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There's an awful lot of truth there Kare, thanks for sharing.

My main focus is on Protein to sustain muscle. I've found that if I hit the right protein level I am at -around- the right number of calories to sustain my weight loss. Skin changes for myself are definate sagging in the chest area and stomach. I've noticed that the inside of my legs which were sagging really bad have started drawing up some. For exercise I am using the dreadmill. I've found that if I put it on a very slight incline its not as hard on my knees (no more than .5 or 1). I will be hitting the gym within the next week or so to try and lay down some lean muscle. My son is a personal trainer and I might have him give me a program to work with. I'll post it if I get one.

Found you! :welldone2:

And for multiple reasons - I hate to drive "thru".

I probably will be on the ignore list and took no ill feeling from it :welldone2: Just figured it was a moment of comedy. All the same, TommyO - excellently said. I'm trully impressed by your detachment and analytical responses. Great job.

Nope, nor did I claim I was.

Why not say exactly that? Tell the rumor mill that this is your business and you see no reason to invite them into your private life. The only other way possibility I see is to destroy the rumor mill by flat out saying "yes I have had the lap-band". Nothing kills gossip faster than flat our revealing the truth. People will dress it up as being caring, showing concern, being a friend. The fact is, is that it is just downright nosey. I am so sorry you are faced with this conundrum.

I think you just made a horrible assumption. I am fighting and blah blah blah yakkity shmakity. How dare you blah blah //hateverrr... you are so like all over your bad self girl. You need to step... K? I refuse to get along! And JUST to prove it I am going to have YET another cup of fricking dirty flavored frickin Water with hazelnut flavored water. HAH put THAT in your thread and SMOKE it madam. :heh: :heh: :heh: :heh: :heh: :heh: :heh: :heh:

Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor dear. It's also the best. Skips merrily back out of the thread singing a cheery tune and waving a small flag that says "happy happy, joy joy"

You are entirely correct Gadget I will take anyone of any banded duration because right now - my statistics are (for want of a better word) meaningless. This study will only get meaning with duration and I'm not expecting anything 'super' usefull for a year or so. Currently our major crop of bansters have a band date of end of 2005 to current time. We do have a few 'older' bandsters on board but I'm not expecting to extrapolate anything until I have an excellent base. So keep em coming. Until I get a good database of information - I can't deliver good results.

Ooo my turn! I'm sitting at home pretending to be sick and getting payed for the privilige. My 44" waist pants are starting to feel decidedly loose. I was wearing 50" waist pants around Christmas. My fake coffee really almosts tastes like coffee! :rockon::heh::rockon:

It's harder for the body to absorb vegatable protein. There is excellent data in the Food catagory.

Qualifications? Many Doctors and Nurses who deal with bariatric surgery have never: - Had a band. - PB'd - Been obese - Had a band complication - They have qualified their knowledge by learning. They have read, researched, and dealt with these situations from a third party perspective. We do not question the knowledge that they have at their disposal. It is equally not right to disqualify someone because they may, or may not have this device fitted. You need to find out if they are right, before you can say it isn't acceptable for them to post. I personally stay out of threads that ask about restriction, fills etc because I am not qualified to speak on them. I'll tell anyone in the world what a PB is. I've never had one. I never will. I do know what one is though. I think I am qualified to give a full description of it, in detail. I can't tell you how it feels mind you, but I can tell you what it is. I recommend that people judge each post on its own merrit. That they forget who posted it, that they forget so called 'experience'. They look at the post. Read it. Think about it. If you want to question qualification... ask them to qualify their post. I'm new here. I'm not banded. I've come under attack for my posts. I'm not leaving, and my nose is perfectly straight.

On the dry finger tips... I said to the wife - no less than two hours ago (and without looking at this thread) - that the end of my fingertips felt scaley (almost like skin feels after its been burned). Very wierd feeling. I actually have quite an amusing medical condition, I am clinically allergic to myself (go figure) so I wouldn't be able to tell if I had any kind of rash. This set my mind at rest - I at least know that I'm not alone in wierd skin land.

While I'm not banded I was wondering if anyone else was having this phenoma occuring. I've lost 38.5 pounds in around two and a half months and I have lost 6 to 8 inches around the waistline. Awesome. People tell me I am looking SO much better. Fabulous. The problem is that I haven't felt this flabby and saggy before. I suspect it's a literal case of the skin being less tight (due to the considerably reduced stuffing) and its flapping around like a flag on a windy day. But my brain is kicking the living crap out of me and telling me I am looking infinately worse than I did. I have learned not to trust my brain, but I am wondering if anyone else suffers from this odd self image situation. Hell - my pants that fitted snuggly in December won't even stay on now! Frickin brain!

I bow in defeat. ROFL.

I have nothing further to say, oh Queen of the Woodland Realm. :cake: :cake:

*blink blink blink* Stunned. Shocked. I shall now wander away from this digression... rapidly. :confused: :cake: :cake: :cake: :cake: :cake:

Well, if our personal trainer gives us crap, we'll kick him out of his room. Our son just recently qualified as a personal trainer for our gym :confused: Our gym is blessed with all shapes and sizes and we've been there and trained while in bad shape. Everyone is very encouraging. We're certainly at opposite ends of the spectrum and he's been nagging us to get with the damn program for years. I am looking forward to getting in the pool and swimming some laps. Which of course is maximum exposure time but... screw em. Soon. Oh yes. Soon.

I do need to :confused: Though somehow I feel dirty... you mean...actually USE the gym membership I've payed for consistantly for a couple years??? (slight exageration, I allowed the membership to lapse for at least three months - lol) I will probably go for two more weeks of pure cardio at home and then hit the gym once I feel more confident that I can survive picking something up that is heavier than a coffee cup. I do wonder though, I think some of this might be just in my mind. Maybe I can get a brain lap band. It fits around the cerebral cortex and cuts down my ability to think (some probably think my brain PB's enough already without adding more restriction - GRIN).

I am sad to say I was heavy enough to develop man boobs. I shall just have to fill my boob zkin with mazzive amountz ov muscles JA! Sorry, for some reason I can't think about working out without putting on a German Physical Training Instructor voice. I feel like a whiner tell the truth, I should be doing the happy (wobbly) dance.

Lifting weights are in my very near future. Right now I am focusing on the Dreadmill and trying to improve my cardio vascular health. I've sat on my tuckus in almost complete inactivity for 13 years. Much as I'd love to add that extra muscle to burn those calories, I have to improve the one in my chest first (lift weight, heart explodes - definate weight loss assured). I noticed some definate flappy skin under my arms today as well. Long term I will have to fill that up with muscle. The belly and the inside of my thighs I fear will be beyond help. I won't ever have surgery (except life or death) so I guess I'll be tucking my stomach and my shirt in :confused: At least its only the missus has to look at my wobblyness.

Weigh in day and another 2 pounds gone. Current weight is 268.5. Also managed to do .95 miles on the treadmill and I am completely POOPED.

Weigh in day and another 2 pounds gone. Current weight is 268.5. Also managed to do .95 miles on the treadmill and I am completely POOPED.

Personally I think the fact that we can hug and actually make contact belly to belly is a pretty big NSV :confused: GRIN