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Cassandra-I painted a mural the day before my surgery. It really helped to get my mind off of it. I'm very excited for you! Mary-It's so good to hear from you. Thanks for Jay's prayers. I haven't heard anything new yet but I know they will be going in soon. Kat thanks for doing the list! I haven't been able to go to curves since last Tuesday! AHH but I hope to on Thursday! Cindy-Thanks for the prayers. I think that it is wonderful all the years that you have put into the school system. And I want to thank you for it. I am sure that you have affected many student and parents lives with your caring heart and you faith. Mandy-She's got the nuggets..lol..how cute is that! Poor little on I hope she isn't having that bad of a time. WOW Mandy that is quite a hurtful situation. I'm sorry. OK gotta run our SS women are getting together for desert! YUM..I'll fill you in later on the boob situation I know you can't wait!

I went from a 48 DDD to a 34 G! I do have back pain and neck pain but and I have gone to the Chiro many times and the PT. My problem now is that my port hurts all the time. I have made an appointment to see my band Dr in a few weeks, which I need to do anyway. But when I made the appointment the girl said sounds like you need a PS. I am 35 pounds away from where I would be happy to be. I went from 268 to last check 189.5. So my questions is.. Is this to soon? Should I wait till I am closer to my goal? How small should I go? What is the best way to find a surgeon? Thanks for your feed back and help.

Well I went to 5 stores in a week trying to get fit right and my last was was Nordstroms. She fit me and it felt good in the store. Now that I am wearing it it doesn't feel good anymore. I thinking I may have to have a custom built bra! AHHH I made an appointment to see my band Dr today and the receptionist said it sounds like you need a PS! I dont' think I am ready for a reduction yet but if it keeps hurting like this I guess I'll have too. Hope you both feel better too.

Big Boobs and wire bra's Ok my boob saga continues! Does anyone have pain with thier port and wire bra's? I have constant pain and I'm sure it's because of my wire bra. However I need the wire for the support. When I sit I think that the wire hits the port! Do you have any suggestions on how to handle this one?

Pat-Hi thanks for the web site I'll check it out. What kind of tree and how much? I'm looking for a new one and that one is beautiful! Mandy-How was Christmas shopping? Eileen-Sorry about your in law stuff. It is so sad that our parents have to get old. Glad your fill is going good!! That's great! Betty-How are you feeling these days? So can you share your pot roast recipe. I'm ready for some! Patty-God is so cool with stuff like that! I had an anxiety problem tonight about $ and was lead in the right direction, of course tithing was put at the tp of my list and now I have peace. He is so cool. He was tugging at you to go to church and then he confirmed your actions. I wish I could remember to put him first all the time! I'm working on it though. How were the cookies? I WANT ONE!! please...lol Darcy-Hi glad you had a good weekend. How the food going? How's the head doing? Terrimck1-I have on and off reflux issues. A had my worst case on Friday night. I am mostly doing liquids for a few days to calm things down. You need to tell your Dr have you had a fill yet? Hi Chrispy sounds like your excited and doing well! Mandy-It does take a while that's for sure. I still miss my Maggie. But Lucy and Sandy sure put a smile on my face. I'm clad your kitty likes LBT, he looks like he should consider the band. I wonder what his PB's would be like! AHH Kitty foam...lol..keep him fat he's cute! How DD pox today! When mine had them I handed them both a paint brush and they painted grass on the wall in my DS BR. I painted a dinosaur and he needed grass. it was one of those times I'll never forget. Kat-How cool no hunger!! I love when that happens! How is DH and DD doing? WOW that is scary about Donna. Perhaps she went to the other web site. Maybe we all need to PM each other our phone #'s. Betty-I also missed the Christmas list thing. I am terrible with cards though. Every year I buy them and that's about it! They never get mailed out. I'm not good at stuff like that. Cass-I bet your getting more excited by the day!! I like that picture! Cindy-I thought maybe you were dusting to much to come say hi. You sound great! Glad things are moving right a long. Have you been at the same school all this time? It's good you will still have some contact there I bet it would be a lot harder if you didn't. Sherry-I want to go dance! Sounds like so much fun! I hope your son does well tomorrow! Irene-How are you? Your NJ trip doesn't sound like it was to much fun this time. Hopefully next time you will see Eileen. I hope to see her on Dec 22!! DH and I had a nice time in Myrtle Beach. Sad story though. One of his business associates who is only 30 was diagnosed with thyroid cancer last yr. To make a long story short we were with him on Thursday. I was talking to him about this past year and how hard it has been for him. He left the meeting Friday morning early to go back for his 1 yr results. Well if you all could say a prayer for Jay and his family. His cancer is back! He was going in today for a cat scan and then surgery will hopefully be before Thanksgiving. My heart is breaking for him. He has 2 young kids and his wife. He is so young and he must be terrified. I told him I don't think I could handle something like this and then now he has to go through it all over again. It must be mind boggling to all of them. On a lighter note I went to a wonderful conference today! Traffic was horrible and I had no gas in my car it took over 2 hours to leave the garage..lol..yikes..so I turned the car off and just sat waiting all that time. Got home around 8 and I'm exhausted! So have a good night. Sorry if I missed anyone.

