lizrbit

oh embrace me my brothers and sisters for i have sinned. Tonight i blew it bigtime and im payin the price...chinese food buffet with grill. oh holy cow. im still miserable. ive walked the length of town and back, then again, and then im hot teaing it, and tums. good lord almighty.

ouch..... about once a month my family used to go out to this one really great chinese buffet on sat or sun for the steak and grill part....its really awesome... and tonight we went, first time since banding feb 13. I was very hungry and didnt chew as well as i usually do. I also had Two rolls of fried dough (i know) and i cut them up, at those very tiny and chewed, but then followed with the grilled steak. Yum, but then OUCH. holy cow i was miserable. if i could have thrown up i would have, but i didnt so i walked, and walked and kept walking, when i got home i walked some more, pausing occassionally to bend over and pray for relief. when i got back to the house i drank three cups of hot tea slowly, and popped and chewed about ten 'tums' like antacids. ah. better, finally...but tomorrow im going to liquids for the day just to get my feet under me. holy cow it was good, but totally not worth the pain that followed. holy cow.

Jill! jill, jill, jill.... seriously i thought i was the only person on the planet who loved that song. To me its a perfect "im pissed off and leaving town" song...pearl jam's 'rear view mirror'. woo! nice selection!!!

oh man you hit it on the head. there is no pleasing some people, and it really does show you who your real friends are. i lost around 70 lbs a decade ago, and i worked mostly around men, with just a handful of office women. I was in an art department for a store signage shop. The attitudes of the men completely changed as well as the women. The few women i worked with, MOST of them (with the exception of TWO) became almost crusade like in their attempts to put me down. I heard all kinds of rumors. The men, were worse. I USED to have a jovial relationship with them, got along great and laughed easilly. that changed completely and my own supervisor completely stopped talking to me. in all fairness, it wasnt just the wieghtloss, the drug made me a bit loopy. i lost my job over all of it. it was still worth it. id have done it again in a heartbeat. For the first time in my life i saw a size 5. i didnt keep the wieght off. Within a month of going off the drug, i put on fifteen lbs, and it just balooned out from there. still...for a year i knew what it was like to be thin. i could bend my legs anyway i wanted. I RAN inthe mornings, each morning. (before my ankle went all to hell and i had to have a new one made) This is much healthier than how i got there before (phenphen) and im even more proud of the changes. I work for myself now.

babygirl!!! i gotta chime in here...this is ONE of the reasons i want to put my arms around my surgeon and kiss him full out on the lips. while i was in galveston, the cottage that i stayed at had two wonderful bicycles that came with it. About a week after my surgery, i decided to try it, and...after not having ridden one in 12 years, i did...within that week i had built up to using the bike as transportation, to go to the store, to go to the seawall, to go meet my friends at the club. Within the next week i was using it to ride 8 miles (to the movie theater and Krogers which is 4.8 miles from the cottage)...DAILY. eight miles a day!!! for me, that was an enormous milestone. by the time i left the cottage (i was there for three months) it was NOTHING for me to wake up just before sunrise and be on the seawall on my 8mile treck as the sun came up every morning. It was fantastic. i miss it greatly. i just wanted to tell you that your goal is totally possible. Try 'on the way' first and work up to it and it will FEEL effortless. Good luck and know as your peddling that i wish i was too! (its mudseason here in northern maine and SOON ill be out on the trails here too)

Welcome! Mainiac/Texan here: Galveston Rocks!

i had been doing GREAT till i got home from texas. Banded 2/13. ive lost quite a bit but im worried that now im back in a cold climate ill burrow in with something decadant and warm and not come out till June. I have another fill coming april 27! im looking forward to it. My appetite in the last few days has REALLY picked up. im working out during the mornings but seriously its too cold to do anything once i leave there. i usually go home, make lunch, spend a few hours on here, take a nap, then hang out wiht the boys till dinner. then crash on the couch before going to bed! egads.

my name is elizabeth (yawn, such a plain name) so this is just a more appropriate version that fits me better.

man yall can fling some poo. just watchin it gets my heart rate up. someone calling someone hitler and stalin and what not? Fling that Poo! how do we feel about abortion?

also might add prenatal vitamins too. Ive read folic acid has something to do with it. i could be fulla poo but its worth a shot. A handful of years ago when i was on phenphen (ooo) i lost about seventy lbs and a bunch of hair too. I started the prenatals and it came back. also started using infusium shampoo conditioners, it helps bring moisture back. If that doesnt work, try sebastians potion number 9. just a dab of goo will do after you get out of the shower.

okay now im starting to worry? anyone hear from her? ....

forgive me for posting this late in the game but I KNOW MONCTON!!!! Im not that far from you!!! isnt it a small world? i live in Presque isle maine. i have major works hanging in Moncton.

