♥Amy♥

How accurate do you think the pedometer is?

PB is a productive burp or belch. It happens when you eat too much and you feel like you need to burp but more than just air comes up. A bit of what you ate will come up with it, along with saliva. Also, usually when you get "stuck" you tend to slime. The slime is mucus and saliva. You try to swallow your saliva but because there's an obstruction it can't go down so it comes back up. As far as your girlfriend and mom go, I really don't know how to answer that because I don't know you or them and I don't hear how they talk about getting skinny. Could it possibly be that you're motivating them to do something about their weight because they see you wanting to be proactive about yours? And when it comes to relationships and weight loss there is always going to be some jealousy. People are afraid of being left behind because their significant other is getting "better looking" and may think they're too good for them or that they can do better. I have read about plenty of people having problems in their relationships due to weight loss and jealousy. And it has caused its fair share of break-ups. In that respect all you can do is reassure your partner that she's the one you want and you don't plan on going anywhere. You can control how you act in the situation and how you treat her but unfortunately you can't control how this whole situation will make her feel and how she reacts to it. You may be able to reassure her enough and you may not. It all depends on how insecure she is. Maybe by encouraging her to lose weight also in her own way you will help boost her self esteem while also showing her you care about her health along with yours. As far as your mom goes? I dont know how to handle that. I have a jealous step-mother who has been jealous all the numerous times I've lost a good amount of weight. To this day I still don't know what to do about her. But I'm sure she's a different story all together compared to your mom. Good luck!! :laugh:

I was banded on 3/24 also. Let me ask you this: What are you eating? How much are you eating? Are you exercising? I count my calories everyday and most of what I eat are lean proteins. I also drink 2 protein shakes a day with 35 grams of protein each in them. I walk for 45 mins/day and 4 to 5 times a week I do a 50 min Walk Away The Pounds video on top of the walking. I'm not eating any pasta or bread except for maybe the occasional chicken noodle soup from Panera. You may be eating too much or too little or it could just be what you're eating. :thumbup: Right now it is definitely 95% willpower. Good luck and don't be too hard on yourself. You lost and haven't gained it back. That in itself is hard enough right now. Also make sure you're getting your water in everyday! Sorry if this post sounds all over the place. I haven't had my coffee yet. :laugh:

I had a hard time believing it at first, also but now I don't. In the past when we use machines that tell us around what we burned that was all we saw but we burn calories every second of the day. It's probably safe to say that in that hour of cardio you probably burned about 600 calories during the activity but your calorie burn/minute doesnt drop down right away after you're done with your cardio so it's a little more than that. And while you were lifting you probably burned about 350, maybe a little more. During 8 hours of sleep you burn about 550 calories. So if you slept for 6 hours you burned roughly 410 calories. And when you're doing other things during your day that you don't consider exercise you're still burning calories. I burn around 2.8 cals/minute just grocery shopping so it all adds up. I burned 3,253 cals yesterday with 50 mins of cardio and 45 mins of walking at work and the rest of my day was mostly sedentary.

I've found this weekend that after only one fill of 1.5ccs in a 10cc band that I cannot eat scrambled eggs dry. I can, however eat egg beaters with no problem. I suppose it's because egg beaters pretty much stay moist unless you over cook them. I can probably eat the scrambled eggs if I were to douse them in ketchup :w00t: Other than "slider foods" and the starchy foods like MsFab mentioned, basically you're going to have to experiment and find the things your band will and won't tolerate because everyone is different. I can eat shrimp but a friend of mine can't.

I agree. I wouldn't worry about it. I make worrying a career :w00t: and I had that thought, also but when I brought it up she was very much for me having WLS and has been very supportive post-op also. I'm sure your PCP will be the same way :wink: Good luck!

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Looks like I didn't challenge myself enough for this one. :w00t: I'm one pound away from my goal. The scale said 249 this morning. :wink:

Ooh Cynthia!! You lucky girl! I'm jealous! That was an AMAZING game last night! We're going to a Yankee game on the 30th. Can't wait!! :thumbup:

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I would have picked #2 And now that I'm 1 1/2 months post-op I am so very happy with my decision. Between my pre-op diet and the surgery I'm down 38 1/2lbs. I know this time I'm going to lose the weight for good and I'm so excited about that. :thumbup:

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I had my first fill last Friday and I'm noticing some bruising just to the right of the 2 spots where she inserted the needle. I'm guessing it's from when she was pushing down on my stomach looking for the port. And afterwards for a couple of days that spot was kind of sore. I expected to be a little sore but in the spot she put the needle, not right next to it. I'm probably just being paranoid. :biggrin:

I cannot wait for those complications! :thumbup: Very cute post and WTG on your "complications" :biggrin:

Ditto to what everyone said, Especially Besty, as usual :biggrin: If you want to succeed and think you can, you will. If you don't think you will succeed, you won't. It's all up to you.

