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It has a fat woman with face cut out and it says "I am 27 years old, 2 years ago I had surgery to lose 150lbs. I am thin & beautiful now, but in my head I still feel morbidly obese. I CAN NO LONGER HIDE BEHIND MYSELF.And I'm scared..."

Sounds like you're all doing good today!! I have had my energy pill, a bottle of water.. and sipping on coffee w/sweet-n-low. I am craving a salad (thank goodness??) so I am debating where to go get one. Yes, my family makes them TALL (and big)! Wish I had a good pic of my brother standing up, at nearly 7'0 everyone looks so small next to him. I love going in public with him simply because it makes me look normal height. NSV on the NY trip, forgot to mention this too.. I did not pack ANY pants. I don't know why. I brought capris & shorts, but no jeans. I had them in my hands to pack, not sure where I put them. But I didn't want to only wear shorts to walk around, so one day I was complaining and mom told me to try her pants. I've told ya'll before I've never been able to wear her clothes, and I have always wanted to.. well, I put on her size 12 jeans and OMG they fit!! They were low rise, so they only came up to bellow my belly button which I think was part of it, but I could button, zip, sit, walk, etc. in them. I wore them all day, I was just preening!! I also wore her XL sweater comfortably (was cold and I had no warm clothes). I was just beaming that night. I'm wearing the sheer black shirt you gave me Haydee, but I wore it with a black tank top this time!! I've had 5 people comment on how cute I look today and someone asked if I had an interview or something lol.

And then here we are, gung ho and excited about the race!! And then miserable day, but here's what we waited all day for!!! Big Brown is far right (Gate 1!) And then... booo... He just stops!

Lady Liberty! A street peddler guy was offering pics with his snake. I don't have a problem with snakes, especially pet ones.. but Russell is deathly afraid of them.. so for fun I posed with it and texted him pics. Woohoo. It was a baby boa, and he kept constricting on my neck which did make me a little nervous.. then he was smelling my ear and cheek which tickled. Fun! Me & the lady!

Prayer for your family Tracy! And Kat hope the storm moves past quickly, such a rotten feeling to fight with your loved one. Not much to chat about here, I just got the camera from my uncle so going to post some pics for ya'll of my trip. Wee. Oh hah I just remembered.. I didn't tell ya'll about the SNAKE!!!

:tongue2: I don't know what they actually were, I just am guessing. Was 10 gorgeous asian women, with the traditional make up, all had the hair exactly the same with ornamentation, all had the exact same kimono dress thing on. They were following 2 asian men in suits. We called them the geisha group, but I can't say that's what they really were! It was a nightmare, but I am glad I went. I just wish I could have made things go differently.. the vomit was bad, but I was so hot and miserable, the vomit was just icing on the cake, I didn't freak out much I was just irritated.

Yup, she kept saying "This is everything I ever imagined it was, this is NOT for me", she said we'd go for a Triple Crown hopeful again, but she does not want to be in the city again.

And so it's not even more wordy, last night when I got in, my parents went straight to Bahamas and me & uncle flew home. Where they are in Bahamas, they can call out, but we can't call them. So we get home from the airport, I am SO TIRED.. I just want to sleep, I lay down, an hour into my nap my sister calls.. She's in the hospital - IN NASHVILLE. She decided with rising gas costs and (this was more of the negative crap, night before she called sayin she had a 103 fever and blah blah) her being sick, she should go to Nashville to see her gf.. then started coughing up blood. With my parents gone, I become her new mom. So I'm like wth you doing in Nashville, etc. I told her to call me when she finds anything out, then she calls mom & leaves them a voicemail. So I called them too and said, don't listen to your voicemails!! Then mom calls me, and after NYC she was so happy to get to Bahamas where she can relax. Not so much. She is like "She won't answer the phone, when you talk to her tell her to GET HER ASS HOME, and go to class on Tuesday!!". (I just want to sleep!!!!) So I text sister, she never answers, so I get online this morning, sister is talking about how she's going to Dollywood for a vacation with her g/f today (on her Myspace). So I call her, she is slurring, I'm not sure what she was explaining, but whatever. I just need her to leave my parents alone and let them enjoy their trip.

