I will do this challenge also.  I am in the same boat.  Eating healthy ,  doing Zumba four times a week and havent lost a single pound in  2 1/2 weeks .

I am so upset by this and when I get this way I get myself off track and do things I shouldnt be doing .

Carol if you can drink it and it dont become a problem for you then there is nothing to worry about .  I love Sprite Zero I drank that alot and Pepsi .

I usually have about five different kinds of soda always here at my house for the kids that run in and out 7 days a week and it dont bother me .

I just got use to drinking my Walmart Cherry Limeade water that is all I drink now and Ice tea about once a week on bowling night.

As long as you dont start abusing the Sprite and drinking that in place of your water , then enjoy your Sprite Zero there is nothing wrong that :o)    IF you start seeing yourself drinking more of the Sprite then your water then get rid of the Sprite dont get back into bad habits again.  Like I said one of the girls always drinks about two Diet Cokes a day but she makes sure her water is also .

She never lets her go flat she just pours it over the ice and drinks it .  The carbonated drinks have never bothered me . 

Carol,

I have the type of body that if I dont eat healthy and exercise and I mean exercise no fluffy stuff  that is the only way I can lose weight . 

It dont matter how little I eat, how healthy I eat if I dont exercise I wont lose end of story .  I just cant eat healthy or the little amounts and the weight just falls off . Never been like that and even after WLS its not like that.  I still have to work just as hard .

The longer we get away from our surgery date the easier it is to slip back into bad habits been there done that .  Speaking from experience here just this week I had to come clean with some friends on here about things  ( no band problems ) and once I went back and read my post I can see where I have been struggling.

Like they told me you just have to get up and start doing it , thinking about it isnt going to get you no where.  I went back to my first Zumba class after missing it for months on Monday and then I went back last night again .   Once I got there omg did it feel good to get my butt and exercise again.  I forgot how much I enjoyed it .  I was going to go  night but monthly  female problems is keeping me away tonight , but I will be there again on Monday night.

Like another poster said if you cant get at least 4 -5 oz of protein in a meal then you are way to tight and that can be more dangerous then you know .   My doc always told me if I cant sit down and eat a healthy reasonable meal then I have to much fluid in our bands.  Reasonable to him is protein, veggie and yes even a carb .  That is my doc though.

I just started fresh again this past Monday after getting my head together and the support from caring friends on here .  Start exercising again, no excuses just do it ,  start tracking your food . I use Fitness pal on my phone and scan everything I eat ,  have fruit, or veggies around if you get hungry its better to eat that stuff then picking up a bag of chips ( I am very bad about that ).  

Its so easy to slip back into bad habits, its easy to eat around the band ( been doing that for a yr now  *sigh* ),   just start doing it , the motivation will come when you see the numbers on the scale go down.

Also speaking of scales.  Im sure everybody has noticed when they are no****ching their weight they could care less about the scales I am so damn guilty of this its not funny  !!  , But when we are watching what we eat, exercising , we come obessed with the scales !! Dont let the scales run you .   I think that is alot of problems to.   I am a slow losser and I get very upset when I get on the scales and dont see numbers go down.  I get mad, I get discouraged, I get to where I will eat things .

I am doing it another approach this time around .  As long as I know I am eating healthy , exercising the weight has to come off.  This time around not going to let the scales ruin me .

Good luck its hard to get back on track after you have been off track for a long time, but you will never get back on track if you dont start making them first moves .

People are not going to post on this board because of all the arguments he said she said, your surgery sucks, this one is better, sort of things.

If I was a new person that just had surgery i sure wouldnt come to this board,  I will not recommend this board to anybody past or future lapbanders.

The damage has been done and nothing is going to change it.   

This board can be down right nasty and hateful and I mean hateful .  Full of arguments, full of name calling .  Not to long ago you couldnt read a single thread without some sort of fight starting out .

Why would people stick around for stuff like that .  

I come here twice a week to read certain posts and that is all ,  I just dont feel the need to post here anymore with accomplishments or struggling . 

Im sure if any of the long term vets see this they will probably say the same thing .  They let this board get out of hand and did nothing about it and this is what happens you run off people.

Brrr its cold out this morning . Cant wait to get to that Florida weather in a few weeks .

Breakfast  bacon, egg , cheese burrito in a low carb high fiber tortilla shell

Lunch   chicken , green beans, cottage cheese

Dinner   grilled chicken salad (bowling alley)

Exercise   Zumba this morning and bowling tonight

It's such a busy day today with homecoming and getting things done and going there and here for pictures so its grab on the go and eat what you can.

Breakfast   none

Lunch about 6 chicken nuggets (  I know not good but at they was made at home I snitched them off my son's plate while running out the door )

Dinner I have no idea I know not very good but to be honest  it will probably be some of them wing dings (chicken wings ) at Walmart or one of the deli pizza's .   

Just one of them days dont have time to eat at home or even bother to fix anything Im on the run lol