Fanny Adams

If you don't want it, would you mind sending some of that rain DownUnder? It's supposed to be the tail end of our winter/early spring, and we haven't had rain since 3 August. Looks like the promising crops are going to fail yet again. It did make for a glorious weekend of spring fever gardening for me, but I'm sure our farmers weren't so pleased with the delicious sunshine and balmy 22C (72F).

Hehe :redface: I don't really get why some women don't like it or only do it out of a sense of obligation. I am very oral and love kissing too. Sex without some bj action would be like sex without kissing, to me...bleah!

Some of us do it for the love of it, not for the money :redface:. I personally list that as one of my absolute favourite things to do in bed and can't remember/can't imagine any sex encounter without at least a little of it, if not taking it to completion every time.

Welcome Melanie. You've found the right place! This site has so much information and so many different people willing to give support, that it's bewildering at first. Explore the threads, learn how to use the Search tool and you'll find the answers to just about any question you can think of and a lot that you hadn't thought of at all!

I don't understand. She didn't click Yes or No, which would have sent you a confirmation? If that were me, I'd have gone anyway and if they bitched, said well you didn't say no and I gave you the opportunity. If it is the sort of place where doing that could get you fired, then I would have checked with the boss yesterday, or at the latest today before the appointment, to find out why she hasn't given permission. Is it too late now? Surely it wouldn't be too late until you actually missed the appointment and why would you do that when all you have to do is ask?

I know how you feel. There are times when I miss that feeling of just really stuffing your face. I deal with those situations by having a little taste of everything. For me, I wouldn't have "wasted" all that room on a whole chicken breast, no matter how yummy. I would have had a quarter of one and left room to sample everything else, so that I didn't feel deprived. I've done the same with Chinese. My extended family is quite fond of going to the local Chinese nosh-up as a group and ordering the banquet meals, usually Soup, some appetisers and about 6 dishes with rice (the dishes come spread out over the night). I take one small spoonful from every dish and chew each bite thoroughly to savour the flavour. If, at the end, I can squeeze a bit more in, I might have a second spoonful of my favourite, but usually I'm done but I don't feel like I've missed out because I got to taste everything.

People who have obviously never looked beyond the biased anti-pot propaganda annoy me. I'm living proof that the stereotypes of the pothead are not true. At 45 years old, I've been smoking pot for over 30 years, starting at around 13. I graduated high school in the top 10% in my state, completed a teaching degree, raised a wonderful daughter who is happily married with 2 beautiful children. I am a certified member of MENSA, with a rated IQ of 140. I have worked in highly technical, highly paid jobs that require clear and intense thinking for many years. I achieved all of this while smoking daily - in the evenings! I acknowledge that rolling out of bed and hitting up a doobie is not compatible with intellectual work, so I don't do it. A couple of hits in the evening are no worse than someone who has a glass or two of wine after dinner to relax. Two years ago, I took up a job paying $180K a year on the mines, which comes with a condition of random drug testing. I made the choice that I wanted the job more than I wanted the pot, so stopped the daily habit immediately, without any signs of withdrawal symptoms, even after 30 years of constant use. I still indulge occasionally, when I am on holiday and know I won't be going back to the mine for a couple of weeks, but it hasn't been a hardship to give up and I can honestly say that I wasn't addicted after all that time. Ignorant people give me the irrits!!

I just know that I couldn't do it if I had to sit and watch! The smell alone would kill me! Best to get out of the situation and avoid the temptation. Good luck! :thumbup:

At the start of my journey, I had exactly 140lb that I wanted to lose (from 275lb to 135lb). I'm working to an 18 month plan and so far am right on target. It will be the 9 month mark for me in a couple of days and I'm hoping to be within a pound or two of 70lb down on my weigh in day. I believe that losing the full 140lb is absolutely doable! Go for it!

Liquids after a bad PB episode are always a good idea, if particularly bad, do it for the next day or 2 as well. In the meantime, homemade ginger tea works wonders to soothe the stomach and thin out that horrible thick slime that runs down the back of your throat. Just grate up about a quarter to a half an inch of fresh ginger, put it in a cup of hot water with a teaspoon of honey and let it steep for a couple of minutes - delicious, refreshing and sooooo soothing for the upset tummy!

The first three days on the liquid pre-op are the hardest. Once you get past those, you should find it easier to stick to. My advice would be to NOT sit and watch others eat your lovely pot roast. If you have to cook for them (and I'd avoid that if possible for just these few days), then serve it up and go for a 30 min walk around the block while they're eating. Make them promise to have cleaned up the table and put it all away before you get home. No need to torture yourself!

