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I'd love to be able to wear boots too! I've always had to wear men's shoes or wide shoes for women. I'd really like to be able to get some sparkly, glittery TOMS for girls at some point too. <3

Does anybody else out there have a certain something they want to fit in at some point? My parents bought me a Glee Dalton Academy Warbler uniform for Christmas, intentionally too small, and it's kinda my goal to be able to wear it this summer to a convention. Do you guys have something special that you want to fit in? <3

My school semester is going crazy!! I don't know how my year is going because I've yet to really decide on next semester. I should really try to finish up my Bachelor's degree, but I have a 3.5 GPA and I'm scared it will drop down if I take on too heavy of a load. I also want to pursue an Associate's in Drama at the school that I work at, which I already have my Associate's in Art from. I still need 7 or so classes for my Bachelor's, and I've only been taking 2 classes a semester. With the way I've had to change everything around the LAP-Band, I honestly don't know how I've kept my grades up AND gotten a new job. I love my job though! Even though I'm a History major, English minor, and I have an associate's in art, I'm tutoring General Biology!! I work with wonderful people and the students who come to see me are so eager to learn! I really, really love it. I get home dead tired most days, but it's so worth it. I feel like I've been really blessed this year! This is also the first year I've met all of my New Year's resolutions, so that's cool! <3 How has your year been? <3

It's freezing here too, but the college that I'm a tutor at has an olympic-sized indoor pool that I use! Getting out is terrible though and I think I got a cold the other day from having wet hair. xP Sooooo worth it though! <3

Just feeling pretty awesome right now because I faced my fear of getting a fill and, like everyone said, it was no big deal! I'm fifteen pounds down this month, but I've been exercising like crazy!! I've got a goal costume to fit into as soon as I can and I'm really aiming for it. I want to wear my Glee Cheerios uniform for the last episode of Glee next year. My mom and dad are getting me a Dalton Warblers costume for Christmas! Yay for goal weight Glee clothes!! I'm literally so happy I did this and I'm proud of myself for sticking to everything!! I feel great! I can't go swimming like usual this week though because the pool is closed for Thanksgiving holidays. I had to order a new swimsuit to continue swimming at the college and I'm kinda glad that I've already dropped so many sizes that I needed to do that! Getting the LAP-Band was the best choice I ever made! <3 I miss all the friends I've made here, I hope everyone's doing great! <3 Here's a picture of me recently!! I finally can wear my Rainbow Dash leg warmers, they were my first goal weight item!! I bought them in June. They go great with my Rainbow Dash hoodie, even though it's a bit too big now!! <3

I'm glad you're doing well! I hope you have lots of awesome music to keep you company through recovery! I hope you're in minimal pain, welcome to the banded side! <3 Congratulations!! <3

It's that and the Xylitol. Xylitol doesn't have a bitter after taste like most sugar free sweeteners.

He scheduled me for another appointment in 3 weeks. He kinda left it up to me and I asked if we could just wait until next time to see if I needed it. I'm fine on hunger most days, so it might not be necessary.

I'm kinda nervous, but I think I might get my first fill today.. I hate needles.. I keep trying to remind myself that it's not a big deal, but it feels like a big deal right now.. Nerves suck.. >.< I hope you guys are having a wonderful day!

Thanks!! I love this holiday SO much! <3 It's definitely one of my favorites, I like to go all out for Halloween. My mau5head is actually made out of recycled materials and it took me forever, but I think next year I'm gonna make a new one out of old computer motherboards.

Well, Halloweek was pretty awesome! Since I got my new job as a biology tutor, I thought it'd be fun to dress up every day this week, and that's what I did! <3 Here are all my costumes: Monday, Pirate: ' Tuesday, One eyed, One Horn, Flying Purple People Eater: Wednesday, Sailor Girl: And Halloween!! Deadmau5 ("Dead Mouse") Happy Halloween!! <3

Went down, then up, then down, a bit. I'm roughly stuck at around 285.. I hope I don't climb back up.. I don't really know why I'm like that, but I'm just trying to heal right now anyways. I haven't had my first fill yet, I don't think I'm gonna panic. xP

I hope everyone is doing great post/pre surgery!

I have no idea. I was at my friend Ryane's house. It's a pretty tree with pink flowers in it. I was standing there, we were eating lunch outside and I asked her to take my picture, so when I stood up, she told me not to move so it would look like the flowers were in my hair. <3 I'm glad you're posting here too! <3 I can't wait for your happy, progress updates!!

Thank you, thank you. I haven't attended the support group meetings. This is both handier and better for me, I don't like being in large groups, I like being one on one, and larger groups work better for me online. I'm getting over them, but I do have a bit of confidence/fitting in issues at first, and I know that I'd just feel more distracted by people first getting to know me there than I would actually learn anything. It took me a while to start posting here, and I was nervous the first time, but people were really accepting. I'm a really odd, artsy type, so sometimes people just don't get me, you know? That's why I like to meet in smaller groups rather than larger, because you actually get to know people then, you know? I might try the support group someday, if I really feel like I need it, but for now, this community has been fine for outreach.