I love it! I was kind of annoyed with it yesterday but it was really my fault. I rebooted it because my display seemed to be pausing a lot. It wasn't saying that it wasn't synced but I would watch the calories burned per minute and the calories burned total during my current activity and it was taking forever to change. It would change if I pressed the button on my band so I wasn't sure if it was counting my calories burned correctly. After I rebooted it it was saying "Band is not set up" :thumbup: As soon as I got home from work and hooked it up to the computer it was fine but for the rest of the day at work I felt naked without it! :thumbup: I've been obsessed w/ it! :biggrin: I've been getting a deficit of at least 1000 calories/day. Yesterday was 1200. I'm trying not to keep such a large one but it's hard to eat all the calories it wants me to so I lowered it to 1200 cals a day and it wants me to burn 2200 which I should have no problem doing.

I see so many people writing about their daily calorie deficits and some of them seem so high. I'm getting my bodybugg hopefully on Friday and I'm trying to figure out what would be the highest healthy daily deficit without getting into starvation mode territory. I read that you shouldn't go over a 500 calorie/day deficit and that deficit should lead to a 1lb a week weightloss but that sounds like a bit of a conservative number to me. I should be able to at least double that number daily without my body going into starvation mode, am I right or is this another one of those things that I'm going to have to figure out on my own because everyone is different? :thumbdown:

My Bodybugg is being dumb! :smile: While I was walking it seemed like the display was pausing. Minutes would go by and the amount of calories I was burning per minute wasn't going up. So I tried to reboot my band (not thinking it was maybe just something wrong with the communication between the band and the display) and now it says my band isn't set up and I can't connect it to the computer while I'm at work! I rebooted yesterday just fine without having to reconnect it. Why's it being so idiotic today?! :smile2:

I like the twitching! :smile2:

Thanks for the replies! :smile2:

I'm just curious. I have HIP Prime Network and I was told by my surgeon's office that HIP changed their surgery guidelines the beginning of this month to include a 6 month physician supervised diet. I've tried calling HIP to get it from the horse's mouth but no one will tell me anything. Why is that? Such a pain!! Anyway, I was hoping someone who also has HIP and is in the same leg of their journey as I am in would have had more luck with info on that than I did. Do we def need a 6 month because the insurance co-ordinator didn't seem 100% sure. She said "You might have to do the 6 month diet." I went through this once already with Aetna and was hoping I wouldn't have to again with HIP but I will if it's necessary. My friend's daughter has HIP and didn't need to do the 6 month but she was approved and done by the beginning of December. I want this so bad and nothing is stopping me this time. I would just like to know what to expect from the insurance when the surgeon submits me for approval in February.

Hi Chrissy :crying: Here's what happened with HIP. Before this past January I had Aetna and I had originally planned on getting my surgey done by Dr. Holover and I went through most of the pre-op testing and the 6 month Physician supervised diet under my Aetna ins. I ended up not being happy with Dr. Holover's staff and their lack of help and I ran into an old friend and he had surgery with another surgeon who's office was basically a one stop shop for everything except for the cardiology part. I had to re-do all the testing, of course and I was told that since HIP changed their guidelines in January when I went for my consult with the new surgeon that I would most likely have to do a 6 month diet but that they wanted me to get all my work ups done in a month and a half and they would submit everything when I was done to see what would happen. My Primary doc also sent them all my 6 month diet stuff that I did for the other surgeon. I think most of it was like almost a year old but they said they would try sending it in anyway. My surgeon's Medical Assistant called me on Monday March 1st and said she was submitting my paperwork to HIP first thing the next morning and that I should hear something within a week. She called me the next day to ask me if I wanted surgery on March 24th because I had been approved! I was shocked! But, I couldnt tell you if the info that was submitted by my PCP helped any or if someone was just feeling generous that day. Sorry for the long-winded post! I hope this helped! Good luck!