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His jail also has the lowest repeat offender rate of released prisoners. Aso for cutting the hand off of theives...a bit extreme, but as extreme goes...I betcha our theft and robbery rates would drop.

heather you look fabulous! Your face has changed so much! And the hair cut looks awesome on ya! I just bought a vintage ac/dc shirt for a goal LOL great minds huh? I miss the nut too. I am sure she will be back soon.

in the gone for good thread.

Girl you just made coffee come out of my nose. LOL

Oh I naturally have a big round butt even when I am tiny LOL I love that...a brazillian butt lift. LOL I hope I don't lose mine when I get smaller. Did you see in my photoshopped version of the skinny me I still have a big ole round butt? LOL The soup is good. there have been a few times that I didn't want anything cause i wasn't in the mood for soup. Like in the mornings. But after the 4th day other things are introduced. So it is all good.

Sweet potatoes are lower in carbs, with a little butter and some cinnamon. Also, I have heard from people that the soup in my new diet thread is band friendly, and might be a good try for you. Just makes sure that you realy let it cook overnight on low so the veggies are really soft. And chop the carots up really good. I hope that helps!!

I also would recommend him. I have heard nothing but fabulous things. I am still going with Dr. Sanchez, but I believe that those three are just about the best Mexico has to offer!

So I wanted to check on my weight, since you asked. and it has been eating me alive wanting to know LOL I am now down to 324. That is a 7 pounds loss. And that is with mass alcoholic consumption saturday night. Pretty nice! I will do this until my surgery time, and see if I can get as close as possible to 300. I have met my little mini goal though! I wanted to be under 330 for the surgery. I have done that! I gave up on the idea of being 300 for the surgery, but I might get close!!!!

My dh and I had researched WLS and just didn't like the choices. So we resigned ourselves to the fact that I would just have to work on it on my own. Then we heard about the lapband, and researched the possibilities. OMG We jumped all over it. That was about 2 years ago. This whole time we have been researching everything, and making sure the choice I made in doctors was a correct one. I also knew I needed to have the apron surgery beforehand since it was making my exercise life a living hell. I wanted to research that as well, and have everything planned out perfectly.

Oh I am all about hiphop as well. Not so much R&B. I want to dance! LOL Not sway. Kanye or Eminem's "Shake That Ass" or any Black Eyed Peas. Something with a strong beat that makes me sweat. And can I tell you how much I am in love with Nate Dogg. LOL Man has got a voce that melts me like butter.

yeah! REALLY GOOD SEX!! LOL I know it sounds cheeky, but DH is always ready to help. And I pass out like a baby and don't wake up for 6 hours!

ugh travelling always makes me retain water badly. just drink a lot of water and your weight will be back to normal.

I am right here with ya, but unfortunately it is work induced insomnia. I have been up since 10 this morning (partied late the night before) and have been working almost non stop. Last week I put in over 100 working hours. going to be the same this week too. I am going to take a break and try to sleep for about 2 or 3 hours, then get up and do it all again.

I am LOVING this diet. I have been pretty faithful to it, and i swear my stomach has shrunk!! I now only eat a small bowl at a time rather than my big bowl LOL I made a new pot this evening, set to be ready tomorrow. I love slow cooked veggie stew. LOL I will post on wednesday what my weight is at. Personally I did not go wild on the banana day. Not really a huge banana person. LOL but I had one and a half. I loved being able to have some beef. DH bbq'd me a steak, and I cut up a few tomatoes and onions to go with them. mm mm good. I can't wait to see what my weight is at, and I am sure I have lost. My fave night club corset doesn't fit me anymore LOL guess I will have to go shopping! WOOHOOO

I hate the term, even though it is a medical term. But I love the word FAT LOL I cal myself a fat chick all time, and boy do i get looks LOL I am not big, I am not a bbw, I am not obese. I am fat. And it just shocks people when I say it. Not that i am running around going "Look at the fat girl!!!" but when people feel it is ok to start talking about my weight, I am not going to go easy on them. Fat is so offensive to everyone. Don't talk to me about my weight unless you are willing to hear the word FAT a lot LOL

I love the one in the basket. That is a great shot. I think if you do the one of the hands holding the baby you ought to crop it a bit to have the baby fill the pic. Really bring focus to it. Fabulous stuff!!

