Daisalana

80 degrees here today.. flip flops.. check! ;D

Wow, never heard that before. I don't know then

Hello! I use to have regular bowel movements.. post-op I think I didn't get a bowel movement till 3 weeks in.. and I induced it with prune juice. Now, I can go days without a bowel movement. And sometimes it's very hard to get it to be productive. I know my problem is fiber. Fiber makes you poo! Take a fiber supplement (Benefiber mixes taste/textureless into other things). I try to do that but I forget since I have to mix it into things. They also have fiber tablets.. or just check foods you eat and make sure you eat more fiber. It can take a week or so to regulate you, but it does.

(((TERRY))) This too shall pass! Stay strong, and remember there's always tomorrow. Just a warning, not that you guys probably ever would have, but.. don't order from mookiegifts.com They are making me extremely nervous. I bought $80 worth of gifts from them 2 weeks ago. No status update. I've been e-mailing them asking for an update on what's going on with them.. no responses. I've tried calling, and it goes to a voicemail.. no response. Starting to think I'm out $80 :*(

I was 150lbs overweight.. I carry most my weight upper body. My stomach was pretty huge before I started, it's shrinking now, but I can't decide if the last of the rolls I see is skin or still weight I'm going to lose. It is all puckered and weird looking, but.. I don't see me getting plastic surgery for it at this point. I can easily tuck it under my underwear/pants, and I don't feel I have to show my belly to anyone. I do plan to have kids too, so if I do decide on it, it's still years away post-children. If I don't look majorly deformed or have a large pannic hanging down (and it looks like I won't, I think it would have formed by now), I won't be getting a TT.

Well unless I'm completely out of it, there's no way I'm doing that kind of test. It's preventative I'm sure, but after talking with my mom.. it sounds pretty drastic this early on. They were doing 2 tests. This was one, the other is an ultrasound (so much less invasive). They can do the ultrasound on my next appt, and if they see something there, they can dope me up and talk to me about being in a frog position with a cathetar! So I came to post an NSV My mom wears a size 12/14.. we went to Avenue (plus size store) a few months ago.. she got some size 14 shirts, I got 22/24 at the time. I wear the 22/24 from there sometimes, but they are pretty blousy on me. Mom said none of her shirts fit, because 14W isn't same as 12/14. I went over last night and tried them on, they all fit great on me! Today I'm wearing a size 14W tunic. Woot. I don't know what that actually translates to, but 14 still feels good

It's 77 degrees here right now.. snoooow?! Oh, I looked up the test my doc ordered for me to have today, and it sounded extremely scary (in a 'frog position', metal catheter in the uterus, women have to stay a few minutes due to the intense cramping from the dye in the uterus blah blah)..so I cancelled my appointment. I've decided I'm not gonna do all these tests, when we try to have kids, if we're havin problems I'll think about all this then. If my kidney is in the way, they can take it out after the fact. Pff!

Hah hah! I arrived at work today with the 30k. I have to give it to accounting, but she wasn't in her office. I can still change my mind and run oft! I go to the doctor today to check my..uterus I guess. I'm praying it's an outside ultrasound, I don't want anything scary happening today. Be good everyone! CTCT!!

I wish I could hit the hot tub everynight!!!

Oh I meant to say.. I just opened your card Judy, that picture of you & Bobster and the 'kids' is very nice!

Michelle- Exactly! When I think I am "over-filled" it means I can't eat 90% of food. When I got it taken out last time and lost restriction.. I still did eat smaller portions, but I could LITERALLY eat ANYTHING. And smaller portions wasn't always the case. Now I PB from the smallest of things.. fruit leather, mushrooms..I wouldn't dare put bread in my mouth, that would be miserable. Just got home, helping mom & dad put together a present for my g'parents. So I'm behind, my stomach has been going rampant, too late to cook dinner, so we ordered chinese. DH gets sesame chicken, so I got him that and I ordered an egg drop soup. I'll likely eat all the soup and maybe 1 piece of the chicken (and then wish I hadn't hah hah). And.. the boss left the x-mas bonuses at home, so he gave them to me to bring into work tomorrow since he is always late and accounting needs them ASAP.. it's $30,000... IN CASH. Wow. In my kitchen. I've never seen more than 1k in cash at once in my life. I said, if I don't show up tomorrow, I went to Tunica (Mini-Las Vegas in Mississippi) hahaha! I'm rich for the next 12 hours.