Yup, sounds like you are in ketosis. The pre-op will do that to you but it is a sign of fat burning. It's one of the reasons I don't like to do an Atkins-style diet, after banding. It's useful for the pre-op phase, to reduce the fat in the liver and make the operation easier on you, but long-term, I don't like the bad breath and BO that go with ketosis (or the potential for kidney stones). Take it as a sign of success for now and then rethink your strategies after you have finished with the liquid and mushie stages of post-op healing.

AWESOME POST, Heather!!

After years of mini-moments, my big Aha! came last year. I had made a success of my life after a lousy marriage, battled and won against major depression and found myself in a fabulous new job on the mines about 2 years ago. Faced with the huge piles of heavy food at every meal, my self-control went out the window and in spite of promising myself on every shift away that this time it would be different, in 18 months, I managed to gain 18kg (40lb). I was sitting down working out a financial investment plan for what I wanted to do with all this new money (the job pays very well). I got to the point when I had calculated a 5 Year Plan of investments and then it hit me. A 5 Year Plan meant working on the mines for another 5 years - and gaining a kg a month, I wouldn't LIVE 5 years to see the fruits of my labour! I made the phone call to my GP that afternoon to set up the appointment for the referral to the surgeon, and was banded about 6 weeks later. In the time between the Aha! and the surgery, every sign I saw told me I had made the right decision. That week, I had finally failed utterly in my struggle to do up the seat belt on the bus on the way to/from work. I went on a holiday (booked a year previously) and for the first time had to ask the flight attendant for an extender (humiliating). I spent half the holiday resting in my hotel room in the afternoons, because I couldn't keep up with the others. I went on an elephant ride and seriously worried about whether the elephant would have difficulties carrying my weight. I have refused to show people the photos of that because the similarities between rider and mount were too great. I now have a good 8" play in the seat belt on the plane. I can walk from the bus to my room in camp carrying all my luggage and not be out of breath or have to stop for a rest. I went on an all-day birdwatching tour a few weekends ago and kept up all day, walking through the bush. I have no doubt that this operation has saved my life. On with the 5 Year Plan!!

I think you, yourself, are proving the accuracy of your first statement. They say ignorance is bliss... bliss for the ignorant, maybe, but not so much for the rest of us who have to listen to their ignorant opinions.

LMAO!! I have never thought that I had that plump look to my hands or feet, but there must have been something there. I've been noticing my boots getting loose lately and the soles had just about given out, so I went to stores (on a mine site) to get some new ones. Old size was 5 1/2, new size 5 is still too loose!! I've lost weight in my FEET!! LOL!! (Got new shirts too, another size down and ordered in new pants 2 more sizes down, which will make 5 sizes down altogether! )

I can eat just about anything in limited quantities. For example, my Breakfast this morning was a poached egg, 1/4 cup baked Beans, 1/4 cup tinned mushrooms. My mid morning snack (just finished!) was a small banana and a mandarin. I had steak, corn, broccoli and a baby potato for dinner last night. The quantities ARE very limited (2oz steak, not a whole pound, 1" baby potato, not a whopper). Because these small amounts keep me feeling full and satisfied, I have the will power left over to resist eating junk. I stick mostly to fatfree/sugar free but I'm not strict about it. I don't get the urge to snack, I rarely have refined white carbs but I don't cut them out of my diet completely. I will occasionally indulge in Pasta with a creamy sauce, but usually it's a tomato based sauce and never more than 1/4 - 1/2 a cup at a time, with other fresh veges as filler. The one thing I have given up completely for the band is carbonated drinks - they just fill me up with gas and give me instant heartburn. I still drink alcohol but have switched to the occasional scotch and Water, instead of coke, and I don't miss coke one bit! Yes, the trade off is that you do have to work with a looser restriction to eat like this but it is a MUCH healthier and much more satisfying way to live.

Closer - Nine Inch Nails seems a popular choice and it gets my vote too! That song is pure sex on a stick!! Nickelback's Figured You Out rates highly on my list too...

