2008 Junies and Friends

Remember when I was 85kg felt fab and energetic, would love to get back there but this time round it sucks big time Thought I was all fired up at the start of the year but its has not gone any where beyond a swinging 3.5 kg loss but had hoped to be stronger and do better. Just dont seam to get past the 4pm to bedtime temptations and get my but moving. Hopfully want be feelling sorry for myself tomorrow.

Its hard to keep the battle up Linda, I think if you can be happy with yourself where you are..accept it and live life to the fullest then its a good place to be.

Perhaps buy one or two items and go with the flow for a while then maybe when you have had a break from it, the fire will come back... and if not, then at least you are living.

I cant find the fight either and am in the same state of flux as you both are. I had heard of regain after wls buty thought if you were diligent then it wouldnt happen...but then life does happen and all the things that give you joy like sharing a wine or two with friends... a cuddle and a block of choc ..simple things that make the mundane liveable.

I am trying to accept that at 47 I am who I am... not easy though is it

I am still around. Food good wine not so good. The thing is I could do that and just stay the same weight and was very happy. I am just wondering whether to buy bigger clothes and stay here. I don't have the fight in me to knock off 10 kgs.

Speaking of the old forum, I popped in there earlier and it is dead. I mean, eerily quiet. Looks like everyone has abandoned ship and found themselves new homes. Hardly surprising really.

fwaaaaa roast lamby..soooo gooooood...

Yes it sneaks up on one does it not loosinit... I get the odd thing stuck too... though chewing is an advantage and not nessesarily optional in our case.

I have no rules I live by these days in fact what bloody rules I can barely remember them. If only we had the old forum so I could read back on the early days us and take some notes.

What can I say, Rose? Crap features in my repertoire far more frequently now than it ever has. Can't really see the point of the band, although I did have a stuck episode the other night which hasn't happened for ages. I was sooooo enjoying that roast lamb too . . . . . . . . .

yeah I do that too..and I will tell ya that I did a long stint with the ice cream ( and I never liked icecream before) and told myself it was ok because I couldnt eat much of anything else... still made me gain though....too much sugar..

Try the no added sugar one its really creamy and has very little carbs and is 99% fat free. it isnt cheap and is only a small container so you tend not to over load the plate.... I switched to that one and weened myself off the stuff.

I lost the initial 3 kilos ( which would have been pee) and have just sat there... me thinks I will have to *cough*...*gag* .... exercise to get some more off.

I got out the skipping rope and its sitting on the kitchen table but I think if I avert my eyes to the left enough I should be able to successfully avoid it and tell myself at the end of the day its too late to do it without any guilt...

It is really hard to go from only being able to fit in a 1/2 cup of food to being able to eat a leg of pork then chase the rest of the pig round the table.

My mother in law said to me at a bbq on sat night. "well your certainly eating better arent you"... I just thought "choke on that chop bitch and die"..... hmmmmpff!

You know I dont know that I could go back to a restricted band now... I really have lost the will to do it... life is so good being able to eat without the misery...down side is I have to really work hard and even then its useless.

Where too now ladies, cos I am bleeding befuffled ... I dont want to go any higher buuuuut I like the food.... I like it a lot aaaand that blardy devil in my head tells me its ok.

Still here and wondering why Iam eating so much dam ice cream of late. Does anyone else seam to fixate on a perticular food for awhile only to move onto another. Its like there has to be at least that one bad thing, that one sin that I am drawn to.

booooo everybody!!! wakey wakey where is everyone.

Cmon loosinit ...linda...rose trace... lets not give up on us no matter how hopeless we feel at the moment.

Its hard, its always gonna be hard ... I miss you buggars...come back!

still sticking with it ... and it is a day by day thing is all I can say. I have to say I am not craving shite anymore and am starting to lower the volume simply because I really dont feel like very much.

Its not as fun as being able to eat cake and chippies I have to say but I have to do something and this is my last ditch effort. I have no will power at all but with the clothes choices starting to narrow because they are becoming too narrow for my increasing gut ... I have to try one last time.

I just made some salmon cakes that are just salmon eggs onion mayo and salt and pepper and plan on having one for lunch.

getting a little sick of chicken I have to say.

Sounds like you are on a winner, Zippy. I'm glad someone has found the way. I am just Lost in Space I think.

