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Okay, I am SOOOO glad I took your advice and didn't get a fill. I almost NEVER PB, but several times this week I've tossed my proverbial Cookies. Today, I PB'd on some very expensive brie. Looks like top ramman/egg drop Soup for dinner tonight. Again.

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Oh no, TommyO, if people gain anything from my experiences, so much the better. It's like that http://www.despair.com/mis24x30prin.html "Mistakes: It could be that the purpose of your life is to surve as a warning to others.":scared:

Oh man! this site is AMAZING!!!! NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION Nutrition Facts & Calorie Counter NutritionData (ND) provides a complete nutrient analysis for any food or recipe, and helps you select foods that best match your dietary needs. http://www.nutritiondata.com/index.html

There is no "do not touch" food list. If you can handle it, eat it. Carbs are not bad, they are in fact, your friend. We need to eat the whole range of foods, not just protien. One ear of sweet white corn: 83.2 calories, Protein 2.6, fat 1.0, carbs 19.3, Fiber 2.1, sodium 13.1 http://www.caloriesperhour.com/index_food.html http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-B00001-01c21VS.html for more complete corn information

I've started to lose my hair as well. But mine isn't from weight loss, obviously. It's one of the symptoms of Cushing's in my case, and it's hit me hard. I've always had just the most beautiful hair, thick and rich, but right now it's so thin that I look like I have hair plugs. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it.

I'm such a cry baby. Your post made me cry Megan. I need a new dog. My DH isn't too happy with that, but I NEED one.

Jack said it all, Aliens abducted me.... (of course, that's about the only way I'm ever gonna lose weight....:faint:)

Hey Campers! This last Friday Victoriana (Kathleen) and I had a great time crawling the Pike Place market. We had a great time, and I figured that we had such a great time, if we had more bandsters with us next time it would be even more fun for the next outing! I'm not working right now, and I thought it would be fun to play tourist in our home town. Any takers?

Last Friday Victoriana and I spend the entire day exploring The Pike Place Market in Seattle. We took the bus over from Bellevue and spent about 7 hours walking all over the market, looking at all the really cool stuff, and buying some of it, making lists of things to come back and get later. http://www.vrseattle.com/pages/browse.php?cat_id=60 I've lived in the Seattle area most of my adult life, and all the summers of my childhood, but I'd never really spent any time at the Market. I'm looking forward to the next outing.

Sorry Cindyn, I haven't read any bandster book. I do know that you will find a wealth of information about the band here on LBT that you will not find in any one book.

Yes Alex, you got it right. That's a great NSV Alex, sorry you still have hpb but now you are not afraid to face it.

I don't know how you find her Penni. I figure that the best parts of your grandma are already part of your character. I know that when I set about to create the mother I needed, the mother I became, I made a mental list of all the things that I wanted, that I needed, the mamma that I wanted for my spudboy. Perhaps it would be helpful for you to make a list of the qualities you loved most about your grandma, the qualities you miss most. It's possible that you need to do this not for yourself but for someone else. I know that your grandchildren are not physically close to you. Perhaps you need to "adopt" one? I know that I am an adopter. While I only gave birth to one child, I needed more than just my spudboy, so I've always adopted all children that come into my life. All my son's friends are my surigate children, and while I was in exhile, my friends' children became "my" children. I don't know how you will find her Penni. I only know how I found my mamma. Some people feel that when loved ones depart this plane of life, people who especially love us become our guardian angels.

Uhm, Kelly, surely you don't mean "cesspool." Although I'm sure I'm full of BS a great deal of time. Oh and I am certianly not someone with "infinite wisdom" although you are so very kind so say that.

Wowie! Excellent work!

Oh Margo! How wonderful!

You are absolutly correct Elisabeth, most obese people do not have Cushing's. But I have to wonder how many of my Turtle Tribe do. On my Cushing's board we have been discussing this. We wonder if it is so rare only because it is so hard to get a diagnosis. Because so many people who've had Cushing's for years but were never diagnosed because they didn't "look" like they had it. Anyway, if you are not losing, and doing everything PUSH for answers. If your doctor doesn't know, don't let him or her push it back on you. Demand answers, and dont let them insult you.

