August 2010

Westy I used to be a thirty seconder but now 15 to 20 seconds between mouthfuls depending on what I am eating :)

Ok guys whats this 30 second thing.

Are we supposed to wait 30 seconds between mouthfuls. Interesting

Westy

bugger I forgot about the 30 sec thing. lol I'll try for the remainder of the day

Yes, I understood it as 30sec between mouth fulls....and I have only had one chuck up in 4 days now, and that was after nuts.....YEAH......

oh! i must've misunderstood ;p

OMG....just nuked Lean Cuisine for dinner and only manged to eat an 1/8th of it....and that was over about 40 minutes....gotta love this band

Hi everyone, I'm back!

Had a great break but hit perth when the heatwave was on, 38 for most of the time, I was dying!!!!!

30 seconds hey? I'll be giving that a go tomorrow. Fe, I don't think you hold the food in your mouth, you just wait 30 seconds from swallowing a mouthful, before putting another mouthful in. Is that right?

Well I jumped on the scales this morning and was expecting to have gained as I made some terrible food choices whilst away, but to my surprise I'ld lost.., go figure.......

Trip to the doc on thursday for another adjustment and as I feel I'm just off that 'great spot' I'm looking forward to it.

Glad to hear everyones doing well.

Updated:

25/8/10 Fe (emeraldrain) Age: 26 H 167cm SW: 122 CW: 112.4 GW: 80kg TL: 9.6kg (21/02/11)

13/8/10 Cate (catton54) Age:56 H:156cm BMI:41 :126.9kg CW: 101.6kg GW:75kg TL:25.3kg (2/03/11)

17/8/10 debs Age:37 H:167cm, SW:116kg, CW:96kg, GW:80kg TL:19kg (21/02/11)

25/08/2010 Kirsten Age:32 SW:114kgs CW:97.5 GW: 75kgs TL:16.5kgs (20/02/11)

Love seeing the thread active..do you realise that every post, in someway helps another forum friend......all your postings have been such an inspiration, in one way or another, it is those little snipets that really help - keep it up guys......
Yesterday was such a great day, ended up having dinner out - chinese, had vegies and 2 prawns and 3 mini spring rolls, yes over 2 hrs, they asked our group to leave in the end, as they wanted to close, I got a doggy bag....lol
Counting down to the 100kg mark...fire works when I do.......
Had to go to the dentist this morning and have blood test, so up to now have eaten -

• 1/4 toasted sandwich,
  
• cuppa tea,
  
• lunch will be a protein shake and cruskits ( update, no cruskits, happy with the shake)
  
• dinner possibly the left over chineses from last night ....lol
  

Elle, glad you are back on track, good on you, keep us posted....and how is our Deb????
Fe - slow cooking in the slow cooker - has worked well here, but the best is the 30sec chew chew and chew.....it made sense to me about the food going thru the banded area, not how full the pouch is.....

xoxoxoxoxo

Cate

Grats ella on your kg :)

Im back on the bandwagon today.
Had a horrible week last week. chocolate, lollies, chips... yuk i know. I have no defence i was hormonal and i packed away the good food and was naughty.
Paid for it too. put on 2kgs in 10 days :eek:

So back to today, making myself do an hour of exercise today, depending on how sore i am tomorrow might be 30 mins ;p 45 mins of pump, and 15min walk.
Weighing and measuring what im eating.
Have my first check in since october or november in about 3 weeks, so im desperately hoping to hit 110 by then. 4.4 to lose
*sigh* need some willpower!

