julie.ann

Halloween Challenge: Julie.Ann----------(16lbs) :thumbup: Nazzy--------------(18lbs) :thumbup: CarrieJess---------(5lbs) :drool: GiddyupGrandma-(10lbs) Great! Any other takers for our Halloween Challenge?

Halloween Challenge: Julie.Ann-(16lbs) Nazzy-----(??lbs) Any other takers? Nazzy, what can I put down for your goal?

Just tell me your goal. You don't have to post your weight, but you are welcome to. I keep it at home on a spread sheet so I don't forget what I weigh week to week. Each Saturday or so post your weight lost for the week. I'm trying for 2 pounds a week. Keep your fingers crossed. When does your pre-op diet start? Are you on a special diet? I started about 2 weeks before my surgery date and cut out all bread, pasta, rice and potatoes. High protein diet. Anytime you start to look for food ask yourself if you are really hungry. You can do it! If you are looking for others scheduled for surgery in October Here is the forum address: October 09 Bandsters - Lap Band Surgery and Lap Band Discussion Forum

I am wondering if any of you would like to start a challenge. We are only one month away from October! OMG I can't even believe that! I was banded at the end of the month, but it is still coming up soon. Anyone interested in a Halloween Challenge? We could weigh in every Saturday Morning and I'll keep track and post it on our other October thread here: http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f84/any-october-bandsters-73669/index118.html#post1319376 Please post your weigh in results on the other thread too so I can keep it all straight. I don't want to miss anyone! Who is in? I really need to get on track and get the sweets out of my system. If you are interested Weigh yourself. Let me know that you want your name added to the Challenge List. This will be an eight week challenge and so my goal will be 16 lbs. Just to let the new "Smashing Pumkins" know. There should be a thread for October 2009 if you search for it but you are welcome to join us if you would like. Halloween Challenge: Julie.Ann (16lbs) __________________

I am wondering if any of you would like to start a challenge. We are only one month away from October! OMG I can't even believe that! I was banded at the end of the month, but it is still coming up soon. Anyone interested in a Halloween Challenge? We could weigh in every Saturday Morning and I'll keep track and post it here. Who is in? I really need to get on track and get the sweets out of my system. If you are interested Weigh yourself. Let me know that you want your name added to the Challenge List. This will be an eight week challenge and so my goal will be 16 lbs. Just to let the new "Smashing Pumkins" know. There should be a thread for October 2009 if you search for it but you are welcome to join us if you would like. Halloween Challenge: Julie.Ann (16lbs)

Wow are you looking into PS already? I have to pay off my lapband surgery first. I always heard to maintain for a year before PS. What is your time schedule? I need it so bad!!!! Tummy Tuck an Breast Lift for my 40th birthday. Okay, so I will get a consult for my 39th birthday. 4 years to go....

I don't shop at Lane Bryant anymore, but when I did I HATED their "right size" campain. They wanted to measure me everytime I went to try to find jeans, but I never could find any that fit well after they did that.

You ROCK! We are all so jealous!!!

That is Awesome! Wow! I am so jealous! 16 lbs to goal!

My stand-by breatkfast is a morningstar sausage patty and some Southwest Eggbeaters. Now I only have enough eggbeaters to cover the bottom of a bowl. I microwave the eggbeaters for about 1 minute and the sausage patty takes about 30 secods.

Trying to get back to weighing in and being accountable. I weigh 174.2. I'm okay with that as long as I lose every week.

That is AWESOME!!! I still can't get over how far we've all come!

Sarah, That is great! I know what you mean. I started losing quickly after my fill, but there was something special about getting past that smallest number I had been bouncing back and forth from! I have lost every day since last Monday except for yesterday. (I went to the movies the night before and was a bad girl) I am thinking I should have gotten a fill 2 months ago. You too? Keep me up to date!

October will be here before I know it! I am thinking about Bandiversary ideas. I told hubby I want a TT and Breast Lift for my 40th birthday. I just turned 35, but I figure I will get a free consultation for my 39th so it is only 4 years away. By that time I should just have my surgery paid off! YAY! My size 12 pants are getting looser. I can't wait to fit into a size 10. One of my goals is to be a size 9 in '09. When I made that a goal I honestly never thought a size 12 was possible. Every smaller size is "gravey" (sorry for the food analagy, I guess I need a better way to say that!) I do like the idea of pictures. I just got a head shot done, but maybe an official full body picture is in order. I would LOVE to be at goal by then, but that will really be pushing it even if I keep a good pace. I am blessed at my current weight. I keep thinking about where I was one year ago. How it felt to sit in my chair to watch TV and sit in a chair and not be able to cross my legs. I remember a year ago sitting in the bleachers and feeling like a toad on a log just sitting there with my shoulders hunched over trying not to make eye contact because I didn't want anyone to feel like they had to talk to me. Tonight I went to my sons' football scrimmage and everyone kept commenting how good I looked, and damn it...they are right! :laugh:

Wow! Yep! The winner for sure! That would be awesome!I remember in April when I flew and I could walk down the aisle of the plane without turning to the side. An AMAZING accomplishment for sure!

