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Welcome to Bandlandia!

nope, when I was pregnant I wanted those little green olives with pimentos. Not big green olives, just little green olives. I would also drink the brine. I also wanted those hostess lemon fried pies, but NOT at the same time as the green olives.

One thing to keep in mind is that if you are excersizing more, you need to eat more to keep up your weight loss. Increased hunger can be a good thing! Are you working with a program that tracks your calorie intake as well as output? I know that many poeple here like using www.fitday.com, but I personally use a couple of different sites to help me. Don't forget that you must meet your basic metabolic caloric needs or you will not lose any weight. Your body will start to absorb your lean muscle mass to make up for the calorie and Protein deficit if it is too great!

Hey DallasDoll, I'm soooo with you on the freaking out part. I believe you are right on schedule, my super freak-out happened about 10 days out. Chamamile tea is good right about.... NOW! Valium worked for me as well. Yeah, my family put the fun in dysfunctional as well. I recommend you let your voice mail pick up calls from your family for a few days. Talk about poking a bear with a stick!

What is your prior diet history like? Before the 6 months that is. You might be surprised to learn that you've tried a lot more diets that than. You might include previous attemts as well. The format could simply be just what you told us. That should be sufficient. They wanted to know what were all the different types of diets I've tried. I was horrified when I looked at all the different diets I've tried. Just horrified. But I now have my band, so I'm happy with that.

I was back in class the following Monday. My cramps were worse than surgery pain.

My husband was in the Super, Super Morbidly Obese catagory (that is for folks who have a BMI of great 60) His BMI was 85.5. His bmi is now 60, which still super, super, but once he loses 5 pounds, he will just be Super MO... He's been quite successful

how absolutely wonderful!

Penni, just click on the pix, if you don't read Kanji

Witness protection program

http://www.box7box.com/tinygrow.html http://www.box7box.com/works.html Works best with IE, kind of flaky with Firefox

Angeleyes was banded on Tuesday, 4/5 in Provo UT. Hope you have a great recovery, and please check in when you can. Welcome to the Banded Gentry!

Hopeing for the very best recovery Kathy! I hope your procedure goes as well as mine did!

DMAN! That was huge! I hope you are at least going to save the wax! It can be rendered and strained. My sister had bees in one of her walls too. They were so loud that you could hear them buzzing in the kitchen. I don't know if they were honey bees or yellow jackets though.

okay, here is my one of my favorite Peanut Butter sandwichs: chunky peanut butter, granny smith apple slices and apple cider vinigar. My DH like PB and mayo...

I dunno Christina. I'm not going to have a poison oak and nightshade salad anytime soon... Could just be me though

Do the hustle! <bump, bump,>

How many times total did you stop breathing during the test? I don't know how many times I stopped breathing, but I had over 180 arousal periods over the night. It is pretty bad when the doctor is impressed with your numbers... The average person has about 30 arousal periods. I also have restless leg sysndrom. She figured it was almost like I was trying to kick myself awake. How many times in 1 hour? I don't remember... How far did your blood ox level drop? My O2 sats dropped to 82%. I'm supposed to have another O2 test, but I have to get my butt over to the clinic...

Probably the very best NSV is that he didn’t die, and the second best NSV is that I didn’t divorce him. He can walk more than 20 steps without needing to stop and rest or find something to support his back. There's the entire motorcycle thing... he can buy clothes again. He tied his shoes! He has better self care! Me. His job performance is much better. His sleep apnea is better, he’s off most of his meds for diabetes and high blood pressure. The last time he picked me up at the airport he had to get in the truck from the passenger side. He was able to actually do this! ... I don't believe he is keeping a list of his NSVs, which is a shame. I know that when I talk about divorcing him because of his weight, most people don’t understand. It wasn’t like he weighed 200 pounds and then gained 200 pounds. He started at over 400 pounds and gained close to 200 pounds so he ended up at 600 pounds. Six hundred pounds. That is more than a Jersey cow weighs at 15 months. (http://www.usjersey.com/ ) You couldn’t even imagine the impact the extra weight had on my life. Before it happens, you think no bit deal, but until it happens…

what? Kelly, you've been gone? What? <whistles innocently> Welcome back! I've gotta stack of boxes I haven't opened since 1999... mmm, it's that hording thing....

Oh Penni, I'm sure sorry your mom is sick right now. I'm sending lots of healing whitelight your way! (((((((Penni)))))

What? you mean you aren't an internationally known super spy, and celebrity pharmisist?

Great work! The scales lie! they lie!

Just let the Water run down them. I finally pulled the last of the tape off a couple of days ago, The tape & glue was really irritating to my skin. I'm still red from the tape. My dermatologist told me to be very careful with neosporin, after I developed an alergic reaction to it of course. He said that many people are allergic to it. A single agent topical anti-biotic is better than the neosporin.

oh no, potato bugs are the grossest things in the entire world. (warning, this is GROSS!) http://waynesword.palomar.edu/redmite2.htm#potbug2 These bad boys are 2 inches long Why am I reading this thread? I am having trouble enough eating normal non-gross food as it is!