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Woo Hoo! I'm ready for the next excercise challenge. We just got a used treadmill this morning. Looks like it's in decent shape too. Now I just have to get my butt on it regularly.

LMAO Rhapsody! That has to be the first Band LOL cat.

I died laughing when I saw that one in the morning. LOL cats rock!

Woot Ready! You're inspiring. I really want to start doing more though right now I'm trying to clean up some major asthma/allergy junk so I can breathe. Hopefully I'll be able to join the next challenge.

I was told that the carbonated beverages cause discomfort and the straws make it easy to drink too much, too fast. I tried the carbonation once and don't really care for it anymore. And I can't believe I just said that. However, I use a straw everyday. I just take smallish sips and haven't had any trouble at all. And yep, I'm guilty of drinking with my meals also. But it's much less than before surgery. Beer sounds really good right now but I'm too lazy to go to the store. LOL

whhoot wheew! (that's my wolf whistle - lol) Looking fantastic!

Anyway your doctor could move up your appointment? I know the point you're at, I stuggled through mine for two weeks even though I knew I could just call the office and move the appointment. Now they scheduled me for 4 weeks cause I didn't call in on my own. They didn't know I learned my lesson fast this time. Heck, I'm almost tempted to move this one up if I keep on being hungry. It's not bad but it's no way to be. Give em a call, see what they say. Let em know you're ready to chew the leather off the couch. :confused_smile:

Thanks guys. Gonna try to kick the calories up a bit for a couple days. Looks like it's gonna be work though I'm only at 750 so far today and I had half a chocolate muffin. Got the carbs up to 80g though. Maybe that's all it needs. Cross your fingers for me. Also, has anyone else had this happen - I feel full but my stomach is still growling? Is that what they call head hunger? Or is it just cause of the way the band works? Or could be I'm a freak of nature. LOL

Right back at ya. :biggrin2: ((((HUG))))

Kjeter - That is so sweet of you! I just wish I had lost enough to take advantage of your very generous offer. I'm sure they will find a good home very soon.

:wink2::biggrin2::hand::biggrin2::ohmy::biggrin: Way to go! Beating ourselves up over our mistakes is a quick formula for failure.

Ready, you're the best. And Jaime, so are you. You guys have always been so supportive of everyone. I sat there last night for about an hour trying to find the right words for a response to this. Leave it to our author to find all the right ones. VVs are supportive not judgemental and that was, I think, the problem most of us had with the post. I really don't even think that the poster knew she came of as a know-it-all, do-no-wrong, harsh bitch though I did see she's apologized serveral times for "sounding like a bitch". Really glad it seems to have been dropped though.

Aveamora - sorry but the woman I know who has them was off today so I'll have to ask her tomorrow.

I've just had bad, bad allergies. Sneezing a ton and sometimes feel a little pain in the port area but the doctor didn't seem too concerned about it. As far as pills go, try to get everything in liquid. I had to have a prescription rewritten even though I told them liquid before hand. You can take em by crushing them and then putting them in yogurt or SF pudding but it's such a pain. Tylenol Liquid Blast and I were good friends when I had a toothache.

Sadly, yep. Most fruit is bad but they say I can have fruit of veggie carbs cause they're healthy carbs. I was gonna eat a small pear today but couldn't bring myself to do it since it has 20-25g carbs.

A friend of mine at work bought these, I think. I know her legs were killing her the first day. I'll check with her today and see what she thought of them.

Dang Becca, those sound so good my mouth is drooling even though I'm stuffed from my breakfast of Salsa Chicken (which I'm renaming Pollo Bendito which means Blessed Chicken) :biggrin2:

That is so fantastic! You soooooo deserve to be ecstatic. Doesn't it feel so great when it dips below that awful 300 mark? I just passed there myself about a month ago so we're very close. ::does happy dance for Gibson::

That sounds really yummy! Plus, I just bought some flax seed and was going to use it in my low cal oatmeal Cookies but thought it might not go so I had no idea what I was gonna do with it. Woo hoo - meat loaf! Thanks Gibson! By the way, I made that Salsa chicken that Blessed mentioned above. It was to die for! I did it basically the same but used some different spices to brown it and simmered it in a dutch oven on the stove instead of the crockpot. Goodness!

I don't really know the difference. But I'm not overly concerned with the fat at this point. I just really want to keep the carbs low and then when I get a hang of that I'll worry about reducing the fat. Thank you.

Welcome back Gibson. Feels like forever since I've seen a post of yours. Hope the world lets you have more free time soon cause you sure perk things up around here. :thumbdown:

Ohhhh, yummy! Sounds like egg drop soup and it sounds delicious. Thanks.

Both of those sound really yummy. Thank you. Can't believe I haven't seen that tuna before. I will definately grab some as soon as I find it. And I'm going to Wal-Mart today so the salsa is on the list. Thanks.

Welcome, welcome, welcome! I'd say that is very average. My ticker shows more because I'm going from the first time I stepped into the surgeon's office. 18 was from 6 month diet - I lost 24 and put 6 back on at Christmas. Then I lost either 16 or 18 on my two week pre-op liquid diet. So that puts me at 35-37 post op.

How'd it go Office? Did you get an unfill? Been thinking about you today. Hope you're feeling better.