First i want to tell you that my parents have always been critical of my weight and my dad needs this surgery himself. It isn't right. I have to ask if your parents paid for the surgery because that is going to make them feel like they have the right to monitor. If they didn't pay for this surgery then they need to realize that they don't get to critize how you spend your money. Is moving out an option? If saying calmly that you are working hard isn't working then remove yourself from the situation. My hubby started to make comments about when I might eat something less than ideal. I told him that I am still at my lowest. As long as I am losing and not gaining he doesn't get to say anything about the food I eat. I go to the gym and am losing. That is enough. He realized that I was right and backed off. I told him if I start gaining and stop going to the gym then he has my permission to say something. How do I avoid? I use something like Pink Limeade - Crystal Light (walmart barnd) to help with my sweet tooth. It tastes great, there are many flavors and it helps me get my water in every day. If you need a fix let yourself have a miniature chocolate square, but try the drinks. Watch out, some have calories. Hang in there. It isn't against the rules to eat out, as long as you follow the bandster guidelines. On the flip slide you can't continue to complain about your mom's cooking. That isn't fair either. They aren't banded. Most of the time I eat different food than my family. They see my healthy eating, but I don't expect them to give up breat, pasta, rice and potatoes just because I have....and I cook the meals.

October will be here before I know it! I am thinking about Bandiversary ideas. I told hubby I want a TT and Breast Lift for my 40th birthday. I just turned 35, but I figure I will get a free consultation for my 39th so it is only 4 years away. By that time I should just have my surgery paid off! YAY! My size 12 pants are getting looser. I can't wait to fit into a size 10. One of my goals is to be a size 9 in '09. When I made that a goal I honestly never thought a size 12 was possible. Every smaller size is "gravey" (sorry for the food analagy, I guess I need a better way to say that!) I do like the idea of pictures. I just got a head shot done, but maybe an official full body picture is in order. I would LOVE to be at goal by then, but that will really be pushing it even if I keep a good pace. I am blessed at my current weight. I keep thinking about where I was one year ago. How it felt to sit in my chair to watch TV and sit in a chair and not be able to cross my legs. I remember a year ago sitting in the bleachers and feeling like a toad on a log just sitting there with my shoulders hunched over trying not to make eye contact because I didn't want anyone to feel like they had to talk to me. Tonight I went to my sons' football scrimmage and everyone kept commenting how good I looked, and damn it...they are right! :thumbup:

Hey everyone...glad you found the thread. It is great to think about... I told hubby I want a TT and Breast Lift for my 40th birthday. I just turned 35, but I figure I will get a free consultation for my 39th so it is only 4 years away. By that time I should just have my surgery paid off! YAY! My size 12 pants are getting looser. I can't wait to fit into a size 10. One of my goals is to be a size 9 in '09. I do like the idea of pictures. I just got a head shot done, but maybe an official full body picture is in order. I would LOVE to be at goal by then, but that will really be pushing it even if I keep a good pace. I am blessed at my current weight. I keep thinking about where I was one year ago. How it felt to sit in my chair to watch TV and sit in a chair and not be able to cross my legs. I remember a year ago sitting in the bleachers and feeling like a toad on a log just sitting there with my shoulders hunched over trying not to make eye contact because I didnt' want anyone to feel like they had to talk to me. Tonight I went to my sons' football scrimmage and everyone kept commenting how good I looked, and damn it...they are right!

I'M OVERWEIGHT! I want top shout it from the rooftops! I am overweight! NOT MORBIDLY OBESE, NOT OBESE. I am OVERWEIGHT! According to my Wii Fit my BMI is less than 30! YAY! Finally! 110.5# GONE! My next big goal is to weigh less than what my driver's license says! I've got 15 lbs. for that milestone!

Well I am much tighter than ever before. I miss food. I have always been able to eat about anything except bread, pasta, rice or potatoes and usually that was a choice, not a hard and fast rule. Well now the band is definately the one in charge. I have been concerned I am getting too tight. Really the problem is the AMOUNT of food I am eating. I only can eat about 1/2c. of food before I am DONE! Really done. Like another bite or so and I am PB'ing for a while. If I eat a cookie (I know I shouldn't and I don't all the time) I can only eat one and I am FULL! If I try to eat another I am PB'ing so it isn't WHAT I am eating. It is definately how much. I have been snacking more and not waiting to see how long I go before I am hungry. I am looking forward to Monday. I do better about being more conscious about eating at work. I am about a week out from my last fill. My fill usually hits it's peak at 10 days. So the next few days should tell me alot and tell me if I go back to Denver for an unfill. If I stay like this I think I will be fine. I am losing again! That is AWESOME! I forgot how great that was since I plateaued 2 months ago. I have to admit though, after being so wide open for so long and then getting a big fill, for the first time since being banded.....I am starting to miss food.

If they don't let you switch look for a different group. You need someone to help you get that band where you need it to be. Good Luck!

I am so sorry that you had to experience that. I know that is extremely rare. Erosion isn't "common" but to have the complications you had are just about unheard of. I wish you hadn't had to hear about it either. I hope you are recovering as well and possible and I will keep you in my thoughts!

Hey guys! Here is a thread that was started for us October '08 Bandsters about our Bandiversary Plans. Check it out here: http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f282/you-doing-anything-bandaversary-100643/ I'd love to hear what your plans are!

Hey guys! Here is a thread that was started for us October '08 Bandsters about our Bandiversary Plans. Check it out here: http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f282/you-doing-anything-bandaversary-100643/ I'd love to hear what your plans are!