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Congradulations Tammy...Very happy for you and the start of your new journey. Hope your date is soon.

Becky I'd love to share a room. If any of you guys are toasty warm like my hubby, I'll sleep with you! Think you just made up my mine for me I'm coming LOL

Jodie, Good to see you back with us here. Hope the move went well. Sorry you missed the Challenge but we'll have more. Great Job on your weight loss. If you want to get regular again there are all kinds of over the counter things you can take. LOL Just kidding Welcome back

Marie Choir Director gets me back tonight. lol

Nancy...I understand and your doing a great job..Keep it up. And I totally agree with you the band is the best option for me too.

Nancy, I felt like this at first too until I realized that before banding when I limited my food intake I called it dieting. Now I realize that the limited amount of food is actually the proper amount so I can't say I'm dieting anymore but that I am eating proper. So My feelings are that when people are eating proper it should not be called dieting. But when people eat like we used to it should be called "STUFFING" The word Diet should be one of those words that every year get dropped from our language.

Leigh, Can't add much more to what has already been. My decision was made on the risk factors and the idea that my body uses my systems to process the foods I eat and the lack of dependancy on drugs and suppliments for the rest of my life. Ryan....When "She Who Must Be Obeyed" speaks, I listen! I see your a member of that club too eh... My membership# is 348829478<!-- / message --><!-- sig -->

Good Luck Trish... Your already beautiful. Don't worry about the Dr's lack of surgeries. He has the training and knows what he is doing. I'd rather have a Dr with only 25 lapbands under his belt then 1,000 bypasses. Risk still much better with lapband.

I'll get to hug her for more years! I say AMEN to that Ryan. Hope you have many many years together.

Slap Greg... hug the rest of us. I see where I stand:(

ALRIGHTY I MADE MY CHRISTMAS GOAL. OPPS. Its past Christmas...(Naturally after the challenge is over I lose)Oh well I am as happy as I could have been had I hit it right on the day. Lost all the damage I did last week and Like Darcy I threw in a few extra just for the Hell of it. What great news on the 5 month anniversay of my Banding. And I owe it mostly to you out here that have helped me stay focused. TY TY TY In case you haven't figured it out yet I am very excited LOL I'd like to thank the academy and all who voted for me...My parents who gave me life and my family who have stood behind me(at least until I got banded...Ref to Burping and farting Thread for details) this whole time. Wait this is the speech I prepared when I was thinking about an acting career. Oh Well. Hope everyone else did well and remember I Love ya

Ok after numerous attempts to fix the chart for the challenge I gave up. evertime I fixed it and then posted oit came back up like this. So when you look at it the red numbers reflect the total loss for the time period after that is the starting and ending BMI. I think most can figure this out but it was frustrating trying to get it right and it won't let me lol.

Ok, Finally here are the results of the Challenge: First a quick thanks for all who took part. If your not listed on the chart below its because for some reason(and its probably my fault) I don't have beginning and ending results. I may have miss filed them on my computer or accidently deleted them. I apoligize for my errors of any were made Second(which really should be #1) everyone here is a winner. Check it out....not one person over the lenght of the challenge gained weight. Sure had some up and downs during but not at the end. Nancy has the most weight loss at - 10. Congradulations Nancy ( I HATE YOU LOL LOL) on the exercise portion it was to close to call between Betty and Zoe so I declare a tie here. They consitantly did a better job at this then the rest of us, from what I saw. Anyone want to dispute my ruling here you can call 1-800-giv-damn. LOL LAPBANDTALK.COM HOLIDAY EXERCISE CHALLENGE Final Results WEIGHT BMI NAME START/FINISH/LOSS START/FINISH/ 1. Zoe 231/228.5/2.5 34.1/33.7 2. grt139 260/260/0 NO CHANGE 3. Rebeccalee 175/175/0 NO CHANGE 4. Iluvharleys DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN WEIGHT ONLY EXERCISE 5. Penni60 242/239/3 37.9/37.4 6. PamRN 245/237/8 37.3/36 7. Nana~ 231.5/224.5/7 34.1/33.1 8.claraluz 190/180/10 32.6/30.9

Brighteyes... Was banded on Aug 10 2004 (5 months tomorrow).. Banded on Tuesday Home on Wednesday and back to work on Friday. Piece of cake. No post surgery trouble and I don't look back. I would also do this once a year if it was needed. I was at a retirement party for afew hours last nite and there was a lady there who had Gastric Bypass in APril. She was just over 600 pounds and could not walk (5'0 tall). She has lost 170 pounds so far and is now mobile and was getting around real well at party. BUT she had to keep watching everything she eat. I didn't I could have anything I wanted but in moderation and made sure it fit in the meal plan. I even had a very slim piece of cake. She did too and ended up in a corner feeling sick from dumping effect. At her starting weight I guess lapbanding wasn't an option but I'm glad I was able to have it instead of any of the other type surguries. Good luck on your banding

Alice trying cutting the milk in half and use Water to fill in. Worked for me...but then I'm a guy and the gas was a badge of honor.

Blossom... I am doing some ab crunches and I'm not feeling any pain or truble with my port. I'm hoping these start showing some inprovement soon. Betty thinks I'm crazy and Blossom says I'm a mess. Oh well LOL Someday I'll straighten up...and when I do they will drop the lid on me LOL Leatha_g.. No I don't have big screen monitor. I'll just look at one at a time. LOL

My Fault Stats arn't out yet. I wiull have them on Monday

Please sign this disclaimer stating you won't hold me responsible for anything I write: Greg Tourville_________. Ok Lisa I signed off for you.

Good Luck Don't worry about the one giving you gas... They know what they are doing. Your most dangerous part of the surgery is your drive to and from the hospital. Will keep you in my thoughts and prayers

Detail always details LOL... thought that would get thru unnoticed lol... oh well.. My offical statement is..."Homey don't play those games"

What do you think? LOL Sue... I think you better send the next ones to my private e-mail LOL. But honestly...Good for her...If she feels that she is ok with poses like this then I can't say anything bad.... I still maintain as I always have that beauty in on the inside and I haven't found one person here including men (being bi doubles my changes for a date on Saturday nites LOL) that Doesn't have that inner beauty. Your all great...one of the highlights of being banded is I found you all here. Ok when I get tired I get emotional... and I worked midnights last nite and haven't been to bed yet( Oh Lord its 5pm). let me snatch a few tissues and dry the eys and put my soon to be obsolete C=pap on and get some sleep.

God I hope not Marie or I'm a goner by the end of the year

Sue, Now don't hold back...I want your honest pinion here lOL But you are right.

to prepare for all that post weight loss sex LOL Oh boy is there a Line????

Psssssssssssssst...Marie its not the 24 of Jan yet. Connorsmom see how excited Marie is for you to get banded..She has you done already and recouperating LOL Thats the way the people here are. Just so concerned for everyone. I love ya all