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Thank you...so true about diet and exercise..and I haven't stopped smiling since I got my insurance letter of acceptance !!!

Its been awhile since I have posted here.... Life for me is so very different then it has been for most my life... I wake up every morning HAPPY...wanting to get dressed...wanting to look in the mirror. Even wanting to go for a walk...thinking back its all things I always wanted to do...just wasn't going to happen with 130 extra lbs on me... The band is the best thing I have done for ME...Im thankful for my supportive Husband and my sister who is my bestest friend also.... Oh it has been work...in the beginning I was hungry like I read many of you are..but I knew what I had to do to get where I wanted to be...I hung tuff and its so paid off..I started with a BMI of 47...I was tired all the time...who wouldn't be ...Yesterday I weighed in at 130 with a BMI of 25 !!!! My Dr pointed out to me that I have lost more then what I weigh right now...omg I never thought id do it...well yes I did...what I really didn't know was how good it would feel in all aspects of my life and my family's life ..I have been studing to get my GED ...though I did have to take a break from that due to my husband had a heart attic a lil over a month ago and wow that wakes everyone up fast..he is doing very well now...eating right ...exercising a lil more then he did before..during that month my band got so tight I couldn't eat anything and enjoy it...not good...I did see Drs yesterday and got my band unfilled ( scary ) but a upper GI on Monday and if all looks good he will refill it...I was at 8.5 ccs....might go down to 8...what ever he says... SO life is wonderful 19 months since I was banded !!!

what a great idea...next time head hunger hits me Im going to break out the nail polish....thanks !!!

congrats....You Go Girl !!!

I agree ..nothing goes down easy in the morning....I thought Id change it up a lil this morning and had a egg with some chopped up tomato....I ate slow...but im hurting.....

still laughing ....

Very good read Jean...I have a nephew I love dearly who needs to read this and hear it....He is so young and so obease...his poor mother worrys every day about him...but he is in denial about just how big he is......~sighs~

I so see myself here Jean....thanks for the good read....

I can hear you smiling in your words... so happy for you !!!

wow I agree you dont look old enough to have grand babies,,,,, congrats....you did great

sorry just re read your post guess you just had a fill......

Not sure if you still have lil ones in the home but if you dont...just dont keep fatning foods around......or have one place for just YOUR foods....and when your head thinks you hungry know you can only pick from them...maybe one see through container with cut up peppers....carrots....WW chees sticks....fresh fruit all cut up..... Have you thought about maybe a small fill....? Good Luck....hugs

Awww Dawn.....i love bananas....full of sugar...no wonder I love um thanks for this....

you can do it !

Thank you ...very good reading

Your awsome girl.... Its no wonder I always liked that game

~claps~ so proud of you AJ.....

Oh hun sorry you had to go through that...glad your feeling better

I agree....stay away from foods with salt....that will raise your BP.... I know for myself if I eat solid protein first at every meal....I cant eat more then a C of food.... good luck...stick with the rules....as hard as it seems its so worth it... you can do this !!!

thanks girls...its such a powerful feeling to be in control Makes them hard days a lil more bareable !!!

That sounds like your in a very good spot to me.... I might pass on a fill this time.....~hugs~ good job

Just have to put down in print a NSV I had today Yesterday I got myself down because my day started just like every other day for lunch I wanted soup and decided to have a bowl of onion soup...then another... and in each bowl I put oyster crackers in them...My down fall is pretzles and saltie crackers are trigger foods for me... so from there on it was a eatting frenzi for me...Thank goodness I dont have any junk food in the house...so I over did with good things... I woke up this morning with a fear OMYGOODNESS please let me get ahold of this eatting and not have a day like yesterday...( I swear I even dreamed of food) So breakfast I had my usual yogurt...ok....lunch time I had a bowl of salad with a C of cottage cheese garnished with some slivered almonds....4 bites in and I was wow...Im full !!! But I was scared not to get my protein in so it took me a hr to get it all down.... Then I started watching TV as I folded laundry....The Cake Boss....and they were baking with Choc...and OREOs....and OO WOW I wanted choc !!! SO I got myself a small SF jello cup....took 2 bites and really enjoyed and thought about the taste...I satified my craving and folded the foil lid back over the cup put it back in the fridge and I was happy... This may all sound like such a small thing to some of you...but for me its a HUGE NSV.... A year ago I would of had one cup cuz I wanted one....the second cup to taste it...and a third cup cuz I didnt even taste the first 2......Food controled my every min of my days...to be in control of food is the best......