Hi, I live in NC however am only 5 miles from SC. Where about are you? I am close to Fort Mill, my in laws live in Columbia and we go there to visit every other weekend. How long have you been banded and how are you doing?

You are feeling absolutely normal! I think everyone goes through the same feelings. Keep in mond you are officially saying good-bye to a why of life that you have know for a very long time. It is scary. But it is so good. And you will realize shortly that your not saying good bye to your favorite things for ever just for a short time. You should be able to eat everything you always liked, just not as much. You'll also learn that it is ok to not eat it all and that it feels wonderful. You do go through a type of mouring. I still do. I still get nervous at times, but it is all good. Take a deep breath write down your feelings so you can look back at them later and perhaps help someone else feeling the same way. As you know this is a wonderful website. We are all here for each other.

Oh I had such a craving for McD's back in April. A qtr pounder with cheese and the fries...YUMMY so DH and I went there we were driving home from somewhere. I felt that it was ok to go there I hadn't in months and why not. So we ordered and were sitting in the car. DH had a bite and said the bread was stale I said give it back and brought both of our burgers back in to get then replaced. He is much faster at eating than me even before banding. He had a bite said the roll was fine. My mouth was not watering. I opend my container and it looked and smelled yummy. I then picked the lusious burger up and there was a puddle of grease in the box and grease dripping off the burger. I looked at that grease fat mixure and felt sick. Said to DH I can't eat this crap and gave it to him. By this point the fries were cold so why bother eating them. I went inside and ordered a sundea with peanuts and hot fudge. I forgot the calories but it wasn't bad. Ate that and enjoyed every bite. I wish I could remember the date because that was a major turning point in my life for McD's. Whenever I think about how good one of those burgers and fries would be I visulize that box of grease and fat and it quickly goes away. Hope this helps it helped me all over again just writting it down..lol.. You will have little stories like this before no time. French fries are not worth it. Most likely you will shortly have a FF experience. And most likely you will have it more than once and then decide to hold off until the end of the meal. Then you'll discover that they are cold and really not good. Losing is awesome! Your going to love it. Good luck sounds like you are already making the right choices by coming here to say HELP!!

Mandy he looks like a cuttaler...he seems real sweet. I love them they can be so loving when they want! Will he be inside? This morning Sandy Lucy and Poose all hung out with me in the bedroom. Lucy and Poose hung out on the bed with me for quite a while. They are so sweet. Poose means Cat in Norweign it's not PUSS! P-OOO-SS-E is how it's pronounced. His official name is Spot, but no one calls him that and he answers to Poose. All my life every cat we have ever had has turned out to be a Poose. It just fits them and they all seem to like it. OK now I sound like an insane person. Off to the church see ya later have a good morning.

Wait don't go away! I'm still here! You can always find me in NJ! I will stop by here more often and say what cha doing! I do go to band2gether my name there is lovemylpband...cause I do! But I do still come here more often and I truly miss yaking with ya'll on here. I'm telling you NJ is fun we have girls from all over the country there I think only 1 or 2 NJ girls and nothing ungly! Angie I'm glad you can make Saturday. I don't think I would have been able to make it later ut I'm pretty sure I can do 11:30 especially if my new friend Judy is coming, I can't not be there... Ok I'm off to church in a bit have a good day. Hey Denika I haven't seen you in months! It will be great to see everyone!

