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We just got back from lunch and I am SO READY for a nap... Cedar-planked salmon & glass of milk

Congrats! Indeed, must avoid that LBT Water or else..

((Tracy)) keep us posted!! Hopefully it's just cysts or something! Haydee you looked super cute. I never did find my pirate costume, and about 15 minutes after handing out candy I changed into jeans & pumpkin t-shirt. Just got back from the gyno, took them a while to find the heartbeat, so I was getting nervous.. guess the nurse could tell cause she was going 'it's a little heart, it can be hard to find sometimes, don't worry!'. When she finds it, she always gives me this big sly smile that makes me feel akward--like I'm suppose to cry tears of joy, and my smile isn't adequate enough.. anyway. Normally it's been 150-160 bmp, which according to an old wives tale means it's a girl. Today it was 140 bmp, which according to old wives tale is a boy. My next appt (Dec. 8) they do the anatomy thing, and tell me if it's a boy or girl!! So excited. I told them DH doesn't want to know the sex, but he wants to be there for that ultrasound, so she was saying there's a slight chance he would be able to tell from the picture.. but I've looked up pictures of how they tell and it took me a lot of effort to figure out what I was looking at. Even little girls have 3 ball looking area, so I am fairly confident Russell will have no idea what he is seeing. Regardless, I will just tell the technician when to tell him to look away. Their parking is so bad, it's 2 small parking lots, that always fill up. I drove around 15m with no luck, so I finally illegally parked on a curb. I crossed my fingers I didn't get towed.. luckily I started a trend, a lot of people were parked on the curb when I came out, whew. They also looked at the rash on my back, she didn't want to touch it, she thinks it's ringworm. My GP thought it was ringworm and put me on meds, I did it for 2 weeks with no change so I stopped. She told me to try another cream.. Lotrimin I think. Doesn't both me though! She made a comment about my weight gain that made me want to melt into a puddle and hide. I know I'm gaining too much, I told her how I feel and I'm so hungry all the time. She said it's the progesterone, and asked if I should see a nutritionist.. no not really, it's not like I don't know how to eat.. she asked if the banding folks told me how to eat well-- yes, yes they did. It's not ignorance, it's.. will power. So whatever. Today Russ goes back on Atkins, I'm going to make a point to cut out sugars that aren't naturla (re: fruit). No more candy, cookies.. blah blah. Brought all my leftover halloween candy to work today, they betta eat it! Ok have a good one ya'll!

Make an appt. with your band doc and tell them what you're experiencing..

Just popping in real quick to say Terry the pepperocini roast was AWESOME!! I put a bag of instant rice in the juice the last 10 minutes, and served it together.. Russell loved it, one of a very few recipes he actually said he wants me to make again lol.

Haydee, I never know what my costumes are 'suppose' to be, they are really all soooo generic. This year is some medusa/athenian something or another. I just painted my face to look like cleopatra, but way too tired (I am having record number of yawns today) to do my hair so it's just in a messy uhm.. athenian bun, yeah that's it. You reminded me tho I had a sexy pirate costume, wonder how hard that would be to find. This athenian toga thing is itchy. I tasted the pepperocini roast, meat is very good.. the peppers holy cow, are so hot just touching one and licking it off my finger has had my mouth burning for 10 minutes now. Russell said some peppers get hotter when cooked, I'm wondering if that's it?? Trying to decide how to serve it, on a bun or over mashed potatoes or what.. ((((JANE))))

Bingo.. we're a small business also, and there's already been talk about what is going to happen if he is elected. Due to increased taxes, there will be layoffs. They are voting for Obama because they hear that they are going to receive run-off money like a gift (heh), yet what they don't realize is.. that money comes with loss of jobs, their jobs.

I took Terry's advice, had bacon & cheese snack for b'fast. I haven't wanted candy all morning, so I guess that's a good start! Went to lunch and I'm tight today, so I nibbled at some french fries. This morning I started the pepperoncini roast.. I just put it in, poured the jar on top and set it on low. Fingers crossed! I hope my house smells like pepperoncini tonight!!!

I never had this, so my initial reaction is go to your doc and see if you have an infection. Only smell I notice is when I eat onions, it smells like onions down yonder.. heh.

Preface is..There's nothing to judge in your story, you're not out to cause a fear-mongering based off of random (questionable) information that lacks specific details. I'm sorry the band didn't work out for you, and unfortunately it just doesn't work for all. Good luck with your surgery today and I hope you get relief!

Woohoo they look great!!

I am wearing a pumpkin shirt too!! And the nose flashes lol. I keep going around tapping the nose so it blinks. No one else wore anything halloween-y, then all of a sudden batman walks up.. good costume, I can't figure out who it is! I am working on our Christmas card this year, going to print it here. So far, I like it! Can't figure out what to put on the inside though.

LOL. Mom said kids don't do the trick or treat till 2 y/o... so I have another year at least of sittin at home passin out candy! Sorry for your loss Jenn. WARNING: The consumption of margaritas may cause you to believe that calling an ex-lover at 3:00 in the morning is a GOOD idea. I did that with Russell. We broke up a lot when we first started dating, and the year we spent apart, at some point I got drunk with friends (although, not margies), and I called him at 2am. I was in a hotel, he was asleep. So I was "whispering" and trying to get him to talk. He just kept saying things like "Don't do this.." and I was saying how much I loved him and blah blah. Good times!!

congrats!!!!!! so lucky :teeth_smile:)

My doc says no Margies :biggrin:

It also doesn't help my gyno & her nurse make me feel like crap when I go in and get weighed. I am upset enough with myself, and I go back Monday. Last time she made a comment about gaining more than I need to be, and I need to watch what I eat and I explained to her I feel hungry all the time--in hopes she could offer suggestions--and she said "Then eat vegetables". I know that's a good idea in theory, but when I'm starving I don't want some vegetables. Kind of like the smoking issue, when I asked her for help/advice on how to quit, her only advice was 'Just quit smoking'.

Last night out of the blue Russell asked how I felt about my weight gain during pregnancy. Surprised me, because he normally doesn't bring up things like that. I told him I don't like that I'm gaining, I know I'm eating too much, but I feel like I haven't eaten in a week.. 24 hours a day. He just asked if I planned to commit back to it post-pregnancy, and I said of course. Right now it's my body being hungry all the time, it is NOT head hunger. I have evaulated that, to make sure it's not just me wanting food. I am truly hungry all the time. But the head part of me controlling myself, well.. that is lacking. I am hoping post-pregnancy with whatever I gain (sigh) I will be able to diligently get it back off. I just hope I don't continue at this rate, kind of wished I had morning sickness up to now so I'd have continued losing since it says many women lose weight beginning of pregnancy and 2nd trimester is when they really pack it on.. joyous. Today is our employee appreciation lunch & dinner.. where sales & management cook for them. I just finished helping set up the buffet and room, and it hit me again. I am absolutely starving. My stomach is actually in pain from being so hungry. I took a piece of pumpkin bread--only thing I can actually munch on, as everything else is outside getting cooked. It has done nothing, my stomach still hurts from hunger. I've had 2 bottles of Water this morning already, not helping at all.

Hah I like it Terry. This morning some guy was arguing on the radio show that he's voting for Obama because he upholds the TRUE sabbath day (Saturday vs. Sunday). He never had a come back for the abortion & marriage issues.

Woohoo Congrats!!! And when you get a chance, long version is good too And the pics!

Michelle, so what's the magic fix? I weighed myself last night.. are you ready? I'm so ashamed and disappointed!!! 229lb. So disheartened. 212lb on Aug. 19, and now I am up 17lbs. I was so close to 100's, now I am creeping far far away. Don't know what to do, I can't explain it.. I am so hungry and I just can't stop. No will power whatsoever. I need to get the fill and get over the tight days. Do liquids on my tight days and be done with it.

My doc thinks a c-section would be too dangerous due to a pelvic kidney, so she's planning to do natural unless there's an absolute emergency (I am just praying there's no breeching going on!!). And I am going in with the notion of, the more pain meds the better. Tracy, I did get in touch with her, she got my flowers so she called me She said it made her feel better, and she said they got the results back.. Her mom had an undiagnosed cardiovascular disease caused by CHOLESTEROL AND SMOKING. The plaque built up and a piece broke loose and killed her instantly. She said her mom never went to the doc, so they never caught it. Sounds just like my mom--who has been saying for months she thinks she needs her cholesterol checked, but won't go!! I told my mom today, no excuses she is going to get labs done. She got weepy a few times, but honestly she is handling it so much better than I imagine I would be. I would be in a drug induced sleep non-stop. Her dad isn't handling it well so she is having to do the funeral arrangements.

Hakuna Matata ya'll ) Whoever said 4 weeks.. My doc never told me, and I believe day 4 or 5 post-op I was romping. As soon as the stitches stopped hurting.

Yup, I was about to offer those suggestions. I read a lot of places (including dentists!) collect the candy to give to shelters for stocking stuffers.. and some dentists actually pay like $1 a pound. Hype Macy up that she'd be helping people less fortunate, and let her pick out a handful of candy she likes, then donate the rest. If you don't know where to donate, tell her you're donating it and bag it up in the car (trunk) until you find a place so it's not in easy reach of ANYONE

Ohhh Haydee, just found this on my phone, wanted to ask you about it.. I never saw the brand of pork rinds you sent us, (mine are long gone now hehe so I forgot the brand), but these grabbed my attention at the store. Packaged different, but some reason it looked similar to those bags. It says it's made in TX.. is this the one your (mom owns?) isn't that right? Let me know, cause that means our stores carry them now! Mom just got back from Chicago, she brought me this bottle of water. It's almost 30oz and is glass. She said she got room service and asked for 2 bottles of water.. they brought her 2 of these, and she said they were $20 each so she wasn't going to throw it away lol.