OOOOKkkk.. finally time to post. My mom never been to NYC, and always had bad ideas about it. I think due to her negative nancy-ness, she BROUGHT bad luck with us. Day 1, we got to the hotel and the guy working is talking.. literally 45 minutes. Me & mom are watching luggage so we keep going up and trying to rush them along. Meanwhile tons of people are checking in & going on their way.. including this geisha group. Well the guy finally gives us our key, we go up, room service said someone just went in there. Low and behold, between the guy's talking and not swiping our room key, the room was given to this geisha group. We go back down, no rooms will be ready till that evening. So.. we checked our luggage in.. you couldn't use the bathrooms in the lobby without a room key, so we go to Battery Park (to Statue of Liberty).. there's a bathroom! Long line, we look in.. 8 stalls, only 1 works.. and that 1 is filled with someone being sick with diarhea. We weren't moving anytime soon. So we walk to a local restaurant, that is extremely crowded, they don't have a bathroom either. We ate some luke-warm food, and decided it was 50-50 if we would get sick from it. Saw the statue, road around on the Ferry.. fun. It's been a nightmare getting a cab this trip, I don't know what's different from other times that I come!! We got one to get back to the hotel, and at some point he goes "It's 4 blocks ahead, I drop you off here". Uh???? So we get out, it was NOT 4 blocks ahead. It was 7 blocks up, 2 blocks over. I kept calling 4-11 to get info, we were so lost. What an ass, I can't believe he did that. Then we get back to the hotel that night, and get checked in.. it's a teeny tiny room with a big window right over the bathtub! We were worn out, did room service & a movie.. then got energy back, so walked down to Timesquare/Broadway at night.. that was neat.. got approached by 2 weirdo people.. 1 was rapping right in my uncle's face, and the other was trying to get my dad's Rolex watch. We kept checking our wallets! Day 2.. got up bright eyed & bushy tailed. A balmy 90 degrees with 70% humidity. Got to the races around 10am, to watch all day. I think that was a big mistake.. but didn't know it at the time. The news never told people this.. but on top of the heat, EVERY SINGLE BATHROOM IN THE PLACE broke by 11am. The first floor stopped up, then 2nd, then 3rd, and there were no more bathrooms. They let people use the top floor bathroom till it was filled up with waste, before they closed it down. 100k people, hot as hell, and no bathrooms!!!! Drenched in sweat from head to toe, places I didn't know I sweat.. Bet on races, won some bets, no breeze to be found.. and hard vomit was on my armrest, didn't think much of it originally, but from all the sweating, I ended up with chunks of vomit all over my arm!! So by time 6pm comes around for Big Brown race, I am so happy to finally see what we came there to see! We had our cameras going, binoculaurs.. I didn't even realize he fell out, it was so far away, I saw #6 (the winner) cut way ahead early on, so I thought well maybe that's Big Brown. Then all of a sudden people are cussing and throwing stuff, I look up from the binoculaurs and he's way down there stopped.. He never did cross the finish line!!!!! The funny part about betting on the winner, me & dad both picked 2 underdogs to bet on, just for fun. There were 5 big pay underdogs I took 2, he took 2.. and the last one.. WON! DOH!! So no, I didn't make a lot of money, and overall the trip was a nightmare.. but I did like the break! And I like NYC.. even though mom's negativity jinxed our entire trip!

Up at 330 to catch a flight.. deja vu. Yes, the horse race is in NYC.. GO BIG BROWN!!!!! :wink2:

My parents have a Wii, its pretty fun but the sports hurt my arm.. like bowling and tennis, you are putting a full swing/throw into it, but you're just holding a little remote, so it hurts your muscle with no resistance. I leave for NYC in the morning!!!! GO BIG BROWN!!!! See you ladies Sunday night :wink2:)

Ocean Water.. one of my friends calls it the Windex drink. I really don't know what's in it.. my guess is something blue & sprite.

LOL Michelle.. watermelon pee, mmm. Palm Springs is too expensive of a trip for me anytime soon! But yeah, do the webcam in the corner for us to see ;o)

Looks fun (and dirty) Jennifer!! Why aren't you eating chicken wings? I make them at home (non-fried), taste like from a restaurant and aren't any worse than eating normal chicken. Buy chicken wings, cover them in a chicken wing sauce (I use Budweiser brand, 15 calorie per serving), bake em in the oven.