Hi guys, Eileen I'm glad your backs better. Cindy I told you it's a mess! Howdy everyone else.

Good to hear from you. Glad everything went well. Now you can be back on the bandwagon!! Take it easy, feel better.

Hi, I'm in Myrtle Beach with DH. We came down on Thursday and were going home tomorrow. It has been a real nice time. Beautiful weather. Took a long walk on the beach and relaxed. DH was working. I did have a horrible time with lunch yesterday. I don't know why. I PB's and sort of threw up..sorry..for about 2 hours! I really don't know what I did wrong except I had on fried shrimp..I never eat fried food anymore..and I had some nacho's and about 1/3 piece of chichen breast. It was no fun! Uncontrollable at some points. URGH! So no more nacho's for me or fried shrimp. Ok so today I was very careful. Although I did have a bag of M&M's and I enjoyed every single one of them! Well GArry and I went to this wonderful resturant. I think it was the best food I've ever had in my live. But the problem is that it was all very rich. I literlly took 2 hours to eat, so no PB problems, however, I have got the worst pain! I think I must have stretched my pouch even though I only had bites of the 5 courses! Live and learn I guess. No more She crab soup for me! Well I'm going to try to go to sleep now. Glad everyone is doing ok. Irene I loved your post. Glad your ok from your accident. Don't feel bad about the desert and I won't feel bad about the M&M's and the desert I had. Tomorrow is a new day and I'm eating at home so no fancy food for me. I'll catch up tomorrow, hopefully. Have a good night. Love youz..get that, the Jersey girl is still in me!

Judy, I am so sorry you are going through all of this. I know exactly what it feels like. Sept 26th 05 I had surgery. January 26th we found out I had a port and band leak! February 21st I had it all replace. My Dr told me that it was a much riskier surgery. Scared the heck out of me! The reason why it is riskier is because of the scar tissue and the length of the surgery. It took about 2 1/5-3 hours. He went into the same incisions. I was much sorer and it took me a little longer to feel up to par again. I also got some kind of an allergic reaction which totally threw me for a loop! It was very scary. I couldn't understand why God was having me go through this. He gave me clear straight direction to have the band in the first place so why was this happening? I'm still not sure, however I know that it's been in his hands from the first time I heard about the band and I had to just trust him and go forward.. I am feeling great and things are going very well. Please know that I am here for you. You can PM me and I'll give you my # if you want to talk anytime. Please keep me posted. Hang in there it will be ok. Did Don ever give you an answer about the warrantee? I have not spoken to him. I sent him an email when I first found out he said to give him a call and I never did. I was so emotional about everything and my Dr is the only one in the area that does the band so I didn't want to burn any bridges. Maybe that was poor judgment on my behalf. Big hugs....Dianne

Thinking of you. I know what it's like to go through the surgery again. Good luck with everything.

I had the worst rash of my life after surgery. They never figured out what it was from. Take swallow, liquid benadryl I took double dose I also had to go on steriods finially to get rid of it. Call your Dr and let him know, but drink the benadryl. I even took pictures of how bad it was! I feel your pain!

Goodmorning.. Beanie-That is so awesome! YAY no extender! What a great feeling! I've the fart story!! Well I have a lunch appointment with a guy from a financial company today. I think he wants to advertise but not sure, so we'll see. Gotta hit curves at some point. I am thrilled to announce that Tom is here and I had no food clues that he was coming. YAY no masive cravings for chocolate or Frito's!! I even lost another pound from last week! I'm so excited. I usually munch and mess up my other 2 weeks!....sorry I know TMI....I'm just so happy that I haven't eaten everything in site! ttyl

Wow you sure have been through a lot. Have you been to your band Dr? Sorry I can't suggest anything to help.

Chrispy-I'm a 36FF or a 34G! I don't think that Lane Bryant goes past DDD. I'm going to try Nordstrom's they are supposed to be wonderful at helping you get fitted. Thanks. Betty-I'll let you know how Nordstrom's goes. Be careful driving today in the fog. Cassandra-When I woke up from the surgery I couldn't believe how good I felt. It is so normal to have second thoughts. All I can tell you is it has changed my life and I'm loving it. Eileen-LMAF!! That was so cute! Sherry-That is so funny! Well I went to curves this morning. My back has been real bad since I went bowling like an idiot last week! What was I thinking..duhhh..anyway it was good to get back there. See you guys later..don't forget to vote today!

