Humming Bird

I'm feeling pretty good about my progress today. Of course I still feel like I want every excess pound off yesterday, but people are starting to really notice and comment now. Yesterday a patient said, "you have lost a lot of weight since I saw you last time, haven't you?" I told her how much I've lost and she wanted to know all about how I did it. This morning on my way to work I went through the Starbucks drive-up. (I get Starbucks about 1-2 times a week and not always at the same store.) I got up to the window and the gal said, " It is you! You have lost a lot of weight! You look Great! " It made me feel good that someone who doesn't really know me and has only seen me at the drive-up noticed and said something. I have 3 part-time jobs. I worked the job that I have had the longest today, so the patients have known me for many years. Most of them said something about my weightloss. I guess those are pretty much "scale victores.", but I did have a NSV today too! I fit in the jeans I couldn't get zipped last time I tried! I will be wearing those this weekend!

I'm feeling pretty good about my progress today. Of course I still feel like I want every excess pound off yesterday, but people are starting to really notice and comment now. Yesterday a patient said, "you have lost a lot of weight since I saw you last time, haven't you?" I told her how much I've lost and she wanted to know all about how I did it. This morning on my way to work I went through the Starbucks drive-up. (I get Starbucks about 1-2 times a week and not always at the same store.) I got up to the window and the gal said, " It is you! You have lost a lot of weight! You look Great! " It made me feel good that someone who doesn't really know me and has only seen me at the drive-up noticed and said something. I have 3 part-time jobs. I worked the job that I have had the longest today, so the patients have known me for many years. Most of them said something about my weightloss. I guess those are pretty much "scale victores.", but I did have a NSV today too! I fit in the jeans I couldn't get zipped last time I tried! I will be wearing those this weekend!

What a great NSV! There will be more to come for you!

Name*********Starting****Current******Goal******ToGo Adjua....................347...............337...........240......... ....97 Angie64.................270...............270...........210....... ......60 Astrasmom............254...............254...........170............. .84 Babe....................265...............265...........199.... ..........66 Band_Groupie........172.5.............157.5..........0-148........0-9.5 BetsyB.................226.6.............206.8.........109...... ......97.8 BobbieND..............224................212...........150..... .......62 Bree99.................259................259...........155..... .......104 Brigette................198...............198............150.... ........48 Bristlecone............157...............157............130....... .....27 crzytchr................217...............217............180..... ... ...37 Dana36.................233...............229............160....... .....69 daqui26.................274...............274............200....... .....74 destined4thinness..215.5.............215.5..........150............65 5 Diamondgirl81........317...............309.............250............ 59 ericanda1973.........198.5............198.5..........130......... ..68.5 Fourme.................189...............188............145........... ..43 HummingBird..........204...............188............150........ ...38 jenibeni.................224...............212............165....... ....47 Jennih...................232...............232.............130.... ......102 KDEE....................240................240.............150...... .....90 kyleegirl01.............211................209.............160...... .....49 Lady LAP...............217................217.............125...... .....95 Lisa65...................174.5............165..............145..... ......20! Liz........................193.4............187..............155...... ......32 lotzasunshine.........247...............245..............175........ ...70 newdicarlo.............187...............174..............135...... . ...39 Northernmist..........289...............265..............175.......... ..90 ol55andahalf..........184...............184..............144...... ......40 Peggy1.................308...............308..............225......... ..83 RandaPanda...........194...............181..............150........ ....31 RAYNE913.............234...............225..............160....... ....65 RobinAnn.............232.4...............224..............160........ ....64 scoutmama...........270...............270..............180........ ....90 shadst8................333...............317..............217........ ....100 skinny31................261...............255..............182..... .......73 SNDYCNRD.............207...............197.5............150.......... 47.5 sueinne.................220................217.............180.... ........37 Tabithan................244...............234..............190....... .....44 TARASGIRL.............305...............294..............225....... ......69 tdtucker................256...............256...............160...... . ....96 Teacher2010..........192...............183...............150...... . ....33 Tealeaves..............305...............289...............150...... . ...139 TeriLu....................215...............212...............150.. .... ....62 TIGGER71G............224...............224................130....... .....94 unshackled............277...............277................180....... .....97 Valerie.................190................190................150... . .......40

I did read your blog on your goal date. The new appliances is a great way to celebrate. The perfect goal gift!

I love it ! Kids ..... gotta love 'em.

Quote, Betsy : Anyway, thank you all. I will now go back and read all of your good news from yesterday and respond instead of focusing just on myself. (Sorry to burden; writing does help, though.) Betsy, It is not a burden to hear the good, the bad, and the other from you. This is a good place to get support for all of it. My FIL had a heart transplant. I'm sure you know more details about the process than I do though. My FIL was in Indiana and I did not hear all the details. Just know that we do want to hear whatever you want to post.

