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Cindy have a fun day... scoot !! and remember, let the dip sit for a few hours in the frig b/4 enjoying

They taste great but the texture is different, put salt and a little butter and they are so good and satisfying. Potato, no, yummy, yes.

I can feel alive again My wedding rings finally fit again WHOOT !! I can play with my DD and my DH has that sparkle in his eye again.

Good Morning Thank you for the Happy Birthday wishes I had an awesome NSV last night (no not sexual lol)... I tried on my wedding rings and THEY FIT!!! first time in over 5+ years.. whoot !! Made me feel guilty for eating all that cake (well not that guilty lol). Darcy don't sweat the gorge.... today's a new day and we CAN do this together. Today's my last pig-out day for a while (I hope bawwah). Tomorrow the chit hits the fan I want to lose 5 lbs this month. Cindy thank you love :-) Have a good day at work and ya know... YOU ROCK!!! Sherry love, get your arse to the doc and let us know whats shakin or shall I say rockin we love yah. food PORN WARNING !!! Okay spinach dip recipe but !!! it taste different if you don't use these brand name ingredience..so its important to get these if you can? Knorr's Veg Soup Mix (dry 1 pkg) 1 and 1/2 pts of Breakstones Sour Cream (24 oz total) 1 Cup Hellmans Mayo 1 Bunch of Scallions chopped up well 1 package of Birdseye Chopped Spinach (in the frozen section, maybe 8 oz... the small pkg) thawed, rinced and squeese the life out of it to drain the Water. Mix everything together and let sit in frig for a few hours so the dry soup mix soaks up the wet ingred. I server them with Garlic Bagel chips and people go nuts... its so easy peasy and so freakin fattening and good. There.... now don't blame me if you get hooked.... :nervous

Oh gosh I forgot I went to a hypnotist .... ROFL, left the place and headed for burger king.

I think I'm finally getting sick of that GC cake.... burp! but then again there's always tomorrow hehehehehehehe I have to say girls and this is the last of the food porn that I will talk about until thanksgiving LOL, I make the best spinach dip this side of the mississippi. Usually people fight to keep the bowl near them. One of the ladies at the partie put it on her burger LOLOL, very bad but goooooood stuff. Oh and I serve them with garlic bagel chips.... to die for.. *porn show over* Anne, enjoy your peaceful time while DH's out... where are you going on vacation ? LOL, sorry but the hop scotch thing sounds like something my DD would do LOLOL Enjoy the veggie cassarole :guess Sherry glad you had a good time but chit girl, you need to see a doctor about the rocking feeling..... you may have Fluid in the ear / vertigo ??? Cindy retirement will be here before you know it..... this should make you happy.... I have 25 YEARS b/4 I can eventhink about retiring :scared: feel better LOLOO snort ~ Darcy.....how is your counting going along? I bet I had 3000 today easy. That last hunk of *censored* that I ate was HUGE had to be 1500 easy peasy... I'm such the pig LOL. Night night kids... blues clues movie is coming on in a few minutes. TTY Tomorrow (boss man is back ICK ICK ICK). Hugs

Misery loves companies and as much as your mom loves you, she sounds bitter and jealous. My mom's the same way. You really need to say to yourself every time she does this to you (in your mind) "this is not true, she is jealous, I am doing great, I will NOT fall for it this time." Its all a mind game hon, don't let some one else, no matter how close to you, ruin your efforts. The more you ignor her comments, the more she'll realize she can't get to you... trust me, it worked for me. Hugs and sorry :scared:

Thats the oddest thing I've ever heard.. where were you banded?

I love him, even when he had his own show...which didn't last long *shrug* He's so talented and can sing on top of it... whooah. Glad you enjoyed the show.

Good Morning, Darcy, if your exercise place goes byebye, we'll have to send you some work out video's for christmas :scared: so there ! Cindy sounds like good restriction to me, I hope it works... my problem is grazing all day b/c of a good fill... my brain just won't leave me alone but come tuesday *BAM* look out.... calorie counting here I come (egads how exciting is that *yawn* ) Today I have to run to toys r us for a b/day present for a party we are going to at 2 pm.... thats my excitement for the day. Does spinach dip count as a veggie ? even for Breakfast ? *evil grin* burp~ .

