Jessiebear

When I was first banded, my Mom bought me some Ham soup base & chicken soup base (powdered in a jar) that was out of this world! I also can't say enough about the Knorr boullion cubes. The chicken flavor is awesome!

Would honey make you have the same cravings? :hungry:

Hmmmm..... I've never heard this before. That does explain a lot of things though. I live on Splenda. When I had my last fill a week or so ago, I was sitting on the gurney with the drapes drawn around me, & I heard my doc talking to the nurses & they were asking him about artificial sweeteners & he said that they were all crap that was manufactured & just not good for your body. Help! I think I'm addicted to Splenda!!! :hurt

After going through all you went through, I think I would have had it removed too. We're all here for you! :hug:

OOPS folks! It's not my Birthday! It's my 1 year Bandiversary! LOL!!! My Birthday was January 3. LOL!!

Good for you Jess! Sounds like you're on the right track!

Yep Vines, that's a great idea! What a better way to honor my 1 year Bandiversary than with my top ten NSVs! So, here it goes...... 1. Sex has never been better! & it just keeps getting better! 2. I can paint my own toenails again! 3. I can wear jeans again! 4. When I look in the mirror, I look different to myself (I just noticed this today)! 5.I have cut my BP meds in half. I need to get in to see my doc cause I think I could probably come off of them now. (I promise I am monitoring it myself. I won't let it get too low!) 6. When we took a trip to Branson before Christmas, I was the only one who was able to climb all the stairs at the Branson Belle without stopping & without getting out of breath! 7. At Christmas my little cousin proclaimed that "Jessie now has a lap" cause she was sitting on it! 8. When I went for my last fill, I had room on both sides of me on the gurney! 9. When I take a bath, I now have Water all the way around me! 10. I have lost 12.25 inches from head to toes since January 5, 2006. I really wish I had been keeping track of this since the very beginning. I'm gonna have to dig around cause I think I took some measurements before the surgery.

:whoo: :whoo: :whoo: :whoo: :whoo: :madgrin: Cool!! Can't wait to join you!!!

That's awesome vines! Tell him I said Congrats!

Oh Geez! I have been looking forward to this day & then I forgot!! Thanks ladies!! Tell y'all about my year? Where do I begin? I'll make this as short as possible. First of all, I went into this expecting to lose all my weight in the first year. Wrong!! But that's okay! I have lost 58 lbs. that will never come back again! I feel great! I'm looking a lot better & my self-esteem is getting there. I believe part of the reason I lost slow was due to my port flipping & not being able to get a fill for a few months. By then I had become depressed & was binge eating. I had no restriction what so ever! By the time I was able to get a fill & have a little restriction, my bad attitude had already set in. I can honestly say that if it had not been for you guy's support & advice (especially the turtle tribe), I probably would have been a banded failure. But in the last 4-5 months I have finally got my head back in a good place & with the help of 2 good fills, I am finally losing the weight that I expected to lose in the beginning. I am under 300 lbs. & I am working to get to my next mini goal of 250 lbs. I have come to appreciate the fact that I did not put this weight on over night & I will not lose it over night! My little silicone friend is here to help me do this. Thanks to everyone for being there when I needed you! You all ROCK!!!

Yay!! Welcome to Band Land!! Hope you have a speedy recovery!

Welcome! Nice to meet you! Hope your recovery keeps going smoothly!!

Miss Diva!! You got the name right! You are beautiful Dee Dee!! Keep smilin! I hope it works out with Mr. Right! Where are you from? You said the south?

YAY!! Congrats! Hope you have a speedy, pain & gas free recovery!!

Welcome! Nice to meet! Congrats on your surgery date!!

Happy Birthday Rene!!! This place wouldn't be the same without you!! I hope you have a wonderful :Bunny :Bunny :Bunny :Bunny day!!! :Bunny :Bunny :Bunny :Bunny :confused: :confused: :Banane21: :happybday: :hug:

FUNNY STUFF! A BAD DAY AT WORK >> If you don't laugh out loud after you read this you are in a coma! This is even funnier when you realize it's real! Next time you have a bad day at work...think of this guy... >> Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana. He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an e-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.2 on FM dial in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she won. >>Hi Sue, >> >>Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother. Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not so bad after all. Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job. >>As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wetsuit. This time of year the Water is quite cool. So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature. It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose. >> >>Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints. What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wetsuit. This floods my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi. >> >>Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. Within a few seconds my butt started to burn. I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had happened. The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. >>Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to it. However, the crack of my butt was not as fortunate. When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my butt. I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five other divers, were all laughing hysterically. >> >>Needless to say I aborted the dive. I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression. >>When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet. As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't poop for two days because my butt was swollen shut. >> >>So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt. Now repeat to yourself, "I love my job, I love my job, I love my job".

NSV = Non Scale Victory Even if the scales aren't moving, we still have good things happening to us as a result of our previous weight loss. It's the little things that make you notice you really are making progress.

:bounce: Happy Bandiversary! :bounce: 53 lbs ?!! :cake:

Thanks so much for updating us Mandy. I have been thinking about you & your little girl a lot. I will continue to keep you in my prayers! I'm praying for the best possible outcome for you & your family.

Yay! Congrats!! All I took after my surgery was Tylenol. It sounds like you are doing great!! Those 84 y/os in the hospital can be lots of fun when they are confused! Glad you're home & doing great! Oh yeah.....Welcome to Band Land!!

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:clap2: WTG!!

WTG Margo!! Sounds like fun!! Congrats on the NSVs!!

:hug: I'm glad you're finally getting some answers!! & thank the Great Spirit it's treatable! I'll be glad when the tests are over for you. Keep us updated. I know I'm pulling for ya!