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I tell whoever I have the surgery, but I mention the weight loss, not how much I weigh. And I don't throw in (and that's only halfway!) I don't like admitting I was 150lb overweight My family and DH knew how much I weighed going into it, and that's why I was able to scare everyone into jumping on board with me. 333 is a scary number! I tell my mom & DH now my updates on weights, neither of them seem to care. Like being in the 250's was a milestone for me, I've always fallen off the band wagon in the 260's. So every pound into the 250's I would report excitedly to them, and they don't seem to get it. Oh well.

I would wait till you're back on normal foods, so whenever that is.

Woohooo go Terry! You can do it!!! And in case you're wondering, I have the board up at work, and I just keep hitting refresh. For lack of anything better to do right now, I can respond to everything ya'll post hah.

I know there's nothing to say to you, to make you happy and perky about the band right now, we are all there at some point. But know in 6 months at the most, you're going to be singing the praises of the band from the mountain tops

I went to snackaisle.com and ordered some lightly salted Edamame by Seapoint farms, Pretzel crisps (saw this on Unwrapped), Pita chips (also saw this on Unwrapped), and caramel covered Pirate's Booty. Suppose to be organic and healthy stuff.. and everything had decent calorie count. I'll let you know if any of it's good!

I know 100% what you're going through Haydee. I told DH straight up I was losing respect for him. Honestly, what Kat said gave me some perspective. He does have an ego that needs stroking, he needs to feel like the man. So hanging up that swing, was part of.. woe is me, lil ol girl doesn't know how to work these fang-dangled tools I kept asking him how he knew how to work the stud finder. I really was curious, but I was hoping it'd make him feel special to explain to my lil brain how it worked. I'm trying to go a week without telling him what to do. So far I have had to remind him to take the trash out, but.. I'm not nagging this week.

My doc said the band was so tight, he didn't think I'd need any fills. He was wrong, but the band must be tight, because a month ago (and in Sept when I got my first fill) 1.5cc was killing me.

I was looking online for somewhere to buy edamame. I came across this, thought you may like it laurend Product Details

I have horrible night snacking issues. I thought eating normal meals during the day would help, but it didn't, so I'm back to skipping my b'fast and lunch most the time and eating dinner, then having my late night snacking. I like 1oz of beef jerkey (70c) and/or (depending on what I've eaten for the day) 100c shortbread cookie pack. The jerkey lasts a while, and has protein, so it generally satisfies me.. unless I also have a sweet tooth, and the shortbread cookies have a lot in there, so by time I finish it, I'm done being in snack mode.

I use sea-salt now, it's lower sodium than the 'normal' salt, and frankly I think it tastes a lot better!

And I'm really bad at following up on threads like this, so if a meeting does get started here, please PM me and let me know

I'm in Huntsville, and would love for there to be a band group. All I know of are RNY.

Yes. I live in Huntsville, and have been waiting for a group to start here

Fake It is a good song.. have you heard The Gift by Seether? It's my fav. seether song.. and Enemy is close 2nd. I loved scrambled eggs, but they only go down if I eat it with grits. Omelets won't go down, even with grits. I don't know the difference.. when I've chewed it to nothing, it should be the same.. but it's not. I am going nuts without my wedding rings, I keep going to toy with them and nothing. My hands feel ugly now lol. They are suppose to ship them back to me to deliver tomorrow. I can't wait! They'll fit! Did I tell you guys I went from a size 11 to an 8.5? WOOT

That is a huge jump. My guess is that my 'sweet spot' would be 1.3cc. I'm at 1.5cc, but I'm slowly losing restriction. I can definitely eat more food items than I could a couple weeks ago, but portions still have to be small or I get sick. Maybe 1.5cc is my new sweet spot.. which means at this rate, I will need to get a fill in a month! Blah. I have an appt. for like Jan 23, I'm bumping it out. I don't need a fill right now and I'm not driving 6 hours for him to weigh me.

