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JOGFB Join Our Group! Fat Busters! (I also thought of using Foreign Buddies, Fat B*st*rds and Fluffy Bandsters...) POSTS

SCHOOL Selfish Children Hide Outlandishly Opulent Loot LINTY

FUDGE Flog Underclassmen During Graduation Exercises GLOSS

I'm a Plucker! More romantic: Fireplace or Campfire?

JYEZP Justice Youdarian Evades Zealots' Parties TRYST

Hot tea. Roses and Lilies -or- Wildflowers?

Wilma, We need to schedule a get together! The mall was OK it was only three of us. If we can get Donna in on it, we could get together anytime that works for you guys. Will PM the both of you, Brenda

INAFN Imitating Numb-skulls Attracts Forced Noogies GRLST

English Shaver or Brazilian?

Blind Childless or Child-ridden (3 or more)?

SWWIT Sweat Winds With Intense Tingling FLOGS

KELLY Know Everlasting Love, Learn Yodeling REPLN

FUMUN forget underwear, monkeys understand nothing STELD

Great personality Supermarket or Farmer's Market?

No side effects, and I know side effects. I had lots of trouble on the pill. Have you had kids? I had mine inserted at my 6 week post-partum visit. That could be why I had no major pain, my cervix had been forewarned. I have never tried the patch. I heard it wasn't as effective for bigger gals.

Yup! I am a big spitter. It is more socially acceptable for me to use an opaque cup and a straw. I use the straw to scrape so there are no spit threads of embarrassment. For me to swallow would be inviting a foamy PB (productive burp) I try and keep one in the car.

I didn't do a seminar. I can see your point about the "herd" mentality. Changing a briefing about a life-saving medical procedure into a timeshare sales-pitch... ick. When I did my sleep study, it was to determine if I had obstructive sleep apnea. I did. While I was waiting, insurance added an exclusion for Obesity and related services. The OSA diagnosis only strengthens your case for insurance coverage. If you are self-pay...you could skip it. I went self-pay after the exclusion was added. No regrets. The hardest part for me was just making friends with the "F" word. When I could admit to myself (denial queen) that I was fat, it got so much easier to take the steps. One at a time. I cried at times, go ahead... you won't be the first, or the last.

I have Mirena. It has been the tidiest 3 years of my adult life! I "spot" for a day or so every two months. Insertion smarts a little (take some Tylenol beforehand if possible) and cramps for a little while the same day. Then you are worry free.

PB means Productive Burp. Since the pouch produces very little stomach acid, emptying it is much different than vomiting in the traditional sense. http://www.lapbandtalk.com/showthread.php?t=7959 This thread has them all! Welcome aboard!

Tim, if you like Dr. Fox, you should have him do your follow-up stuff/fills. He charges just over $400 for a first fill and then they go down to $200 something. I think he still does them "blind" or without fluoroscopy. As far as I know, Dr. Neal in Olympia is the only fluoro fill in the area. He charges $350 per fill. Congrats on finding a surgeon. Take care, I am sure you will do great! Brenda

Bumping again! Hope to see lots and lots of people!

I've always tried to feed my little girl as healthily as possible. She is still young. Since banding, we eat more of the same foods. No more drive-thru while my daughter sucks down a plate of steamed broccoli and chicken. We share the broccoli now. DH still eats crud-in-a-box, lousy, skinny, freak! :puke:

Today, I was hungry, but didn't really want to eat anything. I loved it. Then I cooked up a stir-fry. When I am good and tight right after a fill, thick fluids like protein shake and V-8 linger long enough to make me feel "full" for about ten minutes at a time. You are an intelligent, articulate woman. If you had to guess...where would you look first? My weakness is water, every time someone mentions it I feel like I am being scolded in Kindergarten. It's MY biggest hurdle. I KNOW that if I had someone whose job it was to make sure I got my 64oz/day, I'd have dropped twice the weight I have thus far. I also graze on occasion which makes it a lot harder to count calories. When I feel like I am not paying close enough attention, I log back into FitDay.com and track for a week or two. If I was in your position having spent the last "almost three" years fighting for success, I would (just me here) camp out in the docs office, chart my calories/mealtimes, and conference with the "team" to problem-solve. It is your job to work the band, if you are, and it's not working. Hand a big chunk of the responsibility to the people who get paid to help you succeed. Much respect and admiration for anyone fighting an uphill battle for so long. Take care, and keep us posted.

So glad I stopped back in! Those comics are adorably irreverant! I didn't want to ignore you, l.a. susan, since there was much thought put into your post. I am going to edit for brevity, K? You are right when you say that this thread is lacking support, ESPECIALLY for the newly banded. This is the LBT Rants and Raves Forum Gripe, complain, moan, fight, rant and rave. Enter at your own risk. This means that your post was in the right section, too. I started this train wreck as a simple question because I noticed that I was "Killing" my fair share of threads. I thought that it had potential to offend some, so I put it here. It evolved into 30+ pages of jokes about the process, jokes about each other, but mostly jokes about ourselves. It is OK if you aren't there yet. Did you get a chance to read the whole thing? I appreciate that you are refraining from assessing our collective personality by what you have found in this forum. The hard core support is in the Introductions, Complications, Exercise, and General forums. This one is where we go to let our minds roll in the gutter, discuss politics, and heaven forbid, religion. WELCOME!! You are always welcome here, but if it gets too hairy for you, you might want to rethink Rants and Raves. I am more than willing to support the heck out of you (((l.a. susan))) <- those are hugs. Please don't let anything we type to amuse ourselves, hurt you! Out of respect for the uniqueness of the weirdos I am lucky to call bandster buddies, I have to stand by this thread. I had a lot of fun with it. I am sorry you found it hurtful. Brenda

The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't. I think this is the worst one so far. It isn't really funny and doesn't serve to illustrate a point.