OH Juli

Hey Momlambert- You do have a big month ahead of you. Keep us updated as much as poosible. I'll be thinking about you! Tia- You've got to love the clothes are too big feeling! I'm sure you look fantastic. Make sure you're taking a multi Vitamin, considering you aren't eating much. Carol- If you find a way to keep it fresh let us know. I don't think Cosmo has an article on how to keep WSL new and exciting like it does for sex with your man. If they did, I'd subscribe! TammyJ- Hire that personal trainer! You'll be so glad you did! You'll be feeling downright athletic! Josie- She did love the baby sitter and I loved the bike ride! And yeah you for getting out and weeding the garden. I'd rather eat glass than work in the yard, you have my sympathies. Happy July everyone!

You don't NEED to eat fruit. Veggies you need. If you are blending veggies in a smoothie you are more hard core than me! Remember, chewy Protein first, then veggies, then carbs. For real, fruit is more carb than anything..its a wonderful, fantastic carb, and better than white flour anything, but don't drink your friut just because you feel the need to get some in everyday.

Go for the pedicure, because socks with sandals is a horrible look. You don't want to look uncool, do ya? On that note, stay away from polish when you get the pedicure beacuse that's worse than uncool. As for the pedicure nothing says I am well put together more than a guy who takes care of his feet. Trust me. The ladies will dig you, or your wife will go oh, la, la. :eek:

Hey there SHE and WAS. I want to be the voice of the middle ground....:eek: 600 calories would have me falling over, passing out! My best days are about 1100, but my average is around 1400. SHE, look at my stats. I'm losing...but like WAS I track every bite of food on FitDay - Free Weight Loss and Diet Journal. It helped me before the band reduce my calories from 3500 to 2400 to 1700 to now around 1400...You really can assess what you put into your mouth. Like granola in yogurt, a personal favorite of mine. But I ruduced the granola by half, saved 100 calories and still got the crunch I wanted. I would have never thought about that without seeing the stats on the screen in front of my face. I am a lunch meat eater. The lean stuff only. You can get some lean chili, (turkey chili) in cans too, if you look. But be weary of squishy, liquidy food. See the note below about liquid calories. I am a three meals and two snack eater. My take on Protein drinks is you should NEVER drink a calorie, unless you've just been filled and you have to be on liquids. You should be chewing your fruit that goes in the smoothies. Part of how the band works is having mass in the stomach, not liquid. And for exercise, take it slow, but be consistant and try to add to it weekly. WAS, I feel you about writing "directly". I hope I wasn't offensive.

http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f17/jacksonville-florida-37281/ Eddie, you think you can help this person out? I saw this and thought you might miss it. I know you're in Jacksonville.

Double Amen. What nerve! Muscial you're sassy! Ya gotta love sassy!

Happy Monday everyone.:tired Really, I'm checking in with those who tried to dig a little deeper this weekend to shake the plateaus. How ya'll doing? I did move off of the 247 mark by one pound. :whoo:I'm happy because I sat there for 11 days. ELEVEN DAYS! That's insane considering how much I exercise. But it seems to be how I'm losing this weight. It's my third 10 day or longer plateau. You'd think I should give up the scale...not gonna happen. :rolleyes Someone has a little problem not weighing herself. I'm making up for YEARS of not stepping on the scale, ever. So Janine, Denise, others? How was your weekend? Are you feeling more successful? Do tell.

I did a 21 mile ride yesterday. My overall average rate of speed was 13.2 mph. Which is slowly increasing. I was on a curvy bike path with lots of people, but I made good time and had fun. I'm going out again tonight, solo and tomorrow with a group. Woo Hoo.

Dude, Great motivation, I'd say! Ha! Love the images too, but I think you need to rename the album, Green Swamp My Feet. Cute toes.

All this talk about running....I WANT to run. When I walk I feel like there is a hand on my back pushing me to run. But alas, my body hurt when I started to do a minute run, a minute walk...I was doing a 10 week 0-20 minutes of running program. So, I'll wait until spring. I should see one-derland before Christmas, maybe even Thanksgiving. I figure it should be a better time to try again. My goal is to keep on the bike until it gets too cold, then I'm going to hire a trainer to work with me, then in the spring I'll start running and biking again. Look out skinny, here I come!

We've done it again. We've made it through one more month, still losing and still motivating each other. There's a new board for July, follow the link: http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f90/marchies-july-37381/ Awesome ya'll.

