Daisalana

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Some reason junk food goes down so much easier. The solution is, ladies.. get the Cookies & the candies OUT OF THE GARAGE AND INTO THE TRASHCAN!!!!!!! :confused: Then pour somethin' nasty on top of it so you don't go fish them out later. :hurray:

I waited less than a week. There was some port pains in certain positions (even to this day) Just be gentle!

And now 3pm.. only 2 more long hours.

Ya'll gotta quit reviving this thread. Everytime I see it renewed, I peek over to see "..the rest of the story" as Paul Harvey would say!

Congrats!! That's a great milestone!!

My adolescent self is very obnoxious, I have to shut her up with cake sometimes Very good points.

Hm.. since I was born! I was always tall and "big boned" I guess by time I was 13, I realized it was.. I was tall and fat. One day when I'm not lazy, I'll scan some young pics of me.. when I was discussing this surgery to get a loan from the bank of Mom & Dad, my mom said I was always the big kid, I have an older bro and younger sister, who are both overweight.. but as kids, I was the only one of the 3 that was always big.

ARGH today is turning into a hectic "GADdy" day for me. I'm running around like nuts, too long to explain, but one customer gonna get pissed off cause we're cutting their credit due to a bounced check, meanwhile they have a huge job in house, which we halted production till we get decent payment. This is going to be a headache, I just sent them the doom e-mail saying everything is stopped till they pay us up front a ridiculous amount of money. Meanwhile, the girl who did akward stuff with me at the bar, tried to call me out in front of everyone, saying she and I need an organization meeting next week. I AM THE MOST ORGANIZED PERSON HERE!!! It's stupid stuff, she thinks I cut her out of the loop on a customer's job, but I didn't. She is copied on everything that happened, so I don't understand it. She really irritating me, she thinks she owns the company and gets involved where she shouldn't. I'mma smack her, I'm higher in the company than she is, she has no right to try to tell me what to do with my jobs. blah blah blah. And it's only 1pm

Just something I realized post-band I spend a crap load on fresh fruit & veggies, and I eat it so slow, and DH doesn't eat it at all.. so I now buy frozen bagged veggies & fruits. You can even seperate them into ziplock bags in sizes you'd eat, then defrost them the day before. Everything comes in frozen bags now. I think it's cheaper, and you don't have to restock all the time from stuff going bad. Same with canned items, except I've yet to find a way to keep leftover canned veggies&fruit from getting gross. Make a big meal that you can freeze & reheat for yourself. DH likes pizza and take-out, so he gets that a lot.. I'll either pick the top off a slice of pizza, have a couple bites of his chinese take out.. OR I reheat a cup of chili that I made weeks prior and froze.

I can't relate, I was self-pay and my surgery was done within a month of meeting the surgeon I picked out. However, it seems like it's taking forever, but once you're banded, you'll forget all of this GOOD LUCK!!

B-Rog you inspired me to go home and check out the vajaja. My vajaja hangs like a bag of.. actually, a ball sack!! I could pull all that skin and move it all over the place, it made me think of what my vajaja should look like in 50 years, NOT NOW! :tt2::crying::smile:

I think I'm all of the above, really. I like to graze. I eat when I'm emotional. I've always liked to binge when I knew I'd be home alone. Sometimes out of emotions, sometimes out of boredom, and sometimes just cause I like food. I still graze more than I should, but I've made an effort to make them healthier/low calorie Snacks instead of.. Cookies & chips. I still have the binge moments, but when I go to my ritual, the band restricts me. I can tell myself STOP!! But I don't listen. Then I eat a couple small bites and I'm stuffed and nothing else is going down, so that's that. Hooray for my band. That's not to say I haven't had my bad moments. I've eaten a whole pint of ice cream in an hour, and ate 3 pieces of cake at once.. But it's very rare. The trick to that (in my case) is don't have it in the house. When I feel the need to gorge, if I don't have the junk that goes down easy, I settle for something like some sausage or eggs, etc.. and they go down sloooow and fill me up quick, so the binge passes. If I have access to things like ice cream, I'll mess up a lot! And one last thing to add, my pre-band binges weren't just junk food. I liked getting take out from restaurants.. a couple appetizers, 1-2 meals, etc. So when I feel the urge to binge, I don't necessarily want ice cream.. the couple of bites of sausage & eggs do it for me. I think I should see a shrink, but they couldn't get me in for months, by time my appt. was coming up, they cancelled. I have no patience for offices like that, so I just forgot about it for a while. I'm doing alright now, so we'll see!

