vinesqueen

I'm 43... :mad:

No toast for me... makes me PB

Okay, I just checked and there are two ways to get in your word count, the honor system and the offical word count checker. The instrctions are under the profile area. So, I'm there as "Vinesqueen" no big surprise there. Feel free to add me to your writing buddy list

Well, this is my first time doing this, so I"m not sure. I think we just enter the number of words for the day. Word has a word counter built in as part of the program...

The name's Chickenboob, Dinky Chickenboob Mind you, if I was a tradtional sort of woman and had taken my dh'S name when we bot married, I'd be Dinky Wafflebrain. ...

Donali, you can sign me up to be on any buddy list you want! Woot!

This is how I'm going to be spending my copious free time this month -- writing my first novel ... November is National Novel Writing Month http://www.nanowrimo.org/ You can still sign up until like the last week of Novemeber.. so it isn't too late, it's only the second day of November! What: Writing one 50,000-word novel from scratch in a month's time. Who: You! We can't do this unless we have some other people trying it as well. Let's write laughably awful yet lengthy prose together. Why: The reasons are endless! To actively participate in one of our era's most enchanting art forms! To write without having to obsess over quality. To be able to make obscure references to passages from your novel at parties. To be able to mock real novelists who dawdle on and on, taking far longer than 30 days to produce their work. When: Sign-ups begin October 1, 2005. Writing begins November 1. To be added to the official list of winners, you must reach the 50,000-word mark by November 30 at midnight. Once your novel has been verified by our web-based team of robotic word counters, the partying begins. Still confused? Just visit the How NaNoWriMo Works page!

Sorry, all I can offer is support, no real information. Sorry!

Hey you hot mamma, I too have been thinking that my journy isn't very remarkable, but it is because I am. And so is everyone else, of course. I just happen to be remarkable in a more flamboyant manner :mad: What about my NSV list? I don't think I've had more NSVs than most, I've just been more dilligent about recording them.

If you are in lots of pain, call your doc right away. Take your pain meds because there is no virture in suffering pain like that! Good luck and don't feel like you are pestering him or her. That's their job and you are the most important patient! :mad:

Hey you guys! Welcome to the Banded Gentry!

Diane, honey, none of us want to be a Turtle, we all want to be Rabbits. In 3 months you have lost more than I have in my 8 months! Okay, you are on a plateau. You might want to schedule a fill, and make sure you are tracking your measurements. It is quite likely that after losing those 30 pounds you body is saying "time out! regroup! regroup!" We see this a lot in the Turtle community where we will lose weight but then stop and compact for a while. Heck, we see this in you Rabbits too. So, go schedule your fill and change up your pattern for a week. Eat at different times, eat different things, change when you excersize, go dancing an extra night this week. Change it up!

Oh Whip, I'm soooo glad you are back, our poet laurate of LBT. Your words are ever graceful, with a simple phrase, a well placed pause, saying what I cannot, finding the words. I'm so glad you are back! Your words are a song in my heart, even when those words are sad and full of pain, they are still a song.

We are for the most part doing well, and we are glad to hear from you! Your sister has done awesome work with her band, she is looking really good!

I'm so sorry to hear about this! You have done great work while you had your band. Let's hope you'll be able to keep it off. ((((((((((hugs)))))))))))))

I'm with 'Doll on this one. Since you have an apointment next week, go to it. I would march your cushy tushy down to his office and camp out. It it very odd. Since they won't make an apointment for you (weird, weird, weird), you probably are going to have to make that apointment to see your GP and all that rigamarole. Not sure why blood thinners would effect you getting a fill. Okay the other issue is the clot. GET THE SCAN. DO NOT SCREW AROUND WITH THIS. Loopylou, honey, you know that they are life threatening. One of the women I went to high school recently had a blood clot blow a hole in her heart and lodged in her brain. A 44 year old woman that I grew up with just had a stroke. It doesn't matter if you want the scan or not. Get it done any way. You probably don't want to die either, at least not from something that can be prevented. Before banding I was in very real danger of dieing from resperatory failure. Not a fun death.

For some of us, the thought of losing the 100 pounds that we need to lose is far too daunting to even think of doing. If we are part of the Turtle Tribe or even Winded Wabbits, I think some mini-goals are in order. Might I suggest the following mini-goals? getting to the next obesity level. For some of us that means that getting to the MO level is an accomplishment, for others it is leaving MO and just being obese, and for those that are closer to goal, overweight. Reaching Trippoli, Twonesia and of course, Onderland. These only count as mini goals if they are within a reasonable amount of time. Reaching double digits in KG, that means 218 pounds Cutting our BMI 1 full point, or even a half point. Gaining a pound of muscle For me, Onderland is not a reasonable mini-goal. At the rate I'm losing weight, that would likely take me another year. And even Double Digits seems to far away. NSVs are also important mini-goals drop to the next size not being able to wear a favorite pair of pants because they look like clown pants now walking up a flight of stairs without being winded or feeling like we are going to keel over from heart failure not needing a seatbelt extender being able to tie our own shoes And of course, the NSV-mini goal list goes on and on.

