Getting Back on Track

So I've been struggling lately, ever since I had an unfill. Eating too much has been my primary issue. I've been going up and down between 217lbs and 220lbs but this past week I really gave myself a kick in the butt to get back on track and today I am back at 217lbs which feels great! I found out that in April I am going to Florida so that helped to really get me focused and knock off the nonsense. I would really love to lose 50lbs by then if at all possible!! It's nice to have a goal in mind. I really want to feel good in a bathing suit!

Diet Tribe

Throughout all the community boards I am on I never find anyone talking about this show, Diet Tribe! This is its second season. It's always a goup of 5 woman who are friends and are trying to create happier healthier lives for themselves. This season their goal was to each loose 50lbs in 120 days. Next Friday November 20th is the season final on Lifetime. Lanessa (all the way to the right of the picture) has already lost 51lbs, and the rest of the woman are pretty darn close. I can't wait to see if they make it next week!

As I watch this show I get really inspired to challenge myself to loose 50lbs in 120 days....wouldnt that be amazing??? If I started today Nov. 15th....day 120 would be March 14th. I watch these woman make a real commitment to changing their eating habits and really sticking to a gym schedule. Now I have made some serious changes compared to what I was doing pre-band....but there is always a part of me that is saying I could try harder.

Anyone else ever feel like they can try harder than they are???

Venting

I just wanted to take this opportunity to vent my frustration with the scale! I have been a very very good girl and have been working out daily. Occasionaly I take a day off to let my body rest....also I have been really good eating wise, I have been staying around 1300 cailories daily. I think I feel my body perhaps "firming" up a little bit but the darn scale isn't budging in numbers...... I think I am going to lengthen the time of my cardio workout and see if that helps. Any advice????

Virtual Model Makeover

If you have never played around with any of the virtual model makeovers...you should give it a try it's a lot of fun! Here is the site that I did it at...... Prevention

"First Fill"

I got my first fill yesterday since my ER Unfill Extravaganza. She put 1.5cc's in bringing me to 2.5cc's. I feel no difference which I knew would be the case but that is just fine with me! I am going back in 2 weeks. I did manage to loose 2lbs since the last time I saw her though which was only 2 weeks. So 1lb per week with nothing in the band is not too shabby in my opinion. However, that does leave me at a 217 that I feel like I have been at forever!!! lol o Well it will come off sooner or later.

Holiday Eating Season

Happy November everyone!! I just love November, not only because Thanksgiving is my favorite Holiday but because my Birthday is this month also!!! Every few years my Birthday actually falls right on Thanksgiving and as a child that was always so much fun because we got to have a big cake after
dinner!

I do have some concerns as we enter the holiday season however. Holidays means you eat more than normal and combine the 2 and your extended family is always around and my family knows NOTHING about me having the lap band. I'm actually pretty thankful that I had to get my band unfilled, hopefully this will make it a little less obvious that I can't eat as much as all of them. If you don't know, my mom, dad, and husband are the only one's who know that I have the band. I have not told anyone else because I don't want to be under a microscope and I know so many of them would be like "why did you do that?" They wouldn't get it. I assume one day I will tell them, but that is one day very far away from now!

Can some of you veterans out there give me some tips/advice or any comments that might help me out this holiday eating season??

BMR

basal metabolic rate
Function: noun
:the rate at which heat is given off by an organism at complete rest

When I started my journey I weighed 252lbs and my BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) was 1,953. Which means I could eat 1,953 calories per day and maintain my weight of 252lbs. 1lb equals 3,500 calories so as an example if I wanted to loose 1lb per week just by cutting calories than I would have needed to only consume 1,453 calories per day. This would have cut 500 calories from my diet each day resulting in cutting 3,500 calories per week and that equals 1lb lost. Sounds easy right?

I was watching a Dr. OZ episode where he was talking about weight loss plateaus and your BMR which made me think to check my own. Up until this point I had been loosing weight, and been going about my daily life with the assumption that my BMR was still 1,953. When in all actuality when I plugged my new numbers into the BMR Calculator I found out that my new BMR is now 1,800! That is a difference of 153 calories. So in other words, if I was still eating 1,453 calories per day I was no longer burning 3,500 calories or 1lb per week. Instead I was burning only 2,429 calories which would have caused me to loose less than 1lb per week. So I would have needed to adjust my food consumption to 1,300 calories per day so I could maintain my goal of 1lb lost per week. Does this make sense?

I share this only because if I didn't know that ones BMR can change, I imagine that other people out there don't know this either and can't understand why they can't get past the plateau they have reached. I hope that this helps someone out there and that even if you already knew this that you might take the time to pass it on to someone else that you think might benefit from knowing it!

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