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books, current favourites are by jen lancaster, all of them. writers I go for jen lancaster, stephanie meyer, jk rowling and laurie notaro, marian keyes although I am open to whatever catches my eye, sometimes it's just a cover of a book that does it. movies: sliding doors, jarhead, ps I love you, that's what comes to mind at this most early hour of the day here in seattle worst movies would be any of the cohen brothers movies, i have tried to get them and i just don't, sitting through them has made me want to stick a fork in my eye

Kerry3, I love your basset!! I have 3, 2 that live here with me and one that lives at my familys home in Canada. I just read a few days worth of posts and don't remember who were the posters but for those that are in a plateau right now, please remember not to limit your cals too much, as if you go to low your body will drop back into starvation and hold onto everything, I would not go much below 1200. Good luck I hope you all get out of your plateau's soon.

annie, i live in seattle which has a really large gay population, it was certainly an adjustment having women look at me now too or to go for lunch or dinner with a friend and have the server assume we're a couple because I have short hair, i've gotten over it by thinking that a. do i really care what a complete stranger thinks about me, who I'll never see again after this encounter and b. a year ago, I didn't get any attention from male or female, I was invisible and now I'm not so I guess I should just be flattered. Not everyone can pull off short hair, you look amazing so don't let the thoughts of stupid strangers make you grow it back out!

speciak K, i love the idea of a donation to mark your losses, I think I will do that for the animal shelter here. You look amazing, congratulations and keep on going!

annie, i love your hair, it is adorable! I too cut my hair off since I figured short and fully of body was a whole lot of a better deal than super fine, limp and hanging there like basset ears. People love my short hair and I get so many compliments on it, yes maybe you do get attention from the same team now but I don't care. The deal I have with my boyfriend is I can have short hair, as long as it is not shorter than his and he is not allowed to have hair longer than mine, works well. Plus I can get ready for work in 25min, shower included, which means a little more precious sleep for me!

Missy, what's the latest on your bf?

1.my goal for March 2009 is to be buying my wedding dress and being able to actually fit into the samples at the shop. 2. for my muscles to be very defined.

you all have to be kidding me! worried about brazillians and getting your nails done, ladies this not a date, as a medical professional (former labour and delivery nurse now ICU) we don't care about your how you've chosen to design your pubic hair, it's about a good safe outcome for the patient cause trust me we are not looking even though we are seeing, it's just part of our job.

yes your naked during the procedure and if that is really your biggest concern, maybe you need to reevaluate your priorities.

neenz, uh no I've never heard that and I have done just fine with being on nights, (I could never work days anyways since I HATE getting up early) you just find a way to make it work for you. Here's my meals: 6pm egg with salsa and some refried beans. 1030pm: either chicken and veggies or maybe some soup and almonds or a piece of ezikial bread toasted with almond butter. 5am: greek yogurt, strawberries and kashi. 9am: usually some fruit or beans again, although sometimes I do go for breakfast with my peeps, rarely, then I usually have some kind of egg. My drinks at work are a soy caramel triple shot machitto and lemon water. It's worked well for me: I am currently in a size 10 comfortable and medium scrubs, I can fit in the smalls but would like to lose another 15 or so lbs before I venture out in them. I started out in a really tight 16, I should have been in an 18 or probably 20 and my scrubs were xl's. Maybe my loss rate has been a bit slower than others but part of that is my choice since I do not think it is really healthy to drop loads so quickly, also I prefer to keep my band on the looser end of things, less risk of slippage etc, I don't think it's healthy when people say I ate 3 teensy bites and a french fry and then I was pb'ing, that's not a normal way to eat to sustain life in the long term (don't attack me everyone for saying that) I eat about 1/2cup at a time and I've lost just fine. Hope that helps!

ajoneen, Quebec Canada, i have found that living here in the US, there are alot of things that people say or reference to that I don't "get". people tend to think canada and the us are so similar but we are really different worlds. There are plenty of things that I say here that i have to explain too so it's hardly one sided.

missy i hope that everything works out ok for your boyfriend, sickness can be very scary esp when the doc's have yet to figure out what is wrong.

Fanny, I too said that same statement so many times I would be a billionaire if I had the numbers, I was always the one wondering how come all my friends met these great guys and all I had to show for it was some loser mooching off me? Jump ahead a few years and now I'm the one with the great guy, to have to go through all those losers again to have what I have now? I wouldn't want to but I'd do it in a heartbeat. Apple, I too want to have kids "someday" being that your my age, I'd say you have at least 5 more years (that's what I've given myself as the cutoff number) only because advanced maternal age significantly increases risk etc.. and I work in NICU so my world is much different that that of the bouncing cherubic babies from the gap ads, but 5 years is a long time to work with so I'm glad that your going to hold out for the right person instead of a "you'll do" moment and then all of a sudden you are stuck connected to this person that you don't really like for the rest of your life.

Let me clairify about what I said, I am not unhappy with my decision to get the band placed, it has made a world of difference since my need for it was not that I ate cheetos 24/7, I ate healthy food, just too much of it. I would not make a different decision if I could turn back the clock and I too did alot of research prior, being a critical care nurse one might say I can be slightly obsessive about things, I just didn't realize how much the weight is connected to my internal stuff. I admit sometimes I misread peoples intonation of things when there is no facial expression to go along with it, every person can read things differently, and sometimes being from a different country figures into that too. Hope you all have a lovely holiday weekend.

SpecialK, did you capitalize honesty because you only want to hear positive wonderful rose coloured glasses type things, what myself and westcoastmom posted were honest, for us and our journey, sorry if it does not fit in with what you think it should. Also, don't stand in judgement of me, if I feel I need counseling, I'll get it, but the way you wrote your post weather you meant it to be or not sounded a little like you were up in the holier than thou group. my post was specifically a response to 1 person so maybe next time I'll just PM them less I offend anyone on the board's feelings.