Donna I started losing my hair like you at a 35 lb loss and it wasn't that fast either. I'm 9 months out and its finally growing back. I lost about 50% if not more of my hair...just strings were hanging in the back and you could see my scalp. Since the little hairs are coming back my scalp looks better. Shoot I shed worse than my dog !!! Talk about drain clogging..oy! My DH would say.... "are you going to go bald?" It will come back, just don't waste your money on any products b/c there isn't any scientific proof it works (so my doc says).

Yeah chocolate season only comes once a year at my house, 24/7/365 whoot !

We were waiting on doctors reports weather or not my 6 year old niece has throat cancer. The doctor called the other day to say she doesn't have it !! WHOOT !!! now thats good news

Hehehe, I forgot about Dexatrim, I liked the original stuff that you could go all day and not eat anything when taking them... GOOD STUFF lolol, then they came out with a natural version and it sucks. SlimFast.... that stuff always gave me a stomach ache?? Suzanne Sommers yep did that one too.... felt like I needed my own chef to follow that one. Wheetsin..... beets & vanilla ice cream... now thats GROSS!!! sounds like I'd be on the potty all the time after eating that combo, ick. LOL

Happy Saturday Anne :clap2: :clap2: :clap2: three cheers for the 7 lb loss, thats WONDERFUL !!! I'm so glad things are starting to work for you. Me like Darcy is fighting that dreaded *E* word even though I also know its what I need. No plans for the weekend except to visit a friend tomorrow. I got my cake yesterday, german chocolate... not as good as I expected but it will do LOL. Card idea is cool Beans :mad: as long as we don't share with others our address if you know what I mean. Darcy, take that puppy home !!! bet he's there for a reason and thats you. Maybe you can go on walks with him (exercise hint hint) Your jack is beautiful !!! I have no doubt the scale has moved for you this week... good job~ You need glasses girl b/c I do not look 32 ROFLMFAO I think I look my age and thats okay, better than looking older lol. Your a doll. Dianne, good luck on getting another client. You know many times I notice how many people peep in here and read whats going on.... kinda creepy in a way LOLOL Wish these lurkers would say hello ya know. Cindy can't wait to hear about DD's reaction to her room.... *giggle* Good for yuo for getting in some extra walking whoot ! You know, cleaning is hazardous to your health....yesterday while cleaning my kitchen I stepped over my dog and ramed my toe into the chair leg.... I think I broke it or its badly bruised LOLOL I broke my other toe last summer LOL. I'm getting like my mother, every summer she breaks some toes and I'm following in her "foot steps" no pun intended but funnnnnnny haaaaaaaaaaaaaa !!!! I went food shopping at 7 am this morning so thats DONE~ *hate it* and my niece Jess is here sleeping so when she wakes up we will play and maybe hit the pool early. Right now I'm stuffing my pie hole with an egg, virginia ham and cheese (just fried in the pan) yummmy.... SNORT~ Whats everyone up to today?

5'10 aiming for 170 lbs. Here's some threads on this subject. http://www.lapbandtalk.com/showthread.php?t=19768&highlight=goal+weight http://www.lapbandtalk.com/showthread.php?t=21033&highlight=goal+weight

Patti, sorry this took so long to respond to. The doctor I had didn't have much experience w/fills (so he admitted lol), so at first I layed down, then he couldn't get it, so I stood up...still couldn't get it after the 3rd poke oyyy I was done. So, my advice would be to get a doc who feels comfortable doing the fills or have them done under fluro (which can be expensive). The next few fills I had were done by the other doctor, who was really the "fill" doctor. He did them with no problem and no fluro. When you have a good "filler" it really doesn't hurt.

Sherry, where in NY are you visiting? gosh girl, we have to meet one of these days. I'm sorry your inlaws are ass's. Mary its so good to see you. Hope your doing well :eek:

Good Morning, BEANIE !! good to see yah. We'll do some catching up next thursday :eek: can't wait to see yah. Cindy, my b-day is monday the 7th... and i'll be a ripe old age of 42. Egads... I said it 42 *shiver* lol. Yes I agree back to eating like a normal person... well trying to anyway lolol. One reason I got the band rather then gbp was to eat like a normal person so to speak... and by golly, I need some one to kick me in the ass so i remember that. I wanted the band so i could eat everything, just normal portions. I can't eat to many cheeto's or crackers b/4 it gets stuck too.... turns into a gluey paste and poof.. pain LOLOL. Maybe if i ate them slower it wouldn't happen but geeze how long can you nurse a cheese doodle for crying out loud. Betty have a wonderful weekend !!! Darcy how are you feeling today? did you get enuf food down yesterday? Sherry, watcha up to toots? Dianne, watcha doing this weekend? Where's Donna, Pat, Anne, Patty's on vacation, and the rest of the group? Well I went to my gyno... have to have some more testing done b/c she didn't like to hear that I was having TOM every two weeks a few months ago... soooo.... but everything else looked good (well was good as a 42 year old can be I guess). When my doc realized it was almost 5 years since my last visit she slapped me. ROFLMFAO.

