FunnyDuddies

I feel really tall at most times because of my weight, and i am 5ft4. When I was a size 4 I felt tiny, like I could hide anywhere and people were always looking over me. Now I feel like a giant, and like I loom over even the amazonian women. Maybe its my additude. LOL

Saw this tonight. Just thought I would share. http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20060212/hl_hsn/weightlosssurgeryforsomethelasthope

Girl, from all of the posts I have read by you...ain't nothin' gonna break your stride! Send the surgeon a bouquet of flowers and a nice drippy card full of happy thoughts and sentiments about you geting the band from him, and that you are looking forward to your new phase of this journey. Leave it in a happy place, and go find a fill doctor who is going to not be afraid to hide behind dismissal by post. Lots of love and fat girl hugs.

Our daughter was born a week late, and was still tiny. She is a rail, and eats like a horse when she has her growth spurts, but like a bird the rest of the time. She is all legs, and at 4 years old she wears 6 year old clothes due to her lankiness. The boy is kinda weird. (in more ways than one!) He has fat cheeks. And he is broad shouldered and tall for his age too. He was a month early and weighed 8 and a half pounds!! But he never has a belly except just after eating. His legs and arms are skinny rails, and after waking up every morning he comes running out of the room with his ribs showing. And the boy can EAT!! He eats more than his mom and dad put together! LOL But he is really active and burns weight off like crazy. The dog is skinny too, but he is a border collie and runs with the boy. Both of them seem to be dead set on running their dinner off when ever possible. The cat is a big fat tub of fur. His name is Elwood. His stomach touches the ground when he walks. He gets spoiled because of the kids, who give him way more food than he should get. He is old, and happy to be fat and slow and a major snuggle bunny.

Hey now!! I do pilates! LOL :peace:

Yeah I have a thing with my eyes too. When I lay down (and occasionally when I am sitting up) my eyes tear badly. They do not dry out, but the excessive wiping of tears dries the skin out around my eyes. My DH freaked out the first time he saw this. He thought I was having a bad dream and crying in my sleep. Its not like I gush tears, but there is a constant slow watering, and it can get annoying. the hair thing is true too...but I have to wash my hair everyday cause I have to use a heavy amount of conditioner to brush my hair. I have very curly red hair, and that much conditioner builds up worse than anything. Just curious about your friend... How much weight did she lose? With me losing over 200 pounds I am sure of surgery to come, but at the same time my PCP tells me at my age and skin condition I might bounce back just fine.

I am glad you are ok. But I gotta say that if I was in your position, and we had found out it was just being backed up, my DH would have totally started in with the jokes. And all I can hear are his comments in my head. Smile, be glad you caught it before it became dangerous, and take the enema if it gets bad. Besides...you can look at it as a fat flush and feel like californian high society. LOL

My pcp said there was a corolation, so I am just curious. We were talking about fastness and ease of weight loss being effected by the financial sacrifice made by self pays. Her exp is that those who pay lose more steadily, and have less complications. I told her that by being on the board I have met people who did everything right and still had failures and set backs. She said there are exceptions to every rules, but on the whole a person who pays for it themselves rather than someone else paying for it takes better care of it, and makes it work harder, better. I see the logic, but I do not wholy agree. So I thought I would come to the place I know I can get real experiences from...Here. Rather than just going by what my PCP says as gold. hehehe. Sort of my second opinion.

HAHAHAHAHAH This is DH's nickname for me. Does that explain anything?? hehehe

Get some for me. I am not getting lucky tonight. but I will make him make up for it twice tomorrow. LOL

Heathergurl DEFINITELY wins horniest! LOL I feel like I could come in a close second lately though. WOOHOO!!

On a slightly similar subject, I have made a huge discovery with this line of moisturizing. Let me explain how I figured this out and some background. First off, I HATE other people touching my face, esp around my eyes. It is something that freaks me out. LOL But my mom talked me into getting my makeup done at a makeup counter one day and I was told I was doing everything wrong. See, I would wash my face with body soap, and not use a moisturizer. I had very oily skin, and broke out as bad as a 13 year old. I could never control it, even though I washed my face twice a day with a citrus body soap. It would strip the oils from my face, and my body would increase the oils to my face to self-moisturize. The woman at the counter explained that I actually don't have oily skin, that my face was over compensating. It was clogging my pores, and making my skin dry out and peel using this soap. I started using a face soap for dry skin, twice a day. Using a day time moisturizer before putting on my makeup, and an overnight moisturizer before bed. My skin has completely cleared up. I no longer have that oily sheen on my face, and my skin is smooth and peel free. I don't look like a 13 year old with bad pimples anymore. And I can actually wear makeup without foundation because my skin tone has completely evened out!! I am amazed!!! I also use the same products every day, not switching between products. This is important, because your skin gets used to one formula. As for my eyes, the skin around your eyes is VERY different from the skin on the rest of your face. You should use an eye specific moisturizer with smaller moisturizer cells so that it absorbs better. Otherwise the regular moisturizer will not absorb into the eye skin and will actually weigh the skin dow, creating fine lines and wrinkles. All of this goes for the guys too. Guys neglect their skin so badly. It kills me how my DH treats his face. Guys...get that skin toned back up. It will keep you handsome longer.