We love most types of music. I think it just depends on what is going on. Like now I am working, so I have classical playing in the background. We LOVE techno, hip hop, and rap for in the car, and dancing. Classic rock and oldies always make me smile when I need a pickme up. And I listen to really hard rock when I clean the house. LOL

You know we just got a weight bench and heavy bag at sports authority. While I was in there they had some pretty good sales going on. You might want to check them out! And I know they have stuff for bigger sizes. Do not go to sears... their stuff is not only way overpriced, but total crap! LOL

I hear ya. I had the week from hell last week with family illness and work craziness (100+ hours in one week of work ) and other stressors. And for the first time I emotionally ate. I couldn't believe it!! And I felt so sick, and so depressed after. It is just really hard to break out of that once you have done it too. I think the idea of working out is a good one. it releases endorphines to help make you feel better. Also, go for a walk in the sunshine. Be careful!! you and I have the same coloring...and I know you would burn in 2 seconds LOL But the Vitamin D from the sun really can lift your spirits. I hope this next week goes a bit better, and you mom is in my thoughts.

I drink between a gallon to a gallon and a half a day. It has cleared my skin, and my weight loss is steady. When I stop drinking water, my weight loss stalls.

Ok, I think maybe you need to not compare yourself to other people on the board for a while. Or if you are, then you need to do exactly what they are doing. Telly has had some amazing losses! Have you also seen that she has had some bad weeks? She also bikes like 13 miles a day!!! Are you doing that? Don't compare. You will make yourself crazy. If I were you I would do some studying on physiology and how the human body reacts to caloric intake and physical output. Find your Base Metabolic Rate. Compare that to your caloric intake. I agree with Wheets that 40% carbs seems a little high. I also agree with you that sugar should stay out of your diet. Good for you!! Up your liquids, and try for a gallon a day instead of a half gallon. Workout consistently. If not everyday, set a time and date and stick to it. Don't look at calories burned. Esp if you are reading it off of the machine. Those are never accurate. Focus on time. 15 minutes is good. 30 minutes burns 3x the calories that 15 minutes does though. And an hour burns even more. Its because of how the body works to burn fat for fuel. Also, try to not eat before a workout. Tht way the energy that your body needs for the workout will come from your fat...not from your lunch. Eat a half hour to an hour after. And drink drink drink. I also have found that my weight plateaus when I don't get a lot of sleep. Go figure. Try to get in you 8 hours of sleep each night. The band is not a fix all. You still have to work it. But it sounds like you are on the right track, and just having some early struggles. Congratz on your weight loss so far!! You can do this, just give it some time.

This is a nice thread. For me, my embarassment is over the weakness that made me fat. Without going into details, I just need to get rid of the fat to get rid of that part of my past. I hold on to the fat and don't get rid of it because I have been weak on facing the issue. It is a tough struggle. I am having the surgery to assist me in losing that part of my past and moving on. Without the surgery I will more likely stumble along the way, making myself feel like I have yet again failed over conquring this incident. There comes a point where for most people it is just too long a row to hoe, too hard a hill to climb. I wish there was not this stigma of WLS being the "easy way out". Not only is it not an easy way out, but it is a valuable tool for people to gain back the self confidence we all had when we were younger. Remember the times when you were a kid. No cares in the world except for maybe what you wanted for christmas, what you were going to play that day. Except for maybe school LOL Ah, I wish I were back in those times again. And every little struggle that I succeed in dealing with brings me closer to that bliss again. I see WLS as one way of conquring this struggle.

