divaliciousdee

My band is named Shaquita and she don't play all that eatin whatevah , whenevah I want to. Shaquita holds it down! LOL

I am on the prayer bandwagon right with the rest of them. You will do great. See you in Bandland! DeeDee

Make him an Orange county chopper! I think that would be cool.

WAY TO GO!!!! You are such an inspiring person. The way you offer advice to us "freshmen" when we have difficult band times set you up there with the best of them. I pray that I have the sucess that you have had. Not only with losing the weight but understanding the process so well. Sometimes when I have a question I type in the search area and the answer is always something that you have been through or know first hand about. Thank you and U GO GIrl!! Hope everything goes well for your husband. Keep up the Inspiring work!!! Dee Dee

I am Apocalypse Now. I am a rogue wanderer on the winding river of life, searching after my shadow self. I am Abe Lincoln ,mild mannered and an assasination victim LMAO. I have a peaceful nature and am good at mediating disputes(I do this often). Interesting thread...pretty cool

Hey I saw it. It really disturbed me at how something like that could actually happen in a college. BIg girls are beautiful. The girls on the show were all pretty and excited about the party. Then to be led into a room and placed on HOG Scales. I cried in the end cause the guy didn't care. He was calling her a porker when he knew he threw the key away and trapped her in the room. I have been fat all of my life and have experienced alot of negative situations because of it. I think this was a great way for people to see what their words or actions can do to someone. The Bible says the power Life or Death is in the tongue. Something to think about.

Happy Birthday Captain!!! Dee Dee

I never thought about it in that way. I have noticed that I take a little extra time with my makeup and hair...hmmmm and get compliments and smiles every time. Yes and I do feel a little saucier...lol. By George I think I have got it!! Thanks Darcey! Dee Dee

Well I understand you being angry with your mama for leaking it to your SIL. DO not stop talking with your mother because of it. Not getting them from the airport is well...a bit childish. There is a post on here where someone lost their mother to cancer, you still have your mother here cherish that. Every second you stay angry is a second lost to have that special time to enjoy her. I know you want to keep it on the low but don't let it ruin your relationship with your mama. Life is too short, and you don't want to ever have to say if only I would have talked to her one last time or if I could turn back the hands of time I would have done. What is done is done, be the bigger person if she doesn't apologize forgive her anyway. Just know now that she can't keep a secret(LOL). Don't tell her anything else that you want to keep secret. What mama doesn't know won't hurt her....or you.. LOL DeeDee

U GO GIRL!!! U are ROckin that band Bigtime!!! I am so wanting to do a size 16!!! I am jealous but in a good way!! Way to go!

JOelle GIrlfriend we have the same story. Do we live in the same town? LOL. I have lost 23lbs so far and I am getting looks from guys who didn't notice me before. I am a bit stuck up with them because I am the same person but just a little bit smaller. My mama says it looks like I lost about 50lbs instead of 23lbs cause of the walking and aerobics, that is why they are looking. I don't know if my soulmate is in my little town. I know everyone and all the guys I see around I am not interested. We have one hospital and I work there so that gives you an idea about the size. So I see alot of guys(course the hospital isn't a great pickup spot, unless they are visitors lol). I would like to know about weight loss stories and love to. I am gonna keep up with this one. Great Idea for a topic. Thanks Dee Dee

I just realized that yesterday was one month with my band! I made it through the liquid stage from hell, then the mushie stage and now this semi-solid stage(still don't understand what semi-solid is). I have lost 23lbs and I go for my first fill on Oct. 6. he said if I am losing really good he would only do a fill if I requested one. I am gonna request it anyway. The band is meant to work with fills . I want to keep up the steady loss that I have been seeing weekly. I am trying really hard, even though I swear my nutritionist has me on an ATkins diet. Well I am so glad I made this decision. I have been getting alot of looks from the fellas lately too! I mean I can tell the difference in my face which just amazes me. Never before have I done a diet or lost weight and noticed it in my face. I have a birth defect that is called sturgy weber's oslo rondeau. It is a hemangioma that makes one side of my face bigger than the other. It always looks swollen. Now I can truly say that it just looks a tiny bit swollen . My plastic surgeon said that before she would do the last corrective surgery on the lip I would have to lose 100lbs now she told me I would only have to lose 27 more pounds and I am approved for the reconstruction on my lip(it is like normal on one side and on the other side it looks like Angelina Jolie lol). I told her I am going to wait because I will have to have a boob job. I have gone form a D cup to a C(the girls are leaving me). My mama said that when I lose 100lbs she is gonna buy me some boobs, Yea! Well enough rambling, but all in all my life is so much better now that I took a chance with this band. This is one of the best decisions I have ever made. I will try to put some pictures up when I figure out how. DeeDee

Brenda I was told by my surgeon NO SODA FOREVER AFTER. I have not had a soda since August 28, 2005 the day before I was banded. I was in excrutiating withdrawls LOL but I made it through. I think of a Diet Pepsi Every now and then but I know that most of my weight loss is from not drinking the 2 liters a day I was drinking. Besides Diet sodas Have tons of sodium and they make you retain fluid.

