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wrangler, awesome job w/the weight loss!!!! Glad you are doing so well! I know, I spent a fortune the few weeks getting ready for this surgery!!! All those little things sure do add up, but I am glad I got them all, lol!!!!!

:clap2:Dini, We are going to have to find you a good one!!!! You need a little TLC once in awhile, Kiddo!!!! You are too cute!!!! Love you, Girl! Who wouldn't just luv ya'??????? Doesn't seem possible!!!!:speechles

CeCe, doesn't seem like a lot to me!!! You have your protein and quite a few liquids. May need to pump the water up a little!!! Definitely wouldn't say that is a lot of food!!!!

:confused:Rainer, It doesn't seem like you are getting enough protein. I guess you are, but I add a scoop of vanilla protein to my Carnation Instant Breakfast Sugar Free mix, as well as, the mix. Makes it rich and creamy. That holds me over! Sugar Free Popsicles and Fudgesicles are good, as well as, diet jello. I even had a spoon of pickle juice that I read in one of the posts. Curbed my craving for salt, lol! Kind of tasty! Today, I had a small wedge of cheese, after I read Lynette's 3 meals and 3 snack menu!!!! YUM, I enjoyed that! Thanks, Lynette!!!! I also use Slim Fast drinks sometimes, but I am able to blend up soups. So that definitely helps me out. Flavored waters and herbal tea are tasty too! Oh, and Low Sodium V8 juice, never liked it before, but it is quickly becoming a good friend, lol! Let's see, and Werther's Sugar Free candies!!! :embarassed:Dini, I am always "tending" to my man!!! He's high maintenance!!!! LOL

Lynette, Eating 3-4 hours a part! Do well with the morning, because the shakes fill me up, but 1/4 cup of soup doesn't do it!!!!! LOL

Lynette, Yeah, I ordered water w/lemon. I did sip every now and again, hardly any at all, but when I felt dry or that something wasn't quite as moist as it should be. I will do that each time. I still set myself a glass of water at meals too, for the same reason. Just makes it easier and I don't have to answer those questions!

:confused:Lynette, you eat 3 - 4 oz. meals and 3 snacks a day????? Maybe that is the difference!!!! My doc only said 3 - 4 oz. meals, no wonder I NEVER get to any of the GOOD stuff!!!! Cripes!!!! Well, this just won't due, I just may have to question him about this, lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:faint:

When I was young I ALWAYS caught catfish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Never liked that much!!!!! I was the catfish queen!!!!!!!!!!! I'd always yell for my dad to take it off for me!!!! There was no way I was doing it!!!

Sunny, when you are through de-junking your house, come to mine, lol!!! Nice that your cousin is coming!!! Has she done well? I am sure she will have a few tips and pointers to pass our way!!!!!

BobbertsMom, I am sooooo glad I don't have your doctor!!!! Yikes!!! What a rude man!!!! I am not sure how to deal with that one!!! Probably as little as possible! Kathy, it is soooo awesome that you are adopting this little girl!!!! Your family will be soooo greatly blessed! It sounds like you are enjoying each and every one of them!!! unruhlyhd, wrangler, ribearty, I know what you mean about panic attacks ... it was so bad after my surgery that I felt like I was going to run out of my room and right out the door (actually, I told them right before to put me out or I'd be outta there ... the one nurse, said that's your choice ... I said not at this point ... let's just do it!)! I get like that, I have an overactive vagal nerve and tend to "feel" everything more intense than the average person! Not fun, but I can tell you that actually now looking back, I have no idea why I felt that way, because it really wasn't even a little bit as bad as I expected!!!! Hang in there, go through with it, you will be glad you did!!! I know, I am! jackie506, lol!!! You dream what we all think every day!!!! LOL, what a hoot!!!! Christy, glad you found a protein drink that works for you! Quite important when that is all you are getting, how 'bout it???? Lynette is always good for advice and tips!!!!! mango, I forgot about Ann Wilson!!! Yeah, and Sharon Osbourne had hers removed. Not sure what that was all about!!! You have panic attacks too? Aren't they awful???? Actually, I think I may have some of it contributed to anesthesia, because after my thyroid surgery I reacted the same!!!! Not sure, but honestly wasn't too bad!!!! Oh and I hate when "little" people go on and on about how "fat" they are!!!! Almost feels like an insult to those around that aren't small! And today, I ordered a cup of chili at a restaurant ... the waitress asked me if I had gastric bypass. I said no, lapband!!! But she said it so everyone in the restaurant could hear her, I felt like bopping her alongside the head!!!!! It might be fun to say, I may be fat, but you are just ugly ... and rude!!!!!! icybreeze, yeah, I have the gas and the chest pains too. Not so much chest pains as pressure and pinges when I drink and eat. They kind of travel!!!! I hate the shoulder pains!!! They are awful!!! Still, luckily, less and less each day! dieka - yes, my stomach seems to go down over night and starts swelling back up throughout the day!!!! I almost look pregnant, lol! Not sure what that is all about! Glad I don't have to return to work ... I know I have lost, but not sure how my clothes would fit around my waist!!!! Finally, good luck to everyone that goes tomorrow!!!!! We can't wait to hear how things go!!!!

ribearty, my port is center and about 5 inches down from my cleavage. It is roughly 3 inches long.

Also, under my left rib back side!!!!! Not fun!!!