I would have to say to this, then, that those people are the exception to the rule. Just because you know a select few with this view on the pro-life side does not mean we all feel this way. I myself volunteer time at a clinic where counselors, doctors and nurse, along with post abortion parents, give time and money to teen mothers, and unfortunate mothers who cannot afford to take care of a child. There are MANY clinics like this throughout the united states. And many many families willing to take in a child who might otherwaise be killed. And yes, this is a logical statement. Yours is also a logical statement. But they are both logical statements based wholey on our particular viewpoints. Lets not get into each other's debating styles. Because you happen to be debating with a two year champ :heh: Now lets look closely at some of the things you have heard from your family. I, for one, do not condone and absolutely think it is horrible that abortion clinics have been bombed, that providers have been shot or shot at, and that any attacks have been carried out on these people. But I understand it. In the minds of these people who carry out such actions you must understand that these people see what these doctors are doing is mass murder. If a government official decided that your family was not good enough to be on this earth any longer, and there were thousands of people backing up his view points on this, wouldn't you do everything in your power to stop the murder of your family members? Even if your last resort came down to taking the lives of the people carrying out this act? I know that if someone tried to kill an innocent I would gladly put my life, and theirs, on the line to see that it stops. This is the thinking of these people. Just as pro-abortionists claim that it is ok to kill the child to save the mother's life. Take one life to save another. You must look at it from their viewpoint. Again, I do not condone nor agree with this tactic. I believe that it is something that should be solved on a govt. level rather than on a person to person level. I am a very "small govt" type of person. And I know there are a lot of conservatives that actually agree with pro-choice movements because of the "my body, my choice" notion. Again, while I don't agree with it, I understand. I would love for there to be fewer laws that affect my body and my choices. But in this case we are not talking about my body. Did you know that a baby, while still in the mother, is in all clinical terms a parasite? the umbilical cord is not attached to the mother. It is attached to the placenta. The placenta is not part of the mother either. It is part of the baby. The placenta pulls blood from the mother's system and nurishes the baby, while also removing waste from the the system. Everything is encapsulated. Nothing is ever part of the mother. The baby is living off of the blood of the mother, just as a tick would. Or a virus. It is a parasite. Knowing this, you cannot say that the baby, while it does reside within the woman, is actually part of the mother. It simply feeds off of the mother until it can survive outside of the womb. The idea that if you cut it off of the mother it cannot survive is true, but that goes without saying for any human being regardless of age when cutoff from food and air. It will die. And Gadgetlady, I thank you. I do have resources that I use quite frequently. I feel that doing the work I do helps me to cope with the choice I made in the past, though I know I will never be truly over it. I have read the statistics of the climb in family child abuse with regards to post abortion parents. It is sad and I see it a lot in the clinic where I volunteer my time.

I find it very interesting that as a christian you would even HINT to professing to know the mind of God. And as a christian...here's a thought. Better safe than sorry!! None of us know!! None of us REALLY know. Doctors don't know, lobbyists don't know, the 14 year old that got knocked up by her boyfriend doesn't know, and no one on this board knows. ONLY GOD KNOWS! So is it murder to abort a baby? Wouldn't it just be smart to play it on the safe side, have the baby, and give it to a family that wants a child of their own? There really are plenty of those out there. Why is it that whenever the abortion debate is brought up it is nothing but people bitching about the "carriers" potential death, or the rape of a woman. These make up for less than 1% of all abortion situations. The majority of what makes up all abortion cases are 14-17 year olds who got pregnant screwing around when they shouldn't have been. And we have removed all consequences of that. Shoot, solve the AIDS crisis and I realy shouldn't have a problem with dressing my daughter up like a slut and sending her out on her first date at the age of 12. I mean come on. Lets look at the real picture here. Abortion is used by stupid little girls who make stupid mistakes because they are not taught to take responsibility for their actions. I know. I was one of them. And Gagetlady is correct. I am broken from it. I pray about it every day of my life. You know when it hit me the hardest. When I was pregnant with my daughter. During my first pregnancy I heard all the bullshit about it not being a human, not being alive, not having a soul. I bought into it. Then I was pregnant with my daughter. And at 5 months I could feel her inside of me. Responding to my emotions, what I ate, what music was playing in the car, what I read to her before I went to sleep. And it killed me to know that I destoyed a child of mine. I killed my own child. Now lets get back to the whole murder idea and this "keep your laws off my body" notion. This human being, this person maybe attached to you, but the heart beats on a different scale, it eats and digests seperately. Clinically and scientifically that means it is a seperate entity. That means that it is not really "your body" but instead a second body living within your body. Now that this is established, and we do not know the mind of God or when a life truly begins, why do we as a society feel it is perfectly alright to support the possible murder of young children? We all cringe at the notion of someone killing a child after it is born. It is horrific. It is nightly news and people are in shock. But it is not wrong for us to take a life just as innocent because of where it resides? And 99% of the time it is for inconvinience sake. So that we can still go out on a firday night. So we can not take time off from school before adopting the kid out and then continuing our education. So we can keep from having that embarassing conversation with the parents about how you just couldn't keep it in your pants cause Jimmy is the most popular guy in school. Here's mine. So you wouldn't be forcing your boyfriend to propose to you because when he did it, by golly you wanted it to be from the heart. Not out of obligation. Boy was I stupid. I actually killed my own kid so that I could be sure my husband proposed to me for all the right reasons.

This weekend was great!! I refrained from eating cake, my stomach from this diet is SOOO small that I was eating bandster portions all weekend. It felt wonderful. And I couldn't wear my favorite corset to the club last night because IT WAS TOO BIG!!!! ahahahahahahaha! Depression gone! LOL