ReneBean

I'll let you know. I may end up using BandedLawyer.com (Steve Kalman). He has responded to my query. For $300 he will file my appeal with decent hope of success...

I am not any master chef or anything - but I know that you can put about anything that you happen to like into a pepper and it will come out tasting great...

Alas, the corsets are too small - even the queen ones. There aint enough elastic and boning to contain this frame in any kind of a sexy way... Sad but True. I WANT MY BAND!!!

I hear Burbank and think of Johnny Carson. I loved the game shows, too. Well, if you guys wanted to fly out, you could sleep on the floor of my room... We could certainly cause some trouble in the evenings after work! You guys could stalk Mel during the day and we could do unspeakable things to him at night! Yeah, that's it.... :]

((Concentrating on lack of pain or complications.)))

Good Luck, Starr. We are all thinking good thoughts. We will expect a report when you are up to it so the un-banded can live vicariously through you while we wait & fight our insurance companies... :]

We're thinking good thoughts. Check in when you feel up to it. (((hugs)))

Well - let's see. The engine light is on in my car AGAIN. I am very much afraid that a new car (plus the resulting new car payments) looms in my somewhat immediate future. ^&%$! I am hoping for a Management position and that would include a higher salary base - but a car payment would suck up any benefit from that... and I don't know WHAT I will do if I don't get it... But, I guess if I don't have to drop $500-$600 at the garage every couple of months, I could afford a car pmt... **sigh** Other than dealing with the car and the exciting trip to Sams - I haven't got anything on the agenda. I must confess that while I work toward getting the band, I am NOT currently practising the lifestyle... I guess it's my own little form of an extended Farewell to Food... I have eaten everything and anything that came my way. Is that bad?? Sweet Potato Burritos? Que?? Let's talk about chicken quesadillas... :]

Well, for the price difference between the US and Greece, we could all come there and spend two weeks recuperating! :]

I get to go to Burbank next weekend - how jealous are you? Of course, I have to work all week... But hey, I MIGHT get to do something interesting while I am there. Probably Not as interesting as Mel, though... :]

Oh - it's like the worst nightmare you could think of - and it actually happened. I hope you don't feel too badly that I am rolling on the floor, laughing... HUGS!

Naughty with Mel Gibson - YEAH BABY!! heheheheheheheh

What?!?! No wild sex for YOU, Ira? How sad... :]

Try FitRX.com, too. I found them to be less expensive on a lot of things. :]

Keep tryin' Kare. You'll find one that lights your fire eventually... And you'll have lots of friends while you look. :]

Hmmmmn. We could share... That might make it even more fun!! (Oooooo - it's a good thing we are all alone here in the NM threads... We are being NAUGHTY! lol)

She's TOO HOT for just one Birthday thread! Happy Day to my favorite Stalker. :]

Free is a very good price - Thanks!

All that stuff about Trish and the PB from Hell plus definitions of PB, URP, etc. on Kare's Confession thread. All I kept thinking was "I don't want that! I never want to throw up!" Anyway, it just came to me...

You have to love yourself the way we love you. I say we should have a new slogan: Lap-Band Surgery, Because I'm worth it. Baby Steps, Nykee. We are all here for you.

Good God, Woman! If you get Mel Gibson to show up, who knows WHAT I might do. Eileen, you still got that Bail Money? What is the bail for Sexual Assault on a Major Movie Icon?

Well, this weekend I have to make the sojourn to Sam's Club. I am almost out of sweetener - and Sam's sells it in BIG boxes for cheaps. Yep - that's almost as thrilling as sweat pants, huh? Let's see - wild sex will probably be on the agenda, too. Think "Mexican Hat Dance" with something besides a hat. Nudge, Nudge. Wink, Wink. Of course, next weekend I head out for Burbank. That will be different, at least. I probably won't be able to hang out on the boards all day, as I will have actual work to do while I am there. I guess I can try to find out what kind of fabulous activities will be taking place during that week and actually DO something in my off hours. Hmmmmn. Maybe I will post a thread in the lounge for suggestions from the folks in SoCal. Anyway, that is all the excitement in my life for today, except for the storm build-up from Hurricane Irene, there isn't much going on.

I turned OFF the AC in my car this morning... Ahhhh. Much better.

Hi! Welcome. Great Job on the 34 pounds. You're an inspiration! :]

Oh Nykee. I am sorry you are having such a hard time. I have to say that based on what I have read here, I would not counsel you to seek other weight loss surgery. The way you are eating now is probably the way you would eat on By-pass, and it isn't working now, so it wouldn't work, then. I think a lot of your anger is at yourself. You are beginning to realize that the Band won't do it for you. What you have to realize is that NOTHING can do it FOR you. YOU have to do it. It sucks - it's hell - but its the truth. So, you can either resign yourself to being fat for the rest of your life, or you can kick yourself in the ass and try ONE MORE TIME to change your habits. I know, you have tried thousands of times and failed at every try - but guess what? The first thousand times, you did not have a tool to help you. Now, you do. So, you are tight in the morning and can eat like a pig at night. Lots of people posting on this board have that problem - but they are fighting. There is only one cure. In the morning, you go with liquids and mushies. At night, you HAVE to eat solid food. If you are getting "gripes" from your band when you eat solids, perhaps the problem is NOT that you need another fill - but that you are too tight. If you CANNOT eat solid "normal" food, then you need an unfil so that you can. If it is just that you have "no interest in eating" then you need to find yourself a counselor - because you are correct when you call it a mental defect. You have to separate the mental issues from the physical ones. The physical ones are easy to fix. Get a slight unfil and Go back to the basics: 1) drink lots of Water. If water is too boring, drink tea or crystal light. 2) SLOW DOWN. get yourself a baby spoon and a crab fork 3) chew, chew, chew and then chew some more. 4) make better food choices. Step AWAY from the cheetos. Did no one talk to you about these things before you got your band? I know everyone has been sure to caution me that the band is not Magic - it is just a tool. A TOOL IS ONLY AS GOOD AND THE PERSON WHO USES IT. That's why some people can pick up a chisel and create the Venus De Milo and some people pick up that very same chisel and create a pile of broken rocks. We aren't all "naturals". We have to practise a lot before we can create art. Start now. No one expects your first effort to be beautiful. But if you can just do ONE THING for a few days, maybe then you can add a second thing. Baby steps, crayon drawings. But YOU have to make them. No one and no thing can do it for you. You know all this. That's why you are so mad. I hope you can find it in your spirit to try ONE MORE TIME - to really try and really believe that you are worth it. ((((HUGS))))