As we all know, the motivation has to come from within. Short of doing a body scan to find out if there's any motivation anywhere in there, I am just gonna have to wait until I explode before I get back on track.

Stand back - it could be messy! Nah - change that - it WILL be messy.

Linda you have my Batteries for free they dont seam to work to well in my scales. dam things keep adding on two and taking off one.
well done zippy in getting the dam scales to head down. On tv they once again praise the high protien low carb as the way to go. On Dr Ozz he put a laddy on a 28 day sugar free diet, who said the detox of sugar was harder then childbirth. feels a million bucks now lost a little wight but inches of her waist.. Ive gotta get the staying power to keep of the stuff for 24hrs do ok then blow out in the eavenings.grr

yeah its not too bad at all so far.. I just want to get my body back into fat burning and I hope this does the trick.

I have another passion too .. its diet rite fruit cocktail .. I have been making it up on icy water with crushed ice with torn mint leaves in it... it is so good. I serve it in a cocktail glass with a straw and it feels special... dumb I know but it seems to be flicking a switch in my head.

I guess I am trying every trick I can to stop the weight gain escalating since having all this fill out. I am really really scared that I will spiral out of control...which is a real concern to me because I have learnt to eat some seriouse rubbish lately.

I have never ever in my life been a sweet eater but in the last year I have learnt to love the stuff and being a type 2 diabetic (now in remission due to weight loss) it means I am sensative to insulin responce and all this extra sugar and floury stuff is heading straight towards a big jump in weight gain.

I need to relearn to eat like I did in the begining of my band which was 95 percent protein.... healthy fats and low empty carbs.

A good....no excellent side to this fill coming out is that I can ingest salad again....been a long time I can tell you and this week I have been able to have chicken and a little salad again... it feels so decedant. In fact I was out for lunch and ordered a hamburger with out the bun and extra sauce on the side... I was so excited to be able to actually sample some of the salad with that burger that I was actually elated... how sad is that.

Bodytrim was the last diet I did before deciding to get lap banded :) loved all the protein on it

on an up note......loving and I mean loving the decaf coffee with cream!!!!!!

how many times did you have to get him to pitch them at the floor before the batteries fell out Linda... tee hee hee...

Well I decided to give body trim a go... found the diet on line..wasnt hard and saved me quite a bit of moolah googling it rather than forking out to the web site.

Lost 3 kilos in 3 days so gonna keep on keeping on. First day was a bitch cravings wise but with the fill out its an easy diet to do, lucky I like meat.

I am hoping this pushes me back into ketosis which is where I was after doing opti prior to the band insertion and there for kickstarting my metabolism again.

in the last 12 months I have gradually increased my carb intake until 4 days ago I realised mine was approx 95% carby shite.

I havent done the required exercise... they can stick that up their Craken. I feel better, though I do admit to being a woman crazed on day 2. My eyes were spinning in different directions and my hair wouldnt lay down on my head.

the kids went out and the husband wore body armour incase I bit him. I am much better now.. read that as stable.. well somewhat , but who wants to be run of the mill stable anywhooooo. I live by the addage that insanity is just another word for interesting.

I have taken a liking to philadelphia cheese...about a tablespoon with sweetener and cinamon mixed through it. It taste kinda like a bastard cheese cake and has come in handy around 3 or 4 oclock when the sugar crazies hit.

I am breaking out, my skin is spotty (not a good look on a shall we say upper end 40ish woman) so I must be detoxing.

*sigh* spose its worth a try ladies... I will keep you all posted.

Yeah nothing much changed here. I was supposed to weigh on the 1st of the month but Alan broke the scales. Well he dropped the batteries out and lost 1. They are those round expensive ones so I have to buy some. More family freeloaders from Perth are due.

Zippy...just had a good, and I mean a good laugh at your posting...you are so funny.....what a imagination, I can relate to saying 'can I have gravy with that'......but you are right, we are screwed.......lol

Cate

I'm quiet as I have nothing to say. Nothing to motivate anyone, everyone is tired of my whinging, and bugger-all has changed.

quiet here,are we frightened to be first on the eaten list..

most shaggable...thats a no brainer ... its me... so I move on to the next problem who am I gonna eat first

Tanya, hilarious! Made me laugh out loud. Of course I actually agree with you, priorities I say!

I would be more concerned about who, out of the remaining six, was shag-able

yes even I scratch my nut at my weird ramblings at times loosinit... its bad when you cant make sence of yourself.