Daisalana

I don't do special dieting, I just eat smaller portions. I don't keep chips & candy in the house (most the time) because I will eat them if they're there. If I don't have them in the house, I don't want them (too lazy to actually go get them). I make an effort to eat more meat on my plate than anything else. But I still eat the mashed potatoes, or veggies, etc. And so far, I think I'm doing pretty good! Take your bag of 'good foods' to wherever your friends are eating. I've done that. Hell, my husband brings in a bag of McDonalds when we go to Red Lobster (he's allergic). They don't seem to mind.

Those 100 calories hostess things.. I don't really like those anyway, but my dad bought them in his effort to act like he's eating better. He loves em. I tried one, I didn't like it.. but I think it's cause I don't really like the normal ones. I vote UP tracy. You pull off the up-do so well. It flatters your face nicely. When my hair is up, makes my face look fatter, thats why I opted for down even in 120 degree weather (ugh). And even though you don't like your arms (I didn't like mine either), I think shawls & wraps don't look appropriate for wedding dresses. That's just my 2 cents though! That's why I was originally wanting the winter wedding so I could just wear a long sleeve.

I think all of LBT has been messed up recently, maybe has to do with the changes. One change I DON'T like, is how when you click on this thread for example, it takes you to the end, not where you left off. If you click on this thread from it's recent posts, it takes you to where you left off. When they sub-divided the groups like it is now, you can't ever click on recent posts unless it's the last thing posted in the entire monthly forums area. I feel better today, me and DH are being nicer to each other. And Michelle, I see what you're saying, but it's not a situation where I'm in a bad marriage and I'm settling.. I'm being very general because I don't like to air my dirty laundry.. always seems to doom me if I do hah hah. I love him and he's a great person, but in the past few months he's making just.. STUPID decisions, and I'm having to act like his mom, taking things from him and 'punishing' him and I hate it. I told him he needs to grow up and quit acting like he's my kid. He wasn't always like this, so something is up. I don't know what it is, but I'm not gonna put up with it anymore. But he doesnt understand why I'm so upset, so he's not going to change. So once every couple weeks we get into a big fight about it, and I'm just.. tired. I think the tightness due to stress is hitting me. I love this squash I made the other night (sautee'd with garlic).. I am having such issues getting it to go down, why!! So I had some for lunch, 2 bites and I hurt, and I ended up with a small PB about 30 minutes later, the edge of the squash. So I think I'll try peeling them next time I make it. We're going to Old Navy to return some clothes I bought online. Everyone who's mentioned buying their plus size, say they run small. I've ALWAYS found they run big. In any event, the women's plus is 'web exclusive', so I order from there. Since I can possibly fit into VS's XL, I decided to check out their normal size women's. Well.. Old Navy's women's go to 2xl! What's the difference?! So I ordered some shirts on sale from the normal women's in 2x, and then some of the plus shirts in 2x. I also bought a belt in 3x (just to be sure it fit). Well the 2xl from the normal women's looks like a tent on me. Literally. Ok I know I don't have body dysmorphia? in the way that I think I'm bigger than I am. I've always thought I'm smaller than I am. But with the XL shirt I am wearing from the Bitten line.. and now a 2xl old navy shirt is a tent on me, I don't know what's going on! Their 2xl sweater I got from the plus department fits perfect. Goofy sizing, I need to stop buying online right now, seems nothing fits anymore. Oh and the 3x belt.. I'm a good 7 inches past the smallest notch. That was weird. So I'm returning both of those, probably for a store credit if they don't carry plus in the store. If they do carry plus, DH going to sit with me while I try on a bunch of stuff to get sizing info. Then we're off to Best Buy.. we got a lot of BB gift cards for xmas. Not sure what we're getting yet. And finally, I found a butcher in my city. I've been watching cooking shows where they make lamb stuff, or duck stuff. I love lamb, never had duck. I wanted to try making both. Going to run by the butcher also and get some duck breasts. From the sounds of it- i'd like it. I don't like how dry chicken is, but everyone says duck is like lamb, or like beef, etc. Num num. I'm rambling.

Hum, trying to find good info on this, none of those links seem to pull anything good up to explain it really. I did see in Tulsa they do it under mild sedation, not anesthesia. If you did your whole body, I couldn't imagine doing it awake!!

I think the cycles is right. Of all my friends I grew up with, everyone got married around the same time.. and now they're all popping out kids. They're all getting pregnant, havin miscarriages, gettin pregnant, blah blah blah.. all in the same month every time, their myspaces are ridiculously.

Well at least he'll get cancer treatment, and organ transplants if he needs them.. while on death row. And if it's lethal injection, they'll use an alcohol swab.

I'm pretty certain no one is going to be looking at you and wondering why you're there.. Everyone is pretty much anxious to find out more information about surgery, they're not there to judge your weight and decide if you're a candidate for the surgery

The packets of Grits (Butter flavor) are 100 calorie per pack. I love those things, I eat them for b'fast when I have the time, and lunch sometimes when I think about it.

Ohhh Tracy it's so beautiful, and you're so beautiful. I love it Look at that great figure.