I am often touched or inspired by song lyrics. I listen to many genres and think the ipod is fantastic. On Monday I was on my hour long drive to work on a winding snow packed mountain road. If you have read my blog or many of my posts, you know I have a hairloss issue. The song from Randy Travis was playing and it made me smile. At least Randy will love me if all my hair falls out! Forever And Ever Amen/ Randy Travis: You may think that I'm talking foolish You've heard that I'm wild & I'm free You may wonder how I can promise you now This love that I feel for you always will be You're not just time that I'm killing I'm no longer one of those guys As sure as I live this love that I give Is gonna be yours until the day that I die -- Oh baby chorus... I'm gonna love you forever, forever & ever amen As long as old men sit & talk about the weather As long as old women sit & talk about old men If you wonder how long I'll be faithfull I'll be happy to tell you again I'm gonna love you forever & ever, forever & ever Amen They say that time takes it's toll on a body Makes a young girl's brown hair turn grey But honey, I don't care, I ain't in love with your hair And if it all fell out well I'd love you anyway They say time can play tricks on a memory Make people forget things they knew well it's easy to see it's happening to me I've already forgotten every woman but you --- Oh darlin' I'm gonna love you forever, forever & ever amen As long as old men sit & talk about the weather As long as old women sit & talk about old men If you wonder how long I'll be faithfull Just listen to how this song ends, I'm gonna love you forever & ever, forever & ever amen I'm gonna love you forever & ever, forever & ever Forever & ever, Forever & ever Amen

I don't know about stuff to take on the plane, but I recently spent many hours stranded because of snow. You know those frozen yogurt places they have in many airports? I asked the kid working there to look up the grams of protein in a small cup of the frozen yogurt.... 35g ! So I got one! Yum! At that point I had 4-5 hours to kill and didn't care about the carbs. I asked, but don't remember what it was.

I hope it's a good one tonight. I have missed watching it.

Wow, busy day for ya'll. Betsy, I just got home from work and my heart sank reading your post. I will keep you and your family in my thoughts and prayers and hope all goes well for you. Bob, OMG!!! That was a drive-thru surgery! I am glad everything went well and you are now a true Bandster! I'm sure you will have some gross stuff to "share" soon.....slime, PBs, burping, gas, constipation.....

This was a post from a lapband Dr. and I just wanted to copy and save it. All weight loss comes from calorie deficit (burning more calories than you consume). Burning more and consuming less is what causes weight loss. The band will not force you to burn calories. The band helps with the consuming less part. It helps with this in three major ways: 1. Reduced appetite - some surgeons argue that the band is an appetite reduction operation. It has been shown to reduce appetite hormones. Patients say they don't feel hungry - they don't feel like they are on a diet. The band reduces true physical hunger. Some of us struggle with emotional hunger, phantom hunger which is not cured by the band but reducing physical hunger is very helpful at combatting head hunger. Emotional hunger comes from deep rooted emotional pain causing negative emotion that is unfortunately temporarily cured by food. 2. Fullness on small portions - the amount of stomach above the band is small. You will feel full on a much smaller portion of food if the band is properly adjusted. The fullness feeling is not a "pat your lower belly" kind of fullness. Band fullness is a very high sensation - in the chest - the feeling that the last bite of food is somewhere near the base of the tongue and another crumb will not be physically allowed. 3. The impossible nature of overeating - let's say you feel full and not hungry but you decide that you will overeat anyway. A properly adjusted band simply will not allow this. A point will be reached where the system will reject anything more. The esophagus (swallowing tube) is a transport organ; not a storage organ. The esophagus has two buttons: down and up. It will try down first. If that doesn't work, it switches to up and you get to see the food again. We've been banding for eight years and we see three groups of patients in our practice: Group 1 - gold medal superstar patients who lose easily and steadily after band surgery and send us Christmas cards that will bring tears to your eyes. Group 2 - patients who acheive the same ultimate results as Group 1 but it takes longer with more office visits and more education and slower weight loss but we still get there. The race car crosses the finish line but it's on fire and badly damaged. Group 3 - patients that will be three years out from band surgery and only down 20 or 30 pounds. The three biggest reasons patients are in this group are: 1.) unsolved emotional eating 2.) zero calorie burning 3.) Quit, give up, stop coming to the practice for band adjustments, education, etc One of the best books I've seen on emotional eating is: "Shrink Yourself" by Dr. Gould. Many patients have told me this helps. The secret to curing emotional eating is to identify the root cause of this negative emotional pain and work through it. This is the most difficult aspect of successful weight loss.