YOu are in Ketosis! It makes your breath so funky! Because you are on liquids you don't have alot of nutritional benefits yet. Just suck on a sugar free mint. That helped me. I also chewed sugar free gum. Don't swallow it (i never do) but some people do, lol.

GIRL! AIn't them the best tasting eggs ever! I know exactly how you feel ,,LOL It only gets better wait until u eat tuna. LMAO

OKay another thread for your birthday. Go girl! U DIVA rockstar you! HAP-PY BIrth-day to ya Hap-py Birth-day to Ya Happy birth------------day! (the Stevie Wonder version) __________________

HAP-PY BIrth-day to ya Hap-py Birth-day to Ya Happy birth------------day! (the Stevie Wonder version)

WHy would you want to tell her? I mean what would telling her do? I mean the only thing you have in common with her is him. You are the children's stepmother. I mean do you just want her to know. Why is she even in the equation with your band? I don't understand is she a friend of yours? I don't get why the EX-wife needs to know about your band. This confuses me. I am again perpelexed why this "need" to tell her. I have edited this just to ask this question, Are you telling her because you want to one up her by being honest about how you are losing weight to make her feel ashamed of lying about her "doing it the old fashoned way"? If she is lying about how she lost the weight then that is her lie and what does it have to do with you?. WHy are you concerned if she is lying? I don't mean to sound harsh but I think you want to tell her because you know she is lying about how she lost weight and you just want to show her up by not being as phony as you are thinking she is for lying. Weight loss surgery is a personal and major decision. Who to tell and who not to tell is up to that person. If you want to tell her go ahead but if she doesn't want to be OUTED about her Gastric Bypass then don't judge her for not telling everyone. You do what feels right for you, but telling her about your surgery seems weird to me. P.S.(this hits so close to home I guess this is why I am agitated by this thread) you stated that she obviously didn't love him because she left after the Gastric Bypass, maybe she loved herself more and realized that it wasn't working. Maybe he had a problem with her weight loss. Seems like to me the two women he married had at least two things in common and that is being overweight and loving him. Is he alright with your choice in getting the band? Cause if she had Gastric Bypass and you had Lapband surgery it is obvious to me that his preference is larger women. DISCLAIMER The thoughts posted above are not in anyway to be considered the thoughts of the members of Lapbandtalk.com. This is only Divaliciousdee's opinion. If this resembles anypart of someone's life it is purely coincidental.

COngratulations!! I am offering my services for your wedding! I playthe piano and sing and have been a wedding singer/pianist in my town since I was 11 years old. SO whatever you need I am your girl. Oh yeah I have references and I do about 25 weddings a year that is my cutoff. LOL

OKay I started not to post but I am curious also. Was she a member here of LBT? DId she have a previous heart condition that was not addressed or was it something congenital and not diagnosed. I too am sorry for your loss of your friend, and at 40 that is bad. There are always risks to surgeries of anykind and they can happen here in the states just as in Mexico. I had a friend who's cousin died at the dentist from getting too much sedation. He was only 21. That happened here in Georgia, but it didn't hinder me from going to my dentist and having procedures done that may require sedation. I don't know if it was meant to say that Mexican medical practices caused her death but I don't agree if that was the message. I don't mean to sound harsh but when someone dies unexpectedly we sometimes want someone to blame. Your friend died doing something she wanted to do to help her with her weight. My prayers to her husband and family.

Breakups are just so hard sometimes! I always think of it like this if he was or is the one you will be together. If not then See ya! Remember your true love will never walk out on you. A true love will work things out with you. True love will be with you till you take your last breath. Maybe he is getting out of the way so that your true love will have a clear path. Then again if he is the one he will be back, and if he does come back...make him beg!! HUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS DeeDee

Kathy girl you get to have GRITS! I can't have grits and I am 4 weeks out! I know the feeling. The mushy stage is better than the liquid stage though, but you will be on solids before you know it. Hang in there. Dee Dee

Robyn I sent you an email. My prayers are with you. Dee Dee

Here is my diet. No pre-op diet required. 1 week clear liquids 1 week full liquids(include tuna and chicken chopped in a can) 2 weeks soft/mushy foods 1 week semi solid(whatever this means) on to solids the 6th week. No Carbonated sodas or as they told me DIET PEPSI"S ARE EVIL lol!! Carbonation is like Kryptonite to the banded. No drinking until 1-2 hours after eating. I usually wait 1h 30min befroe I drink anything. NO Boost, Ensure, etc. Sugar free beverages , Diet snapple, KOBe citrus energy drink, etc Walking 30 minutes a day.

In my truck I have Lyfe Jennings Missy Elliott Kanye West SLim Thug LiL' Mo Destiny's Child Mike JOnes Mary Mary Tweet Fantasia CIara and a mixed cd(personally made by me) of oldies but goodies I am a R&B, HIp-HOp kinda girl!!