You can crush most pills up. I take a pretty large pill everyday. Somedays are harder than others.

Are you eating and drinking at the same time or are you drinking 20-30 before you try eating? I am very careful with drinking before meals. Hot or cold doesn't seem to make a dfference with me.

You guys can do it. Before you know it you'll e eating anything you want. Hang in there and enjoy the WL!

And the dust never seems to go away after doing that! Urgh I feel for you Cindy, but you will say why didn't we do it sooner!

Kat and Cindy, You must be kidding us! Never a fart story! Kat I almost fell of my chair laughing at your bogger story. I don't think I have one of those. Cindy- say hi to George for me! I hope your bringing your camera. Patty and Mandy-I have had many meetings! Hated them got so nervous! My DS was in the handicap preschool so we started very young. Do not believe everything they tell you! They told me that he would never be a lawyer or Dr. Well he is on his way to being a PA which is pretty much a Dr if you ask me! He struggles and it breaks my heart, but he is determined. It is taking him a lot longer than most but it's ok. He has a dream and a mission in his life and he is going after it! So take a deep breath. Try not to get overwhelmed. My prayers are with both of you and the kids, I know how you feel and I hurt for you..((hugs)) Cassandra-Hi and welcome! We have so much fun here as you can tell all secrets come out over time. Before you know it you'll be telling us fart stories..lol.. Where are you getting banded? I love my band if you have any questions were all here for you. Darcy-You must have a story or to for us!! This weekend sounds like fun. I'm sure you look great! How are you doing? You sound down in the dumps. Do you need a kick or a hug? My thought is a little of both? I have a new tip..put a bowl of almonds out on your counter, and in a baggie in the car. When you want something have a few. They are good for you and taste good. They really have helped me especially in the car. Pat-My DH does it in bed and then waves the covers so the smell doesn't stay under the covers! OMG it is awful! lol we do laugh though. Betty-LOL your boss is mean..lol..I can't believe told everyone!lol The bra saga continues!! I have been to Belk, Dillard's and two other small shops searching high and low for right the over the shoulder bolder holders! Well I have decided that I want to open a store called..sorry if I offend anyone...Tits R Us! It will carry sizes that they don't even make yet. Any color you can think of. Maybe even a men's section! A section with two different sizes. Big Small Fat Tall Thin Average. This story is going to make you feel GREAT cause you will find exactly what your looking for. Ok I'm going off to much here now. But I gotta tell you this is not an easy job! So far no luck! I'm ready for a reduction soon at this point!! I do have a most embarrassing story for ya'll but I have taken up enough space here with my boobage. Everyone have a good night. I'm still laughing at the stories!

Kat- Your Halloween sounded very cool! I really want to have a party next year. I hate the evil stuff but so do my friends. I've been saying this for a while now but I really am going to do it next year. Aww good luck with the puppy. You know I love my Lucy and Sandy! Lucy is a handful though. She is pulling up our carpet! WTF! Pat-Good to see you. Last December I really thought I was going to cough my band up! I had to finally go on steroids to get over it. That really stunk! I'm starting to be full of snot now to just took airborne hopefully I took it in time. Yuck I hate this! Eileen-WOW you do have a lot of crap going on. I'm glad your full of air and your farts smell like brownies!! Wish mine did! Sorry about FIL. How's your back doing? Mary-Thanks for asking. I am feeling better about things. Thanks for asking. DD and I had some mother daughter time and it was really great and much needed. Betty-Airborne and hand sanitizer is my best friend. Unfortunately I haven't been keeping up with them lately! Feel better Mandy-One of these days I'm going to go to Chicago. I'll let you know! Le2sha-Take your time eating. Be very slow. I was on thick soup when I got home. I don't remember them saying how much I could have. But I know if you have protein shakes you will feel fuller and you can take double scoops. Ok now I have a horrible fart story. At choir practice no less. OMG! The most Godaweful smell in your LIFE. So I quickly moved to the other side of the room to make people think it was someone else! Nice huh..oh if only they smelled like brownies! And on that note I'm going to have spinach quiche for dinner...AHH look out DH!