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Welcome Tricia!! I will add you to the Wish List soon. I also have a few corrections and other additions to do. I just need to find the time to spend to do it. I am just popping on quick to update how many days left. See you all soon!! Hope everyone is working on those Christmas Cards!! LOL

146 days till Christmas!!! :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat:

I think we should all bring four bottles of water on board, in case we need to share with anyone who gets their bottle confiscated.

I choose to not take the "menu" point of view, because with 2 small kids it is hard for me to figure out a menu. What i like to do is just figure on how much I am going to eat, and try to make a majority of it protein. I also have 2 fruits and 3 veggies I HAVE to get in throughout the day. So When I make meals for the kids, I will have one egg, some cottage cheese, or yogurt. I will have a piece of fruit for a snack. For lunch I will have some lean fish or chicken and a small salad with vinegar and oil. One more fruit snack. For dinner I usually have a small piece of whatever protein we are having, and I always serve two veggies with my dinners, so I have my last two veggie servings at this point. I then treat myself to some sort of dessert. Either a sugar free jello, pudding, popcicle or fudgecicle. I really try to not focus on food so much. If i do I get obsessed.

The shoulder pain is a result of the stomach gas. It is the refered pain from the pressure on the diaphram.

Do you think they might find me strange if I come on board with a suitcase full of nothing but Evian bottles? I am a bandster...I need my water. :bananapartyhat:

Yup, hiccups mean to me that I am full. If I get a hiccup when i am not eating or drinking, I know it means that I am doing too much work, or that my diaphram is not happy with the bending over I have just done.

LOL I do feel sorry for you. That is a long time to go. But just remember that it is not forever, no matter how much it seems like it. Mix up some SF jello for a sweet treat. Or get some SF popcicles. And try to take it easy and not think about food so much. I know it seems hard to do, but I know you can do it. You are almost over the hardest part.

Yes the stomach swells, and is possible still full of gas. I am 3 weeks out and i am still swollen over my port. The gas takes time. And if the doctor did not try to remove most of it (which might be the case if your stomach is still sticking out) then that might be why you still have pain. As for walking to get it out, try walking at least 5-10 minutes every hour. You can also do the 20 minute workout walk, but get up every hour and move move move. That will get rid of the gas.

OMG I am about to pee my pants reading this!!! All of these are true, and it makes me so proud that I understand and agree with every single one of them! LOL

I live in Florida,and I HATE fireants. I will be trying this to see if it works. I'll post the results.

Oh Barbara I love that tree!! It looks fantastic! I should take pics of our trees this year to show. My plan is after Christmas day this year I will set a new Christmas goal, and continue the Christmas thread. LOL I may end up being the only one here, but dammit!! I will have a new christmas goal and I will have lots of christmas stuff to share. LOL

unfortunately that is common. Christina, you tough up there and get back here! We miss you! And we know you are going to power through this! I am praying hard for ya girl!! Big hugs!

Oh I am so sorry to hear about our man Whipple!! I am glad that he is making improvement, and will be praying for him to recover quickly. Thank God they removed it all! Iam so glad to hear they caught it in time!

If you are having pain that badly, go to the ER. Bring the kid. You definitely should go. Searing pain is a bad thing no matter where you are having it and should not be ignored. The ER staff have people come in with children all the time, and they understand you have no other option. they will help you with him.

I actually asked my brother in law about this, and he said that something that looks like jewelry will NOT get looked at. He is an EMT and a Doctor, and has been for the last 20 years. He said that it needs to have at least the shape of the original medic alert bracelets, if not the ones with the red cross on it. Anything else does not catch the eye in time of an emergency. He also said it should have your name on it, an emrgency phone or your doctor's phone number, and that you have Adjustable Gastric Band. I plan on getting a silver medic alert bracelet, without the red cross though. Instead it is an embossed cross. Still recognizable, and it will just look like I am wearing a bracelet.

Sherri rob and I are praying for you guys, and hope that he recovers well. I am really sorry to hear about it!! Big hugs!!

Flouro is the only way to ensure that the person oing the fill can see the process perfectly. It is the only way that I will have a fill done. But there are some things to concider in your situation. A fill is not supposed to be variable, but your stomach is a variable. One day it could be swollen and irritated, making you tighter, the next day it could be thin and easy, making it easy for you to eat anything. It changes day by day depending on your changing hormones, hydration level, what your recent diet has been, and if there has been any trauma to the stomach (like a fill). The digestive system is EXTREMELY sensitive, nd shuts down, slows down, and changes due to the slightest upset from any source. While it is smart for you to determine how much fill is in there, you should also just keep the other situations in mind. You may feel wide open, and then eat something spicy and slam tight for 2 or 3 days. You never know. When your doctor does a fill, according to Inamed, they are supposed to pull all of the fill out to ensure they know exactly how much is in there. They should NOT be going off of a record and just remiving or adding their bit and leaving it at that. You could have had a fill or unfill somewhere else and not told them. Or you could have a leak and they would not know. They should withdraw, and inject the Fluid a few times to make sure they can see exactly how much of a fill is going to end up in the band and how much was there to begin with. This is the really good way of ensuring you do not have a leak.

If it was with someone that I really wanted, or one of those few truly perfect famous people that I lust after so much, it wouldn't be cheating, since cheating involves not telling the other person...I could not keep it from my husband. I would be bragging too much. LOL "woohoo!!! Guess who I just got it on with!!"

aaaaaaaaaahahahahahahaha I was just wondering the same thing!!

Aquarian here! Late January baby!

We should all be screaming for you!!! You are so inspirational!!!

147 days till Christmas!!! :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat:

Oh I don't mind if this thread gets too big. I want to keep all the christmas stuff in one thread so that we keep our seasonal craziness from overloading the lounge. LOLI wouldn't want anyone to get annoyed that there are too many christmas threads this far from christmas. Those pics are great tho!!! I have a lot of uses for some of them. Something I am doing this year is taking some left over wrapping paper with christmas images, and decoupaging the cutout images onto large glass ornaments. Modpodge has a glittery version that is really nice for this. I am doing sets of six, and the family is signing them, then we are giving them away as our family gift this year.

WOOHOOO!!!!! Way to go girl! this is so freakin awesome!!! I am really happy for and all the hard work you have put into this!