Daisalana

I use to eat bread all the time, yum yum. Since banding I have toast for b'fast maybe once a week. I pass on the rolls at dinner, and tear apart my tacos. I hate Atkins, and refuse to ever do it again.. which means I don't count my carbs.. But I can guess since banding I drastically reduced my carb intake.. and it's not intentional, I just don't happen to be drawn to the breads anymore. I still love taters and eat them every other day though :car:

Next thing you know, they're going to say eating makes you fat. THE NERVE OF PEOPLE! :biggrin1::guess

This is freshmen in college? And what college? (I'm coming to your class :car: )

Yes!! I am normally ALWAYS hot, me and DH for years agree to keep the house 65 degrees year round.. But for a couple months now, I'm ALWAYS FREEZING!!! My hands, feet, and nose.. mom tried telling me it was circulation blah blah, and I know she's wrong. This is something new to me since weight loss! I read somewhere it has to do with the amount of calories it takes for your body to regulate its temperature, so I think maybe since we take in such little calories now, our body doesn't warm itself up like it use to hah. I prefer to be cold than hot, but I find myself freezing in situations where everyone else thinks I'm crazy. Ok, I'm making a 'sexy 101' kit lol for you guys when I come!

Just be strong, it seems rough, but keep your eye on the prize A couple months from now you'll forget all about the headache getting there!!

Thank you Judy! I see more of a difference personally in my figure.. for the first time ever ever I feel like that girlie figure is coming in, I can't get enough of it.. Much to DH's happiness I run around in tank top and panties just because I can!!!!

Photobucket was doing maintenance, I used geocities (which sucks.. obviously).. gonna edit in a sec and fix those with Photobucket ones!

Ok, doin 2 sets of pics.. First up.. B&A.. April to October.. and I drew a VIOLET bra on my before pic lol And Halloween--

I eat Healthy Life white bread when I want toast. 35 calories per slice and a good amount of fiber. I think they had wheat too, but I don't like the taste of wheaty bread. It doesn't taste diety or anything, I'm still in awe and ramble about it to my DH when I make the toast. I don't understand how it's only 35 calories per slice..

Bravo to you for including a review sheet! If they still do bad after that, I'd say your class is full of idiots.

Well, since I don't believe in the normal version of evolution, it's pretty blah blah blah to me hehe. I study the night before the test just to retain the information for said test

Looks great

LOL! That's exactly what popped in my head..

Who knows, I'll try not to be too difficult. The tv changing channels (even if muted) makes me wake up. So if I sleep with someone who wakes up early, I get up early.. My granny was like that last time I went to the casinos with her.. we shared a room, and apparently she gets up at the crack of dawn!! So despite the fact we weren't in bed till 3am sometimes later, I had to wake up every day at 5:30am.. Blech.

Well Tracy, you don't squat on the floor with a constipated look to be sexy!

Hah hah!! Michelle great pics, you've come so far!! I love that shirt, I give that 2 thumbs up I'll give you guys sex appeal classes in May rofl. I have all the sex appeal, I just have a big ol fat belly (and *use* to have a couple chins). Today is crazy at work again! ARGH! Our billing lady, her dad had a heart attack last week. So since I'm the only one who knows her back up, in the middle of our busy season I'm having to juggle my customers and her accounting. I don't mean to seem insensitive, I do sympathize 100%. But my rant is about me right now heh. She came back Wednesday, Thurs she was gone.. they thought he was fine and sent him home and it ends up he has a failing heart, it wasn't a heart attack.. They expect him to die in the next couple days How horrible, they thought he was going to be fine!! So she'll likely be out all of next week too for funeral, so I have my work cut out for me right now. I'm zipping all over the place (in my new Curves sandles I might add, that 'supposedly' help work out my legs). I don't know what they're suppose to do, but DH said they look like 'special kid' shoes. Had yogurt for b'fast, just had a fruit leather for a snack/lunch. Everyone needs to try the fruit leather, they are wonderful. Made of 100% fruit. 45 calories in a pack. They taste like adult fruit roll ups...it's not so flat and candy tasting.. just good ol fruit. I bought a big pack of Orchard Cherry, it's my new favorite.. I also really like the blueberry. GO TRY THESE!!! It's pureed fruit flattened into bars and dried out, but they're squishy. I keep meaning to take new pics for you guys, I got a 'slutty' looking goth (I guess?) halloween costume. It's just a robe that is cut to my hips on each side and low cut with a hood. I don't know what it's suppose to be.. I'm wearin that and painting my face white with black around my eyes. I look damn good in it, and it's just 'plus size adult'.. I normally don't fit into things like that. My height has to be taken into consideration on those generic sized things. But anyway.. probably today when I get home from work I'll take a pic for you guys. I actually fixed my hair today. I think it looks great, watch me feel like a cow after seeing it in a pic! (I always see 2 different things). Back to the grind.. WWJD!!!!!

