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But "No... Sorry." wouldn't be too short :biggrin: Every time I see the question "How many calories do you eat a day?" I have to fight the urge to reply with "5 million 6 hundred and thirty. Point two"

It's a great start! Most people start by walking on a treadmill or outside. You will eventually have to kick it up a notch by walking more, running or trying something else, but for a start, it's fantastic!

Good luck ladies, I hope it all goes well for you.

Someone needs to PM me. KTHXBYE

Naturally you are always right! Just look at your army of loyal ass sniffers. How could you let them down by admitting you are less than perfect? Oh. Wait. That's someone else. Never mind. LMAO

Once you get to goal, you might need to ask the whole board the same question countless times, get the same answers and ignore it every time. Because, remember YOU ARE ALWAYS RIGHT! Even Doctors are wrong! And how wrong could you be if your surgeon is asking you how you did it!

I wub Little Britain. Ann is a shocker. I think she/he is fab. To your question. I personally can eat ice cream. I chose not to because it's a nutritionally void food, but if I wanted to, I am sure I could eat a tub with no worries. I don't know how tight you would have to be to PB a liquid (ice cream is considered a liquid once it hits the stomach and melts), but I am assuming that's pretty dammed tight. That said every single band is different, so perhaps there are folks out there who can't tolerate ice cream. (Sorry it took so long to get back to you... Life has gone to hell in a pretty pink hand basket)

Hi Slimmy, I am in Brisbane, and had my TT back in August 2006, so hopefully my info isn't too out of date. I got a referral from my GP to a couple of different surgeons (with the referral Medicare will pay for part of, or all of the consultation with the surgeon, depending on how much they charge) Met with a couple of different surgeons, settled on my surgeon, called my health fund, found they do cover medically necessary reconstructive tummy tucks (as a side note, not too many Australian private health funds cover reconstructive TT's. It might be worth looking into your level of cover) I paid my surgeon in full, and submitted all of my receipts to Medicare and my health fund and got quite a large refund (my total out of pocket was about $1800) Long story short, see your GP and get a referral.

Jut after I was banded; Pre op TT, post weight loss, from the side; About 12 - 18 months post op TT;

Dammit. I can't win around here. I need Mt.Dew, twinkies and a bucket to slime it back up into. KTHXBYE

I like sushi, does that count? Mmmmm.... Veggie sushi :thumbs_up:

I have to laugh. She is so self involved that she thinks that *I* think she is fat. Uh. Yeah. Truth is I don't care. I just don't think about anyone else's weight but mine. Even DH's weight doesn't concern me. Whenever she goes on about thin people being ugly, and unattractive I think of this;

Apparently Asians are the only people who look Ok thin.

Wow, she's racist too. Lovely.

Wow, Ok. You are just a peach, aren't you?

It makes perfect sense if she is displaying Anorexic behavior. And a lot of people here are stuck so far up her ass they can't see daylight. Seeing sense here is uncommon. I do have to question why we are supposed to NOT talk about trying to get to / getting to a healthy BMI because some people don't want to / can't get to a healthy BMI? Why are we supposed to be sensitive to people who call a healthy BMI ugly and unattractive?

There is little point in arguing with someone who is always "right". My father in law is much the same, I suspect it has something to do with advanced age. I will say this though. This girl's weight WAS the issue. It is in the media, and it is here. The who point was that she is a plus sized beauty queen. So saying her weight has nothing to do with this thread is wrong I am afraid. And because a healthy weight is something you personally don't aspire to / can't get to / don't want to be does not change the fact that a healthy weight is just that - A healthy weight. Calling me childish, and saying I have attacked you in this thread is not going to change that. Call a healthy weight "unattractive' if you wish, like you have in other threads, but I am reminded of Aesop's fable about the fox and the grapes. You might want to google it. Just as a side note, I am not God of anything, sadly. For if I was, I would wave my hand and be able to run a 15 minute 5k, would make poverty history, fix that pesky global warming problem, and lot's of other things before I was to worry about the BMI of the masses, but I am pretty sure I would be good at multi tasking, so I don't know... Maybe I could fix it all. But God being God, he can't die.. Unless you worship something / one who is mortal, then they might die, but unless that is the case... No. I am still not God. Sorry. I can't fix you.

Dude. I would, but I don't want people thinking I run after her attacking her malnourished ass. I do think she is a very poor example of a bandster, and I actually feel sorry for her. She can't see how sick this is going to make her.

Shortgal, I know you have a hard on for me, but stop and listen... A healthy BMI is an indication that a person is likely to be healthy. And unhealthy BMI is an indication that person is unhealthy. For example. Two people who are the same age, don't drink, smoke do drugs, anything nasty. One is smack in the middle of a healthy BMI, and the other is smack in the middle of morbidly obese. Who, statistically is going to be healthier? The person who is MO, or the person with a healthy BMI? The person who is MO is likely to have blood pressure issues, diabetes, sleep apnea and a myriad of other problems that most people who have a healthy weight and lifestyle just don't have. It has nothing to do with how attractive being fat or thin is. The way people look has nothing to do with being obese, or morbidly obese. And let's face it. If morbidly obese wasn't a chronic issue, it wouldn't be called being MORBIDLY OBESE. They would pick a nicer, less scary sounding name for it. Perhaps my perception of what is overweight is skewed by the fact that I don't live in a country where obesity is the norm.

Are you dense? No one is talking about smoking. If you want to be fat, that is fine, but don't say you are a healthy weight, because you are not. The major difference between AU and the US is that we don't see obesity as 'normal" yet, therefore we don't see this girl as a healthy weight.

Julie, no one is saying it's not ok to be happy with your body, but people must accept that they are not a healthy weight if they choose to be a BMI of over 24.9.

I'd have to say not enough. When I was actively losing weight (at a guess) I was eating roughly a cup or more of food at a sitting. For my money, it was more about what I was eating, and how long I was staying full for. These days, I would starve to death on 4oz of food.

According to the article she has a BMI of 26 (overweight) so saying she is a healthy weight is wrong. This is actually a really good example of why people think that a healthy BMI looks unhealthy. By holding this girl up, and saying that she is the picture of health and womanhood (at a BMI of 26 at 17 years old) We are saying that anyone any thinner is NOT healthy and womanly. And that's wrong. Yes she is a beautiful girl. Very beautiful in fact. But she IS overweight. She is not a healthy weight.

I have to agree. She doesn't really look that good in that bikini. The cut is wrong for her, and she needs more support for the girls. That said, she is a gorgeous young woman.

Go to your Endo! STAT!