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As of today I am counting calories. If Babs can lose over 100 pounds, then so can I, rigth? She counts calories so I want to follow her lead. Babs, you are my guiding light. I don't want to go over 1000 calories a day. However, I don't count vegetables, which will add several hundred calories.

Donali, you reminded me of something awful! I was at the grocery store a couple years back looking for milk and yogurt, and I kept hearing moo and oink noises. At first I thought I was imagining it, but then I realizes someone on the other side of the freezer was watching me (you know how the freezers are two sided so they can load it from the warehouse?) First I almost cried, but then I stormed up to the manager in front of the whole store and let loose. I demanded the person be fired, and the people in the store all backed me up. Wow, what an awful memory. I hope this doesn't offend anyone, but I think this is good therapy. You have to remember it, accept it, say it, then let it go for good. Bye bye bad memories.

Megan, I know you are on line so why are you ignoring my PMs? Sorry for the hijack folks, just doing a lil on-the-side detective work. Penni, this one's FUNNY!

Leatha, I swear, I'm not kidding.

For as long as you have your port. Sorry, bad joke. Ignore me.

Hey, I'm the one that got yelled at by Donali! But I don't let it get to me. Some days it's fun to come here, other days there's lots of disagreements. I'm pretty miffed myself about certain LBT issues, but we always come back and laugh in the end, right? Hubby mentioned a full moon, could it be?

I wish my name was Ana. Then I could be Bandana.

I was wrong. I stand corrected. Donali's post is correct, and I am sorry. I allowed a doctor to make me feel like I was making excuses, and I even argued with him till I allowed him to win. He won and now I'm preaching his word, so instead of editing my comment, let me apologize and correct myself here: We are all morbidly obese, year round. Our disease does not ebb and flow with the tides, and it doesn't go away when the sun shines. And Donali yelled at me. Ouch!

Knee highs, ankle socks, scrunchy socks, booties, slipper socks, toe socks. Gee, this was an easy thread.

Barbara, I'm drinking another bucket of water in your honor. Anyone care to join me? Cheers!

Okay ladies, how much did you weigh last summer, and why are there obese people in Florida? Tons of them.

Betty, if that were the case, we'd all be skinny all summer long and only fat in the winter. I'm fat year round, every year. I weighed over 300 pounds last summer, and last winter, and the summer before that.

I second Betty. Try some cream soup. It saved me during those days.

Penni, that's too deep for me.

Actually, Betty, I was using the excuse of rain to eat also. I was also using the excuse of boredom, lonelines, happiness, stress. But a very wise doctor pointed out that skinny people stay skinny year long, regardless of rain, snow and boredom, while Morbidly Obese people stay fat all year long by using excuses. Trust me, I hated that he told me that, but he's dead on correct. Rain doesn't have anything to do with the fact that I'm overweight.

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If anyone pokes you in the port, poke them back! Mike, men are really lucky cause they tend to drop weight so much faster than women. You should do really well since you're so active with all that wrestling. And I've never heard one negative comment about Dr. Rumbaugh. I've had two ports (because of complications) and recently had the second one removed. Even without a port, I think I'll always be a little over-protective of that area. I doubt you'll want to take chances in the first year, but maybe some old timers that have had ports for years will pop in and tell you how they feel. Till then, don't get all macho and let people see how hard they can punch you in the belly, okay?

I don't know if I should cheer for you or UG for me! GOOD GOING GIRL. You must be on a total rush! Meanwhile, I can't get myself in gear. What do you eat at night or for dinner? Give us a sample menu of your day, would ya?

I'm sucking at keeping up with my own journal. Notice how breakfast and lunch are always perfect, but then I peter out at dinner? DOH! Breakfast - packet oatmeal & small fruit cup, coffee w/ cream

Hey, all surgeries are elective! You gotta sign the consent, right? That was pretty rude of them.

You've got a fun nature and a good attitude... you'll need all that humor once you have your Band! Good luck to you. I look forward to following your stories.

My husband had an aunt named Dora Rhoda Hollar. She married Harold Dick. You do the math. And I'm not even lying.

Hey Bubba, one of the girls having surgery with me beat your panic attack... she actually got up and ran! She changed her mind on the way to the operating room. She decided against it, but later the doctor was able to talk her into it. She had the surgery later on.

Good news. You are normal! Let me say this, the very last thought racing through my brain as they were administering the anesthesia is, "THANK GOD." Oh, and "hurry up!"

Nothing formal ever happens at my house. One girlfriend forgot her suit but felt uncomfortable swimming in her panties, so she wore my husband's underwear to swim in. Where's the camera when you need it? And nobody's allowed to be shy since we are all fluffy women. Are there any rock hard bodies in the room? Hello? HELLO? Is that an echo? Hello?