lapbander081004

I know that I stated, on a Thread that is now closed, that I would not partake in the drama and would go back into my little world after the posting there. But here I am again. This time I feel this is a productive thread. And for the most part I agree with what everyone says. I'd like to use a cops point of view.(as retired and not retarded as I am) I used to do a Safety Town formate for preschoolers in my community and I would come in on the day and time frame called "Officer Friendly" there I'd explain all the equipment on my uniform to them in terms they understood. When I'd get out my pen I'd ask them what is this and what do Police Officers use it for. Hard to believe even at their young ages most would say to "Write Tickets". We would then discuss tickets and Thank God the parents weren't there to hear the kids tell me about when mom/dad got stopped...lol Anyway I would tell them that giving mom/dad a ticket was like mom/dad putting them in "Time Out"... Its a chance for them to reflect on what they had done and to think about not doing it again. Well what my feelings here are is this: This Site is a highway of information for us and we need to respect the rules of the road here. Just like on a real highway there are rules and you do not have the freedom to violate them as you see, at least not without penalties if your caught. We must all becareful on this highway so as not to get hurt or to hurt anyone else. I am very happy to see that a set of guidlines will be forth coming and they are long over due. But I do not agree that the moderators should have a hands off policy on what is happening on here. I like most here do not agree with censorship but also I firmly do not believe the 1st amendment gives anyone the right to be vicious or hurtfull on purpose under the beleif they have the RIGHT to do so. Walk into building and yell fire and see what will happen to you if your just trying to be funny. Using the racially Hated name agains our fellow brothers and sister of a different skin color and see the hurt that it causes. The moderators need to be active in watching what is going on here. And they need to have the power to control out of control people. A frendily warning to someone who is crossing the guidelines would be in order for the first few minor offenses. But they need to remove words and post that are well outside of the guidelines without the authors permission. This wold not be censorship but sound administration of the board. I also have one more suggestion for the moderators to consider and then I will get off here before I use up all the megabites the board has left We are all adults here and some of the issues that have come up have been of a sexual senitive nature and some of them have value and there should be a way for those who really need to ask to be able to do so. I say add a rating such as a x behinf d the title so that those who have no interest in partaking in that conversation can self monitor what Threads they go into. Go into one with a x behind the thread title don't come out swinging about what been said in there and how it offended you. I will not leave this board no matter what goes on because I have formed some good friendship here and some of them do not agree with me on all my views and I like that but we can discuss our differences in a friendly person chat or PM. So far I've had no problem holding onto the friends and keeping my view points. And I hope to continue to build on that. Best wishes to all and I'm praying that we gell again as a fun place to be. Forgive any misspelling...but I fear touching that edit button right now...lol

Hope you have a successful surgery and a quick painless recovery. God Bless

Still praying for your family. Hope All is well.

Carmel, I know I'm a male..but I also know that women are better at converting mens size to comparable womens sizes. I have lost 78 punds in just over 6 months. Went from a 54 waist to a 44..Can get into some of my old 40's. I noticed a size change very soon but I refused to buy new clothes till I lost enough to warrant it. I wear a uniform at work and they pay for it. They made me go get new pants... I told them I'm only allowed two new pair a year and I wanted to wait... They asked the union if they could wave the two pair a year rule without having to go and buy everyone a more pants. The union got them to add that if the pants are needed due to "WEIGHT LOSS" then it can be waived. SO not all employers are bad lol Anyway you will also find others will see your changes before you do. WWe're to cridical of ourselves...but keep a close eye out your going to be surprised. Good luck

Stacy, hang in there...It get better soon. I thought before my surgery that the liquid part would be my downfall but turns out I actually enjoyed it but then I lost 20 pounds while on it the two weeks before the surgery so that helped. But you'll be able to get back to normal soon and see the loss as you go. Its really great.

Michelle you make me sick...LOL Now stop it so we can see your human...lol Really though great job Michelle...your looking Mavaless

Don't worry, I figured it out....Its the weather...I'm blaming it on the weather. Think this will work and for how long can we get away with it????

Well back to my old ways lol. No loss this week. But still a happy camper for what I have acheived so far. Zoe Not real sure you'd want to go up against cops in one of these contest. You could get hurt lol...Or if your beating them they just might trump up a charge or two to get the handcuffs on you and slow you down.

Was given one of the cards when I first was banded and I found its more of a hazzle presenting it and being told no then its worth. But I did ask at one of the casino's in Vegas at the buffet if I could get a childs price and they asked the manager and he asked me if I had proof. I showed im my card and he gave me the reduced price. Then I sat there when I felt I could eat more but was afraid to go up for more...had it in my mind every camera in the casino was watching me to make sure I didn't take more food. lol Alexandra is correct about the kids menu...If you look real close as to what they have its not healthy for them let alone what it does to our daily fat/calorie intake. I find getting a nice dinner salad or a regular order of food and taking out what I don't finish for another meal later works much better and its a cost saver in the long run.

