I go as to whether I get to the low end of that (I tend to need less weight on me, quite fine boned, although tall). However, no way would I have set my current 185 as a goal. My doc never told me he thought I should weigh anything in particular, he just said that its common not o lose all excess weight.
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Nobody would know I had a lapband. I can eat anything, I just dont eat an awful lot. But not so little that it would occasion comment. They'd just think I had a small appetite.
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Lunch at "The Hub" Sunday 22nd October 2006
Jachut replied to aus_colleen's topic in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums
Holy Moley Colleen - I just looked at your avatar pic, you look incredible. What an enormous change since last time I saw you - at the Hub back one very very hot day last summer. -
POLL Does Everyone Lose Their Hair??
Jachut replied to KariK's topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
I voted none, but maybe I had increased shedding for a while, its hard to tell since I leave hair everywhere anyway. I shed like crazy normally. I never noticed any thinning at all though, I think I was just paranoid about my normal shedding. -
If I'd sat at that weight for a year, I'd take it as a sign that that's where I was meant to be. I do believe in the set point theory to an extent only what I"ve found was that I had several setpoints - 75kg was easy for me to maintain, so was 84, so was 92, so was 97 and so was 104. I plantaeaued out on my down at those weights too, its quite interesting. I think as big a battle as losing the actual weight is developing a good self image, and learning to love yourself for what you are.
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Lunch at "The Hub" Sunday 22nd October 2006
Jachut replied to aus_colleen's topic in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums
I'll probably make this one, although it will depend heavily on where I am with an essay I have due that week. -
Well that's great news. I think most Australian's would just say "blimey mate, I've got another skin cancer". It happens to almost everyone here once they get to middle age and beyond, very very common. Very very treatable and unless its missed for some reason, nearly always a good outcome. A good portion of Aussies are fair skinned caucasions of European descent, silly weak white skin in a very harsh climate, its a recipe for trouble.
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Thank goodness for a relatively prompt resolution, and thank goodness no damage has been done to prevent you being banded again. And a very big THANK GOODNESS that you are in Australia so its all done no questions asked, no justifications to insurance companies necessary and no major expense. Hope it goes well and you get better really quickly. But poo to all the scars being healed up and faded away and then having to be opened up again. That would pee me off, lol.
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I've just been on holidays during which I ate out a lot more than usual and enjoyed a bit more alcohol than usual. I also enjoyed far more exercise than usual. I got home and had lost 2kg. I cant see why in the world you'd want to be unfilled and risk gaining. I got to enjoy everything, but not to excess like I would have done in the past. I know I'm one of the lucky ones who can eat anything without a problem, but my quantities were limited. Once we went out for dinner and it just happened to be a night where I was tight. We paid $200 for the meal (there were 7 of us) and I ate nothing more than a bite of it I care more about my weight and health than I do about wasting money int aht sort of situation. Big deal, who cares? I would consider an unfill if I had problems with flying but I dont. I know you were just posing the question, not thinking seriously about it but to consider an unfill for the purposes of digging in on vaction, well that would suggest to me somebody not mentally prepared for the change in lifestyle and not really ready to be banded. Where do you draw the line?. What about Christmas, Easter and all those other occasions? And although the band is YOUR tool and I've always been a strong believer in that, I think that's just not using it properly and I'm not surprised at all that a surgeon would refuse to just unfill you simply because you wanted to eat more. The thing is with the band, its kind of all or nothing but then its all or nothing without the band too if you really want to get control of your weight. People who have been a normal weight all their lives may very well tend to eat a bit more on holidays but you do that with a band too. Your food choices will be different and you'll probably drink more too. But you have to do so in moderation.
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I've been banded 10 months and had 5 fills and I've not found anything I cant eat yet. Some foods are harder than others for sure, but I can eat anything I want to. I've also never PB'd but have been stuck now and then.
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Poll - Are You Attracted To Overweight People?
Jachut replied to KariK's topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
I voted like most of us - within reason it isnt an issue. I think I could fall in love with anyone who had the right personality regardless of weight, but if you're talking people I find "attractive" I tend to like my men (man) just a bit cuddly, probably overweight(ish) but I doubt I'd do a double take at someone hugely obese. Like the rest of the general public and despite having been obese myself I make the mental associations and judgements that most people do about obese people, without consciously thinking about it. I cant bear skinny men, I find that very unattractive. I can safely say I'd never find a really skinny man attractive. Nor a short man, being tall myself, something in my psyche says attractive men are tall men. I really really loathe the model of physical perfection - muscles and bronzed skin. B-o-r-i-n-g, pretty men are not my thing at ALL. Nice comfy looking middle aged men, in a business suit, looking successful (and wealthy, lol), probably because it fits my image of the "perfect" lifestyle - nice house, nice car, nice kids etc etc.