Im jealous the 30 second thing is working for you guys! It makes me sick holding food in my mouth... Maybe thats coz im eating food i dont like ;p I ve never liked vegies or fruit, and im making myself eat them so.. lol

Anyone have some favourite recipies? I'm a meat and vegies girl, but i think breakfast and lunch are BOOOORing lol thought maybe u girls have some good ones :)

Fe

Hi everyone,

good to see everyone is doing soooooo well and losing weight!
I went to the doctor's yesterday ready to get a strong talking to as I've not done any serious dieting since I saw him a month ago....what with going on holidays for 3 of those weeks.
As it turns out, I still lost 1 kg which he was delighted with, especially after I told him "No, you did not take any fill out before I went on holidays". He was sure he did.
Anyway....he has given me half a ml extra saying that I was doing great and that most of his patients come back from holidays having put on weight so he didn't see the need to go like a bull at a gate with my fills.
I was like...feel free to be a bull.....do I sound like a druggie waiting for my next hit!! hahahaha

Oh well guys...this is it...back to work tomorrow and back to recording everything I eat on Calorie King, exercising for at least half an hour a day and hopefully losing some serious weight.
We're going on a cruise in May so want to be definitely in the 80's by then....I'm hoping for 85 but we'll see.

Have a great day everyone.

Ella

well done cate! I hope it continues to work...keep us posted. I know that if i eat slower i have less chest pain. My prob is the slower i eat the more i eat because i'm not getting any pain to stop me...isn't that rediculous! Because i don't get restriction i use the pain as kind of 'barometer' as to when i've had enough. Wish i could just rely on will power alone but if i could do that i wouldn't need a band. I use willpower a lot but when i feel like giving up i do rely on that pain to remind me i've got a band. Maybe i need a psychaitrist. LOL

Well done cate it's cool isn't it you start to appreciate every mouthful I was also told to sit the food on your tongue and for five seconds think about that food before you start chewing :)

Did the 30sec thingo today.....well, today I have had.....a shake, 2 scones ( forced on me by client and took 2 1/2 hrs to eat!!!) and 1/4 toasted sandwich with daughter this arvo....and not hungry at all......I was so conscious of the 30sec thingo..it worked, well at least for today......
Ella, how did it go for you......Yes you have to me more active on the forum dear.......it does help........

Cate xoxoxo

Hey guys,

with everything else that's been going on I forgot to tell you how I'm going with the band but that's because there's really not a lot to tell. I have been hovering around the 93kg mark for the last 2 months!!!
I went back to the doctor about a month ago and he didn't want to give me a fill as he knew I was going on holidays and told me to enjoy! so I surely took his advice....mmmmmmmmmmm.....red wine and cheese.
Anyway....am going back to see him this arvo and will probably get a fill done.....don't think I've had a fill now for about 4 months or close to it anyway.
Hopefully that and a bit of willpower will see me losing again. I have definitely not been careful since Xmas so need to get back into it.
Maybe I need to come in here on a daily basis and be held accountable for what exercise I am doing and what food I am putting in my mouth. That might just make me be good.

Anyway guys....have a great one and I will let you know how I got on at the Doc's.

Cheers
Ella

I was told to do that 30 second wait thing and put it Into practice before my op and I actually filled up quicker and really enjoyed my food a lot more :)

aaaah cate, that is interesting! Are you trying it? Is it working?
debs

Sorry, me again..just read an interesting article on LAP banding..Hmmmm so much conflicting advice, but it does say wait 30 secs between swallowing and the next mouth full to be chewed, therefore the mouth to be empty for 30secs at least ( I wasn't)..and the 'full' feeling is actualy activated by the food moving through the band, not by the pouch being full......

Deb it is not that easy, so do not be hard on yourself....I am up and down like a yo yo.....but creeping down - like 2 steps forward and one back.....will power - what is that!!!! none here....pain and vomiting drives me not to eat, not will power....strange thing this band ( as I keep saying) had a rather large meal last night with NO problems, 1/2 pie, mash instant pot, peas, lettuce and coleslaw....and - wait for it.................2, not 1, ice creams ( lite, in cone).....OMG, and the 1/2 glass of soft drink ( shame on me!!!)......looking at that meal, I think it would all slide down well....back on the shake for brekky, tight but going down and a little yoghurt........
One more day before the weekend YEAH......have to go and have some blood test and my BP is now getting low.....well I think -104/64, 6 mths ago it was massive 220/148.... might need to review the meds sooner rather than later....
I wonder how all the others from the old forum are going???? some were doing so well -
better go, have a long day ahead.....take care all...xoxoxoxo

you and me deb, you and me!!!!