See, no one ever taught me those 'tricks'.

I've never had hummus, but our local Publix in the deli section has like 10 different good-looking 'flavors'. I thought about buying one, but I wasn't sure what hummus was, didn't want it to end up being fish eggs or something.

Tip O' The WONDERFUL FRIDAY!!!! Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours

Yeah heaven forbid it actually worked out perfect. Buttheads!

Morning V's. HAVE FUN TRACY!!!!! Last night I re-assessed the issue with my thighs (the boils/issues).. I really had hoped with weight loss it'd go away, but it has not lessened one iota. My gyno said I probably need PS to remove the skin on my thighs. I keep chugging along hoping it'll go away, but I finally made my mom look at it (I tell her about it, but she's never seen it). She finally believes me, that its an issue. So she said my insurance covers dermatologist, go see one and see what they think. Mom thinks it's a diabetes thing, but I've been tested for diabetes and never had it. So anyway.. I called EVERY SINGLE DERMATOLOGIST in the phonebook (about 20). Not a single one is taking a new patient in 2008. What.. the..hell. Must be nice. I started getting frustrated and asking them.. if you have a medical issue and need to see a derm, what the hell are you suppose to do? And she's like 'Keep calling in the directory'. I was livid. Talked to my mom again, she said someone I work with, her mom is the receptionist at a derm. Ends up most people here at work go to her, because co-worker's mom can get them in. They have those open appointments they leave for current patients, and her mom lets us in those. Yay. So her mom said she'd get me set up and is going to call me back. Thank god I have a connection, what a horrible way to do business. It's not like I got a pimple on my face and need some cream. I got deformed and infected thighs. Oh and not to get my hopes up, but mom put the bug in my ear.. she said BCBS will pay for PS if it's medical.. and my thighs is medical, has nothing to do with weight loss. ---- Since no one else is posting!! WAKE UP V's!!! Co-workers mom is able to get me in with their Nurse Practitioner, not the doctor. I don't really care, they can prescribe ointment if an ointment will help. My mom mentioned Retina-A?

roflmao terri.. I'll make us a fun logo!

GOOD LUCK!!!! Hope you have a speedy recovery and hurry back to us :rolleyes2:)

Amy Brown was my favorite fairy artist for eons (really the only notable one I can think of years ago), till I then found Josaphine Wall and then Nene Thomas. The lower back tattoo I have, is a picture I made using the fairy from one of her pictures.. and I changed the color scheme, then designed tribal vines that formed the heart, and the streaks going across my hips. But the center is one of her fairies (sitting indian style and crying). If you look at my back shots of B&A you can see it from a distance hehe.

1. Bursting out of size 26/28 and 5x tops.. to wearing 15/17 pants and 1x tops. 2. CROSSING MY LEGS. 3. Walking long distances without any problems. 4. Better Sex.. I had a new sex NSV the other night. I was lounging in bed with my legs up on the headboard and watching tv upside down.. and DH came in and was bein silly, but I realized my legs can completely go over my head and touch the bed. TOUCH THE BED! 5. I am able to do a lot more around my house, I use to feel like I was gonna die from vaccuuming one room. Now I can completely clean the entire house (without cutting corners), and vaccuum the whole place and BARELY break a sweat. 6. Being the smallest weight I've ever been since hitting puberty. 7. My collarbone is PROMINENT. I am always touching it and looking at it in the mirror. Probably a lot more, but these are things that stick out.

I want my fat cells to go away :thumbup:

B'fast- 1/2 a frappuccino num num.. Working on bottle of water.. Took too many of my energy pills and feeling a little queasy so trying to force canned pineapple chunks down my band! Terry, the money I set aside to pay you, I should have just paid you! I ended up spending it all on NeNe Thomas crap. :thumbup: I will make the money back within 2 weeks doing my video game where I sell clothes, but I had the exact amount set aside just for you. I'm horrible like that!

I had one of those before, the ball is normally small enough to work through.. if not, are you sure the front doesn't unscrew? If all else fails, get some wire clippers and snip it off via the front.. put in the retainer, and buy a new piercing post-op.