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Grats to all you guys and your new NSV's how wonderful! Jtag - I only just got to read this now and I'm sorry that loser stood you up - better off without 'em in my opinion, truly his loss! Keep your head up girl!
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New NSV for me! First off -- nobody has commented on my weight loss. Granted, I saw my parents a month ago and I had only lost maybe 15 lbs then. So I figured that either it wasn't noticeable, they're not paying attention or they didn't want to say anything because I've lost weight before and put it all back on plus more. I saw my brothers last week; no comment there either but OK, they're my brothers. My co-workers, well, I see them every day so maybe they wouldn't notice. My DH, obviously I keep him informed already of my loss. However, today I saw my co-worker's husband for the first time in several months. After making small talk, he said, "Did you lose weight?" I cracked up because my co-worker exclaimed, "That's rude! You don't ask people that!" But I just said, "It's fine, and yes I have." Woo hoo, somebody noticed! Not that I'm doing it for anybody but me, but it was nice to hear! :thumbup:
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How did you decide on a goal weight?
Jachut replied to tonyahebert's topic in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums
I've got a funny story for you about that. I nearly had a punch up with an old bat at weight watchers once, she was doing the weighing and measuring. She told me I was 5ft 9. I'm not, I'm 5ft 10. I didnt like being called 5ft 9 becuase it meant I was even more overweight than I thought I was, lol. So I made her remeasure me. 5ft 9. Six freaking times, same answer, 5ft 9. So I was fatter and shorter than I thought. Great. Anyway, I assumed I'd shrunk an inch. Getting obese had compressed my spine or something. Anyway skip forward to a few years later and there I am in the surgeon's office having my first official weigh and measure. 5ft 9. Six months later, another weight and measure and WTF? I'm 5ft 10 again. I started rabbiting on about NSV's and said what a great health benefit, I've uncompressed my spine. No, love, she says (we call each other Love here). When you're at your heaviest you have a big bum. You cant stand straight against the wall to be measured because of your bum, nearly everyone leans back slightly. You havent grown, your bum's just not in the way of the wall anymore! ROFLMAO! Now if THAT isnt an NSV I dont know what is. -
Good Morning Ladies Karri - I have never pb'd for more than a couple of minutes. My DGS has some stomach virus which I am afarid of cuz I don't want to throw up. I think next time I go to the doc - i am going to ask him about that - maybe we should have some kind of medicine on had for those sitiuations. Linda - Thanks - Both you and Candice are going to have to come to Cali to get the clothes - oh never mind - i can bring them to MN - and just trade them out for the new clothes I will be getting.. But truely I got 16 lbs to go - (I really need to change my ticker cuz I really think I want that 150 #) and I don't think 16.5 lbs will make that much diff in my size - due to the saggy skin issues. Plus when I went to the doc on 3/24 my body fat (per his scale) was 38.something % I wonder how it weighs your saggy skin like fat??) My trainer mentioned last again night that he thought I had lost some weight - don't know if he was just being nice (well no cuz he is a for real person and I don't think he's blowing smoke just so I keep going to him- see how skeptical I am - I know just say thank you) Well, not much to report from last night - didn't do any midnite raids - those do seem to be getting fewer for whatever reason - not to say they don't happen - but not as much - my dear little angel wakes me up every nite to go potty - 1 a.m. last night - but I just take her out and go back to bed (well had to ck on DGS as he wanted some medicine for his headach). So for me that's a great NSV cuz - heck at night I would eat a whole nother meal..:thumbs_up: Dentist today - getting a crown fixed so that wont be too bad but on 4/29 getting old sliver filing remove and replace - ugh - thankfully he has gas which does help take the edge off the nerves.. Well, gotta ck my desk and get some stuff done - as usual will ck back later..