Josie That's a great idea to get the scale out of the house. It can cause us to focus on the numbers and not on the nutrition. I'm trying to focus this weekend too. I want to see some change on the scale. I'm not ready to move it out of the house tough. (I have a little scale addiction, shhhh don't tell.) I'm a FitDay - Free Weight Loss and Diet Journal user. It takes a little getting used to but I do like it for tracking my calories. You might want to check it out. I want to chat a minute about NSVs. Yesterday I took my daughter to see Ratatouille, and I plopped down between the arm rests and fit. It took me a minute to realize I didn't raise them before sitting. I was like, "wow, that's cool". Last week I rode on an airplane for the first time since November. I didn't need an extention. Truth be told there were two inches to spare too on the belt! And this one is killer. I'm a single mom with shared custody, I have my 5 y/o daughter every other weekend, some weeknights too. I either take her to the pool or walk around the zoo for my exercise on our weekends. But for the first time EVER I've asked the neighbor girl to babysit for a few hours so I can get in a two hour bike ride. It's worth $10 to me, and Zoe just loves the girl. Isn't that crazy!? I'm actually a little proud of myself. Cheers. Juli

Deanna, I'm going to run in the spring when...we can virtually coach each other. If I can do it you can too... I know you have a competitive spirit. I'll egg you on.

Well, the big inspiration is that my girlfriend and I are going on vacation in August and they have a 25 mile one way, rails to trails path on cape cod. We want to ride it. The down side is we will be renting bikes. She too is biking in bigger chunks like you and me to get ready. When the serious biker folks told me I'd be up to 50 miles in no time, I thought Woo Hoo. Vacation is August 4th, which is a bit sooner than the end of the summer...so we shall see. I do have the neighbor girl coming over to babysit so I can go for a 2-3 hour ride today. I've NEVER hired a sitter so I could exercise. That's a crazy new first!

Dianna You are so freaking crazy. 20 miles is nothing to sneeze at! I have my daughter this weekend so I'm not doing any major crazy rides. Well maybe I'll call the neighbor girl to babysit so I can go out tomorrow. It's supposed to be gorgeous. Okay I'm calling her. I can get in 25 miles.. Oh and by way of introducation to whomever, I've taken to road biking. I've gotten with some local clubs who say they will have me doing my first 50 mile ride before the end of the summer. I have a 2007 Giant, OCR, Women's specific designed road bike.

Hi, I had to post because I have become Deanna's shawdow. Meaning we seem to be posting on all the same boards. I've typically exercised more than most and I certainly could do more than most fat chicks, but really with the band I've gone from a regular exerciser to someone athletic! Holy crap?! Whe knew it was in me? I'm glad to see I am not alone in orienting my goals in being fit. Not just more fit, but in being as fit as this body can possibly be...You all are some good company. J

Derick, I know very well how blunt Deaf and HH people are. I actually appreciate not beating around the bush to make a point. And I know the little guy was being a little kid. I guess it's the piece of ASL where concepts repeat for clarity crossing over with spoken English where if you say something over and over again it's emphatic. That's all. J

I just want to add.. because it looks like you made peace and the woman is staying...when she says ANYTHING negative, at all...try not to feed into her. Ask her what's the point of her message? Does she want you to know she doesn't agree? you know that and she's being redundant. I guess my point is if you can turn it around on her, and make her defend herself maybe she'll shut her mouth before speaking next time. And I'm happy you shared the posts with your husband, because he too needs to speak up in your defense when he hears the woman talk negative and he needs to be aware that she's probably going to push up on him... Trust me she will, she has no boundaries. Her job, your feelings...your man is next. Better yet, have her read these posts. hehehe..

CeCe, I know about the little ones not meaning to be hurtful, but it happens anyway. I have a kid at my school, it's a school for the Deaf, this little dude, was signing...you're fat, you're fat, why, why, why? Why are you fat? I signed back, because I am...but jeez. I knew he didn't know better, but....

Cool Janine! I eat salads most days. Typically leaf lettuce or spinach. Actually it's more like a "bed" of lettuce under the protein I'm eating, be it seared fish or grilled chicken. Good Lucky Juli

You look great!!!! What a wonderful smile! You can't really see that on your avetar! Thanks for sharing.

What a heartbreaking story! Some people just need to be shot. I hope the young mom can recover her life to some extent. Poor thing.

Okay my marvelous marchies let's kick the asses of these plateaus together. We got banded together, we've been dealing with fill woes (to fill or not to fill) together, we've all lost some weight together, it's time to knock these plateaus out of the park. This weekend let's all try to eat on the low end of typical and do more activity. Trim your nails and shave your legs and see if that helps the scale on Monday too! LOL. Knowing you all are trying harder will make me dig a little deeper too. Who's with me? Juli

Pamela, I'm glad things are better. That's so hard. I was thinking about you two. Whew...now you can concentrate on school work. Juli