I use to be bad about taking daily meds.. I have a new routine. It's something like 21 days to make a habit, so stick to it 21 days and you're golden. Now it's part of my nightly routine. I keep my vitamins, tums, prilosec, and other daily meds in my nightstand. A bottle of water on my nightstand. Every single night when I lay down in bed, I take all my meds. And that way I don't forget and it's same time every day. Good luck

Hey ladies! Well, I'm back to feeling over-filled. The thing is, I'm going to recoin the term over-filled. I think this is actually good restriction. food is such a chore to eat, I don't want to bother. That's pretty darn good for a foodaholic. I can get down liquid, but that's about it. Some soft foods go down, but not without a fight and me getting tired of eating. 2 days ago I got a salad bar to-go for dinner, could only eat a couple pieces of stuff before giving up. Had a yogurt for b'fast yesterday.. half-way into it, I felt so stuffed I had to stop. Didn't eat again till dinner with family, we went to Ruby Tuesday's. I got a mushroom peppercorn steak cooked rare(dunno what I was thinking, I just don't like the food there so I was trying something new). 1 small piece of steak and 5 mushroom slices later, I was hurting. I actually had trouble with JUNK food (which normally goes down when I'm tight). Ate about 5 ruffle chips slowly, and it was too painful to keep going. Last night around bed time, I heated up some of the left over mushrooms from the steak.. I got stuck, and horribly thirsty. Kept trying to drink Water, but due to the stuck mushrooms I kept spitting it all up. Finally after an hour, I was able to guzzle a whole liter of water. Whew. Today I had a milk for b'fast.. forgoing anything solid. Then I had 1/2 of a fruit leather.. and ended up PBing the half I ate. Then got a cup of chili from Steak & shake (num num num). Only could eat 4 small bites of it before feeling the pain. If it's this or, unrestricted.. I have to pick this. It keeps me from ENJOYING food. So I only eat cause I need to.. much easier to 'diet' this way hah. I am going to pick up some Meal Replacement shakes (Probably Slimfast, only brand I could ever drink without making a face the whole time)..have those 2x a day and a small bowl of Soup for dinner. Eventually I'll loosen up and will hit the 'sweet spot' for a while. Whatever works! There's a lot of drama going on at work lately, and our Xmas party is Wednesday. I gotta cook pigs in a blanket for 100 and DH has to bring chips. Xmas bonuses though..woowoo. Going to go drink some more water.. easier to get more in a day now since I can't eat hah!

I find with good restriction, food is more a chore than a pleasure.. so snacking is a lot less. When my restriction isn't good, I can snack too much since I can't eat a lot at once anyway.. So the key IMO is the restriction. It keeps me from caring to snack because I think.. well, it might hurt or get stuck, I'm not THAT hungry.. I'll pass.

YAY JANIE!! I remember passing that hump, it is exciting Ok I never heard the vicks on the feet, what's that suppose to do? I mean why is that better than on the chest? Yesterday was an.. odd.. day. I've told you guys how DH is a complete jerk when drunk.. well, my parents are re-doing their house.. trying to clean it out and fix it up (it's an expensive house, it was trashed from having kids, they're on the lake so the back has rotted from water damage, etc.). Their attic has collected so much random crap (they have biggest house in entire family so everyone puts stuff in their attic when they don't have room for it at their house). They said.. everything is going in the trash, if you want anything, come get it! So I told DH we gotta go get some of my old stuff.. we go over there, ends up they needed DH for a strong body to move big things up & down the stairs. I did feel bad for him, cause no one told me that's what they were gonna make him do! They have a big spiral staircase, and he had to help take down over 50 loads of trash including big & small things. THEN dad decided while he had hands around the house, he wanted to move the furniture from the living room to an upstairs bedroom so he can turn it into a game room or something. I was so nervous they were going to fall with those big couches!! Then they had to take a couch from my sister's old room down to the garage. It was a lot of work. I kept apologizing to DH. Afterward, we decided to have some libations! We went and picked up some baileys, baileys caramel, butter shots, vodka, and after shock. It started out fun.. I made a milkshake thing that was good.. chocolate chip ice cream, baileys, butter shots, and vodka in a blender. Everyone loved it. Then DH and my dad decided to shoot a LOT of After Shock.. which is 80% proof. Me and my mom drank baileys & butter shots (I hardly ate yesterday, so first off I knew my calories would be alright, and 2nd I thought I'd get drunk quick). I ended up never getting drunk somehow. My mom acted tipsy, but in control.. DH & Dad were DRUNK! My dad apparently is super goofy when drunk, and DH of course.. a jerk! It was really akward, I kept thinking.. my family is going to hate Russell now. Luckily my dad was being silly enough me and my mom just kept exchanging glances, muttering things like 'men...', and laughin at them. Hours later, (DH never 'sobers up' the same night, I don't get that either), I drove us the mile home, and he did emberass me a lot.. due to him being drunk we now all know he wants us to adopt asian kids because they'll be good mathmaticians.. and when my mom said 'what if they aren't good at math?' he said 'well then they better be damn good at sports'. Oh jeez. He sounded like such a jackass. This is just one of many things he got into a heated debate about. Anyway on our drive home, he's asking 'Am I in trouble?' and 'I did good right?'.. and I said 'well..' then I remembered last time I called him out while drunk it turned into a big fight, I just said no you're not in trouble, yes you did good. I figured I can talk to him about damage control when he's sober. So weird.. me & my mom have gotten 'drunk' before, and we just giggle and laugh at things.. my dad was dancing and telling my mom how she's the light of his life etc... and my DH is trying to explain (and losing his train of thought or making absolutely no sense at all) all kinds of different random things. Mom called this morning to tell me my dog opened a bag of cement on her porch and got it all over (gah, I don't know why she does that at their house.. she's an indoor dog and I only guess she's rebelling for being kept outside).. and didn't mention anything about DH.. guess this is going to be one of those things we just don't talk about :x I still have my Philosophy final due on 12/11 I have barely looked at.. I need to get on it!! And today I'm to go over and help them set up their christmas tree. 263lb on the scale though, woot woot. 3lbs till my all time new record!!!!!!!!