Tunica has tons of outlet malls right next to the casinos and the casinos are in this one little spot with connected roads. It's pretty nice. The spa is right in front of them. And I could get us the 'pimp suites' that have hot tubs, pool tables, and never ending bar hehe. Did I mention free drinks?

I'm not looking at all the other suggestions so maybe this is mentioned.. But when we were planning ours last year, we wanted to save money on food because I wanted other stuff to be more expensive and the budget only goes so far... -If you hold the reception right after lunchtime (or dinner), everyone is expected to have eaten, so you can just serve the cake & drinks. -Same theory, you can just serve finger foods. (This is what we went with, we rented the room in a restaurant- which was free if we were ordering food. We ordered the appetizer sampler, a whole lot of them and had them scattered on tables.) -Have a buffet. This was a close 2nd for us, we were going to have a local BBQ place cater.. and have a cook out theme hehe. It was only like $5-7 per person to have the works.

This goes back to, I've never heard someone say they thought it was 'cheating at weight loss'. That's like saying a drug addict is cheating by going to rehab. how is it 'cheating' to do something that betters your life? All this is confusing to me. If anyone ever tried to say they thought I was taking an easy way out or something, I'd honestly just stare at them in confusion.

And we like rare meat anyway, and I've never had lamb well-cooked. So I cooked mine medium on the ends, medium-rare on the inside. Num num.

Pricey is the opperative word. It was 20 bucks for the 2lbs of ribs, which was mostly bone. But in restaurants, they only give 2 of the ribs and it's a $40 meal. I've never seen lamb shanks for sale. I actually have been looking for a specialty butcher so I could get duck.. and I found one, then it ends up it's closed! The nearest one is about 30m from my house, and I honestly don't care to drive that far for food. I plan to eventually but not anytime soon. I've never seen lamb in the stores until this week, it was in the seafood section though and I normally skip over that too (I have never been able to cook seafood at home that I thought tasted good). My lamb turned out divine, I loved it. I will be making it again. Woke up this morning, the dog got the tinfoil from the roast out of the trash and was licking it up. She liked it too.

Since you're so freshly banded, I would NOT recommend trying to PB it up. I didn't realize you're only 3 weeks out.

Georgia- where are you in GA? I live in Huntsville, and we have an Avenue here. I am wearing a bra today that I have come to love. It's from Lane Bryant.. it is underwire, and last I saw they had a lot of colors to choose from. But it's a normal bra.. with 2 hooks on each strap. And you can 'convert' it into a sportsbra is the theory.. but really, I hook the straps together, and it pulls my boobs even happier into the air, and keeps the straps from ever falling off or bothering me. Makes the bra fit perfect for me.

Judy will catch up! Mwhaha. He liked it, we were both paranoid about ripping the ceiling down.. how do you explain that? hah hah. We didn't use it last night (by time we got around to it, my Nyquil was in full force), so we did it the lazy way hehe. But I spent 30 minutes sitting in it while we watched TV, it's comfy and no signs of it busting down. So I'm working on getting the confidence to be putting weight and moving about on it. I think it's going to be a lot of fun! Like I said, I bought the hammock chair to hang there, so in the case the ceiling ever does fall down.. I'll make sure the hammock chair is connected to the hook when we call a repair person in LOL!

I'm taking Spanish 2 this semester. Just the way life is, I BS'd my way through Spanish 1. Just did what I had to, to pass. I didn't learn it. I've taken French before, and I'm one of those people who can't understand the concept for the language, so I don't learn it. I.E. English makes sense to me, I don't 'get' other languages. I hate that about me, I want to retain them. In any event, I found out to get this other degree I have to take Spanish 2. So here I am. I get this degree after this semester if I don't screw it up. Failure isn't an option, so we'll see how I manage to get through 2! I used a lot of altavista translator last time. Then one assignment I had to make a video of me talking about my life in spanish. I translated it on altavista, printed it out and had DH hold it up next to the camera LOL. Weee.