Though this might be fun to name some of the crazy and not so crazy diets you've tried. Here's some of my own personal experiences with the diets I've tried: Ayds (the chocolate diet chews of the 70's... lordy they tasted good, ate the entire box in one sitting LOLOL...they didn't work either) The Grapefruit Diet (that makes me pucker just thinking about it) Scarsdale Diet (there we go with the grapefruit again .... ick) Susan Powter (eat carbs until you bust..... yep, thats what happened) Deal-A-Meal (Richard Simmons.... probably the only diet I liked and stuck to...it actually taught me portions) Weight Watchers (joined about 10 times....couldn't wait to get out of the meetings to hit burger king...but a safe and realistic diet nonetheless) NutriSystem (1994 prepacked doggie food eeeeeeeeeegads ick...hope they got better since then lol) Carbohydrate Addict Diet (2 meals almost no carbs but the third meal you could have a free for all.... and I did...but you had to eat that last carb meal w/in 1 hour... do you know how much junk I could stuff in w/in one hour LOL). Atkins (been there, done that, can't do it again 100%....love blue cheese) Fit America (pills that cost a ton of money, ate less carbs and the only thing I got out of it was less money in my bank account lol) Mediterrian Diet (healthy way to eat but you need lots of time to prepare the foods... I'd like to eat this way again) Phentermine (did good while on it but poof, watch it when you go off... not worth it imho) Meridia (pffffffffffffffffft.... had gas all day long and tummy pain...what was I thinking?) There are a few other ones I've tried from those infomercials...names escape me at the moment.

You should know me by now :guess Oh gosh..... remember that dreaded Susan Powter diet... eat pasta and carbs and look like me.... "remember if you eat pork you'll look like a pig" ...Yep, I fell for that one too.

GOOD JOB !!!! I'm so happy for you WHOOOT !! you look great darlink, you really do and I love the lepard pants :confused:

G'mornin Your all right, life is to short to say NO to everything, especially ice cream in 100 degree weather. So instead of saying NO, lets just say... "small" or "child size" and enjoy. You all start your challenges when ever you want to... I only picked the 8th b/c I know I'm gonna eat birthday cake this weekend and gosh only know's what else *evil grin* :guess Dianne... your challenge is great too !! in the long run it all helps. As much as I'd hate to admit it... exercise IS good for yah. How are you today? feeling any better? Anne, sun chips and cinamon rolls... girl you hit a nerve. I've been doing the same thing, snacking on chips just to get food down when I darn well know I could be eating healthy.... *shrug* I just love junk food (not fast food, real junk food). I also find that bread goes down easy WTF is up with that???? Cindy congrats on the 1 lbs...heck I'll take that in a heart beat, and every pounds adds up, thats for sure. Your dd should be happy with a new bedroom. I don't think your challenge is silly... the way to start exercising is a few minutes at a time. I used to power walk.... 5 miles in less than 1 hour and the way I started was 15 minutes at a time. That got me down to 150 lbs... oh the good ol days LOLOL before my bad back. Darcy, glad your feeling better. 1400 is great !!!! your on a roll now. You know the band is so *F* up. Some days i can eat a stack of pancakes and other days I can't get 2 bites down and it really depends on the time of the month. Hang in there and make sure you are getting your Vitamins. Sherry, pffffffft... don't let the ice cream visits get you down..... enjoy the summer and pick back up when things settle down. WARNING !!!! this is how I've been my entire life... the more I focus on my "diet" the more crazy I get :confused: :eyebrows:

My doc said nothing is proven to help with hair loss so save your money... I followed his advice and he was right, my hair is finally starting to grow back on its own and I'm out 9 months. I lost ALOT of hair loss but seeing the new growth just made me feel 1000000x better :confused: All I can say is hang in there, it does grow back.

Good luck Molly lol