Penni, if you are looking that hard for her, she must have meant so much to you. And that is a wonderful thing. I was raised by wolves, as you know. I never got the love a child should recieve from her mother. What I so desperately needed and wanted, my mother could not provide me, for what ever reason. So what I did was to become the mother I needed. To heal from my horrific childhood, I became the loving mother that I needed for my son. In being the mother I wanted to have as child for my son, I became that mother for myself. Perhaps you can internalize all the best things about your grandmother, and become your own grandmother even as you are grandma. Give yourself the love you need.

that was the funny thing about the drummer, I wasn't dancing for them, I didn't pay they any attention, since they were there for me. I danced for the other women in the class, the students, the instructor and the guests. It was very intimate, yet not at the same time. I made each woman there feel like I was dancing just for her, with her. Bringing her into my world, sharing my love of dancing with her. Oh, and today I have a job interview of sorts. I IM'd a former boss and told him he needed me. Oh and Jessie, belly dancing can be slow and gentle, it isn't all shimmies and swords. It really is something that women of all fitness levels can do. In my current class there are a couple of women who are close to 300 pounds, and the beginning class has even more larger women in it.

Hi Skinnimini, it sounds like you might want to get just another bump in your fill level. You are not doing that badly you know. We, as bandsters, sometimes get a distorted view of what we "should" be eating. I think partly this comes because we've spent more than a month on very little. A good rule of thumb for protien is about the size of your hand. That's your entire hand without the fingers, same thickness.

Did you pick up the scales and hit him in the head? Of course the damn scales lie, that's all they do. This is so personal for me. I've been accused of being a lier about my food and my excersize, because I gained 10 pounds in a week at 1000 and only lost 1.5 pounds the month I was at sub 700 calories. There is a recognized condition called Cushing's, and one symptom is unexplained weight gain, another is the inability to lose weight. I'm so tired of doctors and everyone else using the scale to beat-up on us. The next time he does this, accuse you of lying, you get pissed off! How dare he do that to you.

VOtt, from what many recommend, try to get by with as few fills as possible. The point of the band is not restriction, it is weight loss. I don't know what your stats are, or how long you've been banded, so I don't know that I can offer anything that is meaningful. Wendy, it sounds like you are too tight. If you cannot eat what you are supposed to eat, you are too tight. Of course you start eating crap when that is all you can eat. Ice cream goes down all to well, and it is a comfort food as well. The sugars and fat have an effect on us, and we really do feel a lift when we eat it. We might feel like crap after eating it for a varitety of reasons, but we feel good when we are doing it. Please schedule an unfill, and get yourself back on track. Tippytoes, trust me when I say I understand. I want you to understand that this is not your fault. You are doing everything you can think of and you are not seeing the restults you have every right to expect and demand. And if your doc is upset, well too effin' bad for him. You are doing what you need to do, so it's his turn to step up to the plate. Start pushing for answers. It might be a metabolic issue, it might be your thyroid or something else. If your doctors push back, then you push back harder. It is NOT normal to work as hard as we do for no results.

Very interesting thread Sue. Thanks for starting it. I don't know if things have clicked for me, but I have yet to lose any real weight. I'm down 15 pounds in a year. And I find myself gaining weight on 1000 calories a day, or lose when I increase with days over 1600, lose at the same rate as when I went to sub 700 calories. I'm a conundrum. I find myself slipping into drinking while I eat when I dine out. But I do it conciously, something that I choose to do. When I eat at home, I don't drink while I eat, and I almost always wait to drink after eating. Sometimes I need a small sip to clear my palate after some foods. But this last year I've some some very painful soul searching. I've made some painful discoveries, things that I knew, but didn't want to look at. I had to go to painful places that I think were every bit as painful as the original pain. Sometimes we have to lance a boil before it will heal. I feel like I've lanced some painful psychic boils that were festering on my soul. Old wounds that never healed right, that had to be re-opened. It's entirely possible that once I have a cure that it will turn out that I never needed the band to lose weight. Most folks with Cushing's drop their weight quite fast after they are cured. A few need to have extra help, but they are the exception to the rule. I have gained my health back with the band. My asthma is all but cured, something that I was sure was going to kill me. And death by resperatory failure isn't terribly pleasant, I was on my way to a slow and lingering death. I spent far too long in hospitals and home with the only treatments being oxygen therapy and breathing treatments, still I would get out of breath trying to catch my breath. I worry that if I were to lose my band that lingering death would once again be my future. I wish I had a certian bright future. But right now I'm faced with more questions. The promice of being thin following the band was false. For me anyway for now.