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You are amazing because if we were scrunched for time and a co-worker like Erin was around eating while we had a deadline I would have screamed at her (not really) But I cringed at the thought if something would have happend to all the paper work.. And how could she offer you something she already put her cooties on.. Yuk

Hi Leslie sounds like you are on the right track but like Michelle says try adding Harder Protien with your egg. I myself do protien drinks all morning and by mid morning I introduce chicken or tuna for lunch usually stay full till around 4 or 5 so for me it does not take much sometimes I fill good about it other times I would like to stuff myself.. OOOOhh sweets yep I try to be good about that but sometimes I nibble on my sons cup cakes at night. Yep all the ladies and Gentlemen are very helpfull

Thank you Leslie, That is one of my questions how will it affect his appetite right now I make him breakfast before he goes to school then he eats breakfast again at school and at night he eats his dinner then snacks for awhile now he is not chunky pretty slim if you as me. But for him to loose weight would be quite noticeable. Anyway when you say your son gets sick in the mornings was it just the time a day? or on an empty stomach. I need all the information I can get because I have not mentioned it to his Dad yet and I need to show him and prove that we need to do something to get him back on track.

Thank you all - We have a Dr's appt to talk about what we are going to do with him vs medication. He is such a good child and so smart but when he gets to school he is all over the place.. Thanks again

Great idea.. Let me know what I can do if anything.

Welcome home Shae Hopefully the gas will pass with movement I would start walking around your house just to get everything moving. Pain should subside in a few days I had to sleep propped up with pillows after a couple of months I could sleep on my tummy with no problem but I have heard those body pillow are wonderful. Just take it easy and welcome to the other side.

Emmy, I agree with everyone. I myself use to love a boiled egg every now and then but as of late I avoid them seems it just does not go down like they use too. And I learned my lesson on trying to help something go down with water just does not help.. We learn as we go..

WOW Brenda you look amazing you have done such a teriffic Job... You go Girl

Welcome Tony No info on self pay since my insurance paid 80%. But just wanted to say welcome.

kuddos to you Becky, You have done very great in your loss. I joined Curves 3 months ago and have been toning up or at least trying too. It's a good place to spend 30 minutes to help my band & body (not to mention mind)..

I am so so sorry the hear that your band slipped. My prayers go out to you. Did they give you a time line as to when they will submit it to the insurance and get it done?

We always think the worst case scenerio with our bands. I will pray that everthing turns out alright and it is a case of your drainage upsetting your tummy..

I am thinking of have my childs Dr prescribe Strattera for my 7 yr old. Can anyone tell me personally what they think this medication??

Angela, I know it is disappointing but it would only be worse if you found out you were PG after being banded you would not only worry about dealing and recovery with the band but the affects of the Anesthesia and any pain meds or other medications that you would have taken on how they were affecting your baby. The day will come when it will be your time, The Lord knows what road he wants you to follow. And if your Dr. Decides that he can still band you I wish you all the best.

New to me never seen it before. Checked out the user cp on who's on line pretty cool never new that ..

Welcome Kathy, I personally have learned so much from this site and everyone is so warm & helpful with the band as well as off topic questions as well. Good to have you here

Good Job Betty 4 lbs you sure are losing fast...

Ryan & Patty you are both in our prayers that when they reinsert the catherter it is a success and that Patty will be pain free. Thanks for posting Marie God Bless

that is a mighty good iron to have. My hair looks like crap as of late thinning and falling out. Your hair looks just wonderful mighty pretty

Oh they are all so cute. Had to kick our little one out he half pommerainan the other half chiuhuaha he was going to tinkle on max our Hamster who's cage is on the floor..

I have not had heartburn or feel air in my tumm but my problem of late is i have reflux at night. For instance I can be sleeping and liquid comes up my throat. Another thing I have noticed is drinking water all day causes the back of my throat to burn. My band fills fine do not fill to tight or to loose. My next appt is in 2 weeks so will bring it up with the Dr but not sure what is going on. Is it Gerd????

