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My doc didn't set my goal.. I picked 180 just because I haven't weighed less than 200lb since I was a pre-teen.. so I would imagine on my 6'0 frame, 180lb would look about right. BMI would be 25. I have no idea if I'll stick to that. 200lb might just make me happy (doubtful).. or 160 might. I have no idea! But saying 180lb gives me something to focus on, and my speculation is that when I reach 180, I'd be pretty damn happy.

My weakness is food in general. I eat food out of boredom, out of hunger (rarely I think), to Celebrate, to grieve, to release stress.. I like the sweet, the salty, the good, the bad.. Oh I guess I can resist italian food, it does nothing for my taste buds Since banding, with proper restriction, I have had to use will power.. but it fails once in a while and when I've 'tried' to have a binge moment due to whatever.. the band won't let it happen. I still can't eat more than 1/4-1/2c of food. And even then, I have to concentrate so much on not getting stuck, that the mindlessness of eating is gone. So it's not that euphoria. You do have to make choices, and ironically it's much like the OP.. it's harder to eat 'good foods' and easier to eat 'bad foods'. But as a whole, I can't get down nearly what I use to. Thus, keep the bad foods out of sight out of mind :biggrin:

Haydee- Under lap band lounge talk there is a thread about the hooha waxing right now YAY PAM!!! DONUTS are the devil, I've decided. Terry, I too am terrified of a colonoscopy, I would have a hard time doing one if I ever needed too. Your mom said she wouldn't want a valium? It would be a minimum requirement for me. Hope things smooth over with her!!!! Lucky me, I don't have to do anything about my facial hair except my eyebrows. All my hair is fine and blonde. Oh and a mole on my chin grows a wild crazy hair that I pluck every week. I am afraid to ever cross into the territory of havin to do stuff to my lips :biggrin: :eek: :Banane22:

What makes a doctor in or out of a network? Like you said Dr. Curry was in the network, but isn't as of January. Why?

LOL. I had DH check my jean label this morning. I remember I always loved stretch jeans, and my mom use to say she didn't like them, they would fall off. Well when I was bigger, it kept them on, now they fall off!! My fav jeans that I had in size 25 (3 pairs), as I've lost sizes, I keep buying the same pair in smaller sizes. I have a size 19 on right now, and they will NOT stay up. So I had DH check the size, they feel like my 23's, I shouldn't be wearing them they are so big. So I guess I don't like stretch jeans anymore!!

I only got the first 30m of House, because of Superbowl. DARN TIVO! And some reason, even though I have season passes to shows on HBO & Showtime, it never records them, I have to manually add them.. and I forget, so I missed L word Last night. GRR! So I am recording it tonight. But through piddling around, I found out you can buy/rent movies shows/seasons on Amazon. com and have it directly download to your TiVo. WOOT! So I just rented the Simpson movie for 3.99, and the episode of House from last night for $1.99. Gives me something to watch tonight. I like that. I'm never goin to a rental store again. They have all the new releases & popular stuff (Netflix lacked this). I am still sick, but I FEEL a ton better. I am still coughing my lungs out and sound stuffed up, but I don't feel like crap at all. Across the Universe comes out tomorrow, I am so excited. I didn't get to see it in theatres for some reason, and I've been dying for it to come out so I can see it. I love the soundtrack (duh) and mom & sister told me the movie was great. I ordered it from Amazon, but they said I won't get it till Feb 23, so I am going to rent it from them tomorrow so I can finally watch it.. on my bday! DH and I were planning a dinner & movie.. I think I'd rather do dinner, and come home and snuggle on the couch in jammies and watch Across The Universe. Teehee.

I am NOT a football person, but I pick someone (randomly, since I have no idea about football) to win every year. I picked mine this morning, our news channel had a camel eating a graham cracker from a hand and it picked Giants. So that was my pick. I played squares, which I have played for years, and even with good numbers I NEVER EVER WIN. I don't get it. So lost all that, but with almost 3 minutes left and Giants down I said "They're going to have a miracle come back, you'll see", everyone in the room was rooting for Patriots. And low and behold. I was like SEE SEE! So I won 18 bucks on my 5 dollar bet on Giants hah. They didn't have a lot of snacks for the game, surprisingly. Chips & Dip, Veggie tray, pigs in a blanket, and chicken wrapped in bacon with brown sugar. I ate califlower and chips & french onion dip. I'm eating a yogurt now. I'm hungry, no protein today :eek:

So it looks like I depart an hour later, and arrive a minute later.

