It's way to early for this!

It should be illegal to catch a flight before 9am. Seriously.. I was up at 4:30am this morning... I was in bed by 9:30pm so I did get a good 7 hours shut eye, but nobody should have to get up at that time... nobody!

Down in Adelaide today. Only a quick day trip... I have to really prepare when I travel. I've got some yoghurt, pureed fruit, le snack and up and go in my bag so that at least I have something that I can eat during the day. I never know where my meals are going to come from, or what they're going to have in them... so I'd prefer to eat what I know is safe, rather than having to worry about where the nearest loo is or being stuck in a window seat and having to climb over 2 other people also eating breakfast to get to the loo in time. I've got travelling domestic down to a fine art when it comes to food... people think I'm weird that I eat my own food when I travel.. ah well.

Thanks for my birthday wishes! I had a lovely day yesterday.

LBG xx

Happy Birthday to me!

29 today! So old. Last year of my 20's... so depressing..

Band is tight this morning. I'm looking mornfully at my protein drink wishing I could drink it, but I'm up to pussy's bow at the moment... might finish the rest of it for morning tea.

It should be a rule that you can't be tight on your birthday! I want to eat cake!!

LBG xx

Weigh in - Sunday 3rd May

Hi to all of you out there in Bandit Land..

1 day late on my weigh in, but happy to report I'm now at 90.4kg, so lost 500g this week. Although, Wii Fit scales told me I was at 89.3kg...

An excellent week for fitness this week:

Monday: Rest - was feeling very very weak and dehydrated from my over fill so no exercise for me!
Tuesday: Spin Class 45 mins (550 cals)
Wednesday: Boxing Class 50 mins (600 cals)
Thursday: Cardio Session PM 40 mins (500 cals)
Friday: Cardio and weights 60 mins (500 cals)
Saturday: Spin Class 45 mins (550 cals)
Sunday: Walk 60 mins (500 cals)

Feeling like I've got a tonne of energy these days. I love that feeling.

Hope you all have an excellent weekend!

LBG xx

Another day..

Not much to report today in my lapband world. I was feeling very snacky today. Here is what I ate:

BF: Berocca, Hazelnut latte and Musashi P30 protein shake (400 cals)
MT: Nothing
L: 3 bites of my McCain twin pack chicken pasta, half an apple and 15 rice crackers (200 cals)
AT: Other half of my apple, 1 golburn valley apple puree and snack pack of paradise lite biscuits (250 cals)
D: 3/4 cup of vegetable frittata (400 cals)

Exercise: 550cals burnt over 45 mins in the gym.

A picture perfect day! And I've got enough frittata left over for tomorrow lunch AND dinner! YAY!

LBG xx

Normal eating? What exactly is this?

I don't know about the rest of you bandits out there, but I constantly struggle to define what normal eating is. But I think that as each of us are different, then what is considered "normal" should also be different!

Last night I had a mini quiche lorraine (about the size of my palm), I had half a chat potato (which are the mini potatos) and 3 florets of broccoli. I ate my meal within 30 mins, small mouthfuls (I'm talking the size of my thumb nail) and I felt pleasantly full afterwards. That's what I call a "normal" meal for someone with a band. At lunch I was able to eat half of a vegetable rissole (which was made from potato, corn, beans, carrot and other bits and pieces). The portion was about the size of the palm of my hand and just as thick. Had that at 12 noon and was full until 4pm. At 4pm I had 3 water crackers with 3 slices of cheese. Perfect! Breakky I just stuck to liquids, and then a cup of tea at morning tea. There was cake yesterday for a work celebration - I didn't even think about having any... so good to have that control!

Anyhoo, did a fab boxing class this morning. Feeling pumped. Hope you all have a great day!

LBG xx

The joy of the band..

Now I remember what it was like to have perfect restriction. Full after 1/2 - 1 cup of food, not hungry between meals.. love it!

Feeling much better today... hydrated and energised. Going to do a hardcore session at the gym to celebrate!

LBG xx

Un-Filled... the relief!!

I bit the bullet and went back to the center for an un-fill today. Had 0.25mL taken out. Oh my fucking god... the difference between that drop of water is absolutely amazing. I went from not even being able to swallow water to eating home made pumpkin and kumera soup for dinner tonight! Sooooooooooooooo good.

