MacMadame

I thought bile was yellow? All this talk of butter cake and ooey-gooey cakes and Paula Dean is making me a bit nauseous. I think I've turned into one of *those* people... the ones who only eat healthy food and turn their noses up at the unwashed masses who go to McDonalds and eat Hostess cupcakes. :sneaky:

I definitely get real hunger and have from pretty much the beginning. But I work out a lot and my surgeon pointed out to me that real hunger means your body needs fuel. So he had me up my Protein again and that has helped tremendously. Head hunger I do get sometimes, but not like before. Before I was always ravenously hungry as soon as there was even the least bit of room in my stomach. So when I had head hunger, it was almost impossible to resist. Now when I get it, I just leave the source of the food and I forget all about it.

Did you appeal?

Yes, people have been approved. But a lot haven't either. It depends on a lot on the insurance company. Some will approve it right off the bat, some will deny but approve it on appeal and some won't approve it if hell froze over.

I went with #1 but I also am completely crazy about my surgeon. If I hadn't been, I would have gone with #2 and it probably would have been Dr. Aceves too. He and Dr. Rumblaut made the top of my possible surgeons list and Aceves has more sleeve experience. I wouldn't do #3 just because Costa Rico is too far away if you have complications and need to go back for some reason.

You shouldn't feel hungry every minute though. When I was on liquids, I was hungry about 1x a day, on average.

Hey back. Ran over 5 miles today. Found out I got THIRD PLACE in the 2 week Nike+ challenge. Woot. woot. I don't think I'll log any running during my race on Sunday. Too much work and there's a chance they'll see the iPod and disqualify me.

I used to use The Daily Plate but now I use My Fitness Pal. They are both online so I always have access to them.

I ran over 5 miles today! Or at least that's what Nike+ said. I'm not sure I trust it.

Oh well, there you go... I think I'm going to do the Olympic course. It's longer and harder but it's on Sunday so I can cheer on my friend and not have to find a mountain bike. Exactly. It's your body and your band. I would tell the surgeon to go stuff it. :wub:

Nope. Our stomach takes just as long to empty food out of it as it did before. The only difference is that there is less in there than before. And if you put too much in, you definitely get negative reinforcement.

I find I enjoy going out to eat more now because I spend more time talking and visiting and less time shoveling food into my mouth. :wub:

I got to meet the Slow, Fat Triathlete! She came to talk to my triathlon club and then after I asked her to autograph her books that I'd bought earlier and had with me. I told her I was MO a year ago but we didn't get to get into it. She's really cool.

It just depends on your tummy. I have to wait 1/2 an hour but everyone is different.

I'm leaning towards doing this other tri a few weeks later. I'm going to talk to our track coach tomorrow and see what she says.

Well, it's a band board. If you ask in the main section, everyone says how much they love their bands. At least that's what happened when I asked. But I couldn't get my surgery until the Fall so for months I hung out here and I started to get a different picture. I'm so glad I had to wait!

Here you go: http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f5/ticker-tutorial-pictures-41782/

Well that's the problem. This race is in 3 weeks and I have my first race this week. So I have no time to train. I'm taking it easy this week, recovering the next week and then the next week would be the race. I thought the movie was called Wolverine and X-Man Origins was the name of the series? I went out to pee and missed the first half of the preview for whatever it is and now I'm pissed! :smile:

MacBoy and I went to see I Love You, Man last night. It was pretty good, but I felt like it kind of ended soft.

I can't decide whether to do the shorter Mountain Bike course or the longer Olympic course. Both have their pros and cons.

And you guys all know me. :thumbdown: I'm one of the few who did the sleeve first off. I was going to get a band so that's how I ended up here but watching people like Susan have issues when they followed all the rules scared me.

At first you can't eat a lot. I found that very frustrating. But around 12 weeks out, everything opened up a bit more and I got to a point that I could eat enough to be mentally satisfied.

Welcome to LapBandTalk. I didn't have that. I had an Upper GI.

I know people who have had WLS at 65 and older. Try a teaching hospital. They usually take medicare and also they are better about not having arbitrary cut-offs.

Did I tell you guys my FIL gave us his RV? I want to go out to the Monterey peninsula the first weekend in May and watch a friend from the East coast do a Half Ironman triathlon. Then I started thinking maybe I'd enter the Mountain bike one -- it would be shorter than any of the ones I'm already entered for, but I don't actually have a mountain bike. And haven't mountain biked since 2004. Am I crazy?