I have a moderate sweet tooth.. I like something sweet every day, but not all day. I keep 100 calorie cookie packs on hand (Pepperidge Farm is good, and also Shorties Shortbread cookies). I also think the fruit leather (45c for a pack) is really sweet and it's 100% pureed fruit dried out.. Granola Bites (90 calories) are good.. and have quite a bit in them for a bandster. Cinnamon tastes like french toast, chocolate tastes like coacoa puffs, and the peanut butter tastes like coconut to me. If you can control portions, by just getting packs like these with controlled calories, you can do fine. But if you can't stop at just 1 pack, it might be better not to have the temptation. Depends on what works for you!

Mine was biased for RnY. He had it himself.. and he mentioned if his daughter needed WLS he would give her RnY. There was 14 of us in the room, I was the only one wanting the band. But after the seminar, about 5 of the ladies said they wish they could get the band, but insurance doesn't cover it (a month later BCBS of AL did cover it, but I think we all had surgery by then).. I thought that was a bum way to be forced to choose, via your insurance. My insurance made it easy.. they cover it, but not in my policy! When he weighed pros & cons, he definitely was trying to sway everyone to RnY, but he didn't tell me he thought I was wrong for wanting the band. He just thought RnY was more successful.

Terry you look great!! I don't see '30lbs to go'!!!

I got my SS gift! OMG (((Gina))) it's PERFECT!!! Did you see it online or on the TV? I just don't see how a picture could do it justice. I think it's a pin/pendant? But it came with a ribbon wrapped around the top and I immediately thought it was an ornament.. and that's where it is for now! :biggrin1: It's glittering in the tree lights, I'll take a picture and show everyone. It's so beautiful and sparkly.. it's a fairy with glittery wings on a gold setting, with snowflakes that dangle (the snowflakes are such a cute touch!) Love love love it! Thank you so much!!

Well.. I've had chronic heartburn since I was 10. I've been taking Prilosec OTC one a day for years now. For surgery I had to be off of them for a week.. and I had such horrible heart burn.. Tums don't do anything for me. Post-op, I let it go a little, see if banding helped.. it didn't. If I forget to take my Prilosec, the heart burn is unbearable. However, I can swallow them fine still, and the band hasn't made it worse in any way.. Prilosec still works perfectly for me.

You can buy steri-strips at Walgreens or any other drug store. One of my steri-strips came off prematurely, so I bought some and my doc told me to just put them on (I called them to ask.. do the same! )

That sounds like lima Beans. Just looked at wikipedia, they're not the same. Lime Bean- Phaseolus limensis is a legume. It is grown for its seed, which is eaten as a vegetable. It is commonly known as the lima bean or butter bean, it is also known as Haba bean, Pallar bean, Burma bean, Guffin bean, Hibbert bean, Java bean, Sieva bean, Rangood bean, Madagascar bean, Paiga, Paigya, prolific bean, civet bean and sugar bean. Edamame-Edamame is a preparation of immature soybeans in the pod commonly found in China and Japan. The pods are boiled in Water together with condiments such as salt, and served whole

I am against the protests though. There's no reason to cram down anyone's throat what YOU believe..and how what YOU believe is the ONLY way. That stuff pisses me off. If you don't want your kid to see it, don't take them. If they go on their own behind your back, get over it.. kids do far worse than watch movies. The extreme example is that Arkansas church group that goes around saying 9/11 happened because of the fags, and they're glad it happens.. then they go to the funerals of soldiers and say it has to do with the fags too.