The drinking situation was explained to me by my Dr Office as the following No drinking one hour before during or one hour after eating. I know for you newbies its hard and was for me too but I follow this rule and I have gotten used to it.(somewhat) The reason is if you have good restriction the Water before eating may not have passed thru totally giving you less space to put food you need in there. Drinking during combines with the food and can do several different things. One it can wash it thru faster or it the food bloats up when water is added you fill up fast on less food then you should. And the one hour after is so the food stays in the upper part longer and not washed thru to quickly.. If you think about it it makes sense...BUT There are 24 hours in a day. I sleep at least 6 So now I have 18 hours to drink the min of 64 oz water. No drinking one hour before and one after that with three meals brings me down to 12 hours. No drinking during the meal and since I take a min of 20 mins to eat at each meal(sometimes longer) thats another hour. now its 11 hours. I try not to drink for 4 hours before bed so I get the six hours uninterrupted (know what I mean) so now I'm down to 7 hours. I work near computers and there is a no drink policy by these sensitive computers. So I get one 30 lunch and two 15 minute breaks in my 8 hour shift so thats actaully only one hour out of the reamining 7 I had left to get my water in. And sometimes I can dump water down with no trouble other times I fill up half way thru a glass and have to stop. Bottom line is that its hard for me to get my water in.( I do cheat and sneek my water bottle under the desk) but still its hard. many days I don't get it all in unless I break the before bed time frame and then I'm up once or twice. I have no trouble falling back to sleep just a pain in the butt cause I have sleep apnea and I have to disconnect and re connect to the breathing machine. And most of the time I don't wake up till its do or die for the bathroom and then murphy's law kicks in. Someone will be in the bathroom near the bedroom and its run thru house down stairs and then back up(which counts as exercise...lol). Since I work midnites when i get up during sleep its normal time for normal people to be up so good chance the bathroom is occupied.(three women in the home) But i will survive. Good luck to you all with your water consumption.

Bigmom, Sorry to hear your going thru this. Best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery. Nicole has very sound advise. Don't totally give up and take the chance to do upper body exercises. Don't have to be a lot but any will help burn the calories and help with a maintanance of your weight during your down time. Good luck

Thank you Darcey

Kathy, I just got in from the church services and the luncheon. Cousin Dick would have loved the services. Held at a very old Catholic Church and no mater what religion you are this Church is gorgious. Services were very touching and right on the mark. This life is only a journey to the beginning aof a greater existance. I'm glad your nana's services were good ofr you too. Thats what funerals are about. For the living. Chance to reflect on ones own life. A thought for you Kathy, When your Nana was born she came into this world crying as her family around her was smiling. When she left this world the family was crying but Nana was smiling as she returned the the care of the Lord. God bless

I read your post princess and I thought how nice... Then I went out to scrap the snow and Ice off my car so I could go to work and I decided you should be forbidden from posting here until we get to summer...LOL just kidding...glad someone is warm

Sharon, My PCP gve a very simple one and it was accepted. He simply stated Greg has been under my care for 15 years during which time he has been overweight. He has been under my care in an attempt to lose weight and has not been successful. Many of his other health problems are a direct result of his weight. I feel as his PCP that he wold benifit from the lapband surgery and the loss of weight that wold result would help in the maintanance of his other health issues. Not sure on the eact wording but it was very similar to this. I don't think I ket a copy of the letter but if I did I'll let you know and I can fax a copy to you if possible or Il send it word for word in an e-mail. I'll let you know if I find it'

I had the fortune of knowing all my grandparents (one grandfather was not maternal but you'd never know it) and three of the four sets of great grandparents well into my late teens /early twenties. The stories I could tell would expend past the time I have left on this earth. Three of my children will only know two grandmothers. My oldest son had the pleasure of knowing my father but unfortuneatley he was dying of cancer the whole time but my son says he was still a great inspiration to him. But one short story. My dad's father was 22 when he died in 1922. My grandmother then left her two son's with family in the upper part of the State of Michigan and moved to Detroit for a factory job in those days. She got employeement in a Chrome Plating factory. When my grandmother re-married she was able to bring her boys to Detroit to live with her again. Well as it turns out the factory she worked in is in the suburb of Detroit where I live and was closed about 20 yrs ago. The building is still there but the busniess have changed several times. Once I was having a difficult time (personal issues) and I was working the midnight shift as a cop. I was feeling pretty depressed and I had drove my scout car to the rear of the building so I was hidden from the public in order to relax and think things out( ok so I would catch a few zzzzz there now and then). It was there at least 8 yrs after her death that I actually found myself hearing her voice. I talked to her and she gave me advise. As it turns out I did take her advise and shortly there after my personal problems began to work out and I got over my depression. After that when ever I had a problem I could go there and for some unknown reason after I pulled out from behind the building I could figure out what I need to do to handle any problem. I know she has guided me thru many times of troubles. She was always known by family members to be the one to go to when she was alive for advise. She'd take hours to talk to anyone who need help. The strange thing is that I live directly across a freeway from the building. every single day I leave my home and point my car to the end of the street I see the building and I remember her and thank her. The building now houses a new gym...and I think she is calling me to come join it ...lol It won't surprise me on bit.

