Week 7

Weigh day end of week 7....  12.1 Kg down, I didn't quite make the 12.5 (2 stone mark)..I will have to move this target on to my 2 month Bandiversary..... I was very tempted to go to the Gym and Sauna this morning to see if I could sweat that  0.4 Kg away...but work commitments won't allow it today...Bah...

I have booked my 2nd fill for next Tuesday, and the records show that I have lost 3 Kgs in the 3 weeks since my 1st fill , which is a great rate of loss and one I would love to continue for the next 10 months :-) , however the problem with keeping records and stats is that they can be read in so many different ways , On the other hand I had lost 10 Kg at week 2 , which also means that I have only lost 2.1 Kgs in the last 5 week :-(      this is not such a great loss....but a loss is a loss...

Anyhow, I will have to wait until fill number 2 next week and hopefully this will bring me closer to the ever elusive "green and sweet spot".

* NSV as you ladies put it , in week 7 , I have been to the Gym twice , played golf (walking not buggy) twice , been considerably more active and my knees are nearly pain free *

Ciao

Andrew

The Gym....

Yesterday was a real milestone for me on my journey and new life style...After a period of absence of around 4 years...YES 4 whole years...I returned to the Gym on Friday morning...I took it a little easy , 30 mins on the bike and some upper body weights only, a total of about an hour......I woke up this morning with a few aches and pains, but they are the pains that give you comfort that you had a decent work out....I still have a little problem with my knees when I wake up , but they are easing week by week...The more I exercise the easier they will get , I hope.

After the Gym I had an hour in the sauna and steam room , before sitting quietly on the beach , glowing  and feeling really contented...it was a really good day :-)

Weight wise, today I am only 0.5Kg from my first goal of 2 stone (28 lbs) , I hope I can throw this by Tuesday morning, It all depends on my liquid retention during Monday.

Fingers crossed..

Hope you all have a good weekend...

Ciao

Andrew

Choices, Choices, Choices....

Weigh Day....Week six...and a slight gain this week 0.5 Kg....and I was totally expecting it, in fact I think the gain is pretty good following the week I've had.....

The week started on Wednesday with paddies day...enough said about that evening,  Friday we were out with friends that we had not seen since Christmas , Indian food and beer...Ummm nice

Sunday I was rail roaded into watching the EPL football at my golf club, which turned into a rather late session...

Now,  I can say  categorically that the band is working fine , I'm certainly not at the sweet spot but it is working, I have limited restriction and it is enough to stop any bingeing and on each of the above days I did not eat anywhere near as much as I normally would have, on Friday I had a soup starter (at an Indian restaurant!!) and a starter portion of tandoori lamb chops for my main course , no dessert....this was really really good of me.....except.... for the few beers and the wine, oh and don't forget the cocktails we all drank at the start of the night..a good night (week) was had by all...but I have paid for it today on the scales.....

Sooo...This week, I still have 2.5 Kg to lose to reach my mini goal, and this means....NO Booze for Big Daddy...it is full of evil empty calories which slip through my nice new and shiny band..

I have the answers , I know what to do , I now have the prefect tool to help me....BUT....I must make the right choices, at least 90% of the time.

Keep smiling , I'm down 11kg in 6 week, but it should have been 12.5Kg ... This week will be better ;-)

Ciao.

I'm being called a loser....and I like it.

Not a good week for weight loss I'm sure, never mind move on.....I have however, been told on 3 separate occasions over the weekend how much weight I have lost , from people who I have not seen for a couple of months :-)

People who see me every day are not noticing (yet) but the others are ....I'm happy....

Weekend

Thursday Night and the weekend is here in sandy Abu Dhabi...and tonight I am absolutely knackered...yesterday was Paddy's Day..as we all know judging by the wave of green blogs yesterday   ;-) it was also the monthly meet of the Abu Dhabi lighthouse club (the construction industry charity I'm involved in )...this meet is a very social thing.......and ended up with to many hours of merriment , and the drinking of way to many Kilkennys ( Paddy's day)...and today when I jumped on the scales..with a delicate head....Arrgghhh......hopefully all liquid which will shift over the coming 5 days , I do not want a gain this week.....

The fine restriction I had straight after the fill has gone already and I can now eat anything and in quite large amounts..without thinking about it and without to much chewing.......I think I  need fill number 2 .

On a different note...I met up with Roo from A Brand New Roo for lunch in Dubai on Wednesday, we had a good chat about being banded and band issues...It was great finally meeting up with her...

