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In my ongoing series on differnt types excersize as part of a healthy lifestyle, today we are going to explore gardening. These are the reasons why gardening and yard work is the best excersize: No gym fees the guys/chicks think you are hot you build endurance you engage in strength training when you prune your laural hedge of doom, or shlep bags of soil or compost you get to learn about botany you become an expert in insects, what are benificial, and what are harmful you get to increase the property value of your home and neighborhood fresh cut flowers whenever you want them you get plenty of sun and Vitamin D you get to make mud pies you get to create many things of beauty and serenity croquett in the summer fun yard ornaments and toys cool tools, so you too will own and know the best use for at least 3 different types of hoes, shovels and picks, as well as a variety of power and electric tools You get to own a pitch fork, just in case.

Yeah, you need to change your title! I'm very happy to hear about the weight loss. Congrats on that.

doh! forgot the pix! (could someone pretty please resize it!) ((Thanks K@t!)

I don't know where Pat lives, but up at my Mom's place on Whidbey Island they have lots of bald eagles. Not so fun when they decide to make a meal out of your beloved kitty or small dog. I lost one of my cats to the circle of life....:faint:

You look great Mandy! Congrats on all your hard work!

Yup that's my rate of loss for the last year. 4 ounces a month.... sigh TURTLES! OLLY OLLY OXEN! FREE! FREE! FREE! Where is everyone?

Oh Miki, I'm so sorry for your loss. You are currently going through some of the most difficult life experiences humans go through. Please, please, please don't be so hard on yourself. Right now, maybe it is a time for maintaining, as opposed to losing. And that's the great thing about the band, it will be there ready when you are. Shawn gave you the advice I was going to give you about food. ((((((((hugs))))))))

Oh yes, dear K@t, I was a major basket case before my banding. I think if you aren't nervous, you aren't really human. (((((((k@t))))))))

Hi Yoda, we have a glossary for all our special words and abrivations http://lapbandtalk.com/showthread.php?t=7959 And yes, for me, it is Dear Husband, most of the time anyway.... :eek: Right now he's taking a break from the band, trying to get used to the idea that he isn't 600 pounds, and is currently smaller than he's been for more than 15 years.

usually what I wear are a pair of harem style pants, that are silver foil with snake skin print, a velvet short tank-top that I've added some light bead work, and various veils and a hip scarf. I have two right now that I L-O-V-E. They are both burgundy cloth, but one is siver based with beaded strings that end in small silver "coins" that tinkle very sweetly, bead word and small mirrors. The other scarf is burgundy and gold with bells, so it's just as flashy, but jingles as opposed to tinkles. Other women wear differnt things. Some prefer skirts to pants, some perfer a dance bra and belt. (I can't wear a dance belt right now because my belly is too big. Some like to wear a choli top that covers their arms to the elbow, especially if they are not comfortable with their arms showing. Some women perfer to be very covered while others would rather see what their bellys are doing, especially when we work on isolations so we can see the belly flutter or roll. This pix was taken after my dance recital for ISU. What I'm wearing is typically what I wear for performances as well as practices. If you don't practice in what you are going to perform in, then you won't know if you are going to have a wardrobe malfunction until it's too late. And what everyone is wearing, aside from the two women on the left, is what they wore to practice in. (Except for the gal standing next to me, winking, She was getting ready to leave, and it was about 15 degrees F outside with about 18 inches of snow outside.

My DH has lost 200 pounds with his band, it took 18 months for him to lose. He still has more to go, and had been taking a break for awhile.

About 10 years ago, my son and I were at a Water park, and we met a woman in a black and white polkadot bekini. Her husband looked like he adorded her, and her kids obviously loved her. She weighed about 350 pounds. This woman is one of the heros of my life. She didn't give a rat's ass what anyone thought of her or her polkadot bekini. Just who are these people who think they get to be the arbiters of our lives? My current bathing suit is a tankini, and I don't care if my tummy showes. My tummy has done nothing wrong and shouldn't be embarrassed.

Vallhallagirl is in Northern Utah.

