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Okay, time for some fun. This weekend my DH finally convinced me to play WoW. (World of Warcraft) OMG! I knew it was a mistake! It's digital crack for me! Okay, so now I play WoW, the Sims2 (love my digital doll house) and a couple of stratagy games. Those are my current games. Anyone else? I know Nana plays WoW (I think we are on different servers) and I know several play Pogo (not sure what it is, have been afraid to check it out.) I think Pogo is just a game site, like zone.msn.com or popcap.com right?

I was almost arrested once for breaking curfew, and I couldn't make the cop believe that I was 20 and not 16. So he called my mother at her house, waking her up in the process. Then he decides that he was going to arrest me for "contibuting to the delequency of a minor" because I was making sure that the 16 year old girl actually got home. That's about the extent of my wildways. And my motorcycle is still broken. The other night on CNN the "question of the night" was whether cops should tazer kids. !!!!! WTF????

You get hangovers because you are not properly hydrated. If you drink plenty of Water with your shots, no hangover. Alchohol is very dehydrating (what's the difference between a beer and a pee? About 20 minutes)

since I don't have a clue what you mean about gassy foods, I guess it doesnt' bother me. oh.. I get really queezy with after eating greasy food. There are several fast food places that I couldn't do before band simply because of the grease. Wendy's no-no, Burger King, no-no, Sonic, no-no. McDonalds YES. Go figure.

I can hardly wait for my own reduction! Of course, at this point, I don't think it is possible to lose enough weight so my girls actually fit into the freakishly large end of normal. I just hope that my nip to notch measurement will let me have a good reduction. (search the plastic surgery forum)

oh man, I could never purge. Thowing up is just the worst thing. Getting the willies just thinking about it. I don't know how common it is in obese folk Bschucher. The only bulimics I know are both very thin. The woman is almost anorexic and used to be a run way model, and the guy used to wrestle in high school.

Glad to hear you are doing well! Just remember that you will probably have a very difficult time with greasy foods now. Your gall bladder was supposed to help regulate that, but now you don't have one.

Welcome to the Banded Gentry!

another parallel thread, "pictures in my mind" http://lapbandtalk.com/showthread.php?p=79037&posted=1#post79037

bumping as part of the body dismorphic converstations

((((hugs))))

I don't have to do decaff, or at least I don't think I do. Isn't that the same thing? But I think I read somewhere that caffine causes stomach churn. but then again, I could be making up that part.

I'm wide open too. I get my first fill tomorrow afternoon.

I can't comment about feeling like an imposter on the weight issue because I've lost "only" 25 pounds. I do feel like a professional imposter sometimes becaue it is "just me." One of the guys in my lab laughed at me when I tried to denigh that I was a guru. He said that I just need to take the money and smile. I figure that if I can do something then it isn't any big deal. Everyone should be able to do what I do... It is entirly likely that once I reach my goal I'll feel like an imposter. We shall have to wait and see...

I don't know that most of us are self pay. My DH and I were both covered by his insurance. But if we had had to be self pay for his band, we would have done that. Not so sure about me because I wasn't convinced that I was really that fat. (yeah, I know.)

Hi Texas GirlT! Welcome to the great state of Washington!

Zoe, my DH has lost nearly 200 pounds and he doesn't "see" much in the way of a differnece. Oh sure, he is swimming in the clothes he couldn't wear before his Band, but he hasn't internalized the difference. He has 4 pounds before he is in "Tripoli"...

I wanted to ask my son to burb me like I used to burb him!

See, you didn't do what I did and invest in the "Genetic Alchoholic" package. No hangovers, ever. Of course, the downside means that 3 of my 4 sibs have problems drinking... Of course, I'm waiting for bottles of wine to be labled with "A Naturally Fat Free Food! 100% Fat Free!"

I don't weigh myself at all. I just can't stand the disapointment. Just after I was banded I starte to weigh myself every week, after the initial weight dropped, I started to freak out that I wasn't losing any weight. I mean, crying-because-I-had-only-lost-a-pound sort of freaking out. Talk about obsessed. I haven't been on a scale for two weeks. I'm going to guess that I haven't lost a single pound in a month or so. But you know what? I'm okay with that. I have my first fill apointment in two days. (sort of freaked out by that, but that's a different story...) One of the hardest things I had to learn was that the scale lies. They all lie, whether we are talking the BMI scale or the bathroom scale. Delarla suggested throwing the scale off the balcony, and I second that motion.

My younger sister seriously believes she remembers things from before she was born. She will try to correct family stories, with "that is the way it happened, this is how it happened..." I don't know if she realized that she couldn't possibly remember things that happened the way she remembers them. We're talking two years before she was born... But I can remember things from before I was 2 years old. Freaked my sister out when I described our old airplane and some of the things that happened before I turned 18 months old... Because my mother hold "snappies" a.k.a. snapshots in high contemt, there are no pictures of that airplane....

I don't think you do need to believe in the death penalty Lisa. At least in my case, that isn't quite true. I just don't believe in letting things or people suffer. I suppose that has something to do with my belief in reincarnation and that everything has a soul. The case we had with our poor little dog was extreme. Tipper wouldn't let anyone come near me without threatening them, and our very old dog was terrified of him. The lesser of two evils for me was putting him down because he was viscious. (hope I spelled that right. I can't tell the difference between viscious meaning mean as opposed to viscous meaning a thick and oily substance. stupid dysxlea) The greater of the evils would be if I let this poor little dog bite maul a child or another dog. The puppy prozac was not effective for us.

oooh, very nice Starbright!

from my DH. "I didn't realize we were playing a game. I thought this was for life."

Thanks for posting this Corliss. I, of course, would miss anyone from our group that decided to leave LBT for any other board...