Must go I've got the latest episode of Lost to watch on DVD.....

Ciao for now......

Tuesday Weigh Day......

Early morning news..... 2 kgs loss this week for Big Daddy and a total of 11 Kgs in 5 weeks ( 1.5 stones if your British ).

Mini target set for 2 stones by the month end ( 12.5 Kgs ).

Coffee...My Saviour...

Well it has been an interesting week since the fill.....My feelings of being full come and go... and as I have read so many times on these bloggs, the band is very unpredictable indeed.......Now here is the thing, I have been studying my feelings of satisfaction, and FOOD is not the thing that is filling me up.... NO really it's not........Coffee is my current saviour.......I am eating breakfast , lunch and dinner and I get a mild feeling of being full , BUT once I wash it down with a large coffee ( no milk of course ) I become really FULL....now I know this goes against one of the 10 rules of banding.....no liquid for at least half an hour.....but it is working for me.....I'm down about 2 KG this week ( not official until Tuesday)...

So does any one else feel this way ????

Restriction

Today and yesterday I have restriction , yippee....I am not fully restricted in the quantity of food that I can eat , I can certainly eat more than a cup full , but  I am staying full... like for ever.... This morning I ate 2 small pieces of brown toast with 2 scrambled eggs at 7am and its now 2.30pm and I'm still not hungary...Fantastic.....

I Fill happy, so so happy.......so happy so happy so gay.....

Well that was easy, Fill number one over , I now have 3 cc's added to my band and it took about 10 mins flat......

And so we move move onto the next stage of the journey....

Blah.......

Weigh day today and a gain (slightly) ...I suppose I should be happy, I have a 8.1 Kg loss (18lbs) in the last 4 weeks since the Op, and this is the healing time, or so I keep telling myself...BUT being this same weight 1 week after the surgery and being 10Kg down 2 weeks after surgery , I must admit , I am a little disappointed....

Fill this afternoon at 3.30 and then all my troubles will be over  :-) 

Forever the optimist

Andrew

Another week nearly over...

Firstly l would like to thanks BG and Sandy for nominating me for the sunshine awards , I will forward the awards onwards with my nominations in the coming couple of days when I get the chance.

I am nearing the end of week 4 since banding , and I am not happy to say that I am able to eat a whole  lot again , the restriction, what ever I had has gone. I have had a few tempting but enjoyable evenings out where I have ended up eating more than I really wanted to, however on the plus side , the food choices have not been to bad and the volume was still not as much as it might have been I suppose.... and because of these distractions the weight is going up and down daily , yesterday morning I was at a  new low of 11 Kg loss , and today its back up to 8 Kg......I think the polite wording is WTF ! ........Lets get that fill and get back to losing....

I have attached a photo of a golf day I attended over the weekend , it was for a charity that I am involved in  that is related to the construction industry , the day out was fantastic as the game was played on a brand new Gary Player  course that lies on the arabian gulf against a back drop of powder white sand and bright blue seas...really quite special......(wonder if the golf will improve with weight loss).....

So onwards and  upwards  down wards ..... Tuesday is weigh day and fill day....Lets get losing..

Technical question number 2

Can anyone tell me please, if you respond to comments made on your  blog, do they get back to the comment originator , or do you need to respond directly on their blog ??

Weigh Day and Rain

Well as expected I had a gain in weight today from that of last week, I am weighing the same as 2 weeks ago despite eating a much smaller volume of food as I would normally do...This is quite normal I believe......


On another subject , I have attached a photo taken today of the aftermath of the rain we suffered last night , this is proof that we do get rain in the desert......and when it rains it pours....

Success

Many thanks to LD Swims for showing me the way to re - enable the comments box....Thanks

Technical Help Needed

It seems that my friends are having a problem in posting comments to me....I have checked the comment settings and they all seem to be set to allow anyone to comment....Any one have any ideas on why this might be happening ?

I had changed by Blog template , which I have changed back now to see if this solves the problem....

BOO HOO :-(

Not a good day yesterday , my football team lost , Boo Hoo (I nearly have man tears).....also I had a few to many beers to drown my sorrows ( had we won I would have probably had a few beers to many to celebrate ),  the weigh in tomorrow will definitely see an increase in my weight even though I have not been eating any where near as much as normal... ..Boo Hoo again....

never mind lets start again tomorrow....Only 1 week to my first fill..  :-)