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Thanks for the update. Get plenty of rest and concentrate on healing...and walk walk sip sip

I think it depends on your life style and age. If you're my age I would say just get the tt. If you are young and want to wear a bikini, get it all.

OK, I have lots of questions and I hope I don't sound too stupid. When you dream do you visulize things or just hear things? If you see in your dreams are they colored? Speaking of color, Do you see any color? If someone says that butter is yellow does that have any meaning to you.? How do you know what clothes go together? How do you know when your food is done, if your didshes are clean, if it's raining or snowing before you go outside? Do you ever wear mismatched socks? I told you I have millions of questions about blindness. Mostly because I'm a nurse for a child that is blind and deaf and severly brain damaged. There is no way to communicate with her and I wonder how she feels in her dark silent world. I'm glad you can hear!

Progresso has very low cal soups. I don't know how much protien they have. Why don't you write down the cal, fat, carbs and protien in your optifast soup and try to find something at the supermarket that is as close as possible.

On Biggest loser the other night, Jilian told the group to avoid eating the same thing every day as the body adjusts to a routine and doesn't lose. She said they should eat one high cal meal a week. (I'm sure she didn't mean to pig out) I think I'm going to have ice cream every sunday.

How about some of the low cal hot chocalate mix? It doesn't have near as many cals as a protien shake. I think there is a real low cal swiss Miss one.

I always used my flonase. No one ever said not to. I just can't imagine why it would hurt anything. I fact I was told to bring all my inhalers to the hosp. to use there.

Now aren't you proud of yourself? Think how ashamed you would feel if you had given in.

Like Angie said.

Well you can always tell yourself that if you get to goal and don't like it , you can just put the weight back on.

I didn't feel any with the first fill and very little with the 2nd. Now with the 4th, I have finally got restriction. But no 2 ppl are alike. No 2 bands are alike! We all have some of the same issues but we can't compare our bands. Can't even compare our own band from one day to the next!

I'm confused about the naners and pears. I thought it was bananas and pears but where does the salt and chocalate come in? I wish some one would invent a reeses cup with 5 calories. I love them!

I was told it's a gastric stimulant....would speed up digestion and make you hungrey sooner. I drink it anyway. I need it to support my quaility of life! But I have been slowly cutting down the ratio of caffeinated to decaf. I'm mostly decaf now but still have the real stuff a couple times a week.

I'm so happy to learn there was no elimanation. I thought maybe alzheimers was setting in because I couldn't remember who got elimanated last night. I didn't have my mind on it 100% but I thought I should've remembered that!

They should just cut the nerves than carry the hunger pains in the first place. Then none of us would get hungrey...Oh that's right, there's head hunger. Well there must be some nerves up there somewhere too:biggrin:

My last fill took several days to kick in. I have no idea why. Asked my Dr yesterday and she said that happens to ppl a lot but no idea why. I got another fill yesterday and felt it imediately. I hope it doesn't get tighten during the next few days. Snowbird, I really admire the way you apoligized. You are a nice person! I wrote a nasty response to someone one day (so afraid of needles they didn't want surgery) and when I hit submit it dissapeared into cyber space. I'm so glad! I would have needed to write an apology!

I think she is Eve offering the apple to Adam and of course the boob along with the apple..................

Hi Joaan, of course you can join. I don't know how to get you on there so we will have to wait for Karen.

Got another fill today and I hope it works but isn't too tight. I pbd on a hot dog this morning and was rather irratated when I went in. I could really tell I was tighter when I drank the water after the fill. I'm not going to try solids for at least 1 day.

Got another fill today and I hope it works but isn't too tight. I pbd on a hot dog this morning and was rather irratated when I went in. I could really tell I was tighter when I drank the water after the fill. I'm not going to try solids for at least 1 day.

Good for you Glou....I'm a crazy dog lady too and I hope I would've done the same thing. Nothing makes me more furious than animal cruelity.

WOW, 25 of us tough old birds. We should be so proud of our selves! I got another fill today and I think it's going to do the trick.

You have to live with this gal for now and she probably was sincerely concerned so give her a break.............tell her that there are many many nurses that are on the board and have had the surgery. That is true. I'm one of them. I believe there are some Drs too. Then go with the educating that someone else suggested. She might be confused about the difference between the by-pass and lap-band. If all that doesn't help, just tell her as nicely as possible that it is your life and your body and you don't want to discuss it anymore.

You look soooo good!

Thankyou so much Karen. I didn't know how to add more info so I copied and pasted the whole thing. Maybe others can do that too unless there is a better way.