greythope

Hi Ladies! I am not pregnant that I know of, I will find out at the end of the month I guess...I've had the band 10 months, have lost 50 pounds. Anyway we're not trying but not being careful either. My goal was to lose 25 more pounds before we started trying (50 more to 'happy weight') but I am turning 36 in June and just think time isn't on our side. It it's meant to be, it's mean to be! Anyway, when I was pregnant with my son I was DEATHLY ill until around 15 weeks. OK that is a little dramatic. I wasn't in hospital but if I hadn't taken Zofran every single thing I ate would have come up and I might have ended up in hospital. I had bad side effects with it (imagine wishing you were dead and your intestines turning to concrete) so only took one a day to make it through work. I then threw up most everything I ate at home. I did a lot of dry heaving too. So this is my worry - if I am as 'lucky' as last time, how good is that band in there?! None of these gentle little productive burp throw-ups - we're talking night out on the town next morning type dry heaves that last and last. I had sore abs like I'd been doing crunches a lot of the time! Plus I had such terrible food aversions I couldn't eat anything remotely band friendly! I only wanted toast or waffles, grilled cheese sandwiches, McDonalds fries, and ice-cream. Can you imagine!! I guess my main concern is hurting myself. So if you've had this sort of experience I'd like to hear you and your band made it through. I was going to ask my doc at my appt. this week but didn't get a chance (that is another story I won't get into, let's just say 3 minutes of my docs time wouldn't kill him would it?!)

I felt pretty rotten. I mean really bad! When I woke up I felt like I had been shot and knifed repeadly I wouldn't have minded a few more days of pain meds. Everyone is different. I am fine now. Just take it easy and follow the guidelines.

LOL I know what you mean. But really is can be as unhealthy as any other behaviour in extreme. When I was like that I would HATE myself and feel like I wasn't worth being alive and was a fat disgusting cow when I'd miss a day. instead of being about getting health and strong I just wanted to be skinny. I saw about 15 minutes of 'The Biggest Loser' the other day. One of the model girls had a stress fracture in her hip bone. I am sure this is from over-exercise. I didn't get something like that but I did run through a lot of pain, my body telling me not to be running on a bad disk but I ignored it, made it worse. Now I leave the gym happy but not in extreme pain.

Ding ding ding - I think we have a winner! Sounds exactly like what it is. Thanks!

I guess Karen just remember it took a long time to gain the weight in the first place, we can't lose it overnight. And what's the point in being thin and fabulous if you have no life besides exercise? That's the thing I keep telling myself - my level of exercise AND my weightloss have to be something I can maintain. I am reading a book called 'binge no more' and it says exercise can go hand and hand with eating disorders. I am using it to keep my metabolism up, sure, but mainly it's to make my heart and my body strong to make me a healthier person who can live longer for my husband and my son.

Just a word of caution from my own experience. Prior to getting lapband I'd managed to lose 100 pounds on Jenny Craig and being a gym junkie. I used to make sure to plan exercise around days that would involve a lot of food, e.g. rode my bike 40 miles on Thanksgiving. Eventually I got to the point where the exercise obsession was unhealthy and I would cry and hate myself if for some reason I couldn't go. Even if I was dying of the flu I would be at the gym coughing and hacking. I didn't listen to my body and would run through pain on the treadmill. Eventually I made my back/hip problems worse and burned out. Needless to say the weight came back on since I stopped starving myself and couldn't maintain the strict schedule at the gym, particularly once my son was born. So now I am careful and working with a trainer to avoid injury and just being kinder to myself. I still love the buzz but am trying not to be obessive. We have that in our personalities so have to be careful to not make something healthy into something unhealthy. Excellent work though, you go girl!

I find I get a better cardio workout on the elliptical because I can push myself harder than on the treadmill. But I have some back problems, it might be different for you. The exercise bike is meant to be a great workout because it works a big muscle. I vary between the elliptical, the bike, and do strength training.

I did try to let the fizz go out before swallowing once when I took a sip of my husbands and it was just gross and didn't do any good. One silver lining is that even if we could handle carbonation, I think drinking diet coke enabled me to get more food down before. When I think of overeating there is inevitably a diet coke invovled. Even now when I take a bit of something I used to enjoy eating a lot of I crave dc to wash it down. Believe me I know how hard it is. I have been off of them since June 12th of last year and even if I never get to my goal weight I will still be in awe of myself for getting that monkey off my back!

I am having some reflux issues and made an appt. to go in Tuesday. Although this fill has been 'the one' I am not willing to risk damaging my stomach/band/esophagus for a bit of extra loss. It's so hard to stay sensible sometimes when we fight fight fight to lose the weight. But this is about my health I have to keep telling myself.

When it comes to life post-banding, I am am usually the one to say most things are OK in tiny amounts and it has worked pretty well for me. I love the way the band will allow me to have just tiny amounts and feel satified. EXCEPT for diet coke! I just can't drink it. Every once in a while I really miss it. I have taken a sip from my husbands. But I know if I had more than that I would pb it all up plus every thing else in my stomach. But if I could have a one, given how addicted I was (a 6 pack a day wouldn't have been a problem for me pre-band) I don't think I would risk it.

Over the last several months I have noticed my nose and cheeks seems to flush much easier and I don't understand why. At the moment they are red hot and my nose actually looks red! I always prided myself in being the person who could be mortified with embarassment and the red would never show. However I have increasingly noticed this happening to me. Sometimes it is after I eat. This morning it happened just ask I had Breakfast (a quick snack of almonds while I worked). It also happened on Sunday but I was drinking a glass of wine so I attributed it to that. But even so, I have NEVER flushed from drinking before. I guess I am dealing with all new circumstances these days with my body. Many years of worrying about eating too much and now I had to make sure to eat enough and the right things to keep myself going through workouts and a busy life. Anyway just wondering if this is a symptom of something like a Vitamin deficiency, something else related to the band, or just something random. (please don't say peri-menopause, I am 35 and not ready for that!).

You either need to drink more or have something to eat before you work out. I didn't follow my own advice today and got really light head-headed during a training session. I think my problem was I didn't feel hungry. I guess I was always so used to REALLY feeling hunger during intense workouts from my pre-band days I didn't notice being low on fuel. I feel light headed. I made it through but instead of doing more cardio the trainer sent me home to have dinner. When I got home my legs were shaking and I just had to sit down. My husband brought me a piece of cheese and I was just about able to get my dinner together when it was ready. Ugh it was a horrible feeling. Next time I have a training session at that time I will make sure to get some fuel in even if I don't feel ready for a meal.