LeighaMason

Its official, I have lost my mind. I do things to make extra money and I consider these things "found" money that can be spent (or wasted) anyway I want. I sell insurance, I am a car buying consultant, etc to make this extra money. Well yesterday I had a garage sale of stuff that has been left in my rent houses and made $265. So my husband suggested we could go stay in Dallas at a hotel and eat out and the first thing that came to my mind was "I cant I have to work out in the morning!" and second was "I could spend that money on new clothes instead of a hotel room" Did they band my brain? Oh well, workout complete, off to Dallas for some new clothes.

Coming from the guy who didn't say anything for 80 pounds (Was it 80?) I think it was a compliment.

Good morning everyone. I thought I might pipe in about the C25K, I did it and finished in early July, when I started I could barely run for 60 seconds. Here is the link to the plan: Cool Running :: The Couch-to-5K ® Running Plan I used mapmyrun.com with it to set up a route and then I also downloaded the free app for my iphone that timed it and told when to run and when to walk. (Technology junkie) It worked really well for me because if I have a set schedule I don't make excuses to not work out. Once it was over I found myself saying "Oh I will run tomorrow instead" So I started my new cross training plan from active.com and it is done on Fridays, Sundays and Tuesdays so when that day gets here, I work out. I guess I need a master. I gained 2 pounds when I started the cross training but I am back to 138 and looking forward to losing another pound maybe in the next couple of days. I quit drinking wine completely. I cant lose the last 8 while pouring liquid sugar down my throat. (But I tried!) Tomorrow is Day 8 of 27. I will let y'all know how it goes.

After your liquid diet, when you are back on regular food, you will eat when your body tells you to. You just wont eat as much food at one time. I eat 5 times a day. Do you eat a lot of sugar? Carbs? Caffeine? Artificial sweeteners? You could experience withdrawals from any of those.

I don't think your body reacts to the decrease in calories because basically you are over feeding it now so you will start giving it what it needs not depriving it. The brain is a different story, I went through a period where I literally pouted because I could only eat a small amount. I really enjoyed the act of eating but I now enjoy the fact that I am thin so it has replaced it. I think that is key you have to replace overeating. But sometimes even now, my mouth or my brain is still hungry but my stomach is full. I personally think the band helps overeater's the most because I physically can not over eat. I could stuff ice cream in there all day but ice cream wasn't my problem. I would eat a huge plate of food and still be hungry. Now I eat a small plate of food and I am full and I stay full. That is where the band helps me, it stopped the physical hunger that I use to suffer from.

I have so much more energy since I lost my weight, and as you can see by my ticker I was low BMI. I could barely walk a block when I was banded now I am doing a cross training program. This morning I did 150 sit ups, 150 push ups, 150 squats and 150 tuck jumps plus riding my bike a mile to the park and back. I do eat extra on the day before I work out so I have enough energy but "extra" is 1200 calories, which is not hard to do. Look at active.com they have some free training schedules and lots of information. I personally think you need to be a skilled athlete to get the full benefit of a trainer, I might be ready for one in 6-9 months, however, you might be ready for one now. Plus, as far as selling the diet goes, never ask a car salesman which car you should buy. Oh and tell your "friends" who don't support you to kiss off, my husband doesn't like the band but he told me "You can have surgery to have your arms removed if you want and I would still stand behind you" That is the kind of friends I need. (And I speak from experience I did tell my so called 10 year long, best friend to kiss off)

Well life got in the way of day 6, actually my work did. I had to go to Shreveport and buy a truck and be back to open the store so we had to go early. I told myself I would workout when I got home but that didn't happen so I did it this morning instead. Here is what I was suppose to do (yesterday): As many rounds as you can do for 30 minutes: 5 push ups 5 sit ups jump rope for 2 minutes Here is what I did: I did 10 rounds of the jump rope/ push up/ sit up combos. However, I would like to state for the record that the more tired you are, the less co-ordinated you are, the harder it is to jump rope. I can not jump for 2 min without stopping its more like 30 seconds, stop and hack in a few breaths and then start back. So in recap, here is what I did, total. Rode my bike to the park where the sit up bench is 2.87 mi. Jumped rope for 20 min. 50 sit ups 50 push ups and rode home 2.87 mi. And now I have been hungry all day! But I am back down to 138 so maybe tomorrow will be 137 day!

Congratulations your doing wonderful! I am at 138, fighting the last 8, I started a new cross training program and I have gone tee-totaler on the wine to see if that helps. Wish me luck!

