Daisalana

Well.. just keep in mind you're getting PS. My insurance won't cover it, and I can't get the funding for it.. so I am going to have to deal with the saggy skin the rest of my life.. or unless I hit the lottery (which I don't play hah). Keep your eye on the prize? :rolleyes2:

Did I tell you guys I streaked my hair??? I did my normal dark brown base, then I did some blonde highlights along the top. Everyone has been complimenting me about it, and it makes me feel very trendy! I will take pics tonight to show you guys.

My insurance covers it, but my policy does not. All money was out of pocket. Weeeee. God blessed me with access to deep pockets, otherwise I'd still be miserable.

GB has been around longer, and the results are much more dramatic. Lose 100lbs in 6 months! Can take 2 years with a band. Etc. And TV is all about ratings.. dramatic stuff gets more ratings. And, GB is still more common than LB. So overall they have a larger pool of people to pick from. Even the LB things I have seen in the news (on tv) it's never a dramatic loss, I've seen more dramatic on our forums. I don't know if they just picked the wrong person or what, but it emphasizes how slow the band can be. Someone who lost 30lbs in 6 months with 150lbs to go. Good for them, yay, but lets see someone whose at goal!

Ya know, they have the pictures of people on the restrooms so you can tell which catagory you fit in if yer drunk! You just have to decide.. am I wearing a skirt, or pants? :rolleyes2:

I can relate, and I think sitting at home is just highlighting the problem. I was going to see a shrink, but it was a 3 month wait list and then near time, they had to cancel it. So I gave up on that.. Keeping busy is the solution for me. If I sit around with too much time on my hands, I will get depressed. But I work full time, student full time, and when I go home, I clean my house, clean my animals, cook dinner (i've REALLY gotten into cooking since banding). I love making gourmet foods, trying new recipes, trying things I've never done.. like lamb roast! Take up a new hobby. Cross stitching, crochet, painting, writing, whatever. The weekends are my down time, and I play a lot of video games too (FFXI mostly) which is very time consuming. And cook and clean.

I don't diet.. and the comment about pizza.. with good restriction, pizza is out for most. I've tried it on a couple occasions, and there's no way to get that bread down.. so I eat the toppings off of a pizza in a pinch. So maybe it's kind of like a diet, but it's not intentional. I just can't eat certain stuff.. The band does a good job about portion control. The biggest advice I have, is to rid your house of the junk that goes down easy. You may feel like binging, and you're not going to be able to binge on some fruit & veggies.. but if you have a bag of chips, it'll likely go down pretty well (everyone is different of course). So I keep 100 calorie snacks for my 'bad days'.. but other than that, I don't make 'low-fat' or 'diet' foods.. I make chili, or chicken casserole, or keilbasa and saurkraut, etc. But now, instead of eating a whole plate full, it's less than 1 cup.. and I'm satisfied!

If my doc wasn't givin me fills when I asked for em, I'd go to another doc. Luckily, he lets me decide how I think I'm doing. I had a fill from the port-revision, was too tight, unfilled in November, decided maybe I wasn't too tight, just not use to how restriction fills.. got filled back up in Dec. Now I am pretty tight, it's hard to eat a lot of solid foods, but liquids go down fine. I eat about 1/4-1/2c of food depending on time of day. Mornings are a lost cause, I will always spit up solid breakfasts, so I stick to a coffee, frappuccino, v-8, or milk. Lunch I am still pretty tight, so I have soup, or a few really small bites of something solid that take a while to eat. Dinner I am still restricted, but not nearly like I am for the rest of the day. Depending on what I'm eating.. I have never had a rice problem, but pasta doesn't go down well. And bread is out. I still try to eat bread even though it makes me sick!! A typical dinner is about 1/2c of food, spread out over whatever I feel like eating. I make dinner most the time, DH eats most of what I make and I take 1/2c and pick at it.

Yeah, and I know I'm bitter, but hopefully I'm in good company.. I hope they don't keep trying to make him diet and doing the yo-yo thing. He needs to just get a WLS and honestly, get out of that house. His dad is not a good influence, and I can totally relate to binging if you're around someone who makes you feel that way.

I was about to say what Dream did.. it's not really free.. and our local Holiday Inn, if you say you don't want the 'free breakfast', they give you a rate discount.

Yeah, I've visited a lot of places, lived in Atlanta, Albuquerque and Nashville.. But I always knew, when I wanted to 'settle down' I wanted to be where I am. It's a great city, great schools, great people. ABQ was the worst crime I've ever seen, so big cities are definitely out for me to have kids in. So here I am.

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Congrats Michelle!!! After my Tunica trip, I'm stalling again.. eep. And I ate the other 1/2 of my cake last night, and then DH's piece (he forgot about it..) I need to get back in gear. Someone smack me!! Got this e-mail, thought it was cute.. <STRONG>A 1st grade school teacher had twenty-six students in her class. She presented each child in her classroom the 1st half of a well-known proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb.

