Adding exercise to my lap band adventure

Well yeterday I started Body Trac..which is a gym that only does small group training sessions.  I did 30 min on the treadmill and then 30 min intense circuit training...and man am I sore today!  Hoping to see the weight really start to fall off with the addition of exercise.

Today I started swimming...for all of those who don't know me, I swam my entire life all the way through college and then stopped once I finished my schooling.  I swam a 1500 which is 60 laps, and I was pretty proud of myself..It felt great to get back in the pool again after so many years.  Really considering investing in a ipod that I can take in the pool?  Pretty cool how swimming technology has even changed over the last decade.  Googles, Caps are so different and even swimming Ipods... so wish they had that stuff when I was younger.  One thing that hasnt changed is the smell of chlorine..lol.

I think the fill really is helping, I have noticed not being as hungry as I had been leading up to this week.  Yesterday I ate a piece of toast with a small amount of peanut butter before the gym.. A cup of soup for lunch and three small squares of thin crust pizza for dinner.  I didnt seem to have much hunger yesterday.. Hoping today is just as good.

Bonus...since monday i have lost 3lb...crazy right?

First Lapband Fill

Today was my first fill, and man am I ready for it..I have been able to eat anything in site the last week or so.  I was scared before I went for the fill because I wasn't sure what to expect.  It was a piece of cake(mmm cake..lol).    The doctor found my port on the sonogram machine, numbed with a needle and then filled with 5 cc of fluid.  Took 10 minutes total.

Official weigh in..down 14 lb.  Have 6 more to go to meet my June 30 goal of 20lb... On a liquid diet for two days per the doc and starting personal training on wed..so fingers crossed!

First Vacation with Lapband

Well I survived my first vacation with the lapband, and did not gain any weight...considering it was a cruise and there was food EVERYWHERE, I look at it as a huge success.  I find that I am hungrier a lot more than I was a few weeks ago, and that I can eat pretty much whatever I want.  So all the weight I lose until my first fill is pretty much on my self control(scary thought)..I am counting down the days until my first fill, which will be in two weeks.