Hi Freebit, I'm currently a size 22/24, and I'm a professional bellydancer. I'm sure not embarrased to run around the water park in my bathing suit. Why should I be? I haven't done anything wrong. And for some of us, a size 12 is skinny. It has to do with body shape and frames. For me, 12 might be a little too skinny. That would be about 160 pounds, and with my current muscle mass, I should weigh closer to 170+. My son's girlfriend is a tiny little thing. TINY. I don't think she weighs 100 pounds, and there is no way, short of a long battle with some dreadful wasting disease that I could come lose to losing so that I could come within 20 pounds of that. Why should I aspire to look like her, when I'm built completely different than she is?

How very unprofessional! Oh, and it is so very easy to feel like a failure when you lose 15 pound when other people are losing 50, when you are working your ass off, making sure that your food is "good" and other people lose weight despite the fact that they don't excersize or work out in any way, shape or form, and eat still eat crap. But that's part of it, when compaired. I know that we shouldn't, but being human, we do. We constantly compair everything against everything else, making value judgements, seeing how we measure up against other people.

It just occured to me that we don't have any set place to discuss excersize and physical activity. I'm never sure where to start these things. So, This is where I'm putting this thread! Ha! so THERE! This is why belly dancing is the BEST excersize: What other excersize program involves making sure you have bells and beads and beautiful silks and chifons and beaded belts and bras and jewlery, and SHINY thing! There are no men, except for sometimes drummers, but they are there for *you and your pleasure* not the otherway around. What other excersize actually looks better when fat women do it than skinny bitches attempt it? What other excersize celebrates the female form in all the many forms we have? Exotic and interesting music! what other excersize helps you internalize how damn sexy and alluring you really are?

I'm avoiding threads where people talk about their weight loss, no weight loss challenges for me, and I'm even avoiding the threads where people talk about their first year. Just too painful, and I find I cannot face their successes that so thouroghly elude me. I feel like a heel for not congratulating them, for not cheering their successes, but I just can't face it. It's like the other day when I went shopping, and wondered into the Nordstrom Rack. To say that I was depressed because I still wear the same clothes I did before I was banded is like saying the Oakland Firestorm was a small brush fire. I was absolutely devistated knowing that eing a good little bandster is so futile, so pointless. I'm never going to lose weight, and I'll be fat forever.

I'm avoiding threads where people talk about their weight loss, no weight loss challenges for me, and I'm even avoiding the threads where people talk about their first year. Just too painful, and I find I cannot face their successes that so thouroghly elude me. I feel like a heel for not congratulating them, for not cheering their successes, but I just can't face it. It's like the other day when I went shopping, and wondered into the Nordstrom Rack. To say that I was depressed because I still wear the same clothes I did before I was banded is like saying the Oakland Firestorm was a small brush fire. I was absolutely devistated knowing that eing a good little bandster is so futile, so pointless. I'm never going to lose weight, and I'll be fat forever.

Oh Wavydaby! you GOT it! Fat does not equal ugly! This is something that I've faught this fight my whole life. I decided when I was 18 that I was going to be happy with my body no matter what the size, I was never going to put off being happy until I'd reached some mythical size that I might not ever reach.

It is my first. I needed a symbol of healing, but I still think it need more yellow, it being the color of the 3rd chakra and all... I had the numbing ointment, but I think I have a higher pain threshold. The other folks who had theirs before me all had to get up and take breaks, got dizzy and looked like they were going to pass out. The tattoo artist even commented on how I didn't need any breaks, other than when he changed out for the colors.

If you keep airline in-flight air sickness bags in your car, you might be a bandster... If you have to explain to the head chef at the restaurant why you are splitting a meal AND taking half of it home, you and your SO might both be bandsters... If you get this wierd look on your face, and your family knows exactly what's wrong without asking, you might be a bandster.... if the phrase "my mouth was watering" is a bad thing, You might be a bandster...

As far as I know, straws have no nutrital impact, unless you are eating them, and then I suppose they count as roughage.... I prefer straws, they are more fun, and I swallow less air with them. And plus, when I'm out with my son, I can blow into them, making that cool low whistle noise and everyone thinks it's my son.... :bandit And have you tried to blow bubbles in milk without a straw? Such a mess!

:uwelcome: you only ate one bunny! Excellent NSV! I mean, you could have eaten a whole herd of them before right? (what is a collection of rabbits anyway?)

Here's the pix of my tattoo. It's in the middle of my back, at my third chakra. I do need more yellow in it though. I thought I should add it with all the other bandster tattoos

Well, I was in idaho, but I've escaped.