LOL, That is just too funny! Poor guy. I hope his mind quits messing with him and he starts to get some better sleep. We are all kinda having a little laugh at his feelings, but only in a good way.:w00t:

This was a post from a lapband Dr. and I just wanted to copy and save it. All weight loss comes from calorie deficit (burning more calories than you consume). Burning more and consuming less is what causes weight loss. The band will not force you to burn calories. The band helps with the consuming less part. It helps with this in three major ways: 1. Reduced appetite - some surgeons argue that the band is an appetite reduction operation. It has been shown to reduce appetite hormones. Patients say they don't feel hungry - they don't feel like they are on a diet. The band reduces true physical hunger. Some of us struggle with emotional hunger, phantom hunger which is not cured by the band but reducing physical hunger is very helpful at combatting head hunger. Emotional hunger comes from deep rooted emotional pain causing negative emotion that is unfortunately temporarily cured by food. 2. Fullness on small portions - the amount of stomach above the band is small. You will feel full on a much smaller portion of food if the band is properly adjusted. The fullness feeling is not a "pat your lower belly" kind of fullness. Band fullness is a very high sensation - in the chest - the feeling that the last bite of food is somewhere near the base of the tongue and another crumb will not be physically allowed. 3. The impossible nature of overeating - let's say you feel full and not hungry but you decide that you will overeat anyway. A properly adjusted band simply will not allow this. A point will be reached where the system will reject anything more. The esophagus (swallowing tube) is a transport organ; not a storage organ. The esophagus has two buttons: down and up. It will try down first. If that doesn't work, it switches to up and you get to see the food again. We've been banding for eight years and we see three groups of patients in our practice: Group 1 - gold medal superstar patients who lose easily and steadily after band surgery and send us Christmas cards that will bring tears to your eyes. Group 2 - patients who acheive the same ultimate results as Group 1 but it takes longer with more office visits and more education and slower weight loss but we still get there. The race car crosses the finish line but it's on fire and badly damaged. Group 3 - patients that will be three years out from band surgery and only down 20 or 30 pounds. The three biggest reasons patients are in this group are: 1.) unsolved emotional eating 2.) zero calorie burning 3.) Quit, give up, stop coming to the practice for band adjustments, education, etc One of the best books I've seen on emotional eating is: "Shrink Yourself" by Dr. Gould. Many patients have told me this helps. The secret to curing emotional eating is to identify the root cause of this negative emotional pain and work through it. This is the most difficult aspect of successful weight loss.

I think it has been the easy way out of obesity for me and I celebrate that fact. I guess it is all in how you look at it. For me, the hard way is all the diets I have been on in my life. I would work hard to take off weight only to put it back on plus some. That was much more of an emotional roller coaster. I don't want to live that hard way anymore. I love my easy way out!

Bob, you will do great with the surgery and you have many people here that can offer you help post-op. (whether you want the help of not :w00t: ) Please do let us know how you are doing as soon as you feel up to it.

I used a big ice pack on my stomach longer than they told me to and stuck with ice cold liquids for the first 7 days. This really helped with getting the swelling to go away. Before you know it you will be posting that you can eat too much and can't wait for a fill. Hang in there!

Elfie, I am so glad the Patches helped you! I know how miserable I was with the dreaded phrenic nerve pain. It's enough to drive ya batty! BT, You are almost down to just counting in minutes!

It depends on how you carry your weight and other things like hight. I have lost 75 pounds and have gone from a size 24 (tight) to an 18 maybe a 16 depending on the cut/style.

Just take a small bite or two, then wait a couple minutes. If all feels ok, take another tiny bite. Cream of wheat thinned down with milk really helped me. Also oatmeal with milk.

99% of my transitional clothes come from my own supply. I have saved my clothes over the years thinking I will lose weight and get back in them. Now I am! I have everything from size 7 to size 24. (I have a big closet and many dressers)

I'm goin' to heaven! I was baptised in a Southern Baptist church after I accepted Jesus into my heart and turned my life over to God when I was in 4th grade! neener! :biggrin: (though I do believe there is more to it than that)

Leigha, I hope that .3 unfill does the trick. I have not heard from Elfie today. I am waiting to see if the patches helped with her left arm pain.

Wow, too bad they acted that way. I think it would be great to get high quality clothing from you. They had the wrong attitude for sure!

You are doing a great job TJ ! I angst over it all too, so it's not just a guy thing. When I was feeling that way I had some kind words from one of my LBT friends and now all is better! I love reading your posts too TJ.