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Dr. Gerald Kirshenbaum - Considering Dr. Kirshenbaum
PrtyAntOvrYt replied to Shesha's topic in Weight Loss Surgeons & Hospitals
Marcy, That's a great NSV!! Wow!!! While in Lincoln this weekend, I went shopping at Avenue. A store I used to shop at in ABQ. I tried on several items because they had a huge sale. The 3xl's were huge on me and I had to get a 2xl. Pants and shirts for $4.99 and there were plenty of 2xl's available. don't you love your Band? I do! I can' wait till I get to a size 16! Yeah!!! -
I have a NSV that really made me happy. I went shopping today to an outlet mall close to me. I needed a few new shorts for golf. I have already gone through my saved "smaller sizes" and was really ready to buy something new. Well, for years I have been in the plus sizes, as so many of you can relate. I cautiously picked up a pair of size 16 bermuda shorts and headed to try them on - all the while thinking "I know that salesperson thinks I will never get into them - I should be over in plus sizes." But I was shocked. They fit and were even a bit loose. Thinking I wanted them to fit for a while, I slipped backout onto the floor and picked up a size 14 just to see how snug they were. I could absolutely not believe - they fit! I can lose and they will work for a while. So, today was a red letter day for me. Thanks for the post - so I could toot my own horn. Heaven knows - it's been a long time. Down 59 lbs. and loving it. C.N.
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Thanks Karen and Sue for all that great advice to my posts...you gals are AWESOME!!! I haven't been to the site in a bit, since posting those cries for help, so thanks for responding so quickly! I've actually been doing alot better and have learned how to manage the "getting stuck" issue as well as the falling back to my old habits, your advice really helped. I go tomorrow for my 4th fill but not sure if I'll really need one cos' I'm doing pretty good right now. I've lost more weight and have broken the 300 mark - this morning I was at 298 - so I'm really happy cos' this was my first goal. Now I want to lose another 50 and then try to get pregnant cos' that is my 1st main goal! Oh also had a great NSV last week - got to get off my hbp meds and my cholesterol meds as well! So I'm super excited about all this, can't wait to share it with Cywes tomorrow! Anyway, hope we can all get together soon cos' I'd love to meet this awesome support group! Much love and success to all! KKG
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Dr. Gerald Kirshenbaum - Considering Dr. Kirshenbaum
marcyinak replied to Shesha's topic in Weight Loss Surgeons & Hospitals
LA - here's for hoping it was just something that got "stuck" somewhere and is now past! Geez! I can't imagine having something happen to me like that...there are no CT scans out here and they'd have to fly me into Anchorage - not that'd I'd be complaining about a trip to "town" mind you! Praying for you! Mal - you're inspirational...maybe I should get a dog...NOT! Just finished dog sitting one of the best dogs in the world and I'm glad she's gone! What happened to me? NSV!! Last year - squeezing into 22's...wearing 24's on a regular basis...today...eeeaaaased into a pair of 16's!!! And I'm all bloated and crampy today (I thought I'd just check to see how far I needed to go to get into them, not actually be able to WEAR them today!) Anyway, aside from needing some Mydol, the day is good! -
My best NSV lately is that my 7 year old daughter can now hug me around my middle and her hands can clasp behind me. She likes showing people our new trick. I have two daughters and they are both thrilled for me.
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Banded almost 2 weeks - worried....
StLouisGal replied to amylou07's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Try not to step on the scales every day. I know that is hard but your weight can flucuate from day to day. Last week I didn't lose any pounds but when I check the body fat calculator on my weekly weigh in at Curves, I had lost three pounds of body fat. Muscle weighs more than fat. Your body may just be adjusting to the weight you have already lost. Did you measure before you started your journey. I'll bet you have lost inches. Let yourself heal! Drink plenty of Water, walk when you can, follow the food plan your doctor has given you and look for the NSV's that are coming your way. One of these days you will step on the scales and suddenly lots of pounds will be gone. When I started mushie foods the scale stopped moving for a few days. After a few days my body got used to the new foods and started losing again. Hang in there! You are doing fine. -
I had a better day today. A lazy day and took time out to slurp on a White Chocolate Mocha from Starbucks. I enjoyed every mouthful. I spent most of the day with my nose in a book. Took my son to the pool for his first swim of the season. He's like a Polar Bear. There's no way I was getting anywhere near the water! No exercise for me today either. It's strange that I feel like I've abandoned my friend at the gym. My treadmill will worry about what happened to me today. :cool: I wore a pair of open sandals today (first warmish day of spring), and I don't know if anyone else has experienced this, but it seems I've lost weight in my feet. :purplebananna: They weren't as tight as they were last season. So that was a pleasant NSV. Steph, yes you can lose "weight" in your gums, but that's not a good thing. It happens naturally as you get older, but a sudden change at a young age is not a good sign. Especially with the issue you're having. Don't forget to mention it to your dentist when you see him.
