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Well, this is really exciting.... I bought 5 prs of ankle length socks!! Woo Hoo!! Almost bought a robe at Sears... been looking for a real TERRY CLOTH robe... all you can find anymore is that synthetic stuff that is non-absorbant. I want terry cloth. I tried on an XL at Sears and it fit great, but only to the waist! Waist down was not good. I almost bought it anyways because it was 1/2 price, so only $30 and I really liked the color.. kind of bright cranberry color. But then I thought about where I'd store it until it fit better. I could wear it over my bathing suit but I'd probably be too self conscious about it not closing at the hips. But I was pretty impressed that the shoulders, chest & waist actually fit!

Hi, I heated up some leftover ham and frozen mixed veggies. I didn't give him a choice about going shopping with me. He left on his bike, didn't take his cell phone, didn't say where he was going. So when he wasn't back in an hour and a half, I loaded my scooter on the back of the car and took off for the mall. When I came back 2 1/2 hours later, he was washing dishes... was all finished eating (4:45pm). Whatever! Then he wanted to call a truce, but I was too mad. Guess we'll have a new start this morning! It's our TOPS day, then out to breakfast and then go to Wal-Mart probably, so I guess I'll have to talk to him! :eek::tt1::tt1: The joys of living in an RV.... no personal space!!

There's going to be a bandster bash in Seattle next month. The website is: / Here's a letter from the coordinator: Letter from our Coordinator My name is Joanne Godmintz and I've been the Coordinator of the Seattle Splash Bandster Bash and Conference for the last six years. (This year's is set for February 15th-17th at the Seattle Airport Marriott Hotel ). Over ten years ago this event started out as a party celebrating Lap Band weight-loss surgery in someone's home in Seattle. It's hard to believe it's been that long. This initial group were really the pioneers of U.S. banding. The largest group of Bandsters come from the Pacific Northwest because this is where the FDA trials occurred. These patients were sent to Dr. Rumbaut in Mexico who was the surgeon for the FDA trials. This first group (I was not one of them) are why many of us are here today. The The Lap Band was new, not only to doctors but also to patients. These original patients had to create a game plan with dietary rules, working by trial and error to determine what worked best for the banding weight loss. This first group helped start the Yahoo Bandster groups, networked, and gathered from all over the country here once a year to network and celebrate. The event outgrew a house six years ago, and became a larger conference to celebrate banding and to share information from doctors, psychologists, nutritionists, endocrinologists, dieticians, diabetic educators, fellow and prospective Bandsters and many others to help make our weight loss surgery successful. It looks like there are many new faces this year, so let me tell you what typically occurs at the Bash. It opens Friday, February 15th with registration between 4-6 PM. Each registrant is provided name tags, agendas and session maps, and that first night we have a no-host dinner in the hotel restaurant. Last year, we had over 250 people registered for the Splash and 70 signed up for the no-host dinner. Then more than 125 people showed up and overwhelmed the restaurant. So please, if you're coming to the no-host dinner, sign up on the Seattle Splash Yahoo group, then add yourself to the Friday Night Dinner Setup database. Friday's dinner is always a blast because, besides sitting beside speakers and vendors, you are meeting new and old friends. At 7:30 P.M. Friday night, after a free hor d'oeurve party, we have a surgeons' panel for questions and answers. Often informative and occasionally very funny, it's a place for everyone to let their hair down and ask those questions you always wanted answered. After the panel, join others at the hotel's tropical pool for hot-tubing and maybe a splash in the warm pool (bring your suit!) Saturday 7:30 A.M., hopefully you got enough sleep because this a jam-packed day of dozens of speaker sessions, vendors tables, a catered lunch and banquet dinner, fashion show with before and after clothes, raffle, auction, a Before and After Banding slide show (a real tear jerker) and entertainment and dancing. It's all included in your registration fee. Sunday morning's agenda is still in the works, but Bandster discussion groups, Plastic Surgeon Presentations and maybe some fun exercise sessions are planned. Many hours of planning and preparation have gone into the Splash This is an entirely volunteer-run, non-profit event. Now your job is to get registered and join us. Joanne Godmintz

