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Honestly, do we ever thing DeLarla would have a brown nose???? I think not!

I'm partial to shades not found in nature.

I've never heard of a weight called "grammers" We can't answer your question because there are so many different sizes of cans. There are little bitty cans that just have a few ounces and cans that are a gallon size. You have to be more specific. Sorry. Do a google search on "weight conversion"

Clash of titan reptiles leaves python, alligator dead in Florida's swampland http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1540&ncid=1540&e=1&u=/afp/20051005/sc_afp/usoffbeatsnake_051005192223 http://news.yahoo.com/photo/051005/photos_sc_afp/051005192223_s9z69fvm_photo0;_ylt=AoiscpHJMqf5NPr0hmCSCoLQOrgF;_ylu=X3oDMTA3bGk2OHYzBHNlYwN0bXA- a python snake tried to heat an alligator with disasterous results ...

I believe all the pix of me here, except as the Pirate Queen, my brows are au naturale... not plucked, not waxed ... Just call me Brooke Shields! In the one with my pirate hat, those brows were designed by Christina (I'llSucceed) our last night in Vega. Just a pair of tweesers and much crying from me. ("stop wiggling or I'll poke your eye out!")

Oh come one ReneBean, not even a little martyr? Please? Geeze, where's your team spirit?

Uhm, Kathy, dear, at the rate we are going with our Turtle Power, I'd think you are in more danger of them falling apart... Try a hipster style.

take your pain meds. The shoulder pain is often not gas, but refered pain from the tube down your throat. Hope you get better soon!

I had to have an unfill a week after my first fill. I've had two subsequent fills. I know that we had someone with the VGB, the Verticle Gastric Band a while back. this person said that they had one fill level for ever. I don't know how they are doing though. I would think this would make it so that you were in that sort of boat. Sorry I cannot be of more help in your decision.

Coffee with black pepper???? WTF??? Okay, okay, I know in some African countries they serve coffee salted... And my signature cookie are black pepper cookies... hmmmmm. Hmmmm I say.

excellent work! May this be just the very first in a long line of NSVs! Start tracking them now, and before you know it, you will have a page full of them!

Smart move! Well done, and let's hope this is just the first of many many NSVs! When i was 16 in lived in a group home, and all the other kids were tattooing themselves, but I flat out refused. There just was no way I was going to let some dumb kid give me a prison tattoo.... Needless to say, I was ostrasized from that group too... (or maybe I meant needleness... )

Yup, that's one of the things I miss the most about being away at school... no more MS parties!

Welcome to the Banded Gentry!

Welcome back Jodie! Glad to hear that you are in such high spirits and feel such great success so soon! Cheers! I cannot even try to imagine what it must be like for all our friends who've been hit by hurricanes. You, nonethless, have my sympathy. Cheers!

Sunday, rode the recombant bike at the gym for 30 minutes, did arm weights for 15 minutes (5 pound dumb bells) light yoga 20 minutes and belly danced 40 minutes. Discovered that the yoga positions for the Sun Salutation is not a good idea after getting a fill. Ended up with the dry heaves on Thursday... Not good! So no more Sun Salutations for me!

I've seen it advertised, and I think they are soooo beutiful, but I haven't ordered any ...

Don't tell them about your band. It's not important in this case. As long as you can get it past your stoma and into your system, there is no band issue.

Yup, time to change occupations! That's just weird, just weird. But in a wacky sort of way....

You don't have any over the counter remidies? The two main brands here are Pepto Bismal (the pink stuff) and Imodium. Talk to a different chemist and just ask for something for diarea.

My brother in law eats and eats an eats and never gains weight. My brothers both had a serious coke & speed problems... I think that altered their matabolisms, both are scrawny, while the sisters are buillt like Amazons. One guy I know is bulimic, as is another woman. One couple just took up running recently and have lost a good amount of weight, but they weren't skinny to begin with, one woman has been researching anorexia sites to learn to be anorexic.

Good luck, and we'll keep you in our collective thoughts. You are right about folks not understanding, who've been banded. They have no frame of reference. Our DeLarla had to have her port removed, but hasn't been able to get a new one yet. Part of it because she's just not prepaired mentally or emotionally for yet another surgury. Good luck to you and we are thinkink of you!

I've never chewed something and then spit it out if I could swallow it. I have chewed something and then determined that there was no way it was going to go past my band and then spit it out. If I know it won't go down, I don't risk it. But, I"m not a gum chewer either.

the only body parts that have nick names for us are our piggies and pinkies. And of course, you hava pinkie piggy, a.k.a. baby toe. Which is odd, now that I think of it, that it's called a baby toe, considering all parts have the same age.

I dunno Joyce, I don't think they are fat, them's just big boned, and beefy too...