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TexasComputerDude wrote:

melkor41 wrote: Sorry to hear about your brother.


As far as lapband goes, im not into it. It requires a lifestyle change to work right and if im going to commit to my lifestyle change then i might as well loose it naturally.

Well, I've tried my best to lose weight naturally. I did lose 50lbs but I hit a wall. I don't know what happened but no matter what I tried I couldn't lose another pound after that. I stoped drinking diet cokes and started drinking nothing but water and I doubled my exercise routine.

I feel like the lapband can help me because I have no sense of being full. idk, I've got some new pills from the doctor that I hate taking but I'll see how well they work. I've also got an appointment for some kind of weekly weight loss injection.

I just know I need to do it fast because i am almost out of college and I need to step up my battleplans for the future. Girls are so dang picky these days lol and I need all the help I can get finding a quality girl to marry. Employers are almost as picky as well. lol.

I would say that if on your diet you hit a wall, and then you changed your diet up and you were still at that wall. Then a lapband should help you to get past that wall. If you use it as a tool for getting passed the wall.
As in my case looking back, I dont think that I was ready for this tool of a lapband. And in some ways I am not sure that I am even ready today for this tool.

TexasComputerDude wrote:have any of yall considered having lapband? I may be having that this summer if my insurance decides to cover it.

I have gone from 1.5 2 liters of coke per day to none. I guess thats a whole lot o calories lol.

so far in the past 9 months I've lost 50lbs, gained back 30lbs in the last 2 months, and lost 5lbs in the past couple days. I got off my diet when some gang bangers shot my little brother (ok he's 22) in the chest with a shotgun from around 15 yards, which incidentally lead me here and 100% made me stop screwing around at applying for my CHL. He's a lucky man to have survived. I took the class 3 weeks after he was shot.

I have had the lapband surgery. And so far it has not worked for me. In fact I am just about what my pre-surgery weight was. I lost between 40 and 50 in the first 6 months after surgery. But have gained back between 35 and 40 in the last year or so. I am at 18 months since surgery. Part of my problem is that I did not listen to what all the doctor told me before hand.
If you are going to do the surgery, then do everything that the doctor tells you to do and when they tell you to do it. Check in your area for a support group of other people that have had the lapband, so that you can talk to them about it.
I need to go in and have another fill. The fills hurt, at least for me they do. I have had 3 and passed out during all 3 of them. That why I have not had more.

PM me if you have any questions about the lapband.

I have been drinking more water as of late.
At work today, we had a power test. The elevators were not all working all of the time. I am a security officer at a hospital. I got a call on the 7th floor and had to take the stairs to get to the call. Let me tell you, I was blowing hard by the time that I got to the 4th floor from the 1st floor. I made it all the way up to the 7th floor, and did not fall over from not being able to breath. Do I want to do that again today, no. But it showed me something that I need to work on. As of right now, the elevators are all working.
I am going to try to take the stairs more if its only 2 floors that I have to go up. And will work on doing more.
I have not checked my weight in a few weeks, but I might try to later this week.

Hope that all have a great week. Keep up the good work everyone.

melkor41, Thanks for the post about joining the dojo. I will keep that in mind as I look for a schol.
Congrats on the weight still coming off.

AnnoyedMan, good job of the weight loss. I have tried weight watchers before, but was not very good at it.

Last night I walked on the ellipitcal at the house for about 20 mins. Thats more then I have been on it in 3 months. I was happy. Dont know how much it did for me. But I was happy. Will get on it again today and see how long I can go.

Water is something that I need to start drinking more of as well.

I had thought about doing martial arts, but dont think that I could do it at my size. I never did it when I was a kid, so I just dont know. Maybe I can find a class with other over weight adults in it, dont want to take a class with a bunch of little kids.

Thanks melkor41 for starting this. I hope that it will help me get myself moving to loose more weight. I was at 380 last year, then dropped down to 340. I was so happy that I was at 340. Now I am back up to about 370. I am going to make myself do more to drop the weight.

Having people that you talk to about it helps, and I hope that this thread will help us all. Again thanks for starting it. I dont think that I could have.