I knew I would need some fill taken out, don't wait too long!

LBG xx

Long may it last...

Ahh, the feeling of complete fullness.. I have it back after seeing my wonderful fill doctors at the centre. They basically said my head space was right, my eating was pretty good (except that I was eating too much) and that my exercise was spot on and that the band wasn't working for me because my fill level was down. 0.5mL back inside me... no dramas!

I did have a chat to them about my confidentiality and they have kept me assured. This person doesn't generally access the "banded" patients files and would only go looking if she had a reason. If she did find out, she would be under strict confidentiality laws not to say anything to me or any one else. I told the fill doctor that if she did find out about it and came to me, then I would ask her not to tell anyone... and that if she did, I would be notifying the staff at the centre that I had a breach of my confidentiality and privacy and they would deal with her appropriately.

So last night I had half a cup of velish soup.... couldn't finish it all. This morning I'm having my berocca and a protein shake for breakky, soup for lunch and probably soup for dinner too!! I'm on liquids for the whole weekend and then progress to mushies on Monday.

I'm also going to start an official weight loss day and post every Saturday. So today I weighed in at 90.9kg.

And finally, Lest We Forget - to our brave aussie and NZ heros who died for us... I'll be Cheers'ing my liquid weekend to you!!


LBG xx

Crazy hunger!

Yesterday throughout the whole day I was hungry! Like ravenous hungry... and I haven't been that way in a long long time.

I think it started with me no eating breakfast (because I wasn't hungry then!)... and then by 11am I was starting to get the rumbles so I had a cupa noodle soup and a couple of cups of diet cordial (before the soup of course!).

Lunch was a very unappetising Gourmet on the Go Tuna and Pasta meal (sorry folks, I take back what I said about this little number... the tuna one is nasty!)... so I had about 3 small bites of it and threw the rest in the bin... mistake number two.. no proper lunch.

When I got back to my desk I had a whole orange AND a whole nashi pear AND a packet of popcorn (around 1.5 cups) ... and then at 2pm I had 2 packets of the paradise lite mini chocolate chip cookies (120cals per packet) and a cup of coffee... and then on the way home from work at around 4:30pm I had my mainland on the go cheese and cracker snack (3 slices of cheese and 3 crackers)...

I had decided to do the 7:30pm boxing class so as soon as I got home from work I wacked dinner in the oven - a fillet of baked battered white fish, some home made potato wedges made from chat potoatos (so they're really mini wedges - so cute!) and some steamed beans and carrots....

.... crazy motherfucker band wouldn't let me eat 3 bites before I couldn't have any more..... like what the hell? I'd been eating like it was going out of fashion during the day, but as soon as I sit down to dinner my band clamps down... and I wasn't taking big bites, I was chew-chew-chewing those veges... sometimes I just don't get it!

Anyhoo, did 1.5 hours at the gym yesterday - burnt 1100 cals. Wrecked myself at the boxing class, it was madness, but so much fun. I was so sweaty afterwards my hair felt like I'd just stepped out of the shower! That's what I'm talking about!!

Fill tomorrow... but I'm definitely going to bring up my crazy band antics with my doctor...

LBG xx

No fill today...

Somebody I know works at the centre where I was banded, and they don't know about my operation... she works Monday, Tuesday and Thursday... so I asked if I could be booked in on Wednesday to avoid seeing her there. Unfortunately, she has decided to work on Wednesday so I had to get my fill appointment changed to Friday afternoon at 4:30pm... and it's not with the doctor that I like either (which will probably make it easier for me to go!!!). So not too bad. I was psyching myself up for the fill/visit today... but now it will have to wait until friday. You know the first thing I thought was?

Oh no! I won't be able to have take away on Friday Night!!!... how crazy! Look how demeted my thought process is!!! I will only be able to have liquids now at least for the first 24 hours after my fill.... so there will be NO take away on Friday night... I can see that my fat brain has come back a little now that I'm more hungry.. I think more about food these days and I want to go back to being full all the time... not just for the first hour after I eat.

Did a hard core session at the gym yesterday. Skipped spin because my legs were wrecked from Pump on Monday morning, but ended up doing over an hour walking, cross training and skiing and burnt 850cals! Go me!

Anyhoo... that's all from me today!

LBG xx