I thought this email I received was appropriate for this thread - you guys can substitute American Women for Australian Women if you want :thumbdown: Duties of Wives.. Three men were sitting together bragging about how they had given their new wives duties. Terry had married a woman from Greece. He bragged that he had told his wife she needed to do all the dishes and housework. He said that it took a couple days but on the third day he came home to a clean house and the dishes were all washed and put away. Jimmie had married a woman from Italy . He bragged that he had given his wife orders that she was to do all the cleaning, dishes, and the cooking. He told them that the first day he didn't see any results, but the next day it was better. By the third day, his house was clean, the dishes were done, and he had a huge dinner on the table. The third man had married a Australian girl. He boasted that he told her that her duties were to keep the house cleaned, dishes washed, laundry and ironing twice a week, lawns mowed, windows cleaned and hot meals on the table for every meal. He said the first day he didn't see anything, the second day he didn't see anything, but by the third day most of the swelling had gone down and he could see a little out of his left eye, just enough to fix himself a bite to eat, load the dishwasher, and call a handyman.

I personally count it in increments - so for me, moving from a size 24 down to an 18 is 3 sizes down.

Hi Chris Check out the Australian Bandsters section: Australia Local Lap-Band Support - Lap Band Surgery and Lap Band Discussion Forum There are quite a few of us here on this site and many many more throughout Australia. The lapband is by far the most common Weight Loss Surgery in Aus - something like 98% of all WLS's are lapband with the remaining 2% divided between gastric bypass, vertical sleeve, etc. Australia has been at the forefront of using this technology for much longer than the US and our surgeons have a much longer history of installing the band.

Just FYI in case your insurance doesn't cover you. I was banded with Dr Watson in December last year but I didn't have private health insurance at the time, so went the fully self-pay routine. All up, including hospital, anaesthetist, Dr Watson and various medications, etc, it cost me $12,700, of which Medicare refunded about $1500, so about $11,200 out of pocket. Fills cost $150 a visit, but Medicare covers $100 of that (and I would guess private insurance covers the rest?? not sure about that). It was a lot of money but SOOOOOO worth it to me! I'd pay it again in a heartbeat!

Oh my... I am getting close enough to dream of this. From 275lb, I am now only 8lb away from Onederland. If I stick to the rate of 8lb a month, that means I can make it for my birthday on 24th September! Wow, now won't THAT be an awesome birthday present?

No they don't!! Nevah!! :biggrin: Those silver streaks are just extra blonde bits!! :cursing: They're not greys at all! :thumbup:

Hehe - I guess this is the answer to the old classic: Software Conflict: Wife 1.0 Upgrade Last year, after hearing how great it was for so long, a friend of mine upgraded from Girlfriend 3.0 to Wife 1.0. He has found Wife 1.0 to be a resource hog, leaving him very little free space for other applications. Wife 1.0 is also spawning Child-Subroutines, which further consumes valuable system resources. His system performance and resources seem to diminish with each passing day. At first, he thought Wife 1.0 might be infected with a virus, but other users have assured him that Wife 1.0 is behaving normally and this behavior should be expected due to the nature of the application. My friend also discovered that Wife 1.0 installed itself in such a way that it can monitor all other system activity. He now finds that some programs such as PokerNight 10.3, BeerBash 5.1 and PubNight 7.0 cannot run at all. If he attempts to launch them, Wife 1.0 complains about a sharing violation and crashes. He finds this behavior strange since he could run these programs just fine before he upgraded. At installation, he found Wife 1.0 provides no option to bypass the installation of undesired add-ons such as MotherInLaw 55.8 and BrotherInLaw Beta release. Some features he would like to see introduced in the upcoming Wife 2.0 release: A "Don't Remind Me Again" button. A Minimize button. An Install Shield that allows Wife 2.0 to be uninstalled at anytime without the loss of cache or other system resources. An option to run the network driver in promiscuous mode. I have decided to forego all the headaches associated with Wife 1.0 by sticking to Girlfriend 3.0. However, even that option has many problems. Apparently, you cannot install one version of Girlfriend before you completely uninstall the old version first. To make matters worse, the uninstall program for Girlfriend doesn't work very well, leaving undesirable traces of the application in the system. If the newer version finds a reference to the old version, Girlfriend will completely freeze until you reboot and remove the stray reference. I am told this is a long standing bug which I should have been aware of. Also, versions of Girlfriend have conflicts over shared use of the I/O port. You think they would have fixed such a stupid bug by now. Another thing that stinks -- all versions of Girlfriend continually popup little annoying messages about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0. ***** BUG WARNING ***** Wife 1.0 has an undocumented bug. If you try to install Mistress 1.0 before uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete all MSMoney files and take all your cache before doing the uninstall itself. Then Mistress 1.0. will refuse to install, claiming insufficient resources. ***** BUG WORKAROUNDS ***** If you can afford it, try installing Mistress 1.0 on an entirely different system and never run any file transfer applications such as LapLink 6.0. Another possible solution would be to run Mistress 1.0 via an ISP under an anonymous name.