1) Married, 43+ years, four grown kids, ten grandkids plus two step grandkids and several step-GREAT grandkids!! Oh, my! I'm not old enough for great grandkids, am I??? 2) We're cooking for two. 3) DH prepares most of the meals except when he is pouting about some stupid thing... which is the case tonight, so I'm on my own. He ate without me .........while I was at the mall without him! I do recognize an opportunity when I see one!! LOL Shopping... BY MYSELF!! YES!! And I CAN take care of myself. 4) No special meals.... we usually eat the same thing... when we eat together, that is! Hee Hee! .

There's going to be a bandster bash in Seattle next month. The website is: Mexico who was the surgeon for the FDA trials. This first group (I was not one of them) are why many of us are here today. The The Lap Band was new, not only to doctors but also to patients. These original patients had to create a game plan with dietary rules, working by trial and error to determine what worked best for the banding weight loss. This first group helped start the Yahoo Bandster groups, networked, and gathered from all over the country here once a year to network and Celebrate. The event outgrew a house six years ago, and became a larger conference to celebrate banding and to share information from doctors, psychologists, nutritionists, endocrinologists, dieticians, diabetic educators, fellow and prospective Bandsters and many others to help make our weight loss surgery successful. It looks like there are many new faces this year, so let me tell you what typically occurs at the Bash. It opens Friday, February 15th with registration between 4-6 PM. Each registrant is provided name tags, agendas and session maps, and that first night we have a no-host dinner in the hotel restaurant. Last year, we had over 250 people registered for the Splash and 70 signed up for the no-host dinner. Then more than 125 people showed up and overwhelmed the restaurant. So please, if you're coming to the no-host dinner, sign up on the hair down and ask those questions you always wanted answered. After the panel, join others at the hotel's tropical pool for hot-tubing and maybe a splash in the warm pool (bring your suit!) Saturday 7:30 A.M., hopefully you got enough sleep because this a jam-packed day of dozens of speaker sessions, vendors tables, a catered lunch and banquet dinner, fashion show with before and after clothes, raffle, auction, a Before and After Banding slide show (a real tear jerker) and entertainment and dancing. It's all included in your registration fee. Sunday morning's agenda is still in the works, but Bandster discussion groups, Plastic Surgeon Presentations and maybe some fun exercise sessions are planned. Many hours of planning and preparation have gone into the Splash This is an entirely volunteer-run, non-profit event. Now your job is to get registered and join us. Joanne Godmintz

There is a "Bandster Bash" in Seattle next month. Sounds fun. It's called "Seattle Splash". Here is a letter from the coordinator off their website. If you want more info, let me know. I'll try to paste the website url. http://barbooch2.homestead.com/SeattleBandsterSplash2008.html Letter from our Coordinator My name is Joanne Godmintz and I've been the Coordinator of the Seattle Splash Bandster Bash and Conference for the last six years. (This year's is set for February 15th-17th at the Seattle Airport Marriott Hotel ). Over ten years ago this event started out as a party celebrating Lap Band weight-loss surgery in someone's home in Seattle. It's hard to believe it's been that long. This initial group were really the pioneers of U.S. banding. The largest group of Bandsters come from the Pacific Northwest because this is where the FDA trials occurred. These patients were sent to Dr. Rumbaut in Mexico who was the surgeon for the FDA trials. This first group (I was not one of them) are why many of us are here today. The The Lap Band was new, not only to doctors but also to patients. These original patients had to create a game plan with dietary rules, working by trial and error to determine what worked best for the banding weight loss. This first group helped start the Yahoo Bandster groups, networked, and gathered from all over the country here once a year to network and Celebrate. The event outgrew a house six years ago, and became a larger conference to celebrate banding and to share information from doctors, psychologists, nutritionists, endocrinologists, dieticians, diabetic educators, fellow and prospective Bandsters and many others to help make our weight loss surgery successful. It looks like there are many new faces this year, so let me tell you what typically occurs at the Bash. It opens Friday, February 15th with registration between 4-6 PM. Each registrant is provided name tags, agendas and session maps, and that first night we have a no-host dinner in the hotel restaurant. Last year, we had over 250 people registered for the Splash and 70 signed up for the no-host dinner. Then more than 125 people showed up and overwhelmed the restaurant. So please, if you're coming to the no-host dinner, sign up on the Seattle Splash Yahoo group, then add yourself to the Friday Night Dinner Setup database. Friday's dinner is always a blast because, besides sitting beside speakers and vendors, you are meeting new and old friends. At 7:30 P.M. Friday night, after a free hor d'oeurve party, we have a surgeons' panel for questions and answers. Often informative and occasionally very funny, it's a place for everyone to let their hair down and ask those questions you always wanted answered. After the panel, join others at the hotel's tropical pool for hot-tubing and maybe a splash in the warm pool (bring your suit!) Saturday 7:30 A.M., hopefully you got enough sleep because this a jam-packed day of dozens of speaker sessions, vendors tables, a catered lunch and banquet dinner, fashion show with before and after clothes, raffle, auction, a Before and After Banding slide show (a real tear jerker) and entertainment and dancing. It's all included in your registration fee. Sunday morning's agenda is still in the works, but Bandster discussion groups, Plastic Surgeon Presentations and maybe some fun exercise sessions are planned. Many hours of planning and preparation have gone into the Splash This is an entirely volunteer-run, non-profit event. Now your job is to get registered and join us. Joanne Godmintz

Dini, You look FANTASTIC!! What a difference! Thanks for posting those before and after pics!! You must be at goal now, huh??

I think the system is broken. Ever since the threads were altered, etc., no emails of new posts. I think that's why it's been so quiet here... on all the threads I'm subscribed to.. it's like nobody is home!

I found it somewhere on that ticker site. Keep looking. It's there somewhere.

Definitely have a decrease in knee pain and able to walk more. People here at the RV park have been commenting on that because they're used to seeing me on my scooter. I park it and walk whenever possible. I've had three fills, the last 10/29, just before we headed south for the winter. I have pretty good restriction and still losing, though slowly. So I'm not in a hurry for another fill right now.

Congrats, Linda!! Hope your party was fun and you did okay with food. Our Seahawks apparently just couldn't deal with Brett and the snow. Oh, well. There's always next year.

WATER AEROBICS... I love it!

Hi there sixties buddies! Just found this thread. I turned 64 the end of Nov. I had my surgery last July.. 07/20/07 and I'm down a hair under 60 lb. so far. I've had three fills, the last one Oct.29. We are RV snowbirds spending the winter in Desert Hot Springs CA, so I'm hoping I can get by without a fill until we get back home (WA state) in April. So far I seem to still have pretty good restriction. I have arthritis in both knees and use a handicap scooter, so exercise is a problem, but here at the RV park we go to water aerobics Mon-Fri mornings and that has been really helping. Keeps me moving and helps with the weight loss as well.

I guess I'm the old lady in this bunch! I turned 64 the end of November. We have four grown kids, 35-41 yrs old, and ten grandchildren, 2yrs-19 yrs. I had my surgery 7/20/07 and am real close to 60 lb down. I have mobility issues due to arthritis in both knees. I'm getting my exercise in with water aerobics.

How much are you eating, how often, what kinds of foods? Are you exercising? Drinking enough fluids? It's not an easy journey.. lots of work, lots of self discipline. But we all lose at different rates. Don't get too discouraged. Hope our doctor has some answers for you on the 20th.