For the face I use Estee Lauder's line of re-firming moisturizers (night and day), the re-firming eye cream twice a day, and their Idealist Refinisher before I put on the moisturizer and after washing. I have noticed a HUGE difference with my skin since using it. And its pricey getting it all in the beginning but the jars are huge and a little goes a long way!! Drinking your milk, getting your Protein, and taking Vitamin E are really important too!! Work it from the inside out!! And I REALLY want more info on the burn centers paying for the surgery! I have a ton of skin to donate LOL

Thanks all. I appreciate the responses so far. I am going to let this go over the weekend and compile the figures to post on monday. I'll let the post go for as long as possible, but the first set of figures will be on monday. The more people respond, the stronger the figures.

Ok. Need to put a huge disclaimer here... The questions I am about to ask could be construed in a light that makes it seem I am blaming problems with the lap band on the owner. I AM NOT IN ANYWAY DOING THIS!!! I am trying to look at the psychology of things, and ask for some statistics. This is similar to the 25% failure rate thread. That thread made me wonder. So please do not take what I am asking as an attack to anyone. It is not. So I am wanting the following questions answered by anyone willing to take this survey... --Are you self pay, partial insurance covereage, or full/most insurance covered? --How long have you been banded? (in number of months) --What is your AVERAGE weight loss since banding? (total weight loss divided by number of months banded) --Have you had any complications? If so, what? --Have you had your band removed? --What country was your band placed in? --What is your age? (I know...touchy. LOL But it does go along with the question.) I will post the results. This survey and main question is based on the curiosity of how people do on the lapband, and to see if the level of financial investment has had any baring on the success rate. Again...I am not wanting a fight to break out over this. It is touchy, and I understand that. This is purely a scientific curiosity. Lets all remain friends on this.

You name it, I'll listen to it, but it has to be of some sort of talent. No talent musicians and singers don't go well by me. I am a trained and practicing singer. And I drive my DH nuts cause I can hear a song and sing it back almost perfectly. I am one of those that walks through the grocery store singing to the muzak without noticing that I am doing it.

Just got a job at Needless Markup. I also sell e-books on how to make money. The out of the house job is to force me to get out of the house now that the kids are in preschool, and meet new people. LOL DH says I am a shut in.

ugh I had that happen at a bar once too. the great thing is, it was a bar that I went to twice a week to play pool with DH. The guy didn't know that I knew every guy in that place. 5 of my friends drug him out and two came back with skinned knuckles. I love men who stick up for their friends.

DH can't keep his hands off me now with someof the weight lost. Even in his sleep LOL Which can very rudely wake you from a pleasant dream!!

Yesterday was so weird for me. It started out with me blowing the atkins diet and having a pop tart. I didn't even realize what the hell I was doing till I was mostly done with it. Talk about being an automaton!!! I just hated myself, and cried like a baby. I got on messenger and asked DH for help, and he calmed me down. I seriously even considered throwing up to get rid of it. That made me feel even more like a loser. So in the midst of all my blubbering I get a phone call. Its the dept store I put in an application for. I got the job I wanted!! And this is a very high end store. I thought I was too fat to work there, but they didn't seem to think so. So I go out to buy my new clothes for the job, and I find I am a size smaller!! WOOHOO!! And DH tkes me out for dinner to Celebrate and I easily slide into a booth that I used to have to squeeze into!! With about 3 inches between my tummy and the table!!! Scuse my language but HOLY SHIT!! LOL I was bowled over! I was so happy! Happy days are here again :clap2: :clap2: :clap2:

Oh the movies sound really nice. Esp since DH and I never get to go anymore. We have two small kids, and call me old fashioned but I believe in not subjecting other movie goers to a child's chatter. LOL

Yeah, I had a RNY friend go down the list of what she "heard" caused erosion, and actually chose RNY over banding because of these stupid things... Sit ups (apperently you aren't the only one who heard that) Spicy foods Milk Overeating Smoking Booze straining when trying to have a BM LOL twising excersizes in the first year sicking up and burping bad gas *sigh* i hate when people don't research.

ooooo. booze. yum. LOL We heard there was some great nightlife, so we are going to go dancing the night before. I am being banded by Dr. Sanchez, and staying at the private guest house he has for his patients. I was told that there is a driver that will take us into town and retrieve us for our shopping. Talk about service! LOL Did you( or any other Monterrey visitors) see any guitar shops? My DH is really wanting to learn spanish guitar and Flamenco, so he has toyed withthe idea of getting a nice spanish guitar there.

DH and I have had this joke since Christmas that he was going to buy me a Faberge chihuahua to comemorate the band trip to Monterrey in April. Today we were talking about getting a really special souvenir while down there to remember the trip by...aside from the band, which we have already named Betsy. So tell me, what did you find in your adventures the day before or after surgery while down there?? any cool shops, art and crafts, pottery, guitars, or all the other wonderful things MX is known for? Give me some idea. I want to study up on what I might get before going up there.

have you all heard of the "pearl thongs"? strand up pearls flossing the tush. and lace around the back and tummy. tres chic. boyshorts are my choice. cut low, no panty line, and will cover up total body lift scars nicely. see, I'm thinkin ahead! LOL