She'll know! She needs to love herself as much as we love her, and it will take several Violet hugs.. and a beating. :cursing:

When ya'll meet up with Haydee, beat her with a stick for me. :smash: Anyone notice these smilies? They kind of creep me out - :Dancing_O_o::cursing::Dancing_sad::ohmy::Dancing_hmm:

I'll be the butthead, I've been eating so horribly, I avoid the scale. I keep having good intentions, etc.. I don't have to explain it to you, you know what I mean.. then one cookie turns into candy and some chips to boot. In any event, walked by the scale and said.. may as well see the damages..Freakin unreal, 223lb!!!!!!! Jeez if I could quit eating like a pig, and move my ass a little.. I'd be a skinny bitch by now I <3 my band.

Did they specifically say you can't have a fill? Explain what you can eat, how much you can eat, etc. Demand your fill! You can't work with the band if it isn't working for you. Kudos on the working out though )

I did get it Pam & I got the letter from Jane. I just forget between mail time and to the computer to say something. They're both on my mirror along with the Winchester postcard. THANK YOU :thumbup:) Tracy, sounds like a plan. I told you on our trip to go for it, if you're not making money, don't waste the time you could be having with Macy.

They're alright, not worth any wait time though. That's weird, maybe it'll die down once the novelty wears off. I like their ocean water drink, the rest of their stuff is no different from other fast food places.

If I don't have fertility issues. They were gonna do the testing last year and I blew it off, didn't want the vaginal ultrasound which I ended up havin to get anyway due to the infection or whatever that was..derrr.. I'm just gonna cross my fingers and hope to be preggers by September.. hah. I have a kidney in my pelvis so they gotta figure out what the baby will do sharing the room with it. Anyway, any of you seen the Hair musical movie? SIGH. I have been wanting DH to see it, it finally came on tv so I recorded it. I was checking to see if they edit it (boo!) but luckily they didn't.. then ffwd to the end when Berger goes off to war. I'm having a moment, I'm teary eyed cause I wanna baby and cause poor Berger!!!!!! LET THE SUNSHINE IN!!! If you haven't seen it, see it for me, it is so.. sad. Yes I have it bad, I've had it bad but was able to repress it, but last night holding little Judah (cute huh?) I just lost it. No more repression, I'm on my last round of b/c before I go off of it in anticipation of havin a lil lala...Or I could name her VIOLET.. Hah, that's more permanent than a tattoo!

Pfff you guys keep bringing up the older kid drama. I just want a 6lb bundle of love that clings to me and cries when I don't snuggle with it.. ya know, the wonderful stuff I was talking to my mom about it, I think I told ya'll I am 'planning' to start trying on our Jamaica trip, so I finally told mom because after last night I am just starry-eyed in love with the idea of being a mommy of such a precious little life. I have not been around a newborn in a decade, haven't held one in who knows how long (when I was younger, I was scared to hold little babies). So when I held her baby last night (2 weeks old now) I was just so overwhelmed. I wanted him to be mine and sneak out with him lol. It was just.. amazing. Most of you all know, you had kids!!! This wasn't even my own and I was so in love with him. So me and mom had long talk last night about pros & cons, she said I have till they are 13 to love them, then they run out the door saying "I HATE YOU!!". I know all this! Last night when my friend's husband said "I can't wait till he can say "Daddy I love you"".. negative nancy me said "Yeah, and then he'll say DADDY I HATE YOU!". I was a PITA kid, I know how it goes.. but there's nothing I can say to describe how it felt last night to hold the newborn baby.. and he smelled like rainbows & clouds!! Even after 4 poops in 30 minutes, he still smelled beautiful. Blah blah, I could go on and on, I am truly starry-eyed and oblivious. Oh, I'm going to see Sex & The City tonight. Did you guys see Kelsey Grammar (Frasier) had a heart attack?! He's only 53!! They expect him to be fine, but I can't believe he is having a heart attack so young.

My mom put sunblock on our scalp.. waterproof kind.

I think a large portion of us face that at some point. I have been stalled losing for about 2 months now, I am not completely stopped, but I'm not hitting 2lbs a week anymore. I just try to distract myself and not worry about it.. If I wasn't banded, I'd just be gaining right now!! Try using a food tracker and see how much is going IN, compared to how much exercise (or not) you do. Only thing to get it going again is to get back to basics. Good luck )

Post Secret is where people send in post cards with annonymous secrets of theirs. This came out this week...