Sorry to hear you've had a shitty week Cate. Me too but for the opposite reason. My brief experience with a 'working' band has ended and now its back to feeling like i don't have one. Its all willpower once again, which has not been good as i have had none lately...and i've put on a 1kg. Sigh.... why do i make bad choices when i know i want to loose weight??? I'm such an idiot. Still, willpower has never been a strong point so i shouldn't be surprised. I wish i was like some of the successful girls on here and just be able to be strong and eat tiny amounts and eat healthy, i probably would have lost 30kgs by now. I wish i was stronger....no one to blame but myself....
deb

Ella, how are you going????
I suppose with all the vomiting, I have to go down.....

25/8/10 Fe (emeraldrain) Age: 26 H 167cm SW: 122 CW: 112.4 GW: 80kg TL: 9.6kg (21/02/11)

13/8/10 Cate (catton54) Age:56 H:156cm BMI:41 :126.9kg CW: 101.6kg GW:75kg TL:25.3kg (2/03/11)

17/8/10 debs Age:37 H:167cm, SW:116kg, CW:96kg, GW:80kg TL:19kg (21/02/11)

25/08/2010 Kirsten Age:32 SW:114kgs CW:98.6 GW: 75kgs TL:15.4kgs (20/02/11)

OMG Ella.....not one chinaman, but many.....you are a cat with 9 lives......take care.....
Deb, must be hard re the dog, been there done that, I am a softy, really upsets me to have to sit with anything dieing......
Having a very shitful week, but will update my weight loss..........1.2kgs only good thing from this week...my intake is very limited, so I suppose I have to have a minus one day.....

Cate xoxoxo

Oh my gosh Ella, what a time you've had! Cyclones, floods, earthquakes....you haven't noticed any locusts around you have you? lol I'm glad you made it home safe. The earthquake was awful wasn't it...so much news coverage and it was just heart breaking. I'm glad you're ok though and welcome back.
The paragliding sounds fun! I'm a bit scared of heights so not sure how i'd go doing that but i bet it felt amazing.

My baby girl (molly dog) is still alive and kicking. She very slow though, has lost a lot of weight and has gone off much of her food. She doesn't seem to be in pain though and is still wagging her tail and being smoochy with everyone. She reminds me of a little old lady who is just nearing the end and is enjoying the time she has left with the ones she loves. Will miss her so much when she's gone but we are enjoying every minute we have with her. You're right, they are like our babies :) Your babies sound gorgeous too.

How's the banding journey going?
debs

Hey guys...

Sorry it's been so long since my last reply but things have been over the top here. First the floods happened and my partner lost his car in that....then he was caught in the first cyclone that hit Bowen, Cyclone Anthony!. He was caught in his truck when the cyclone hit but got through it ok and got back before Cyclone Yasi hit....thank God!
Then we just happened to go to New Zealand for holidays on the 15th Feb and stayed at the Grand Chancellor in Christchurch the first night before we headed off around the south island. We didn't know anything about the quake until we started getting phone calls from home asking us if we were ok. We were only an hour and a half out of Christchurch as we were supposed to be staying there again for our last night there.
We decided to wait it out in Hanmer Springs for an extra night and finally got out of there on the Thursday, two days after the quake. We were sitting in the airport and feeling slight tremors as we were waiting for our plane which had been delayed 7 hours.
We are home now and feeling like we must have run over a Chinaman some time in the New Year.
On the plus side.....I went paragliding while I was in Queenstown! It was my Biggest Loser moment....hahaha!
It was exhilirating and now I feel like I can take on the world....I even started a running programme when I got home.

Will talk to you all soon....

Cheers
Ella

PS My heart goes out to you Deb...I would hate to lose my puppies so know this must be a very difficult time for you waiting it out...My dogs are such boofheads...one is a rottie and one is a maltese terrier...but they're my babies and I couldn't think of living without them.

I am probably starting some sort of lapbanding urban myth! ;)