Ok I just got an e-mail my flight has changed. It didn't tell me what changed, so posting this and your post so I can compare, and so you all know too. I guess they can do that? I hate flying Fri, May 16, 2008 Flight: Continental Airlines Flight 2392 (on Embraer RJ135/145) Depart: 06:00 AM, Huntsville/Decatur, AL (HSV) Arrive: 07:54 AM, Houston, TX (IAH) Class of service: Economy Requested Seats: 1A Total Travel Time: 1 hr 54 mins ______________________________________________________ Mon, May 19, 2008 Houston George Bush Intercontinental Ap, (IAH) to Huntsville International Airport, (HSV) Flight: Continental Airlines Flight 2938 (on Embraer RJ135/145) Depart: 07:55 PM, Houston, TX (IAH) Arrive: 09:48 PM, Huntsville/Decatur, AL (HSV) Class of service: Economy Requested Seats: 1A Total Travel Time: 1 hr 53 mins

Tracy- WOOT on only 10lbs, how exciting and you're still losing weight so quickly at near goal. I hope I am that lucky!! That's so scary about DH, I would have panicked!! I'm so glad it was only dehydration!

Jen & Suzie I got the cards, thank you so much, I almost cried! I can't believe ya'll did that (((HUGS))) I went to Publix tonight (sick and all) with my mom.. she needs to lose 25lbs, and she keeps sayin she has to do it, so she said she is officially startin the cabbage Soup diet monday. Me and DH did that a couple years ago, and the first 3 days we were eatin fruits & eatin the soup.. and one night, I had runs that were like Water with orange pieces in it.. and DH actually pooped his pants from it.. and so we got to talkin about the dieting. I told her, diets suck!! She said "I've never had to diet before, I gained this weight when I quit smoking" she since started smoking again, but hasn't been able to get it off. I was like yeah, I've dieted a long time, you just gotta find something you can stick to. So I rehashed Atkins with her. Atkins worked awesome for me, it's the will power.. you CAN'T cheat on Atkins.. 6 months I did good, then donuts got to me. But for 25lbs, anyone needin to lose some weight quickly, I always recommend Atkins. So she decided to try it instead of the cabbage soup diet. So we're pickin out stuff, I'm teachin her how to read carb content.. She's upset that squash has 2 carb, and she's not really understanding how that's ok. Blah blah, we'll see how she does. While we were browsing, I saw from frozen stuff I wanted, but everytime I went to look at something for me, she'd panic about the carbs, so I stopped lookin at me food. They had zuccini pancakes, and the stuffed chicken I saw someone else mention in the food thread.. asparagus & cheese stuffed chicken.. omg.. it looked divine. So I'll have to send DH back to pick some up later I got some bagged salads, and more herbs. The new Publix they opened just down the road had a great produce selection. Done rambling, waitin for Nyquil to kick in. Night ladies!

Not doing any better today but about mid-day yesterday when I realized I can't taste anything, I've stopped eating. Funny how that works, I'm not hungry either. I've been drinking a lot of water & gatorade. My taste buds aren't coming back today, so I have another day (at least) to decide how important that ice cream is. I'm finally coughing stuff up. No more horrible painful coughs that are unproductive. So now I'm choking as I cough. YUM! I tried the kids musinex crystal things this morning. I swear, nothing I am taking is doing ANYTHING!!

Spinach seems to get stuck for me when I've tried it (cooked spinach, not raw). It's kind of like seaweed, and I don't always chew it up well, and even if I do it likes to 'cling', is how I imagine it. Maybe it's just the spinach?

Terri you're so close to goal that you're at the point (from what I've read on the boards, not experience of course) where every pound is hard because you really have to find the calorie in/out equilibrium. Are you mixing up your exercise routines? It must be all this crazy coughing (long, loud, painful, pulling fits) burns calories. Despite my pint yesterday I am still 241 today, so I am claimin it. I can't throw the other one away, I'm not a good girl. Since I haven't had it in so long and I saved it till I could taste again, I've been dreamin about it. If I don't have some of it when I can taste again, I'll go nutso and eat a bunch of random junk I don't even want just to make up for it. BUT I promise after I eat some of it, I won't buy it again till I am sick or some other desperate situation Crap, still gotta do that homework. I keep hoping it'll do itself.

Not similar to your situation but I have BCBS of AL and was denied because my policy wouldn't cover it :/

Get it going guys :biggrin: I'm not a leader type person. I actually live in Madison, work in Huntsville.. so either would be fine! Madison is closer to Decatur :eek:

Without the band mushies, I have always eaten banana baby food as a snack, it is YUMMY. So for mushies, I got that.. and I also tried a few others.. Butternut squash was good with salt. Green beans were good with salt. Apple & Cinnamon was NOT good. Anything with meat was NOT good. Sweet potatoes were very good.

