Daisalana

I lost approx. 104lb by my 1 year anniversary.. and I did not start really exercising until about 1 week before my 1 year anniversary.

Just saw this response, and had to point out. Grades DO matter in college. I guess, it depends on where you work. I have been interviewed at 2 places that required a TRANSCRIPT of your college, and they ask you why you have withdrawals, why you made certain grades, etc. And if you see post above, I have deserved an A on at least 3 of my papers, and never got higher than an 86. And I don't appreciate a professor who is too power hungry to assign adequate grading. If I deserve an A, I deserve it. Not a single person in this class made an A on any of the essays, and I have read several essays during peer reviews, and I am not the only person who deserved an A on several occasions.

Just an update, I told you before she has ambiguous grading info. Well, my last paper I got back (final paper), it says "This is a great solid essay, transitions are well written, and you used good supportive citing". My grade? 86. Final class grade? B. Every single essay was an 80 something. Idiot power-stricken people. If I was still doing straight A's I would fight it, but I know I made a B in my Spanish II class.

My doc made me wait 6 weeks, and I don't think it will slip your band, but, can pull stitches which could lead to a slip or pull stitches in your port and make it come unattached... and this is speculation, but my port was flipped early on so I had to have another surgery.. and I was cleaning my house 1 week post op and I shouldn't have been. I was bending over, etc. I can't help but wonder if that was part of it. I thought I was taking it easy, but hindsight is 20/20.

As for not having a treadmill, go walk around the hotel a few times, walk up their stairs for a while, etc. And for food, just make a conscious choice to eat 'better'. No need to get bummed, this doesn't have to be a bad thing for a bandster.

I saw Anwyr Robinson last night! Ya'll remember him from last season? The long dreads, perfect smile, music teacher? He was in this musicla I went to (RENT) last night. Kind of neat.

Tracy- Yeah, I saw that & was wondering what it was! Did it automatically do that, or can you undo it? Just E-mail it to me.

I missed something, I didn't know anyone was self conscious about the Violet trip? I know what you mean Pam, when I do conventions for (stupid) video games we play, I have always been extremely nervous cause I was fat. I have no self consciousness about meeting up with you guys, I mean really.. we all had weight loss surgery, it's not like we didn't know each other was at least at one time obese, yeah?! I am still obese, some of you are still right? So.. who the hell cares. You guys are my friends, not people who are out to judge me. Yay! I can't wait, and can't believe it's 3 weeks away!!!! I saw RENT tonight with fam. 2nd time seeing the broadway, and guess who played one of the chars? (Tom Collins for any of you who know RENT).. Anwar Robinson.. from American Idol last year.. the black guy with the long dreads and the perfect smile (the music teacher). Was so good, I love the music. I was singing along, crying, laughing.. yadda yadda.

I think you just imagine yourself bigger than you are! We've seen pics!! :smile2: Aw Judy, I think you're cute!

Well Kat I'm bringing you one t-shirt, but it's really low cut I always wore it with a camisole underneath! Although, since your surgery is now before the trip (right?) you won't need a shirt that big :blushing:

Good question, I know it's supposedly harder near goal. I am still at least 50lb from goal and I'm hitting a wall. It scares me, every day I wonder if 'this is it', kind of thing. I was losing well, then bam it stopped. I started going to the gym, making sure to drink at least 60oz of water a day, and making sure I stayed 1,200 calories or less (began tracking again to figure out if I was eating more than I thought). Despite that, I was still not moving. This weekend I was on vacation, ate bad, did not drink water like I normally do, had alcohol & desserts.. And I lost 1lb. I don't get it. Stupid bodies, right?

Oh just to vent.. due to Tunica, I missed exercise on Friday & Monday.. on the trip we went to buffets for every meal except 1.. and I couldn't get down most food, so I ate like soup & icing off of cakes (mmhm), and I drank MAYBE 12oz of water every day..at most. I had mostly shirley temples, bloody mary's and kahluha & cream. I dreaded the scale when I got back, but what happened? Down another pound!!! Talk about frustrating. So maybe I'm doing this wrong, I need to eat crap and stop drinking water and stop working out.