When I watched Big Medicine last night, they showed a girl getting lap-band.. and she was talking about her decision to get it, and she said "It's not permanent". Hum.. I don't know if she meant, if something happened she could have it removed, but it IS permanent! That's hard for my family to wrap their brains around too.. They keep thinking I'll want it out later in life. But why? My life isn't horrible because I can only eat small portions now.. Guess when everyone has the gorge mentality, the band is a baffling tool. I'm not suffering or miserable, I'm content with what I have. My g'ma pushed on my port when I was showing them where they moved it.. she thought if you push the port, it's like a button that inflates you..and that I did that at every meal. And she use to be the head nurse. :x

Hm.. mine was actually really thick and clumpy compared to normal oatmeal. Do you add milk or water? I might have eyeballed it wrong, I made it at work.

Jenn- Your son is SO cute! Can I have him? ;D Yay Michelle! Grats!!! PMS is finally done (ironically I started Yaz yesterday hah), so hopefully I'll stop grazing. The past few days have been horrid, and instead of feeling guilty, I'm blaming it on TOM. Pam- I'm with you, I'm proud of the 20/22's I'm wearing.. and the 23 pants I wear from a place I couldn't even wear their 25's pre-op!! 14/16.. not once in my life. By time they came out with the cute teen plus size clothes I was already in 18/20.

While we're on the subject.. We use to clean all this crap off people's computer for a living. We used 10 different programs to remove virus and spyware crap, and everyone could find hundreds individually.. Adaware and Spybot are the best free ones. For virus protection, Kaspersky is the best anti-virus among all the ones we checked out. It's based out of Russia, but you can buy and download it online. And while we're talking about scammers.. This place always gives me a good laugh. It's the Nigerian scammers primarily, and they end up doing crazy things to try to weasel money out of the people who run this website.. If you have some time, it's great entertainment. 419 BAITER - 419baiter.com - Stringing-along 419 Scammers for my Amusement

Uh oh, now I gotta sleep with the loud'uns?

ROFL!! I start my Yaz today.. fingers crossed I'll be one of them bloat-free, happy go lucky PMSing women in the commercial

Wowsa.. is that one good?

I don't study till right before the test, because I'm not 'absorbing' anything in the sense of I'll remember it.. I'm absorbing it momentarily to pass a test. I'm in a BIO lab class right now, the only thing I hold onto from it, are things I'm interested in.. we just covered genetics, didn't have to study because I find it interesting and I kept the information. Now we're doing natural selection, which isn't interesting to me, my brain won't retain the info, so I'm not studying till right before the test. Such is life for a student :eek:

Some people prefer to do low-carb. NOT EVERYONE. I find, if I eat the bread on say a mexi-melt from Taco Bell, I can't eat a whole lot of it. The bread fills you up really quick (and it's fleeting!). So I prefer to tear off most of the tortilla on the mexi-melt. As for things like hamburgers, there's no good way to have a 'small bite' if you're eating everything in the burger plus bun.. and if it's not a small bite- it gets stuck (if you're at a good restriction). I can handle some bread, just not a lot, and I prefer to eat more of the innards of things than the bread.