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Congrats Texgirl! I too just had the same NSV today! Doesn't it feel wonderful?! You go girl!:regular_smile:
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My NSV! Yesterday I wore blue jeans, size 18 that actually buttoned and zipped, instead of those comfy elastic waist pants I've been in. I felt so great!!!
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Hi Shamrocks! Harley, sorry to hear about the gas. Boy do I sympathise! I certainly did not get well as quickly as everyone else here. I still have pulling sensations and gas at times. I have been doing a yo-yo on the scale and since the last time I weighed myself it was the number that shows on my ticker, I decided not to weigh myself again for a while. They will weigh me when I see the doctor on Wednesday. I hope that it is a good day for me. I've been mad at the band because the weight has not come off as much as I would like it to. I have talked myself out of that now and am just trying to continue with the liquids. I have to admit it is difficult because the hunger is back. It is not like pre-band, but not like last week when I didn't care if I ate. I think I am going to try to ignore the scale for a while. It irritated me with the up and down nonsense. Since I have followed the liquid stage carefully, it shouldn't be doing that. So, since it is messing with my head, I'm not going to weigh myself. :regular_smile: Great to hear about everyones NSV and SV. I love to read about the successes! I think that this week will be a good one when I try on my jeans. I haven't worn them since before surgery.
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Angelic: on this whole journey-type situation, we achieve several different types of success. Most of us focus on the weight we lose - the number of pounds we see that we've lost when we climb onto the scale. This would be a Scale Victory. But it's important to keep your eyes and ears open for things which don't relate to the number on that scale - someone saying, "Hey, have you lost weight?", or being able to tighten that belt one more notch, or noticing that you've slipped into that cinema seat a lot more comfortably than before, or that the (Gawd help me) bra that was too small now fits perfectly, or that you have so much energy that a walk that usually takes you over a half an hour now just takes 25 minutes. These are Non-Scale Victories - NSVs. Now, I don't know if I made it up, but it seems to me that, if you can have an NSV, you can also have an SV. So, there it is...
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SV=scale victory, NSV= non-scale victory, such as fitting into a smaller size:)
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And CONGRATS to you SV types (I'm assuming that if there's an NSV, there's also an SV)! :confused2:
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I think we're all agreed that Lisa's sister is an earthbound incarnation of Evil for wanting to barbecue while she's on liquids, but refusing to allow them to go ahead with their plan - particularly if they're paying rent - might be a bit difficult. Maybe it's because I'm British and avoid confrontation wherever possible, but I'd probably let them barbecue, and go to the movies and then sit by a river and drink my Protein shake and cry, then go home really late and throw all their leftovers in the garbage. But that's just me!!! Welcome aboard SweetPea 2 - and thanks for sharing your diet. One of the things we've noticed here is how different everybody's doctor-recommended food plan is! And CONGRATS to you SV types (I'm assuming that if there's an NSV, there's also an SV)! I myself had one today too - weighed myself without my heavy Endless Winter clothes, and found that my total loss is now 48 lbs! (That's since starting this process; 21 since surgery.) And Ajoneen, have fun at your Hindoo ceremony! Don't ask "WHERE'S THE BEEF??", because that would be the Wrong Question to ask at a Hindoo Ceremony of Love...
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CONGRATS HARLEY!!:regular_smile: I too am finally down 20lbs today! I am down a total of 27.5 from pre op:) This morning I went out and bought myself a new pair of jeans.. I am soo excited! They are a size 18, and NOT from the plus size section?! I cried in the fitting room when the zipped and buttoned. After I gained composure I walked out of the fitting room the woman said "uhh.. do you want me to take care of those for you?" lol.. No thanks, and I walked away red eyed, clutching me new success:) I guess that means I now have a NSV?? :)Kerri
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Actually, the day after posting that - two days after weighing myself and being consternated that the scale hadn't budged - I weighed myself again and was down three pounds. I think the lesson is not to always be hopping on and off the scales, and not to freak out when you don't hit the numbers you expect. I've had a bunch of NSVs - my shirt size has gone down, I had to throw away a sweatervest that was recently snug because I was swimming in it, and I'm down three belt notches. But the scale is nice, because numbers feel precise and absolute.