I know, Hahn is a nasty bitch! I tivo'd it, have not watched it yet because I was out of town. Hope it's a goodie!

Figures my flight can't make it easy!! I'll head to terminal C for my cancer stick and wait around. Hopefully it'll be nice outside and I can just chill out there.

Glad you got your band fixed! Just so you know though in case you need Mucinex for being sick (I ran into a Mucinex snafu myself), the horse pill size slow-release are miserable if they get stuck in your pouch. I took one and it was there for 12 hours giving me problems. But I found out, they make sugar crystal type things for childrens Mucinex. Take the adult dose (it's on the packet). They taste a little off, but they aren't horrible and they don't give you 12 hours of discomfort!

Carbonation issue, but I just heard on the radio last week about diet cokes (John Tesh), that drinking diet coke makes you 20-30% more likely to be morbidly obese. He said 1. because you underestimate your daily calories, because you think you're doing good by drinking diet coke and 2. the fake sweetener does something (derrr I forget now) either makes you crave sugar, or stores fat.. people have talked about it before. He also said the acidity in diet coke is 2x that of normal coke, and causes your teeth to rot a lot quicker.

I'm not sure how much it can stretch it, but depending on your restriction, liquids can either go straight through, or pool up. I have to drink slow, or it does pool up and it'll make me spit up.

I don't know if it'll help, but it certainly can't hurt... have you been taking Vitamins? Might help with the malnutrition issues. Hope you get healed and better soon, and this all just becomes a distant memory

Oh I could bring my pajama pants that won't stay on anymore lol. They are size 3-5x in MEN's with drawstring. They use to be tight, now they are so big, even with the drawstring as tight as I can make it, they slide off as I walk. I could fit 3 of me in them.

Ok, still don't have time to catch up, anything immediate that I missed?! Tunica was fun, DH lost, but I won, so last night, we had lots to play with. Woke up, everyone decided to stay an extra day since we were winning. You can't leave a casino a winner ya know?! So we came back yesterday, and DH & I still came home with about 1/2 the money we took, which is pretty good. Slammed at work, only thing I HATE about going out of town. Oh reminds me, I saw no cell phones/ work-emails on the trip. I have to!! If a customer needs me and I'm not there, it takes forever to make them feel warm & fuzzy again. I am bringing my laptop, but I only have to check e-mails on Friday & Monday.. and cell phone I can be more leniant on as well on Sat & Sun.

Hm, I don't think I kept any 'before' jeans.. I'd have to check. I told ya'll my sex swing was replaced with a comfy hammock :coolgleamA: Haydee- I thought someone said IAH has different terminals, different baggage claims, so we wouldn't necessarily all be in the same area. So I figured since I'm first, I'll just hang around till someone calls. I'm confused now, are we not all going to be in different areas? I'm not above paging people at the airport mwhahaha!

Just got back from Tunica, wow you guys talked a lot!! Ok, for us getting together at IAH (Darn I hate places with lots of terminals!!), since I land first, I'll turn my phone on and sit in my baggage till you guys call. Then call and tell me where to go, and we go from there.. right? Or I can meet you guys at rental car place, aren't one of you getting a rental that is driving me & Kat? Got work to do, will catch up on other thread later!!

Wow Kat, how scary! Did they tell the doctor the family history?! Hope everything is ok with her, sending purple vibes! Debating eating bad & lots of calories to shock my metabolism back into shape. I am not a patient person, as most of you probably know by now!! I just finished 2 finals, 66% on one (darn), and 70% on another (YAY.. yes, yay).. I have to do 2 more assignments and I am DONE with school for the semester. Oh and one more final.. we leave for Tunica in the morning, isn't coming quick enough.. I need a break, so much junk going on with work, and school and then my weight loss pissing me off. Send me good luck vibes so I come home a millionaire or something. :thumbs_down:

Yeah, and? :thumbs_down: I post all over the place, not just in our threads!

:cursing::cursing::cursing::cursing: Still working out, still eating less than 1200 calories a day. Still 231lb. What the heck?!?!!?!?!?!? I even measured myself, in hopes that I am losing inches at least. Nothing. Nada. ARGH I am so frustrated. :cursing::thumbs_down: