Chickie

Hello and welcome to LBT! (((Waves from Brisbane)))

Everyone says I'm wrong. I am used to it. But I know that in Australia, if you called a burns unit, and asked them to pay for your lost wages, surgery time, or anything else in exchange for your excess skin, they would DIE laughing. Lab grown skin is cheaper, safer, and has a far lower rejection rate. Out of morbid curiosity, I asked my reconstructive surgeon if he had ever heard of it, and he almost busted a gut laughing. But yeah. I'm wrong.

Yeah. I did say reconstructive surgeon. Not plastic. A PS will give you a third boob if you pay them enough.

MGB vs RNY This is the "Mini Bypass" explained

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. He is the mini bypass guy. Rutledge. He loves to talk about the "Failed" lapbands on YouTube.

The best thing to get rid of tummy fat is cardio. The only way to get rid of it is to lose weight I am afraid. I had a huge tum till I got down to about an Aussie 12. Then it sort of melted away. It was the last place I lost.

I got my tattoo when I was at my highest ever weight, and it looks just fine. So I wouldn't worry too much about going from a 10 to a 6 and wrecking your tat.

I think his name is Ruttlage? Something like that, I think?

I had to add this... I pulled the cheezy Christmas shirt I wore at Christmas last year to wear to a school thing for my son, and it fit! First time in history have I worn the same Christmas shirt twice! And if I am totally honest, it was a wee bit big. Golf clap for mmmeeeee!

No. I have never felt that way. But I can see how some people would with the "2 bites and you're full" mentality that I come across at times.

I think they call this an "Urban legend" The skin would not be suitable for use, regardless of blood type.

Oh, and I forgot the one (I actually very nearly wet myself laughting when I read this one) That its a pity that banding worked for someone like me. I almost died laughing. Sour grapes anyone?

By far and away, the single most pathetic comment came from someone here, RoBoop or something... She said "By the way, you looked better fat, you're ugly" (this came from a 50 something year old woman, and to me, that is why it is the most pathetic, I can understand it coming from someone younger who hasn't yet learned to control their impulses...) I got PM's accusing me of photoshopping my pics, stealing other people's photos, that the photos were not of the same person, but of mother and daughter (WTF?) that I am setting a skinny standard that is impossible for others to live up to, that I make people feel less than successful, that getting to goal doesn't mean I know anything about losing weight, and I should keep my mouth shut..... I could go on forever.. Then there were the comments on my blog about being anorexic, go eat something, being called a ho... It goes on. That is the sort of thing I was dealing with on a daily basis for a while. I learned to roll with it, and have fun. Because if I take all that shit to heart I would be a crying, sniffling mess. And that's not my style.

Indeed. In case of a plane crash, one must assume the brace position and pray that anyone comes out alive. But they weren't inside jokes. Many of us have very publicly been bashed for actually getting off our asses, and working with our bands and losing the weight. That's all out there for the public to consume. Nothing private or inside 'bout that I am afraid.

Nahh. You need a glittery sig line to be a real mean girl.

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:pound: Nothing on the internet is private....

I was 24 when I was banded.

Sweet. (and because just "Sweet" is too short :cry :faint::eek::help::phanvan:scared::mad::heh::notagree:rolleyes::rolleyes:kiss:whoo::huytsao:cry:p:omg::paranoid:biggrin1::guess:tired;):hungry::nervous:think:D:bored:kiss2::straight:o:bandit:clap2::sick:speechles:(:angry:girl_hug::ranger::rain::glasses)

Nope. I always hated the word. What it implied, the way people used it as an insult.

Pick me! It's all about MEEEEE Baby! Oh! So. If One buys a mature plant, and the only work they do is to pot it, then they hire someone to finish the job (prune the leaves, make it smaller, more compact), they really DON'T know it all? Maybe I DO know a little more about practicalities of... Uhm... gardening than they?

What about people who buy mature plants... Puts them in a pot, then pays someone else to prune the leaves?

I don't know. Some of my farts don't smell too bad

If you type it, they will come.

It's high-larious when he wakes up , rips the blanket off his head and has a look on his face like I just waved a dead rat under his nose!