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Thank you everyone for your wonderful advice. This really is the best place for me to be at times like this and even when I go silent, it's still the only place that stops me from going completely mad. I've kind of taken a good look at what I'm doing and not doing. Last month towards the end I really started doing a lot of cardio to try and catch up to my monthly challenge goal. But it made me hungrier. As often as I could I would drink rather than eat. When I really felt the food demon I would go to the gym for half an hour. But I find a glitch in my defense in that I was drinking a lot of Lipton Raspberry flavored ice tea. My husband asked if he could have one since I always seemed to be guzzling them down (he's good like that when he thinks something is for ME). Well it turns out that it has high fructose corn syrup in it, which was a big "NO!NO!NO!" ingredient when I was pushing close to diabetes. I thought I'd read the label on it, but I can't have had my glasses with me that day. I avoid anything with high fructose corn syrup like the plague as it sets off my hunger. :tt1: So this is probably the main culprit, although maybe not the only one. Still, fight one battle at a time. I'm going to make a more conscious effort with my water. I was substituting the tea for water and obviously it wasn't working. So that will be my main focus. I'm also going to take tomorrow off exercising. When I upped my routine over the past couple of weeks it was a good NSV. More often than not I feel so much better when I'm exercising. It sounds crazy and I never would have believed it a year ago. But now I know if I'm exercising, I'm not eating. So that's what was getting me to the gym more. But tomorrow, no exercise and I'm going to treat myself to a white chocolate mocha from Starbucks as well. I'm looking forward to that. :frown:
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Llinda - Finished off the panini for lunch. Good thing it was only half. Just had a little twinge of pain so I stopped. Bread usually doesn't bother me. Before banded, bread was my basic staple. I was pb'ing on soup.......cottage cheese too, so it wasn't just the bread. Phyll - My very first super PB was after eating a Sammy at Quiznos. Slimed for over half an hour. Won't go back there again. And I wasn't impressed with them. Now, I love the Olga sandwiches. Those are worth pb'ing over. Ruby - When I went for a whole month plateaued, I upped my pedaling, and upped my eating. The extra exersizing kept me from gaining and the extra eating jump started my metabolism. Do that for a day or two then cut back. Your metabolism slows down because it thinks it's starving so you have to feed it. Steph, - hope your toothache gets better and isn't anything serious. Just found out last week, since DH retired, dental and optical isn't a benefit anymore. and we have to pay 20% of all doctor visits, labs and scripts. I gotta talk to my doctor. I want off these pills. I feel so much better. NSV - Sleep machine has been seriously bothering my sinuses so I quit using it. I don't think I've been snoring. My throat isn't raw and no one has heard me. Karri - Hope things are great. Can't wait to hear the details. And see pictures. Hope you bought something tiny and sexy for that wedding night. Janet - What exactly do you mean by BURN?
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hola chicas like always thank you thank you and thank you for your prayers .. well I got te job offer is ok but will do for now i am so happy . Lots of nsvs lately and wow make me think for once really for once i dont look that bad to others lol well girls have a great weekend i start monday and wish me luck . on my romance side well i went out on a blind date lol and tomarrow i go on another lol will see what happend until my best friend decides something else what he doent know will not hurt him i did spend last night with him and the kids and he cooks for me its so kool we are such a family but will see love ya all clau
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well everyone i had a NSV and a SV today.... NSV was that i went to go put on a pair of 18 pants and yes they were tight...but they buttoned :cursing: so only a few more pounds and i can be a 18/20 woohooo as for my SV i got on today and i was 247 so thats 2 more pounds down...i want to be down to 243 by tuesday when i get my first fill that would be 20 lost since surgery but i dont think that will happen....but maybe 2 more pounds...Keep up the great work everyone we are all doing so good!!
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Today I had my post op appt. At 11 days post op I am down 8 pounds since surgery. I had my esophogram this morning. That barium is pretty darn yucky. My doc has moved me on the mushies. I told her I am nervous about it because there are fewer high protein/low carb choices in the mushie food group. She looked at me funny and told me to make healthy choices. I thought to myself..."ahhh, you are so, so skinny doc." So I had some oatmeal and I've had some yogurt. I scheduled my first fill for April 22. I can't wait. My doc told me that she had just filled someone who after six months of fills is finally feeling resistance. God I hope it does not take me six months. Congrats on all the NSV's and the SV's. Keep in mind the tickers don't always represent loss since surgery. Mine includes the pre-op stomach virus I had and the pre-op diet. I think 10 pounds since surgery is excellent. I have also heard that muscle weighs more than fat...so those of you who are working out like crazy don't watch the scale as much as your body measurements. Christine