And yes I saw Lost, even more confusing, so frustrating!! I just wanted to confess my sins to the V's, show you how messed up in the head I am. I went and bought 2 pints of ice cream from this wonderful creamery less than a mile from my house. Since banding, I've had to say NO to it, cause I can't help myself if I buy it. So anyway, I'm sick, Ice cream could help.. I got mint choc chip, and birthday cake (my faaav). I can't taste anything right now, so it was such a waste. Yet somehow I ate the ENTIRE PINT of mint choc chip. Every bite, couldn't taste, but told myself.. maybe this next bite the mint will clear my sinuses. Never did, and I never stopped. Now, I'm having excellent will power waiting till HOPEFULLY tomorrow when I can taste again to eat my scrumptious birthday cake ice cream. But damn, I keep thinking about it, and even tho I can't taste it, I'm wanting to eat it. Is that messed up or what?!?!?!? I'm off to bed!

GR8- Yes! Let me know when, I am going to NY on the 11th, and the 5th is my b'day, and it can't be during work lol.. but let me know when you'll be there and I'll see if I can get away :biggrin:

Oh and my scale said 241lb today, so that is the upside to being sick. But I am not updating my ticker, cause as soon as I can taste food again I'm going to gorge :smile:

Pam have you never seen Fried Green Tomatoes? Shame on you if you haven't (and I command you to go get it!), if you have..remember when Evelyn got the trampoline? I always think of that when people mention trampoline exercises. DH is worried, sayin he gonna come home and take me to the clinic. I told him I was going to go, but 1. I can't drive in this state 2. I am in tears just thinking about how horrible the wait will be.. so he insists on comin home early to take me. And so I called all the clinics, no one is takin appt's today because they are 'so backed up'. On a good day, it takes at least 3 hours.. I just can't do it. I told him to bring me home ice cream and I'm going to continue to ride it out. My fever is finally breaking (first time in days!) tylenol some reason hasn't been workin till now. I'm sweating and burning up and it's 65 in the house. I've got chicken soup cooking right now, I ran out of chicken & stars last week (doh).. so I'm making homemade. I threw it all in the pot and letting it do its thing. I still haven't done my homework, and since we have a week to do homework, no late assignments are acceptable. It's due tomorrow, so if I don't manage to get to it today, fingers crossed I feel better tomorrow. Jen I got the coat today, thank you so much! I haven't tried it on (as I mentioned, I'm really hot right now!!). It's very nice, but did I mention I have 3 long-haired white cats? Hah hah, I had a coat similar to this one, was my fav. coat. It currently is on the floor in my office at work just disgustingly covered in cat hair. I try my best, but black doesn't work in my house.. especially black wool or black velvet.

Mornin V's! I hope you get it Jenn! Sending you as much good vibe as I can muster right now!! I have barely gotten out of bed in the past 2-3 days.. I forget how long it's been now. My head is so congested, I can't breathe.. nose is completed clogged, I wheeze with every breath and I have had sneezing fits so long and so hard that I feel like I dislocated my shoulders on several occasions. I can't taste food, so that's a big bummer to me. I feel so crappy, I want my happy tastes :smile: I've been trying to sleep, but I wake up coughing and running nose.. every inch of my body aches. DH got me musenex, someone at work told him to get it for me. Well, it was the ultimate horsepill. I took it.. I mean literally bigger than any huge vitamin I've ever had. I didn't feel it get stuck, but it's a 12-hour time release, and it did not go through my hole. So every few hours I felt it bouncing around, and when I tried to drink or eat, I got the stuffed/stuck feeling. Nothing is helping!! I've been hopped up on all different meds, and not a thing is helping. And I'm too sick to sit for hours in the clinic, I don't think I could handle it. I am greatful for my big tub in the bathroom, I've taken many hot baths to try to clear me up.. never helped, but made my body stop aching for a minute. Luckily I did most of my homework on Monday & Tuesday, but I still have 1 class left.. trying to muster the will to get it done so I can go back to bed. I'll find a tip of the day for my V's too. Hope everyone does excitin stuff this weekend, I'll pop back on if I'm feeling better.

SFeiner summed up my thoughts on this. Being snide is one thing, but for people to be cordial to people they don't like.. is just decency, it's not to be underhanded. I guess in my line of work, when I don't like someone, I still have to smile at them. And I always bitch to co-workers when it's over. But it's not because I'm being passive aggressive, it's just being civil... or a good business person :frown:

Change docs, and they should be able to take your records from your hometown doc. Call around and find a doc who is 1. supportive of wls 2. can take records from previous docs. Good luck!

Congrats Andy!! My BCBS Policy doesn't cover it..but my doctor required me to do the psych eval. Was kind of cheesy, and akward. He asked me what me now would say to 13 y/o me.. and if I would hug me... mmhm. I put on my cheeriest "I'm sane, surgery me!" face. And Hey Rocket City, I'm in Huntsville too :tongue: