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If you are concerned about getting athlete's foot from taking your shoes off when visiting people, you need to find a better crowd to hang with. In all seriousness, I think athlete's foot is something you catch going around barefooted in warm moist environments, like public showers. In a relatively dry environment like people's private homes, you are probably stepping on carpet or hardwood flooring and not something that should be of concern.

Penny - it's great to hear from you. I've often wondered how you've been doing. I like and agree with your slow and steady approach. It's the one I use at the advice of my doctor. He says live your life and let the band do it's job without over focusing on it. Quitling Bee - how great is that! You've gone down 10 sizes! :thumbup::w00t::tt1: WTG! Help us stay motivated by posting more frequently. :tongue2:

PJTP: My theory on Caylee - stupid young mom wanted to go out, parents didn't want to babysit 'cause she's been out partying too much lately... stupid young mom goes off in a huff but can't find a sitter and decides she'll chloroform her and leave her in the trunk while she goes in the club to party. Comes out and discovers dead child and panics. Decides to leave the car where noone can find it and then doesn't know what to tell people so she just keeps "hiding" from her parents. Doesn't excuse what she did, and she needs to pay, but death penalty seems a bit overkill (no pun intended).

Hi. Been doing Christmas shopping, etc. with the family. Thought I'd pop in and see what everyone's up to this weekend. My restriction has loosened up a bit but I can still control portions so I feel good about it. I just love the fact that my hunger is no longer controlling me and for the first time in a very long time, I feel I am truly eating to live and not living to eat.

It's good to lose it in the face but HATE losing it in the bust. I don't have much of a butt, but I think that's where I'm losing it because it's getting positively bony!

Woo Hoo! Great news! Orea, you're so close -- less than 3lbs to go! Your weight loss has been awesome!

That sounds fun MaryEllen. Can I come with?

Sorry, Beth. Keep your chin up--something better will come up for you -- just gotta keep the positive thoughts flowing.

Has Kirstie gained back the weight she lost on JC? I haven't seen any pics of her recently.

Agreatknead - I think we posted this before, but please go to the last post to update, not YOUR last post but the last post in the thread. When you go to your last post, it messes up the actual weight loss stats for others.

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I was on such a looooooooooong plateau, it's finally starting to break through! I notice the recent posts don't seem to have the recent weight loss so I'm going back to the one that I know was the most recent for the majority and posting that -- another 1/2 lb down today.

People change; situations evolve. Sometimes relationships improve and get stronger because of the changes and other times it signals an end to the relationship. It hurts to have our hearts broken but sometimes I think it's even more difficult when we break someone else's heart.

This one's for you Beth - how about that Illinois Governor? he he Note to self - whenever anyone from Illinois is running for anything, assume he/she has been bought and sold!

Sounds like fun and the smaller than them part is just icing on the cake! I so can't wait until my bandiversary! I'm committed to reach goal by then. Already warned DH that I'm throwing everything out of my closet and plan on returning to being a clothes horse again! When I was at a size I was happy with, a week didn't go by without a new piece of clothing, shoes or purse--sometimes all in the same week (had to complete the outfit, didn't I?)!

Bubbles, if you haven't lost any weight in a month and you don't feel satisfied with 1 to 1 1/2 cup of solid food, then go in for a fill. It did the trick for me! Don't know why I waited so long between the last fill and the fill before!

Thanks, Karri. Yesterday evening I felt the restriction loosen up (1 1/2 weeks after the fill) and I was thinking of having a bit more and craving sweets. I resisted the bit more food but made myself a spiked egg nog to answer the sweet tooth. Probably would have been better off with a bit more dinner but that wouldn't have shut up the sweet tooth so I probably would have had a bit more and still looked for something sweet. *sigh* I still have good restriction so unless it really loosens up, am not even thinking of another fill.

It snowed in Houston on Wed! It was actually big enough and stuck long enough for a couple of snow balls. The kids LOVED it!!!! I have to confess, it gave me a bit a snow high, too! :wink2:

Like Emily, I'm 5 months post op. I lost 10 lbs the first week post op and then only about 3 lbs a month after that. I got my 5th fill to take me to 5 ccs in an 8 cc band a week and a 1/2 ago and have lost 5.5 lbs since then. I can eat solids and swallow just fine but I do believe I'm finally at my sweet spot since a cup of food satisfies me and keeps me satisfied for hours. I don't count calories but I think since my last fill, I've been averaging anywhere beween 650 - 900 calories a day based on the type and amount of food I'm eating. I stopped exercising a couple of months ago because of a knee injury to give it a break and let it recover. It's fine now but I haven't started back on the exercising again. I am committing to do that starting tomorrow!

If she followed Jenny Craig and lost, how can she create her own weight loss program and claim it works? I'd think Jenny might have something to say about that!

I read anything I can get my hands on. When I was a teenager I read A LOT of romance novels and burned myself out on them but will still read it if I don't have anything else to read. I literally have withdrawal symptoms if I don't have a book to read. I've been known to peruse my children's books to reread them when that happens. he he

He gave you a goal? He didn't give me a goal weight. I love him and continue to recommend him and his staff to anyone who asks but we never sat down and plotted a course or a goal. He just told me to not think about the band, but to live my life and try to keep the calories between 800-1100 a day. If I'm eating more than that, then it's time to come back for a fill.

I don't think it's surprise so much as amazement that with a doc hanging on her coat tails all the time, a personal trainer and chefs, she still can't keep it off. As for why I started this thread, I was annoyed with Oprah's attitude towards WLS considering how she herself failed time and time again. I hadn't heard Kirsty Alley had WLS. I thought she did the Jenny Craig diet.

You said it sister!

Well, it appears Oprah has given up, at least on the thin part. Now her goal is no longer to be thin but to be "fit, healthy and strong" Now she's admitted that she has a food addiction and that she keeps falling off the wagon. You think she might at least say she gets why people have WLS since she understands the losing and gaining yo yo?