Finally recognition.. Good article

Great article, Thanks for sharing with us

Kinda XX rated proceed with care hair Removal You don't have to be a woman to appreciate this story. I guarantee it will have women (men too) laughing out loud!! This is allegedly a true story, and if it's not it should be. As Beth told the story... All methods have tricked me with their promises of easy, painless removal - the Epilady, the standard razor, the scissors, the Nair, the EpilStop, and now . . The Wax. My night began as any other normal weekday night. I came home from work, fixed dinner for my son and we played for a while. I then had the thought that would ring painfully in my mind for the next couple hours: maybe I should use that wax in my medicine cabinet. I set up my boy with a video and head to the site of my demise, um, I mean bathroom. It was one of those cold wax kits. No melting a clump of hot wax, you just rub the clear strips in your hand, peel them apart, press it on your leg (or wherever) and ignore the frantically rising crescendo of string instruments in the background. No muss, no fuss. How hard can this be? I mean, I'm not the girly-est of girls but I'm mechanically inclined so maybe I can figure out how this works. You'd think. So I pull one of the thin strips out. It's two strips facing each other, stuck together. I'm supposed to rub it in my hand to warm and soften the wax (I'm guessing). I go one better: I pull out the hair dryer and heat the SOB to ten thousand degrees. Cold wax, my ass. (Oh, how that phrase will come back to haunt me.) I lay the strip across my thigh. I hold the skin around it and pull. OK, so it wasn't the best feeling in the world, but it wasn't bad. I can do this! Hair removal no longer eludes me! I am Sheera, fighter of all wayward body hair and smooth skin extraordinaire! With my next wax strip, I move north. After checking on the boy and verifying that he was, in fact, becoming one with Bear and learning all about smells, I sneak into the bathroom for The Ultimate Hair Fighting Championship. I drop my panties and place one foot on the toilet. Using the same procedure, I then apply the wax strip across the right side on my bikini line, covering the right half of my front and stretching up into the inside of the right ass cheek. (Yeah, it was a long strip.) I inhale deeply. I brace myself. RRRIIIIPPP!!!! I'm blind! Blind from the pain! Vision returning. Oh crap. I've managed to pull off half an inch of the strip. Another deep breath. And RIIIP! Everything is swirly and tie-dyed? Do I hear crashing drums? OK, coming back to normal again. I want to see my trophy - my wax covered pelt that caused me so much agony. I want to revel in the glory that is my triumph over body hair. I hold the wax strip like an Olympic gold medallist. But why is there no hair on it? Why is the wax mostly gone? Where could the wax go, if not on the strip? Slowly, I eased my head down, my foot still perched on the toilet. I see hair - the hair that should be on the strip. I touch. I feel. I am touching wax. I look to the ceiling and silently shout "nooooooo!!" And realize I have just begun living my own personal version of "The Tar Baby." I peel my fingers off the softest, most sensitive part of my body that is now covered in cold wax and matted hair, and make the next big mistake - up until this point, you'll remember, I've had my foot on the toilet. I know I need to move, to do something. So I put my foot down on the floor. And then I hear the slamming of the cell door. Vag area? Sealed shut. Axx? Sealed shut. A little voice in my head says "I hope you don't have to shit anytime soon. Your head just might pop off." I penguin walk around the bathroom trying desperately to figure out what I should do next. Hot water! Hot Water melts wax! I'll run the hottest water I can stand and get in - the wax should melt and I can gently wipe it away, right? Wrong. I get in the tub - the water is slightly hotter than is used to torture prisoners of war or sterilize surgical equipment. And I sit. Now the only thing worse than having your goodies glued together is having them glued together and then glued to the bottom of a tub. In scalding hot water. Which, by the way, does not melt the cold wax. So now I'm stuck to the tub. I call my friend, C, because she once dropped out of beauty school so surely she has some secret knowledge or trick to get wax off skin. It's never good to start a conversation with "So my axx and womens private are stuck to the tub." She doesn't have a trick. She does her best to suppress laughter. She wants to know exactly where the wax is on the axx - "Are we talking cheek or hole, here?" she asks. She isn't even trying to hide the giggles now. I give her the run-down of the entire night. She tells me to call the number on the side of the box, but to have a good cover story for where the wax actually is. "You know that if we were working the help line at XX Wax Co.and somebody called with their entire crack sealed shut we'd just put them on hold then record the conversation for everyone we know. You're going to end up on a radio show or the internet if you tell them the truth." "While we go through various solutions, I have resorted to scraping the wax off with a razor. Boy, nothing feels better to the girly goodies than covering them in wax, sticking them to a tub in super hot water and THEN dry shaving the sticky wax off! In the middle of the conversation (which has inexplicably turned to other subjects!) I find the little, beautiful saving grace that is the lotion provided with wax to remove the excess. I rub some in and start screaming "It's working! It's working!" I get hearty congratulations from C and we hang up. I successfully remove all the wax and notice, to my dismay, that the hair is still there. So I shaved the damned stuff off. Hell, I was numb by that point anyway. And then I put the box of wax back in my medicine cabinet. Never know when a moustache might start to come in. Tonight, I attempt hair dying.

I do not measure out my food but I start to hic up when I am full. I eat about half a cup of solid but mushy I can eat about a cup. It really depends on the time of day Mornings I am tighter so I work on getting liquid protein in then. After 11am is meant for solids of Protein. I can usually go 4 to 5 hrs before I remember to eat. Still seems pretty weird to me. Fighting with head hunger right now But then again I feel weird because I do not have that much in my band