CHI-Girl

Today is a milestone in my life... my new life! I woke up today and did my 1 hour work out! I did 30 min of hip hop abs and 30 min of incline training on the treadmill! I feel awesome! I also took my one year bandaversary pic's but had a problem uploading I was totally bummed. I must admit I'm not loving the camera just yet but working on that. I am going to a water park with my girls and their girl scout troop... Ya I'm a leader and it's time to wear a bathing suite! My feeling is are you kidding me I'm not into wearing bathing suites! Although the one I wore this summer fits a lot better. I guess I have to just suck it up and go and have fun... I feel great but not bathing suite great. That's a lot of skin showing lol. Oh and it's the middle of a Nasty winter here in the CHI (Chicago)! So I am going to get it together and try and really get myself behind that camera more often! Maybe it will help me see the transformation of -60 lbs. Oh I must tell you that shopping these days are a lot of fun especially finding good deals. Went to Express last night and was able to by size Medium and they had a big ole sale...$5.99 tops boy talk about a great feeling! I'm really starting to feel a lot more normal these days. I love my Mono (band in Spanish) I don't ever want to be with out it! Keep strong Keep focused and live the band life Peace!

So I have been MIA from my blog for for to long! But I must tell you I do lurk a lot on LBT but I've noticed that I for one have been one of these slow losers! But to my surprise you never really realize what your eating until you really look at labels... Then theirs the little of this. You get aggravated with no restriction then you get some but it's not enough and then BANG Sweet Spot!!!!!!!!! Yes this is me… 8 fills later (8 months out of surgery)!!! To date I’m about 4 months into my Sweet spot making me down 60 lbs at my 1-year bandaversary! Yes Last Year on Friday the 30th of January I underwent this awesome procedure that has given me my life back. I am happier and healthier then ever thanks to my band. Despite the length in getting to my sweet spot the weight is melting off but I have to work for this!!! I work out hard and really follow the band rules. Yes it's easy to eat Crap (chips, cookies and ice cream) but if you do that you will never get the results you want... I don't deprive I just really watch the junk AKA slider foods more closely and try not to consume them often. I eat about a cup a food at one sitting and I try not to snack between meals and work out at least 30 min a day weather I feel like it or not! Don’t get me wrong there’s days I really don't want to but I get up and do it anyway and I must tell you I feel soooooo much better. I’m happy to celebrate my 1-Year today and hope to take pic’s tonight and post my before and after although I’m not done want to loose another 40-50 lbs this year! ~let the Madness continue…Peace

So I have been MIA from my blog for for to long! But I must tell you I do lurk a lot on LBT but I've noticed that I for one have been one of these slow losers! But to my surprise you never really realize what your eating until you really look at labels... Then theirs the little of this. You get aggravated with no restriction then you get some but it's not enough and then BANG Sweet Spot!!!!!!!!! Yes this is me… 8 fills later (8 months out of surgery)!!! To date I’m about 4 months into my Sweet spot making me down 60 lbs at my 1-year bandaversary! Yes Last Year on Friday the 30th of January I underwent this awesome procedure that has given me my life back. I am happier and healthier then ever thanks to my band. Despite the length in getting to my sweet spot the weight is melting off but I have to work for this!!! I work out hard and really follow the band rules. Yes it's easy to eat Crap (chips, cookies and ice cream) but if you do that you will never get the results you want... I don't deprive I just really watch the junk AKA slider foods more closely and try not to consume them often. I eat about a cup a food at one sitting and I try not to snack between meals and work out at least 30 min a day weather I feel like it or not! Don’t get me wrong there’s days I really don't want to but I get up and do it anyway and I must tell you I feel soooooo much better. I’m happy to celebrate my 1-Year today and hope to take pic’s tonight and post my before and after although I’m not done want to loose another 40-50 lbs this year! ~let the Madness continue…Peace

I think your doing fine! It took me till my 8th fill (9 months after banding) to finally really feel what it was to have this band work for me! I think no actually I know I was not patient but then my surgeon kept saying slow and steady wins this race. And I'm a week from being 1 year out and I must tell you that slow and steady does win the race. I did have a lot of depression in my mix with stress, which all factored into my progress. I also had to re-look at what I was consuming not always the best choices when I realized I needed to get it all together (eating, working out and my personal self worth) this all started working for me and I'm loosing. You will fail if you don't believe in yourself!

Hi Sara, wanted to just chim in and say I'm so glad to hear after 4th fill because I'm on fill #3 and I just feel like I've been batteling this same few pounds up and down and like I'm not going anywhere. I'm frustrated to say the least... Anyway if your still in the chatting mode let me know. I need and want this band to work for me! Thanks Cynthia

So after I posted my blog yesterday I decided that I needed to do something about my being able to eat any and everything. So I was able to get in for a fill yesterday afternoon. I was given 1 cc making it a total of 3.5 cc's since surgery because I was told that at time of surgery 3 cc's were installed with my band. Anyway ya I'm feeling this 1cc and loving it. I was able to eat 4 oz of cottage cheese this AM and feeling it at the band. Which is something I didn't really feel before except for after surgery due to swelling. I really hope this does the trick for at least a little while. Because I hatted to be on the hunt for food!!!!! So today is my 11 week bandaversary!!!! I am realizing that dispite this minor set back this was really the best decision I've made. Yes it's a challenge and it's not the easy way out. REALLY their is NOTHING easy about this BAND!!!!!! Because I can still eat cake and candy and chips all junk goes down really well. But if I eat the right amount of protien I notice I'm not wanting the junk food. Even when using will power a bite or two of cake is more then enough. One more thing I realized this AM is I need to keep my eye on the prize!!! For me it's being a healthy skiny B*tCh!!!!! No more cpap, comfy in my own skin, no more rubbing thighs, being able to walk up stairs with out huffing and puffing and most of all being able to complete my black belt training (I've been on hold with this for a while and I'm only 3 belts away). ~life is better today~ PEACE