I was going to suggest a partial unfill as well. It doesn't have to be all or nothing. But I am with you, if you cant eat normal stuff, then I would have some taken out too. Happy "Birth"day, Melody! (I think we should tell the Mother Happy Birthday not the kids, they didn't do anything!)

Mathematically impossible I don't have 8 pounds of boobs left. Empty socks don't weigh much. Anyone want to contribute to the "Buy Leigha new boobies fund"?

My band is super sensitive I can only get .1 or .2 fill at a time now, the time before last they added .3 and I had to have .1 taken out and then I was in a good spot. The longer you wait the more they will have to take out to ease the swelling. Good luck.

How much are they putting in at a time?

Here is an old blog I did that shows what I eat. What I eat... - LAP-BAND

OK my extra exercise pound is gone, now time to get rid of another!

My table manners have gone to hell. I swear, I don't even want to eat at the table with me. I cant take part in the conversation because by the time I am finished chewing what I wanted to say is irrelevant. Plus I chew on stuff and determine it to be too fibrous, tough, etc. and have to take it out of my mouth. Then my stomach makes weird gurgling noises and I have to burp repeatedly so I can eat my food. *Sigh*, my poor southern lady grandmother would just have a fit if she could see me now. Of course she would be happy about the weight I have lost! (It is a pretty good trade, I just feel sorry for those I have to eat with)

WTG on the meds. I can only offer sympathy on the gain, I gained weight on mushies, I didn't start losing until I was on real food. Hang in there. Stacie-- I'm so sorry for your troubles.

OK, FINE! I GIVE UP! I ADMIT IT, the physical laws of nature work the same for me as everyone else. CRAP. I wanted to be really thin, but if I keep drinking wine but it is not going to happen. I cant lose the last 8 while pouring liquid sugar down my throat in the form of wine. Not only is it the calories but I drank wine on Saturday night and then it really messed with me during my workout Sunday morning. Double whammy! So I am saying it out loud, I am going to stop drinking 100% for 1 month and see if that helps. (Of course it is going to help, how can it not?) I frickin paid too much money not to get what I want out of this, for heavens sake I sacrificed my boobs! I have been fighting it and trying to prove I could just work harder and eat smarter and overcome the calories but guess what? I cant. OK, whinning is over.

I only have a certain amount of mental capacity, sometimes when something takes precedence I have to move something I want to the back burner and then take it back up when I can. This is what it sounds like you did, you took a break, now the break is over. Get back to the Dr and get a fill, (Remember he is your employee, you pay his salary and you don't owe him anything unless he did your band for free, which I am betting didn't happen.) It sounds like you are still about 45 pounds down. When was the last time you were 45 pounds lighter than you were 3 years previously? Celebrate you success and add to it with positive attitude. You can do it!

I read that weigh loss releases estrogen, maybe you could search that on the internet and find something about it. I cant remember where I read it and don't have any facts to support my idea but that would be where I would start looking.

Yesterday I did day 5, I didn't get up as early as I should have so I didn't get to the park until around 8 am and it was already 85 degrees. But it was an unusually easy workout. Here is what I was suppose to do: Run/Walk with a purpose for 30 minutes, with 5 push ups every 5 minutes. Here is what I did: Rode my bike to the park .97 mi. 6.23 min. Ran the 5 min with 5 push ups 5 times and then walked back to where my bike was 3.11 miles, 49.24 min. Then rode my bike home a different way 1.6 mi. for a total workout time of 1:08. It was a fairly easy workout and I didn't spend the day hungry like I have been after these workouts. I didn't go to bed at 8:30 like I had been, either. Tomorrow is Day 6, I am suppose to jump rope for 2 min, do 10 push ups & 10 sit ups and repeat for 30 min. I am nervous about that.

When I was first banded I was not journaling my food, I told my husband "But I am doing everything right!" and he said "um, no your not". Once I started journaling, weighing and measuring my food, I was able to make small adjustments that really made a big difference.

Boy, I do love a good plan!

I am up a pound but everyone is assuring me it is a result of muscle trauma causing water retention in my muscles because of my new cross training program, so I am not changing my ticker or adding it to the spreadsheet. :bolt: (If it is still here next week I will)

I have started a cross training program. Its nine weeks also. I did day 5 of 27 today. I have been blogging about it. Today it consisted of running for 5 min. then stop and do 5 push ups and then run again for 30 min.. I told my husband it was harder than just running because every time you stop you have to convince yourself to start again. :bolt: Tuesday I have to jump rope for 2 min and then do 10 sit ups & 10 push ups and then back to jumping rope and repeat as many times as you can for 30 min. I'm not convinced I can jump rope for 2 solid min. we will see....