Searching for ways to succeed

lcomstock · November 25, 2007

I was banded on October 26 and I have lost 26 lbs. I feel great and I started a walking program, which thrills me. The first weeks were horrible because I felt like I was starving to death. Then I got use to it. I began taking liquid Vitamins which made me feel like I had energy then I started to adjust. For anyone that has not found a Vitamin,

pudding that was real good? She said she ate them while she adjusted to her fills. Has anyone herd of this or know where to find it? I have not had my first fill but will on Dec. 6th. Would like to get ready for it.

Any other advice on what works for you please share.

kacee · November 25, 2007

I can honestly say three things worked for me (though everyone is different and MANY people will argue with me about the scales thing).

1. I weigh myself EVERY day, in the buff, same time. PERIOD. I log my weight every day on my FitDay program. I am 6 months out an can see EXACTLY where I was at any give time in the process, watch my plateaus and calculate their length. My scale is digital with tenths of a pound. I watch those tenths as closely as I watch the full pounds.

2. I log ALL of my food in my FitDay program. Each day when I get home from work I enter everything I have eaten through the day. I can correlate my weightloss through the process with my food intake, see where I was doing well, and where I screwed up.

3. I set MINI-GOALS. I mean MINI goals. My goal is to lose about 4-5 pounds before the end of the year. My average weight loss has been 2.25 pounds per week (which is HIGH), so as I am nearing my goal, I think this is more realistic. I don't set goals I cannot reach. Sometimes I may even set a goal to get down "xx" tenths of a pound in three or four days. When you set goals you can achieve it gives you incentive to go on and set another goal when you meet that one. It is a leapfrog process.

RinR · November 25, 2007

Everyone is different. For me I also weigh my self daily but am not concerned with the number until the end of the week when I average all 7 days. That is the number I go by. This helps me to not freak and feel as though I have gained weight if one day I'm 172 and the next I'm 175.

I have not felt hungry since I started the Protein liquid diet 2 weeks proir to surgery. I have no problems not eating to much. I feel like a "normal" person that can take a bite of something and feel statisfied and not eat the whole thing.

My first follow-up appointment with the nutrisionalist, she required that I bring in a diary of everything I had eaten for a week. The whole week I felt hungry and deprived just as I had in years past with every diet I had tried.

It was then that I realized that It's the being on a "diet" mentality the had been part of my past failures. I don't track my food intake I just prepare the food I know I can eat and if I want a bite of something like candy or cake I have one bite and I'm done.

When I get the urge to just sit and mindlessly eat for the sake of eating I say to myself. You did not just take drastic measures and have this surgery to blow it now.

I have never heard of this pudding. When I need to go on a liquid diet after a fill I make cream of mushroom Soup and alternate from that and the Protein shake.

Thanks for the link to the Vitamins

Rebecca

sfeiner · November 25, 2007

I was also banded Oct 26 and have only lost 14. Maybe because my Dr starts us on mushies the day after surgery. I'm so hungery now. Just like before surgery. I'm getting a fill Dec 13 and counting on that to help.