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Hello All:
  I havent wrote in almost a year...so i thought i'd drop a few lines to let you know of my progress. I am almost a year out (mar 1st) and i have lost about 50 lbs. I have to say, I wasnt very happy with 'only' 50 lbs, but the more i thought about it, the more i realized...i have never lost 50 lbs by myself before! and my dr is happy with my loss....im losing it slowly, which means its more likely to STAY off! so thats wonderful! i have been going to the gym 3xs a week and i have a 2nd job cleaning offices with my mom.  that in itself is a good work out ;)  I am doing "OK" with my eating...i have been trying to stay faithful to recording all that i eat on thedailyplate.com, but i dont want to become obsessed...i just want to get to a place where i know about how many calories im taking in and how many im burning thru exercise.  anywho....im still not at my sweet spot...which is disappointing bc its been about 10-11fill appts ive had and still not there yet.  but i do know that as u start to lose weight the less restriction u have, bc your losing weight inside too....so i go back to the dr this friday for my 1000th fill ;) and we will see what happens then. ill try to keep u posted more often on my progress.... :))

      I went for my first fill yesterday! I am currently on a puree diet today and then soft food diet the day after and then Im on a regular diet.  Im not sure how much restriction I have yet, but Im hoping it helps me.  They filled my 9cc realize band with 4.8 cc's!!  Which I guess is a lot for your first fill...So Im pleased.  I'll know more when i get back on a regular diet.
   I was happy to find out that Ive lost 17 lbs since surgery!  Which is amazing, since the last 2 weeks have NOT been good! Ive been eating everything in sight.  LoL! I go back for my second fill on the 3rd of May.
  I am so excited to lose weight!!  I have kinda been in a funk the past week or so.  Not real motivated to do much of anything....especially excersice! UGH! But im starting to break out of it,....Thank the Lord!

Well, I did it!!  I got my Realize Band surgery yesterday....And I'm so happy I did.  I'm doing good today...a little drowsy from the meds, but feeling pretty good.  I had kind of a hard time yesterday after surgery.  I was expecting to react to the surgery the way my mom did. She did absolutely awesome the 1st day.  She was up and walking around and completely peppy.  Not me so much.  I woke up after surgery with a major migraine!  and i was bloated like I have never been before! but once they gave me some pain meds thru my IV, I started feeling better...my headache left after a couple hours, but the bloating didnt really go away until the next morning...I still have some, but not NEARLY like i did the nite before.  WOW...it was pretty painful.  Ive been on the treadmill a couple of times since surgery, bc they said the walking would help w the air in my stomach and prevent blood clots in my legs, so I have to make sure I keep up with that.  I made my self a pureed Wendys baked potato (no skin) w chives and sour cream for lunch and was pleasantly surprised to eat maybe 2/3 of it (if not less) and i was completely full.  I know its just bc my stomach is swollen right now.  I cant wait to get my fill in about a month!!  I'll hopefully be on a roll then!! YAY!!

well im going to take a nap and ill update later!!!

     Ok, so today is my moms lapband surgery.  I am so excited for her but a little nervous for her also.  My stomach was in knots this morning before she left,....i felt like it was me!  It wasnt me today, but in 3 days it will be.  I have so many emotions about this surgery.  I've wanted bariatric surgery for years and the never, ever waivered on that desicion.  But, I'll be honest....Ive reconsidered about 50 times this past week!!!! :)  I'm nervous about the surgery, the self-pay part of it, and if this will TRULY help me end the life of the FAT me, and start the new life of the healthy, active me.  Many doubts, but along with those doubts, I have hope.  Hope that life will be different in a WONDERFUL way, hope that I can make right desicions about the food I eat, and hope that my self confidence will soar, and I will see the value in myself that God himself has tried to show me for so long.    Not that my weight SHOULD reflect the value of myself, but Ive become so self conscience about my size that sometimes I get it confused.  Low Weight = value, self worth, and all good things. I guess Ive got some things to work on in my mind. 

