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Preach it! Loud and Proud Ms.Juli. I'm with ya.

I will. I will totally tattle. This just isn't the forum for that.

Well after the Gastric Bypass she won't be ABLE to jump around for awhile so maybe she should do it now:smile2: Tell her that this complete, but caring, stranger wishes her the best on her diffrent journey. My partner had The gastric Bypass 10 yrs ago and she is still 100 lbs lighter. It saved her life definately. I don't think I've seen Howard End's. What is that movie about? You should watch Sweeney Todd when you get a chance. Its very entertaining.

I have deliberately avoided this thread because I hated the premise of it. Discussing who I think is unattractive or unhealthy enough to get a surgery that is completely a personal choice? But...Boredom and curiousity got the best of me so here's my 1 1/2 cents anyway. The OP's writing style does have a familiar ring to it. I think that the post is kind of mean regardless. I think it feels gossipy girls sitting around goggling about people they feel better than. MHO. You have the right to say it, I have the right to think its mean and unneccessary. I would never push my decision to get the Lapband on someone else. I don't care for Oprah but I know that losing weight on your own is so hard and she does it over and over and she does maintain for a while. I applaud her efforts if not her personality. And she probablee thinks she is helping people. I think she does help people so I like her, I just can't watch her. Queen Latifah is gorgeous and perfectly porportioned, Rosie O'Donnel accepts herself so I accept her. And do they give alot of Lapbands to people who are only a 16? Maybe a 16 at 4'5 would warrant one or maybe I am just really fat and 16 seems ok to me.

Update for anyone else going through the emotional thing. I feel so much better. I feel like I have settled into a new routine. I promised myself if it happens again before my next fill I will call my Dr and if it doesn't then I will wait until my next fill and tell him what happened after this one. I do find myself craving ciggerettes again and I quit so effortlessly. I guess my body is reaching out for old addictions now that I can't be a bread junkie anymore. Besides, that I've stopped crying everyday. The extreme up and downs have pretty much ceased, and I feel like myself again. I will just wait and see how it goes after my next fill when I get my intake even more.

thanks. You have done fantastic. I can't wait to be where your at. Hows your daughter doing?

Sonic Jr. Grilled wrap for a 1.49!

Yeah gatarade, water, chicken broth, popsicles. They let me have my protein shakes on clears. I really looked forward to them because it filled me up. Just follow whatever your Dr. in particular said and you will be fine.

I love my band too, but I am still new to this so time will tell. My friend had Gastric Bypass and she (who was 330 in tenth grade) lost 150 lbs in prob a little less than a year. You would never know now (10 years later) she has had surgery. She has probley gained back 50 lbs I think but she is still 100 lbs lighter than she used to be. She can't have anything with cream or she gets really sick, and if something has dairy and sugar togethor she is sick all night. She is happy. But she has gained weight back and RNY is unadjustable.

There has been some discussion for and against the two. What do you think?

Yeah. Any is Awesome. He is the one who taught me that their is a befriend button.

I am staying on plan today because I have been going up and down and up and down and up and down but never down more than before for about two or three weeks and I am just about sick of it. Stop it, I said stop it.

I think it depends on age, how your shaped, how much weight you lose, how active you were during the weight loss, and how fast you lost it, and your own elasticity in your skin. Though I have heard that it is almost impossible not to have the loose belly skin because the skin on the belly is less elastic than other parts of your body. (That is what a lady who had lost 75 lbs told me...she was also the Patient Care coordinatoor at my Dr.'s office)

If they ever wanted to go I might go. But if you mention vacation my moms eyes get real big and she changes the subject:lol:

Great suggestions. I didn't know Mcdonalds had a Happy Meal breakfast?!? I usually eat at home, but we had nothing except eggs, which I didn't have time to make. I will invest in some atkins shakes they sound yummy and there is a starbucks on the way to my house so I could make a stop there if I needed to also. Thanks guys!

Oh taps that sounds miserable.

I was yesterday. I couldn't get on it really all day. I felt lost. I am truely addicted to this place.

I have seen crybaby. Thats the cutest. Have you had a chance to see Sweeney Todd then. It was interesting. Helena Bohem Carter was amazing and Johnny Depp has a really cool voice. Oh and its ok. I was young enough when I watched the original to have no idea what I was watching. I had never heard of it. It was on some cable network one day when I was home sick from school.