Sarah, that makes perfect sense! Finding "me" again is so important and so very wonderful all at the same time. It's like looking into the mirror and seeing a friend you haven't seen in far too long. Finding that spark, that flame, that glitter. And wow! 35 minutes on the elipictical, you kick my butt! Megan, I'm so glad you are not taking your NSVs for granted anymore! Thise are so important. And Kelly, accepting yourself, and loving yourself is the name of the game! The fact that everyone loves you just as your are should be proof that you are wonderful as is.

Okay, I decided that I would try the ticker thing again. Instead of using the ticker to track my goal, I decided to track until I reach my next goal, 40 pounds since surgery. And yes I know that 13 pounds could very well take me more than 4 months to reach, but that's my next major goal. I would like to be 225 by New Years. I think it is important to track to these mini goals, all the more so for The Turtle Tribe. If I only look at where I want to be ultimately, it only serves to add to my frustration. I think by setting smaller goals, it makes the whole things easier to visualze.

You just answered your own question! You over did it, and you know you over did it. Your body is still at the sort of freaked out stage... OH MY GAWD, WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME???????!!!! and WHAT IS THIS THING?????!!!!!! Your port was stitched to the muscles so it will be very tender for a few weeks to several weeks. Take it easy for the next little while and be kind to yourself!

I think anytime there is sigificant drainage one should call their doc. I didn't experience this, but I urge you to call your doc. Never borrow trouble, and it's always better to be safe than sorry!

well, that's why they call it the "practice of medicine." Okay, you are a Mexico patient, probably self pay. Okay did you call your local follow-up doc before heading out to the ER? if you have not done this, you need to call that doc ASAP. So they never took a history? Does this hospital have any experience with banded patients? Did you demonstrate your amazing non-drinking abilities? I don't know if there are any standard protocols for dealing banded folk. I know that when I go get fills here in ID, I have been teaching the hospital about the band, the usual protocols for fill (making sure I stay and drink a small bottle of Water to make sure I'm not too tight from the get go). I think we need to check around to find out if there is something already. Anyone remember the name of the Band Docs that lurk here? Maybe they can help But, you need to call your followup doc as soon as their office opens. I mean it.

IT'S WHIP! IT'S WHIP! (doing the happy dance!) I've sure missed you lately, and have been hoping Patty was doing well. I'm sorry to hear that she isn't doing better, but she's still in my thoughts, as are you. Glad to know you are lurking, and glad to know you are sill doing well with your personal journy.

well Heather, if it makes you feel better, you have lost as much as I have in your month and a half of being banded as I have in 8 months. Holy crap! You've lost an average of 3.5 pounds a week since you've been banded and this isn't good enough for him???? HE IS SMOKING CRACK! 7-800 calories a day? He must be smoking crack! 1/2 cup is usually the lower limit, not the upper limit. It sounds like he is super agressive with his diet plan. I have been contemplating going down to 800 calories because I haven't been losing. I have had two weeks in a row where I've lost weight, finally, after my 3rd and 4th fills. I haven't weighed myself since Thursday, so I don't know if I will get another fill. I still don't feel like I have much in the way of restrcition, but I'm not hungry after the 4th fill. I went to see the school's nutritionist last week, and she was freaked out that I have gone to sub-1000 calories a day on most days. She was absolutely horrified that I was consdering going to 800 calories. Absolutely horrified. There is no way that we can get all the required nutrients that our bodies REQUIRE on 800 calories and below. Sure we lose weight, but at what cost? Damage to our bones, our muscles, our neurological systems and/or our lymph systems? One of the things that our brains require to operate are carbs. It is the prefered food, and we need fat to metabolize a big whack of vitamines. I'm the Spokes-Model for the Turtle Tribe. I'm a slow loser, but I feel great, better than I have in years. I would love to lose at the rate you are going, but I don't think I'll ever lose that fast. You are doing amazing, you Rabbit you! and again, he's smoking crack! There are so many different ways to define success, and not all of them involve the scale.

Hi Coco, I would say first things first, get a fill. I don't know what your after care has been like, but make that appointment! That's one o the great things about the Band, you can always get a fill! You might want to also start a food journal for a few weeks just to track what exactly you are eating, as well as an excersize journal to see where you are burning. Hope that helps, and welcome back to the fold.