LeighaMason

I weigh meat and measure veggies. So I have 2-4oz of meat serving 1/2 cup of non starch veggie 1/4 cup of starch (rice, potatoes, corn, etc.)

Have you spoken to the Dr about your mistrust of his staff? They may be lying to his patients and he us unaware of it, and it could be hurting his practice.

Here is the link to the C25K thread we have been using: http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f81/couch-5k-come-join-me-67829/index231.html I just finished but I am still posting there. :cool:

I think they set the OP's goal weight in low so she would have the magic number "100" for her insurance approval. Kimmy-- I think some Dr's set your goal weight high so that you will not be intimidated by the amount of weight you have to lose. You can lose as much as you want to. There are people on here who have lost more than they now weigh. Plus you can then say "I am 20 pounds below my goal weight." I was originally thinking mine would be 150, but after I started losing I realized that 130 would be attainable but if I had only lost down to 150 I would have still been happy (self pay too.)

I am 10/20 also! I have 8 pounds to go. My last pound took 20 days to lose, I started a new cross training workout this morning, so hopefully I can be at goal by my bandiversary. :cool:

I thought you were 5' 5", no?

HOLY CRAP! Now that had to kill some fat cells. I walked to our local park, then did the 2 min run, 5 push ups (on my knees), 10 squats, 10 sit ups (really more like crunches since I was on the grass) X 10 so a grand total of: 20 min. running 50 push ups 100 squats 100 crunches Walked for 39 additional min. Covered 3.73 miles. Plus my husband went with me, we had a blast! But I forgot to wear my Body Bugg! :sad:

Its great to hear that you are doing so well. I am happy for you.

I use lose it to track food and weight and I use mapmyrun for exercise (its good for walking and biking too) it tells you how long, how far and lots of other stuff.

Dang it! I hope you feel better soon!

My very best friend (other than my husband) came to visit me at work today, my short description of him is a 72 year old, republican, baptist, man. We have nothing in common, we agree on nothing philosophical but I love him to pieces. I cant describe how much he means to me. He has not been feeling well for a few weeks and was in the hospital last week for 4 days and I thought he was doing better. But when he came over today he told me that his kidney Dr told him that if his numbers weren't better by next week they wanted him to do dialysis. He told me that he wasn't going to. He had a heart transplant 15 years ago and he said he is just tired. I am so sad. OK we do have something in common, we will not allow anyone to boss us around. If he says no to the dialysis, there is no talking him into it, come hell or high water. Maybe he will change his mind on his own by next week, I don't know.... (If there were a crying face, I would put it here)

As hard as it is I would wait at least 3 weeks between fills. I have had one "kick in" 10 days later. I went from no restriction at all to sweet spot, if I had gotten another fill I would have been too tight.

Good luck.

Can you eat tuna? A can of tuna in Water is 100 calories. I eat them for a snack between meals when I am really hungry. Try this: Breakfast: 1 fried egg 92 cal. 1 piece of bacon 43 cal. 1 whole wheat bagel thin (on the bread isle) 110 cal. Snack: Greek yogurt 140 cal. Lunch: 1 can of tuna 100 cal 1 TBSP Miracle whip free 13 cal. 1/2 TBSP Pickle relish 10 cal. 8 snack crackers 121 cal. Snack: Apple 81 cal. Dinner: 4 oz baked whitefish 132 cal. 3 oz baked potato 79 cal. 1 TBS butter 36 cal. 1/2 cup steamed broccoli 27 cal. I hope this helps give you some fresh ideas. These things keep me full the longest. :sad:

I hear crickets! I guess I will start by myself in the morning and see how it goes maybe someone will want to join in later. :sad:

The OP joined us on 03/09 posted 6 times in an hour about how this didn't work for her and has never signed back on. I am going to take this with a grain of salt, I believe there are people who are so anti-WLS that they will make false claims of failure in the hopes of discouraging others. I want to state, that is not the case on every thread, there are people here who have legitimate problems and concerns but I feel this thread was started by someone with an agenda. However, if they were trying to discourage others, it backfired because there are a lot of great responses to the post filled with wonderful advice. :sad:

My husband is overweight and we can not go anywhere without women hitting on him. We went to a wedding last weekend and I went to get a glass of wine and looked back at the table and a woman was practically sitting in his lap (or trying to). I am with your friends, its all attitude.

Tracie-- I'm glad that made you smile, my port sticks out, you can see it and you can feel it. But I guess I just feel like its a part of me now. There are low profile ports that they can change you to later when you are at goal and you don't need regular fills anymore. Sometimes they even move it behind your bellybutton if you have a tummy tuck. I have made an agreement with myself not to make any decisions about what to do on port revision or tummy tuck until I have been at goal for at least 6 months to a year. That will give me a chance to get use to how things are and see if they really bother me. The boobs, now that, is another story....

Try water aerobics, the water supports your body while you exercise. Plus the water gives extra resistance.

Not if his hands are where they are suppose to be!

I have my band semi-loose, I can eat anything but untoasted white bread and oddly enough, bananas.

I eat 3- 250 calorie meals and have 2- 150 calorie snacks. If I only eat 3 meals I get too hungry and then overeat at meal time.