Gloucoster (sorry spelling) I see what your saying. I gues I find that defiant look in her eye beautiful because I idenify with it. I have had to fight for acceptance for so long for being bigger, for being gay, for being different in a town full of cowboys and gossips that I guess it's become a way of thinking. Being Healthy is very important or I wouldn't be here on this website because I wouldn't have ever considered WLS. BrandyII- thanks for your comments. I appreciate you. I did see the original Hairspray when I was much younger before I ever knew who John Waters or Ricki Lake were. I love musicals. I was in Minnie Faye in Hello Dolly once. hehe.

Should you hate yourself and be ashamed if you do not look like Amy whinehouse. I feel that hollywood encourages you too, and sadly people take their cues from that. I have never seen anyone perform in Louisiana or TExas and not look like they are going to die. I don't know where that was taken at but it looks like every other performer that has been running and dancing on a muggy stage in the summer. (Minus the belly) This humidy kills. I think we should be promoting healthiness...but not self-hate. I should be able to feel beautiful at size 18 as size 8 as long as I am healthy. At size 18 I wasn't unhealthy I could keep up with with all my size 5-14 friends. I am not healthy at the size I am now, but if I looked like her at size 18 and never lost another pound then I would be ok. I wouldn't hate myself or cry and whine because I was still fat. I feel beautiful now and I am much larger than she is.

The Gossip has a lead singer who is a about a size 18 and is gorgeous. And its a younger band and for a woman not to be heroin skinny is almost unheard of. I just discovered her on the cover of a rock magazine. Shes naked with her belly and rolls hanging out. (Its a profile and its not pornographic you cants see anything its just proud) She has big lips on her butt and on the side it says. I'm beautiful and you can kiss my ass. I love her, and would love to look like her some day...but mostly I just want her confidence. Infact she is the only kind of celebrity that are on my myspace page. That picture of her infact. Oh and P.s- Hairspray is the cutest movie of all time.

I have to disagree with you. Woman, especially big woman, need to love themselves and feel sexy and beautiful. With society the way it is with almost impossible standards these woman need to love themselves. If you cannot love yourself then noone can love you. If a woman hates herself so much and the way she looks that she can't even disrobe in front of her husband then their is a problem. Woman like this need encouragement to love themselves. Mo'nique is an example of someone who is does not fit into societies views of beauty but loves herself anyway and encourages other woman to love themselves. And she is Not unhealthy. Have you ever seen her dance. That woman can get down as long and hard as any skinny minnie. Some people will never be skinny no matter what they do. I want them to know that it is ok. That they are beautiful. I feel beautiful and I am faaar from skinny. I don't that you should encourage people to eat a million hotdogs covered in cheese sauce, but I do embrace the big woman of the world. You can be healthy and big. You can be big and beautiful. I think that is what she and other woman (like beth ditto from the gossip my personal rolemodel) like her encourage and promote.

Email seems so unformal, I think the email guidelines would do well for them. For you and for the future.

Thats the spirit blessed!:tt2:

I have to be at work at 6:50am I can eat when I first wake so I have to have Breakfast about 6:30 before I leave for work. Last night my area had a "Dining for life" at specific restuarants which means that if you eat at participating restuarants then 25% of your meal tickets get dedicated to the philadelphia center (our Aids prevention and treatment center) I gathered about 9 people to go with me last night and for the first time had some alcohol since my surgery. One single delicious frozen strawberry swirl maggie. mmmmm. One enchilada, a few chips, and a few bites of Beans. Sounds like so little to me but in reality so much less than I used to eat. I tried to eat a tortilla covered in butter like I used too before my food got there because I was starving. One bite and my band said..."Are you crazy" and I put the tortilla down Anyway back to the main part of my story, and a Question. This moring I obviously woke up late bc if noone else has tried this alcohol effects you much more aggressively now. I usually wake up at 5 today I woke up at 6:11. So I had to get dressed, take a shower, and make myself pretty in 30 mins. I was going to grab breakfast to go...but dang it. What is breakfast to go now? Everything comes wrapped in a biscuit, a croissant, or atortilla ( which I can't eat unless it is soaked in sour cream sauce apparently) My Dr. told me to eat breakfast. Now I am up here hungry and confused. What do you guys have for take out breakfast?