Well Kathy as fate would have it. I was just called and told one of my cousins passed away yesterday. My family thinks e-mail is proper way to make notifications of these things and they called because I didn't acknowledge the e-mail. They sent it to an old e-mail address I used to use. Can't figure them out sometime. I must send them two or three e-mails a day from the new addy and they send important stuff to me on the old one. He is being cremated this afternoon and a memorial service is being held Saturday Morning. So Kathy you and I will share a week of sorrow here. Dick had cancer and was suffering terribly so he is in a better place now...no less sad but easier to justify I guess.

a medical device implanted ...Alex let me tell you the truth about this device. God made some white,black, brown,yellow and red people. He made some male and some female. He made some tall and some short. But he intended to make us a proper weight. Then he realized every invention has its flaws. And some of us we eating up everyone elses food supply. So he had a recall on some of the models with the defect and sent and army of angels (the Dr's) to put a stop to repair our flaw. Now he needs to g=figure out how to fix it for those of us that grew taller then our hairlines.

A fish slice = an egg flip? Thing for turning/flipping eggs/fish in a frying pan? Also known as a kitty litter cleaner/snow remover/spider basher???? I'll never look at a Spadula the same again. I may never make any food items I have to flip. My gosh...kitty litter cleaner/spider basher........... Lot to be said for why there is that hugh pond between our counrties Bright...lol

DeLara... Don't they talk funny over there??? LOL

Bright...you like snow Open up this site and there are some of the greatest winter pictures I have ever seen here. This is a power point site so if you can't open it I can try something different. Send me pm if you can't and I'll send to your e-mails winter photos.pps (application/octet-stream)

I just read Corgi's posting on her cancer and now her lapbanding and I sat back after posting to her and I realized that we all have our own troubles from the past. Some worse then others but still to each individual the problems were not small. Cancer has effected each and every one of us at some time, depression has plagued almost all of us at one time or another. We see what Whippledaddy and his wife Patty are going thru. Others here too have major medical troubles. The loss of close family members, sons, daughters, moms and dads and siblings amoung others. Financial problems have fallen upon many people here some have worked thru them others are still struggling. Recently we even saw how we were all saddened by the lost of one of our friends pets. We are emotional people and we have dealt with our emotions our whole lives. But for ever piece of sad news we see here we read elsewhere someone has won thier personal battles and we show tremendous support to both the saddened and the happy. I don't know about you but many times I read posts here and choke up and shed tears for my new friends. Not just at the sad news but at the good news too. I don't find this at any other site. Oh lots of them are good but I find myself hurring to read so I can get back here to my "Family" at this site. I work 26 yrs as a police Officer and have handled all types of death, sickness, car accidents, suicides, murders and even a plane crash in Detroit in 1988. Also so many good moments I couldn't keep track of them either. I worked a second job in the Funeral business so I have been touched by saddness even when it wasn't personal. So what has gotten me thru all I'm seen and done? GOD has and he will continue to be my guide thru the rest of my journey. God gives each one of us only so much time here and as we know some get more then others but regardless its all we're given. Some will say His/her live was cut short. Well I don't personally believe that statement I believe that that person as lived a full live. Its just the one God gave to them. So all this to make this one simple offer to my Family here. Please if you want to read something very comforting click on this site I have posted here and let the music guide you thru the words and I think you may be as satisfied by it as I was. I ran across this sometime ago and had forgotten about it until Corgi's posting. http://www.llerrah.com/dreams.htm God Bless you all<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></WMFILTERED>

Renee, Praise God for your recovery and We'll pray for as great a success with your banding. My 23 yr old daughter just had cancer surgery this past June and although its still recent she has been doing very well. She Recently had further problems as the Dr's thought she had Colon cancer. I know its hard to believe anyone would be happy to find out they have chrones but she was glad it wasn't cancer. Take care and keep us posted

Tracie, I have had three fills and have yet to feel a single thing during them. And at two of the fills they had trouble getting into the port yet I still didn't feel it. Ports not that deep under the skin So its not like getting a shot into the muscle where it hurts. You'll be fine...don't worry.

Shamrock, We can have crackers and breads(no white breads) so you can use then=m if they fit into that meal plan. I take solid white albacore packed in Water, mix it with fat free Mircle Whip, Sweet pickle realish a dab of mustard and a little squeez of lemon. Some chopped onions, sprinkle a few imitation bacon bites on it then wrap it in lettcue leafs and make a Lettuce Wrap meal. I've gotten into wrapping a lot of stuff into lettuce wrap style. Had that for the first time when in Vegas in Dec. At a Chinesse Rrest. (can't remember the name) and it was great. SO I experiment with stuff now.