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Seven Years to Digest Gum It wouldn't let me copy & paste but.. it says vegetable-oil softens gum. It says your body doesn't digest it, but it of course goes through your body. If it doesn't go through your body, I wonder how long it actually will stay around. I would try to barf it up.. Here's some other random website info I found.... Peanut Butter works - Rub creamy peanut butter into hair and work it into the gum. It will dissolve the gum. The enigmatic enzyme that dissolves gum might occur in chocolate. When I was a child, my Double Bubble gum would disintegrate if I ate M&Ms at the same time

I don't like fish either... I wish I liked salmon, it LOOKS good on menus hehe. My dad who also does not like fish.. Says Mahi-Mahi and Tilapia are meaty 'steak tasting fish'. He loves it, and when we go to nice restaurants, he opts for one of those over steak (which is wow.) I have tasted both, I didn't like the mahi-mahi, but the tilapia is pretty good. I still wouldn't order it since I'm afraid I won't like it, but if you're on doctor's orders, I'd definitely suggest trying it! What about crab/lobster? Is that considered fish? I could eat the heck out of that.

I don't think food tenderizer or pineapple juice will help it. That's why I was warned against it, gum has uber powers heh heh. Remember the story they told you as a kid, it takes 7 years to digest 1 piece of gum. Wheets, I'm waitin for you to post the name of the stuff! I want pretty breath.

I stopped taking my measurements out of frustration. I started at 53-47-53 (about, I'm at work and don't have the chart here). Now I am 46-41-46. That's not a huge leap to me, and it annoys me. AND when I'm trying to find new clothes online, sizing charts never have 46-41-46.. it's always like 46-38-54. !?

That sounds like an infection, definitely call your doc!

They found out mine was flipped 6 months post-op, but from the history of fills, it was flipped since the first month. I personally never felt anything sitting around.. however, when I did fills, he always pushed down on the port, and this was miserable. That hurt a LOT, and I thought it was normal. But now that my port is fixed, it does NOT hurt to push on it, so I assume it had to do with being flipped.

OMG L Word started back up? FINALLY!!! I missed it waaaaaah. Hopefully it still comes on every night of the week, I missed that show. Me and DH's falling out came to a head last night. Was an arguing match, and I said as much hurtful stuff as I could because I wanted it to hurt him. I regret that now, but then I was up till 4am crying in the living room. Now my eyes are all puffy, I guess it's lucky I'm sick, everyone thinks it has to do with how I'm sick. I apologized to DH this morning and he apologized that he makes me so unhappy. I think the biggest problem is, there's no answer. I don't know what to do. Back to burrying it all and going about our life.

I'm going to book my airline flight when I get my refund processed from returning that $250 coat! That way one part of this is out of the way financially. Woot.

Mornin V's.. that's right I just woke up LOL. Good luck on the job Tracy! I'm getting dressed to go to TN to resize the ring, but I just had to tell ya'll about this... I had a crazy Nyquil dream last night and JUDY WAS THERE! In her bathing suit in those B&A Pics no less. hah. DH was going to something, at a hotel.. like a convention. I wasn't going, but I was bored so I said hey I'm coming. So we get there, and the first person I see is JUDY IN HER SWIMSUIT! I ran up and hugged her and she looked at me like 'uhh who are you'. hah. I think more of you were there, I know I knew a lot of people and was surprised I knew anyone since it was a DH thing.. but I remember Judy vividly.

haha, it's ok, I have fairyfacade or something fairy for everything under the sun since I got a computer.. I was lauraj23 as I said, just cause I was signing up so I could post a question.. didn't plan to stick around I'll add you and hopefully we can play sometime!

actually with other banders, we can split meals lol

I think I can pull it off with $700 max between flight, food, and cabin. Maybe I should start a new ticker

kat what's your pogo name? i play at work when it's slow.. i'm gamingfairy711 I normally play jungle gin since I can go afk while playin the computer hehe.

Sounds like me Tracy, I paint my nails once a year.. and the next year when I go to paint them, I still have some on the ends hah hah. I was gonna make a recipe I found on the net.. with some ground beef (its new at our store..) it's called "Laura's Lean Ground Beef".. it's from the butcher area, but its only 4% fat! Didn't know they could go that low.. anyway, the recipe was cook 1lb beef and 1 onion chopped up in a skillet, then add 1 can of cream of celery, layer it in a baking dish, top with mashed potatoes and cheddar cheese. I was making the beef and realized I'm out of cream of celery.. argh.. all I had was cream of potato which would be too potatoey.. and cream of chicken which.. I didn't want to mix with beef.. so.. I just made my pretend shepherd's pie.. put it in a dish with corn on top, and mashed taters on top of that. I didn't like the beef, I didn't crumble it up enough, so it was big chunks which discourage me from eating.. so I ate the tater top and the corn.. and I made some fresh yellow squash. Something was giving me trouble.. I figured it was the bite I had of beef.. but I just reheated some of the squash for a snack, and it hurts.. weird, it's all mushy. That's all I've had today.. but I'll likely have some Funyuns when I go to bed. Finally made me that martini, and going to enjoy it now.

Congrats Judy! Well despite finding out 100c is how much ONE DOSE of Nyquil is, I've been taking it all day for days.. and i figured since I'm takin Nyquil and screwin everything up, I'm eatin whatever I want!! I've been eating lots of chocolate whip cream (15c ofr 2 tbsp.. unlike 100c for nyquil HRMPH).. and uhm... funyuns.. I bought a bag and have been working on it for days. Low and behold, still 251lb tonight.. with clothes on (when I initially found 251, I was nekkie). So I'm happy about that.. me and DH are at odds right now, I won't go into it. But I've lost some respect for him, which is a bummer in a relationship (I've come to find out). So dealing with that.. wishin I had a happy pill right now.. think I'm going to go make a martini.

CONGRATS TRACY!! So proud and SO envious :eek: Treat yourself to something nice!