Katie59

I do an exercise that I learned in class... with a 3 lb weight or 5 lb.... with your elbow firmly at your side, at your wiast, slightly behind you, raise the weight behind by stretching out your arm behind you..... do not move the elbow or upper arm... and do this 10 times at a time... I can really feel the muscle... tightening.. have notmeasured.. just keep hoping.

thanks for all the input... Everyone said "don't you have a problem with bread" and so now, 8 mo. after my surgery, I have a problem with bread.... so we all adjust and ladapt differently... used to be okay with toast and garlic toast... no more.... my last fill was several months ago and this bread problem just developed.. so.... I will adjust.. I am a slow looser.... 1 or 2 lbs per month.. but no matter what I do.. I loose.... Cruise vacation this month.. concentrated very hard on when I was full.. and consequently ate 1/2 of everything.... and lost 1 lb.. so.. I coast merrily along.. on good days... knowing.. I will not gain... and that is a good thing....Love to you all, Kathy.

Thanks again for all the great comments. I too went shopping in my closet and found two outfits to wear on the cruise I just took.... Have lost 30 lbs and beat myself up that it is not enought but that is okay when I read your stuff.... did not gain a lb on my cruise.... so fun... and felt proud to wear a bathing suit and sit in the sun... I am at the gym twice a week for a sit fit class and a water aerobics class. it make a difference but now I think I am at a plateau and considering a personal trainer to help me with weights... Muscle burns calories I hear. still having trouble with the icons and stuff and even changing my msg.. but I am here... Dr. Woodhead, Delta B.C. p forgetting the size.

I think that the lap band is higher than our stomach... where the port is - is where our stomach is... I have trouble in aqua fit when we jump as I have to hold my stomach/belly cause itis so floppy now but, you never know... you should ask your doctor... Kathy

And I really feel, trust, and know that this time I will not gain it back....there may be several pauses in this loss but I feel really good that I can now fit a normal seat on an airplane and am looking forward to my March 1 cruise to Mexico... want to spend a day at the beach at Cabo... actuallly want!!! to spend a day at the beach... it has been helpful to go to water arobics for seniors cause we do not care what we look like.. just enjoy the water... Yeah Grey Power....

Hi everyone. Glad to catch up with the past posts...I am steady loosing...... 32 lbs. now... lots to go... will figure out that ticker thing soon. When I crave sweets, like some one else on this thread, I eat ceral... like Special K. with berries. I can only eat 1/2 cup for break... maybe equivalent of 1/2 - 1 for lunch and one cup for suppper.. Like one hamburger.... I have bed food habits so take 3 che. vitamens a day. I have lost a lot of inches lately and my body feels very odd to be thinner. Had some fun shopping in my closet.. and actually getting rid of (!!) large clothes to the charity shop...reorganizing and dumping things I would have worn in my old days but now are not nice enough.. Cause I like looking good! Thank all for the encouragement.

way to go you gals and guys,,,, lost 30 lbs. in 6 months and that is ok with me... some weeks I even gained but... anyways... here in Canda I got a 7 cm band and have 5.5 fill and it is working... if I work it.. I have yoghurt for break... 1/2 cup only... light lunch . amost every day a poached egg on toast... 1/2 or one slice depending on how hungy I am and aa normal supper... chicken and veg or 400 cal... it is easy now that I have the right fill...so the only problem is not drinking calories...... thanks for allthe support.

I ws banded in July and read all of the stuff around christmas and renewed my enthusiasm and lost 10 lbs... feeling good and just eating low cal... yogurt for breakfast as it helps with digestions and my cr. (woodhead) says your stomach is small in am..... egg and toast for lunch and protien only for supper.. I have a 7 cm band with 5.5 fill.....

Yes, let's get back on track. I signed in again to get more encouragement and it worked. Others are out there just like me, struggling, but keeping going. I got out my calorie counter,m my log, and my low fat cookbook to spice up some dinners. I have some restrictions... 3 fills but still not sure of the size of my lap band. I know it is smaller...I think Dr. Wood said 7 cm... but I guess it is all relative to how much he has filled. I thin k I am at 4.5... anyways.. going back in Jan. I eat a small yoghurt for breakfast. I am pretty full on a poached egg and toast for lunch. But hungry by supper and can eat 3 oz beef and 1 cup rice.... The not drinking water is hard!

I am going to prepare my income tax to deduct the cost ofsurgery, mileage etc...anyone got some hints.... going to start researching on line and through friends... lets start a line so we can all profit. Kathy

Thanks for the tip about the fork, Phyll... sounds good. I have been off track with regard to bite sizes... Maybe I will use a Shrimp fork!