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It is for your safety and the success of your band that these rules are put into place. Please be careful. I know it's hard not to be tempted, but you must be strong. Good luck to you!

Riverside's program, known as Fresh Start Bariatrics, is definitely a well oiled machine. It's unbelievable how well they have it running. It was quite easy to get through the entire process. If anyone has any questions, please ask away.

Awesome!!!

We just met and talked... nothing more organized than that. If anyone has any suggestions I'm open. However, if all that say they're going to be there come, it should be quite a group. I can hardly wait! There's a semi-private area right by the doors into the food court. If you come in through The Great Indoors the area is to the left. It's usually the least crowded area of the food court and should be good for us on that Saturday.

Danna, I'm quite curious... which BL trainer does he work with? Shannon or Michelle? They're both terrific, but Shannon is such a cutie... almost as cute as our BL trainer Bob.

I love that you guys keep trying to make the forum more feature full and better for us. However, I am having trouble with this color scheme for some reason. It's much harder to read through the threads and differentiate between whose post is whose. I wonder if the colors can be tweaked a bit to make it easier to read? Maybe make the borders a bit darker?

Ok, well you get what you pay for... this thing is not worth keeping. Guess we're going to drag it back to the store tomorrow. It's wobbly and totally noisy. My husband is an ace at putting things like this together, so I don't think it's user error.

Hi Ginnee, I'm so glad you found us! I hope you post often. Thanks for sharing the link to the Yahoo Group. I hope others join us there as well.

Yeah!!!!!! I have my fingers crossed for a quick insurance approval for you!!! I can't wait to meet you on the 9th!

Well I did it... I went and bought one today. Price was an issue so I ended up getting mine at Walmart. It's a Gold's Gym Crosstrainer 510 and I hope it's decent. I'm anxious to get started... hubby is putting it together as I type.

I have not lost a pound since December 26th. I've been eating between 800-1200 cals a day. I up'd it to 1200 last week to see if that would jump start things but it hasn't. I have gone up 3.2 pounds since the 26th (I've not changed my ticker yet) and it's starting to really T me off. I feel like I'm dieting with no effect. I know that I'm still "healing" but geesh... I am scheduled for my first fill next Thursday and don't really count on that doing much at this point. I'm ready for the day that it just "falls off" as everyone assures me it will. BTW... I officially started soft foods today.

I wonder if that's the difference. I too am the only 'big' person in my life circle and everyone has been very excited and supportive. I've told many people and the rest of the folks in my life have told everyone else :-P at first that bothered me, but now it's giving me an outlet to educate people on the difference between RNY and LB and what the changes in my life are/and will be like.

Congrats on the psych clearance!!!!! Good luck today with your PCP... I will keep my fingers crossed that she's more enthusiastic about this than she was about RNY.

I have a PC hooked up to my big screen in the main part of the house. It's a lot of fun to do and it's a true workout with a trainer. The only thing is that the trainer is not physically there with you. However, there are "models" that show you exactly how to do each movement correctly and you can access those at any time. You are also able to track your weight and it tracks your workouts. It asks you how you feel periodically and adjusts the workout to your level and you also have to go through a series of tests to establish just what level you should start at before beginning the program. As you get more proficient your level increases. You can also tailor your workouts by using a step, a ball and hand weights. It's hard to explain all that this program does, but it's amazing. Oh and there is a whole program that's all yoga so if you don't want to "workout" you can just do a yoga session. If I was less lazy I'd definitely use her more than I have in the past. If you want something other than workout videos this may be the thing for you, if you can find it. If you have any questions on her I can try to answer them for you. P.S. I have been known to cuss Maya out while working through the program... it's safe to do that because, unlike Bob or Jillian (Biggest Loser) she won't beat me up!

I'll have to go online and check it out... good luck! I hope to bite the bullet on Thursday. I don't have a gym membership so I want to get something for the home.

I was only given antibiotics in the hospital post-op... not sent home with any. I suggest calling your doctor.

It seems to be working correctly again... did the same thing to me!

Oh the Eye Toy... I don't know if it works with the Eye toy as I only have the Xbox and PC versions of the game. The PS2 is in my son's domain so I don't ever use it. I did however hijack his Wii for the main TV and have taken it over as my system :-) He's not thrilled with it, but loves that I actually spend money buying things for it. Now if Yourself! Fitness would be released for the Wii I'd just love it!

What Eye thing???? I'm not sure what you mean by that.

That's exactly my fear! Which Nordic Track did you see for $499? I'm looking at a Gold's Gym at Walmart that's $478... not many reviews on it, but the ones that are there are all positive.

Hi Guys, you can find out more about it here: Maya, the Yourself!Fitness virtual personal trainer, a personal trainer for everyone. Home fitness for PC, Xbox and PlayStation2 (PS2). Basically, it is a virtual personal trainer and you actually schedule dates with her to work out. The work outs consist of yoga, cardio, core and a little strength training. The company had some problems and stopped making the game... we keep hoping it will come back for a second version. It was really popular a few years ago. You can still find it on eBay and Half.com pretty regularly.

I never thought I'd say this, but it will go faster than you expect. I move on to soft foods starting Wednesday and when I first started 2 weeks ago I thought it would never get here... and here it is. The post op food restrictions are the pits and very hard to get through, but hang in there and you will get through them.

I've wondered about that too. I hope someone answers.

We spent the day shopping for an Elliptical today and my head is spinning. I'd love to know what type and model you own and what your opinion is of it. Also, if you purchased it recently do you mind sharing where and how much it cost? Thanks so much!

Does anyone here use the video game Yourself Fitness! for your exercise? I have it for both the Xbox and the PC and have never religiously used it, but plan to pull it out soon and thought it'd be nice if there were others that had it. I'm anxiously awaiting the Wii Fit game to be released but it looks like it's been pushed back to April... so I'm looking for other things to keep me occupied.