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The best advice I can give is to ask your Doctor. It seems that most have diffrent guidelines to go by. Mine asked for two weeks of clear liquids (broth, jello), two weeks of full liquids, two weeks of mushies, and two weeks soft solids. But only your Dr. can tell you his particular guidelines. Give him a call.

OMG I am STARVING after a workout.

Some days I can't make myself go. I really want the wii fit for those "I refuse to leave the house" days. Or when the temp is like it has been for the last few days it literally makes me weak to walk outside...well it's not the heat it's the humidity. IT's HORRIBLE

WE have whataburger here in Louisiana. I liked their Breakfast.

Oh Crap! That severely blows. I am glad the ultrasound lady found it, but Gallstones are so pain and are usually so much smaller than that. Thank god they found it before your gallbladder ruptured. Glad you are feeling better but so so so sorry that happened. What a scary situation. I have heard many times that loosing weight,especially quickly, can cause gallstones. When my partner had her RNY they went ahead and just took her gallbladder out. Oh I wish I could come by and give you ballons and flowers and glasses of Water. I hope you have someone there to help you. TAra

Marcie Graduated (with her Ph.d in bio-chemistry I might add) so I had another friend of mine come out and take pics of her Graduation. Marcie had to leave super early after Breakfast to go do graduation stuff so Jamie (the photographer) Paula (my best friend whom I have known for 20 years) and I played around with the camara. They aren't professional or anything, or my progress pics...they are just for fun. Thought I would share. And here is a pic of me and Marcie after Graduation. I goofed and my eyes are half closed, but I still love this picture.

Aw Queen you just made my day.

Best description ever!

From my research 13,000 is extremely low....though it still hurts my heart to think about coughing it up at this point. I still owe like 4500 on my surgery. But I'm a slow loser. Maybe I won't need it....I'm gonna just keep thinking that. That way when the scale says I've lost 40 instead of 100 lbs I can think "ahhh my body is trying to save me money" Congrats on the extra 10 lbs gone Karen. That is awesome news. Seriously. You are an inspiration to all the VV!

WEll M, if you can eat as much as before but are still losing, you must be making much healthier choices. Oh and I am not going to contribute until I finally get my second fill tomorrow. But good thread. You will hear from me in three or four days after my mushies k?

That made me choke up so much. I am really fighting tears at work

How about "Everyone with Estrogen" :thumbup: I like "Powder room" or "Ladies Lounge"

I'm surprised when they don't.

When I received my ABO card in Louisiana they made it very clear to me that you shouldn't serve someone who was obviously drunk. I was more speaking of people who serve or purchase alcohol for someone under 21. But now that you bring it up, bars should do more to encourage designated drivers. Like free cokes, Water, juice whatever. Being the DD sucks so bars that don't should really consider at least doing that for them.

I think first offense a minimum year suspension of driver's license. And fines, and classes that give up your entire saturday...for months. I don't think jail time though for first offense. After that though lock them up if they continue that behavior. Most of the time they are young and stupid. That's not an excuse, but I think it's a cause. Get them off the road until they have grown up enough to handle the responsibility of driving. I had a friend when I was growing up that had some drinks and drove. He had a wreck and the passanger was killed. This is tragic for everyone involved. In prison, before his trial he hung himself. I couldn't imagine the pain he was in. He was young, never been in trouble, and made a stupid mistake, and someone died. Was he a bad person? Did he belong in prison. No. He had never had a dwi or anything like that before. He thought he was invincible and turned out he wasn't, and two mothers lost their sons. Where did he get the alcohol? Who served it? Who bought it? I think if you buy underage people liquor, especially if you let them drive afterwards then YOU should be CHARGED.

You are so pretty. I love your stripped shirt. And you tummy is gone! That is so exciting. You look so happy. Thanks for sharing, you look wonderful.:thumbup::laugh::frown::biggrin2::wink2:

I think your too hard on yourself. Your 37 lbs lighter than 3 months ago. That's like getting almost four bowling bowls off your ass. .5 lbs? Shoot, os, I fluctuate 7 lbs up and down for weeks at a time. You know how I fixed wanting to kill myself? I killed the scale. Get off of it, I think you will feel better. I am 39 lbs down. Sometimes I want to be 65 lbs down at this point. But I'm not, but I am smaller and it is working. I've only P'b once, never slimed. I get stuck, but really on nothing but bready things. You are not supposed to PB all the time, too much of it is a bad thing. And there are many long time banders (and losers) that say they have never Pb'd. We are doing fine, honey.:thumbup:

I've had one fill...one silly fill. I need more fills. I finally have one scheduled on June 5th.

I'm staying on plan today because its 4:33 and I am doing so far, so I'm not gonna mess it up now.

Hey BrandyII- My partner had lapband surgery almost 10 years ago. she was 5'6" and 350. She said the first six months with gastric was really really rough, but of course that long ago it wasn't offered laprosochically. I think she got down to 140, which her frame was really weird looking, now she is up to 210 I think, but she is very happy with herself. I wish your daughter as much luck as she has had.

We can do this, we will make it guys!

When I'm really sad the only thing I can think of is Dark chocolate Maggie Moo's icecream. No, not low fat, full on cellulite inducing real icecream. I've been really fighting this week, and it was a losing battle on friday. But I had to have four shots and blood drawn twice, I haven't had any sick days built up so I lost the pay, and my insurance hadn't changed over yet so I had to pay him 280 dollars to shot me up. I'm not going to beat myself up about it today. It was so sad.

Big 5-0 and happy about it. Only on this site :-) I am so glad you got to the goal. I can't wait to be there with you. I love you guys.

My weight does that too, but when it goes up I don't count it...I just wait for it to go down again.

Okay a new week, and last week I am throwing out the window. So I want to do 180 minutes of exercise this week. I need it. Thanks for the inspiration you guys.