Diane, I never thought I'd be able to give up my Diet Coke. LOVE carbonated drinks... Diet Coke and we have a carbonator, so make our own carbonated Water, sometimes adding sugar free flavoring. Didn't know how I'd live without it, but I got through it just fine. Last week, I thought, since we have the carbonator and control the amount of carbonation, maybe I'd try making some. So, we did... DH added a little Crystal Lite powder to the first bottle. Well, the first bottle he blew up... literally! He used a cheap 1/2 gallon plastic bottle not designed to hold carbonated beverages and the thing exploded! You would've thought a bomb went off and we had orange carbonated Crystal Lite everywhere!! He ran for towels to soak it all up and his bottle was just blown apart! Kind of funny when the hysteria died down! Then he tried the right kind of bottle. But, I tell you, it just isn't the same anymore. For one thing, I'm a little afraid of it, so I found I was just sipping at it and not getting enough fluids in for that reason. So I am back to just plain Crystal Lite (Wal-Mart or Albertson brand) or just plain water. Once you get off of it, you'll find you can live without it quite nicely! Good luck!

Janet, Is that meeting the first Tuesday or the first Monday because 2/4 is a Monday, the rest of the dates you gave are Tuesdays. I put that on my computer calendar so it will send me a reminder! Don't know why but I've stopped getting emails of new posts! Wonder what's up with that.

Might hurt a little more than an ordinary blood stick, but nothing excruciating. They usually take the blood from the wrist. Think I had it done once.. not too uncomfortable. Why the arterial blood gases?? Some type of respiratory disease?

Good Grief!! Jackie, that is outrageous fee for a fill!! Charges I've seen for my fees are $179 for fluoro plus a reasonable office visit charge. Sorry to hear about your cholesterol! I haven't had mine checked since before surgery. I take Tricor and Pravastatin to keep it down. I'm hoping when I go home in the spring and have my blood work done again, maybe I can go off one of them, at least! I am really anxious to drop some meds... one cholesterol Rx and hopefully one BP pill! But I'm sure you've all heard me sing that song before! TOPS weigh in today and I was down 2 lb. I am so close to the minus 60 lb point that I can taste it!! Hope to reach that milestone by next week's weigh in! I am PSYCHED for it!! Karri... I'd sure help with those essays if I could! I especially love checking spelling. Sorry, Janet, you'd FLUNK!! LOL! One of my sisters is especially obnoxious when it comes to critiquing spelling and grammar and content!! She was an accounting major in college (which she never quite finished) but, I swear, she missed her calling! She'd be a great proofreader, if she could survive. I'm sure someone would have a "hit" out on her before long though! She is UNRELENTING!!

:welcome: :welcomeB: :welcome2: Hi, Carol, If you can get to a pool... YMCA, etc., Water exercise is the way to go. :Banane30::Banane42: I deal with the arthritis problems, too, especially the knees. I'm doing water aerobics and it's great. Also, have you tried Therabands? Good for strengthening. They sell them in a three pack at Target for around $10. Happy Birthday, Elvis!

Hi, Michelle, I can relate to your comment about something "wet" with your meat. I do the catsup thing, too, or with pork... a little applesauce, a little cranberry sauce with chicken/turkey, if I have some around. It helps a lot. Hard to get DH to understand that. To him, I'm just adding calories, but.. I'm using a very small amount, and sugar free whenver possible. Someone told me that Clark's (nutrition store) sells sugar free catsup. Haven't made it over there to check it out yet.

See... that's what happened to me a week or so ago. My signature disappeared and it wouldn't come back. And now I can't get that stupid glittermaker site to work for me at all. So I just had to do my own signature for now. I want my glitter one back!!

Yep, Saturday. That's the day you leave? With these post-season games, I would think they'd get them by satellite. Hope you have a great time! Forgot where you are going... somewhere warm, right??! We're in CA for the winter in our RV, but we've been getting a lot of rain and cool weather even here in the desert (near Palm Springs).

:welcome: :welcomeB: :welcome: Wow! You are doing great! You MEN are so frustrating.. you lose so much faster than us gals!! We are jealous. Keep up the good work! You ARE working your butt off!! You're going to be one HOT daddy for that little girl! Praying that God will continue to BLESS your efforts.