Good lucky, Lainy and all others being banded tomorrow!!!! It will be over soon! Rainer, I was banded on Monday, July 9th. Get lots of "pinges" in my chest and shoulder when I eat! Do you get that???? Kind of annoying!!!!

Well, All, gonna go about my day! No time to waste and always lots to do!!!! Have a great day! I will check back later!!!! It looks to be another lovely day, but calling for rain in the afternoon, so gotta make hay while the sun shines! :nervousBy the way, haven't seen Sunny on! Hope all is well!!!!! Lynette, hope fishing was fabulous and that you feel well today!!!! Enjoy everyone and give us interesting reading for later!!!

Rain, sounds like you are quite the busy lady!!!! It has to be so much fun to be with the kids like that! I stayed home when my girls were little and though frustrating and tiring at times, I am soooooo glad I did that! I wanted to be the one to make the impressions on them while they were young and before they had the ability to decipher it themselves. Those were the best years of my life!!!! No regrets on that one! Now, I will be paying for it with my waiting to retire, but it is a small price to pay for such a huge blessing! Wasn't the "dry mouth" after surgery the worst?????? I minded that worse than anything else!!! Doc said they have to dry you out so that they can put the tube down your throat, but man took 2 days to get that out of my system!!!! YIKES! Didn't enjoy that!

cazulay, I feel your pain!!!! LOL My husband watched the food network the other night for over an hour. I finally had enough and got up and walked out to the kitchen (of all places to go! Our house isn't that big!). I said, not really the best show for someone that can't eat, he said you know I just thought the same thing, lol!

Kathybad, How nice!!!! Are you adopting locally or from overseas? Adoption is very special, I know several people that have done that and it is such a blessing for everyone concerned!!! Is your son excited? I bet he can't wait! Do you get to bring her home soon?

dieka, How scary!!!! I can't imagine two surgeries!!! But I do know I was only allowed ice "chips." You had cubes? I was allowed about 1/2 cup from time of surgery til next morning after the swallow test. They said they couldn't be sure where the fluid was going until that test, then I was able to drink as much as I wanted. I sure hope you are feeling well and on the road to recovery!!!! Keep us posted!

What did your sugars normally run, before the surgery? Are you typically high? 150 after you eat isn't bad. I am not familiar with the meds you listed, but I am sure you won't be on them long. Hang in there, it has to get better!!!! I do know I was sick for a month with both doses of Byetta and never did tolerate the second. I was on it over a year. I never "graduated" to the 10's. The doctor couldn't believe I was nauseous on it that long, but I was! First dose, in the morning was fine, but second one, I was sick for an hour in the evenings!!! Glad I am done with that! Yes, I am sore, but getting much better. Able to get up and down much easier. Man, does my stomach itch!!!! I am sure it is the healing, but I don't enjoy it much! I was hungry Sat., probably could have ate anything, but took about a 1/4 inch by 1/4 inch slice of cheese and felt much better!!!! Just kind of let it melt. I talked to another lady that was in with me and had the surgery the same day with the same surgeon and she is eating chicken and hamburger already!!! I know I could, but I am afraid to push it!! I have come too far to mess it up now ... besides I am losing on this and that is my motivation to keep going!!!! I did add peanut butter to my Carnation Instant Breakfast Dark Chocolate mix today and also 1/3 of a banana and a scoop of vanilla protein. Now that filled me up!!! I think that is the secret, to find a "concoction" that fills the void and keeps you from being hungry. I down sugar free popsicles and sugar free fudgesicles in between meals. I thought I could start mushies today, but when I went Friday, to be checked for blood clots, when I was leaving the dr. said he would "see me on Weds. and discuss our next phase of the diet!!!!" So I guess I am to be on this til Weds.!!!!! Oh well, I can do it! When are you off of this liquid phase? Mine doesn't include cottage cheese or eggs, that is mushy stage, which I will be on for 2 weeks. Then soft foods for a week. Then regular food!!!!!!!!!!!!:whoo: Dini, Babes!!!! Sorry you were lonely last night, but had to tend to my man!!!! LOL You are such a sweet thing! Hope you are having a great day!

Night, Dini, night all!!!!! Gonna spend some time with my Honey!!!! Give us some good reading for tomorrow!!!!! Sweet dreams!!!!

Night, Prairielover!!!

Dini, Yeah, lol! I know what you mean about eating healthy! But you don't have to say the food is unhealthy, just that you are trying to cut back on your portions and calories in an effort to be healthy!!!! Hey, over half the world is trying to do that these days, lol!!!

I think I would probably just tell him. At that point, he can't change your mind and I think I would just ask him as your uncle to please be supportive, because you have done your research and you are doing this to better your health and stay healthy!!!! If he doesn't respect that, tell him you would rather he did, but you are going to look out for yourself and succeed with or without his help. Sometimes, you just have to let them know where you stand!

Prairielover, Our school is really pushing the healthy lifestyle and lunches also. They have really changed what they offer, especially from when I was in school. We have fresh fruit and veggies nearly every day now. I think it is definitely for the better, the changes needed to be made. They also replaced reg. soda in the machines with water and diet. Snacks went to more healthy with wheat products, etc. So improvements for the better. Plus, we enacted at least 10 minutes a day to movement exercises. So all towards a healthier lifestyle.

Rainer, High School is completely out of my jurisdiction, but my youngest daughter is going to school to teach Secondary English! Admirable for those that do it, but I did substitute teaching in the upper grades and didn't enjoy it much! Hats off to you!!!!