All in all, I really believe I'm making the right choice with going thru with the surgery , .......it is an investment on my life, my health and my future!!
And thats PRICELESS!!!
   
  
 

I found this on my friend Amanda S. OH profile....Really good!!!!

Falling Off the Diet Wagon
by Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS 
 One of the most discouraging aspects of weight loss are the inevitable slips. Everyone has them. For some people, an occasional slip engenders an all-out binge ... followed by guilt, self-recrimination, a sense of powerlessness and a feeling of “what’s the use?”

Sound familiar?

I call it “falling off the diet wagon," and if you can change how you think about it, you don’t need to be victimized by it anymore.

Let's start by looking at a simple children’s board game called “Chutes and Ladders." Here’s how it works: you use a spinner to advance from space to space toward the winner's spot. Along the way there are ladders -- which leapfrog you over a lot of spaces -- as well as chutes -- which send you back in the opposite direction.

Some kids play this game with a laissez faire, “whatever” attitude, taking life as it comes with all its ups and downs, pitfalls and triumphs. They learn the wonderful moral of Chutes and Ladders -- half of the secret to life is just showing up. Keep playing the game, and eventually you’ll get where you’re going.

Some kids, however, get very upset when they land on a chute. They’re ready to quit the game, pick up their proverbial marbles and go home. For some reason, they believe that life isn’t supposed to have any chutes. When they land on them, they are very disappointed and feel like giving up.

Weight loss is like a huge game of chutes and ladders.

In dealing with hundreds of clients over the years, I’ve discovered that the biggest difference between the winners and the losers in the weight loss war isn’t whether or not people have “slips” and go off their program. It's not really a question of “if” they have them, it’s a question of “when."

What really makes the difference is how you deal with the slips when they happen.

Here’s an example. You’ve been absolutely wonderful on your eating plan for three weeks. You've been sticking to your exercise routine and feeling pretty terrific. You go to your best friend's wedding and have a glass of wine. Before you know it, someone is insisting you try those delicious little canapes, and before the wedding singer can say “Tanta Elka Cuts the Cake," you’ve managed to down about 4000 unwanted calories from stuff you wouldn’t have been caught dead looking at during the past couple of weeks ... pates, desserts, breads, stuffings, you name it.

Most people think that’s where the action stops. Actually, it’s where the real action begins.

First, a reality check. Have you done a lot of damage? Not really. Maybe you put on a pound or two. Big deal. You can knock it off in no time, and go right back to “work” on yourself.

So what’s the problem?

The problem isn’t what we did, but what we make it “mean." We tell ourselves that our “transgression” means that we have no will power, that we will never succeed, that our efforts are in vain.

In other words, we hit a chute and now we want to stop the game.

Let me suggest something more empowering.

Suppose, instead, we learn to see life’s occasional “chutes” as just that -- stumbling blocks that everyone hits on their personal path to personal power, nothing to be afraid of and certainly nothing to give a lot of “meaning” to.

So you hit a chute. On your next spin, you might hit a ladder.

Most important of all, you can’t win the game unless you keep on playing.

And every minute gives you a new chance for another spin.

Take it. And don’t look back.

Ok,.....so its exactly 2 weeks until my realize band surgery.  I have been put on a medi-fast diet, and its 12 hours into it and i could really go for a cheesy pizza! lol!  No, but seriously, the food isnt good, but I will survive thru it.  If you have ever been on Medi-Fast, you know what im talking about, but the good thing is I can have unlimited amounts of soup broth, SF popsicles and SF jello..... And your probably thinking, 'thats the UPside??'  Yeah,.....it is.  
My friends asked me to go for pizza tonight, but, what I think I'll do is go thru Frischs drive thru and get a bowl of their vegetable soup strained, and slurp it while they enjoy their large cheese and pepporoni.  *I will be okay, its only for 2 weeks*  I can do it .......(trying to motivate myself here,....can u tell?)
I brought  Medi-Fast chicken noodle soup for lunch today at work.  On the box, it looks good, but we all know how that works .  Im making it w chicken broth, so there is some hope!

I'll keep you updated on how it goes!