SIGN ME UP! im doing it already but about twice a week i dont...and the rest of my life is VERY sedentery. i belong to a gym and go in the mornings, i throw on my work out clothes, grab my bag, work out then shower there for the day. sundays the gym is closed and its WAY too cold for me to go outside. any ideas on what to do on those days? anway..i digress. COUNT ME IN! are we using www.fitday.com to keep track or ?

i had it PREOP..way before preop, really bad especially at night. Since banding, i havent had one single episode. I do however, gurgle sometimes and some nitwit at a meeting said THAT was acid reflux...like i didnt know what reflux was...but this gurgling isnt unpleasant or produce acid in anyway, and actually feels like a relief. it comes after i eat softsolids like poached eggs, oatmeal or uncondensed Soup. sounds like babyfood sliding down a pvc pipe. lol was that tmi?

i dunno if youd wanna do that because of your incision scars? uv rays are really bad for them. might wanna wait till they receed a bit before hitting the shake n bake.

OH my GOD...syrah! I use flinstones complete chewables. I spent two hours this morning going over the backs of vitamins available in town (okay im SLIGHTLY ocd) and they had the highest count of the chewables and liquids available otc. I ran out of my regulars. i think its the folic acid in the prenates thats so coveted.

hi from the crazy pool... i live in the most northern tip of Maine, and had my surgery in Houston because i dug the dr's stats and reputation, plus i love galveston and REALLY enjoy flying back down. I trust my surgeon completely and i wouldnt want anyone else doing my fills, but i realize im in the minority on this one. I am also very lucky and my insurance paid for my surgery, and since i buy my airline tickets in as far as advance as possible i usually can get to houston what it takes most people to get to portland. so...no complaints here! anyway...just thought youd like to know that if you decide to just bust out and go somewhere non local, i was in that boat too. :::waving::::

what is a pork barrel? and does it have anything to do with Pork Bellies? what does a pork belly have to do with the iraq war? or a pork barrel? is it like a hollowed out ham flavored jelly bean designed to hold nuclear weapons of mass destruction? :::gasp:::: i think something in my frontal lobes just exploded. literally exploded. suddenly i cant remember my childhood or what my middle name is.....

i Love the thread where we put what we eat...what we really eat...daily. I first heard of fitday through HERE, then a week later my nutritionalist said i had to get an account with them (its free) so i hit my account and as acurately as i can, put what i eat, exactly what i eat, as well as my workouts and notes right there, then publish it so my nutritionalist back in Houston can see it online! I live in Maine. this works out pretty well and its fairly easy to keep up. http://www.fitday.com/WebFit/PublicJournals.html?Owner=Lizrbit

welp...im not going to wear a tshirt stating it, does that mean im not supportive of you? of course not. its a personal choice. i just think its hypocritical for you guys to slam her. its my smelly opinion. we all have one.

i dont see them as particularly unhealthy. I havent read one that really stood out as not good. Sure those on mushies or liquids have it tough, but you know better than anyone that those are only transitional phases and not long term. What alarmed you? maybe im not understanding?

i have a technical question. i chose this place to place it cause its one of my favorite threads. heres the deal. i have it marked over on "options" to get a notification DAILY for my subscribed threads, of which there are MANY cause i like this forum so much. THE PROBLEM is that some of them are still on instant notification so i get a TRILLION emails every fifteen minutes. anyone know how to fix it so that they all come daily instead?

its little amounts right? is it real bread or do they do wafers? test it out at home first so you dont pb it back up right there...goodness that could send a wrong message couldnt it? if theres a problem with eating even that little piece of bread, talk to your pastor and he can bless a piece of cracker for you specificly. id practice with a piece the estimated size at home first and just see. Alot of bandsters can eat bread still.

ewwww! ya chewed an unchewable! seriously though i have a friend who had a full RNY and his dr put him on prenates too. They are great, especially for men whove had the surgery because they contain elements and minerals not found commonly in regular over the counter vitamins. (you wont lose your hair!) and you will retain a slight GLOW :welldoneclap: Just get the chewies. Man i wish i could have heard you go off on them. Id have been livid! what if they had screwed up your HEART MEDICINE? Oh dont even get me started.

yes i realize i smell like, and look like, a lemon poptart. in all things considered, thats not so bad really is it?