Oh and Jenn, I'm slightly disappointed lol. I didn't know you weren't from there, but I ADORE the northern accents. My best friend is from Boston, she can't say my name lol. Sounds like a hairball. All the customers I have up in NY I am going to see, have that fast-talking hard northern accent. Reminds me of something, COVER YOUR EYES MICHELLE!! Co-worker was saying yesterday that Chris Daughtry & Bon Jovi are playing in Atlanta soon together, she says "That's a TT concert". I said what's a TT?? Hahahaha.. I died.. she said "Tooter twitchin". ROFLMAO. So anyway, the northern accents are TT accents! mwhaha.

The sugah thing always creeped me out!! My g'dad was a creepy guy though. I've never been a pet name calling person. There's some people I know who call everyone 'doll' or 'sweetie', etc. I guess because growing up when a waitress ever called my mom something like that, she would get disgusted and talk about how rude it was.. so I never picked up on it lol.

My DH is from Pennsylvania, lived in TN with his family since he was about 13. But his brothers are somehow REDNECKS. Serious ones. DH is more like me- no accent. But anytime he calls his friends back in TN or his brothers, instantly my DH turns into a redneck. I always make fun of it, and ask him what the hell that's all about. He's an educated person with a normal voice.. then all of a sudden BAM.. a big drawl and makin up twangy words. My g'pa had a weird carolina accent.. Called everyone 'sugah' and winked as he talked.

rofl Judy! And Pam, you'd lose that bet hah hah!! I am told I have no accent. My dad is actually born & raised in california and my mom was born & raised in the carolinas.. neither of them have accents.. so I have no accent. I say things like "ya'll", but not all twangy :redface:

TGIF V's!!! Tip o' the day... Are you living? Is there a dance in your life? Are you moving, growing, risking, taking the challenges of dangerous paths? In the acceptance of the danger, in the acceptance that anything can happen any moment, life comes to its best, to its fullest. My flights for NY are booked for the business trip. They now offer non-stop flights to NYC, I'm amazed (and much happy), but they don't offer direct flights BACK to here. Now, I'm thinking about the weather. I don't have any BIG COATS or.. snow.. stuff. Jennifer is it snowing up there?? We're going to be going around Plainview, NYC, Armonk, and some other nearby cities I don't remember. I come home on Valentine's day around 2:30, I thought it'd be later so told DH it gives him extra time to do something romantic lol. Now I just told him plans back on, he has to take me somewhere nice!

Tracy- I would love that. Ok so at least a few of us are up for ghost towning it, so lets do it!!!! And as for the crystal light on the tubin.. someone sneak a bottle of vodka to loosin up the preacher's wife hehehehe!

Just wanted to say about the 2nd house. Even if you're looking to sell it, it wouldn't be a bad idea to sign a 1 or 2 year lease on it. Right now is NOT the time to sell. It isn't going to change overnight. May as well get GOOD renters, for 1-2 years, paying enough to at least cover some of your current mortgage on your house, and re-visit selling it when the economy is back up. Especially since you could get more for your house once the recession is over.

I got a coca-cola chocolate fudge cake slice from cracker barrell last night. I ate 1/2 last night and plan to eat the other 1/2 tonight. No guilt. I'm allowed to have indulgences in moderation! Don't feel like chit Terri, you didn't eat the whole cake did you?

Yeah I am sayin it now, whatever size I am, I'm rockin with it all hangin out! I don't be carin! woowoo I would love to see the Alamo, and YES PLEASE PLEASE GHOST TOUR!! I *love* those things, and live NO WHERE NEAR ONE. I haven't been since Charleston, and it made me very happy.. I love ghost stuff. Anyway.. As long as I get Tubin, Alamo, V's, some dranks, and POSSIBLY a ghost tour, I'm good to go. I just found out I have to go to NY in February to meet with some customers. LE SIGH. Gonna have to get some more valium. But at least I'm going with another sales person, so I won't be havin to hold onto a stranger.. hah

I was doin good, and now I'm bad lol. I got lobster ravioli for lunch, ate 2 bites of it.. Got it to-go and they put a breadstick in there. Sittin in my office and I decided to dip the breadstick in the sauce, so I'm eatin it. Get stuck. Customer calls.. he asks if I'm ok, said I sounded sick.. told him I'm choking on a piece of food. So while he's rambling, I'm spitting up slime lol. Got off the phone with him, spit up some bread chunks. Then I drank 2 sips of Water.. and spit up all the water. Stupid me, why did I eat the breadstick. I have not been able to eat bread without spitting it up in months.. and some reason I keep trying. DOH DOH DOH!

I'm gonna be real drunk and loopy when I get there :rolleyes2: Ok now that everything is decided on, can I see an itenerary? When is the Alamo? Tubing? I am looking thru threads, I don't see the final info.

I had to do it 5 months post-op. They couldn't get into my port, but they thought it was leaking.. so they went to repair the leak (day surgery) and it ended up being that my port flipped completely backward. So they moved it from my belly, to in between my breasts (on that hard spot). It was not as painful as normal surgery, I was back at work the next day, just very sore.. felt like they drug the port from my belly all the way up, ripping the muscles as they went. I don't know how they actually did it, but thats the soreness I felt.