I agree Ruth

Yea I guess i'm guilty of staying away from here too, and it shows.  I've been terrible and actually gainned another  4 lbs in 2 weeks (up 10 total)  I'm discussted, but when am i not?  Having a terrible time with the state and just plain BS.  MLM's dad just found out he is full of Cancer and just dealing with mlm and his family.  I am trying to get some answers for mlm's future as far as "Guardianship" and what to do or where to call for decisions. and they just told me yesterday it wasn't my concern, YET, they expect me to call the guardian for permission like 3 times a week. I'm ready to hurt someone.  anyway, back to  my weight.  I have done Excellant on exercise, I am doing walking, swimming or snowshoeing 4x a week, and the other day's i'm doing boxing and Band resistance.  so something every day,  and I hate to dissagree with everyone, but exercise does NOT help weight loss.  Not for me anyway,  I've been doing this for 4 weeks now, and my diet hasn't changed.  so I've come to a conclussion that just like doing laundry, dishes, taking my meds that I have to do, I also need to exercise, for my health but not to look at it as a weight loss tool,  just something i 'Have" to do, that way, I will continue to do it and not get discouraged and quit like I have so many times in the past.  as for my diet, its Monday so what do you think???  I have 4 weeks before vacation and am going to try my very best to loose this 10 lbs.  I hope you are all well.  anybody in for a 4 week challenge??

I am up for a two week challenge! I leave for Vegas two weeks from Wednesday and I would love love love to lose ten pounds before I go.

I too have come to the conclusion that I may not lose any more weight, but I am going to concentrate on exercising. I will be the healthiest 230 pound woman I know!  Realistically I would like to get down to a size 12, but if I stay stuck in a 16, that's okay too.  But I don't ever want to be any bigger than this so that makes me think I need to try and get a little more off so I have some wiggle room.

Kelly  can you were those jeans yet!!!  or are they too big.

remember  calories in  calories out  and yes exercise does work just keep doing it.  I  am   also one that  doesnt seem to  move the scale much when i am not exercising  but it only moves a little when i do.   i need to write down  everything that goes in my mouth.  every bit of hard candy and   anything else.

but i was good today and did my exercise

www.moveandimprove.org  starts the  28  of feb.  take care

I NEED a challenge too!   It's been REALLY hard for me not being able to exercise because of the pain and I blame this 11 pound weight gain on that (This is since June of 2009).  I KNOW I'm snacking too much and eating too many potato chips, but they are SOOO good!  LOL.  I'm getting in plenty of protein and water, I just need to quit the snacking!

So..........what's the plan!?!?!?!   Get back to basics again...right?   I NEED to quit the snacking and quit blaming the pain and pain meds for the munching I do!  I NEED to be accountable!   Almost 2 years out from surgery and I STILL log everything that goes into my mouth!  So I KNOW that my calories are too high because of the junk!  I NEED to quit!    If you all will join me....i KNOW I can get this back under control.  They exercise may not be so easy for me right now, but I'll see what I can do!

Let's get this GOING!!!!!

Hugs to you all!!!!!!!

Hope everything works out with the state and YLM!  I know how frustrating that whole situation is!  Good luck and let me know if you need anything!

I am still new enough here to not really know much of people's back stories, but . . . when starting an exercise program, some weight gain or lack of loss is common for 4-8 weeks. Some of it is water retention in the muscles for building and repairing. After that, it should start helping with weight loss by increasing metabolism as well as burning calories.

Honestly, in the past I have needed to exercise for 1-2 hours per day in order to see real weight loss benefit. It is hard to set oneself up to do that much, though.

Since you have a lap band, can it be adjusted? I was concerned when choosing the RNY that once the benefit is over it is over, but with the band the weight loss is usually slower but it can be ongoing by tweaking the fill I thought.

I'd love to lose 10 pounds in the next two weeks too . . . then I could actually use the Wii Fit.

Oh, I remember when I could finally use the Wii fit.  It was so exciting!  You'll be there soon. Also, once you have the calorie restriction you won't need to exercise as much as you used to, to see benefits.  I exercise about an hour and 1/4 a day 5-6 days a week. 

I am trying to aim for an hour for now, but I have slacked off the last few days as I have just been so tired and I have some abdominal pain that concerns me a bit. I have heard it is normal, but the nurse also told me it could be signs of a hernia developing (though early for that in terms of surgery date, but perhaps not in terms of weight loss). I am going to try to get at least 30 minutes in today. I can't do resistance stuff yet because of the abdomen. Today I will try for the cycling, but I prefer to do it with no one around and DH is home on FMLA so I guess I don't have much opportunity. In two weeks we should be all back to our normal schedule I guess.

Wow, my friend that lives in Waldoboro that had the surgery in Portland the beginning of December has had terrible luck.  He had internal bleeding, so they had to go back in and fix that, then he had a stricture, but they couldn't stretch it much because it wasn't healed.  Then a week and a half ago he had another stricture!  But Dr. Wolff did the stricture this time and her really liked her.  Keep an eye on that pain, scary stuff!

Did he have Dr. Wolff or Dr. Cobean for his initial surgery? I had Dr. Wolff. They both have good reputations, but she seems like a bit more of a stickler for rules.

I have been told that I have perhaps been doing a bit too much for being less than 3 weeks out, but . . . it's hard when you have kids, especially one that still wants to be picked up.