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Whee?y <-- whoah, do you see that weird symbol where your Z should be!?! How did I do that!?!? LOL Anyways... are you going back to Mississauga for your fill, or are you able to go to Ottawa for this one?

Ooooh chips... it's been so long. Well, not really. I miss snarfing down a big bag in a night. I love all kinds, ketchup, salt and vinegar, dill pickle, CHEEZIES!, Cheetos, sour cream and onion rings, Doritos and salsa, plain old 'ripple" with various Philadelphia chip dips .... oh why, oh why did you have to mention chips!?!?!

haha, well... I haven't had computer experience ALL my life. I actually remember 'finding out' about the internet in highschool, and I was quickly hooked! Must be my addictive personality! Do you have any kind of photo editing software on your computer? Usually the pictures you take right off your camera are reeeeally big, so you have to resize them.

I don't know if I can do chili, without massive amounts of garlic bread.... mmmmm.... Wheezy, how's that fill treating you? Still not feelin' it?

LOL ... crazy american butter beans... must be! And nope Cloe, no movement yet. I've actually kept my word, and not weighed since last wednesday... so it truly WILL be a surprise to me when I weigh in a couple days! I have weighed myself virtually everyday since my last fill, since I've been losing so well, every time I hopped on the scale, it was an exciting little adventure. Just trying to get myself out of the habit. I can't believe how hard it is to stop! It's KILLING me everyday not to get on that thing! But I am hoping to be at the halfway point on Wednesday!!

Ooooorrrr... in the thread in question, you can click on "Thread Tools" at the top of the page, and click 'unsubscribe from this thread". and if you never ever ever wanna get notifications of new replies to posts, go to your "User CP" (you know, where you edit your signature), then in the Control Panel, chose "Edit Options", scroll down the page and in the "Messaging and Notification", there's an area that says "Default Thread Subscription Mode". Yours is probably set to "instant email notification". Chose "do not subscribe' or "no email notification".... I'm sure they both do the same thing, so pick whatever you want! (p.s. I don't know all this craziness off the top of my head. I thought I'd seen something in the User CP once about unsubscribing, so I went looking! I personally like getting 20 emails from here a day, cause that's all I ever get! ) And #2, I have emailed Dr. C at his own address before, and I recall he answered very quickly. Can you find the email you sent, copy it, and resend it? Give it a couple days, and if no reply... email the nurses email address, and tell them to check his damn email! If nothing else, you'll have to buckle down and call him !

Yay Cloe! I'm glad your hubby convinced you to cancel your fill, and that you're listening You're doing awesome... really. Look at your numbers!

Oh man... keep the complements comin'! hehe I'm glad you're now "in"! I haven't posted anything either... but I will.

Awww... you guys are making me blush! Finally someone commenting on me looking different!! LOL Thanks for the recipe, neenagh! My crockpot is TINY, so I would probably have to half that or maybe even 1/3 it! I don't think I've ever seen butter beans... what are they?

and yeah, good luck!!

Don't even look at anything, and you'l be fine. I've seen the needle, but never seen 'em put it in!

awww... thanks Wheezy Cloe, any luck? Is it working for you yet?

Thank you guys :) Hey, guess what! I bought the cheapest little tiny slow cooker at Walmart on Sat, and tried it out last night. I am IN LOVE! I made a beef stew, and it was amazing. The meat was sooooo tender... ahhhhhh... now I need to find more and better recipes to try! So feel free to share if you've got any!

I think in the states you guys don't have the 'variety' of (potato) chips that we have here. That's what ketchup chips are, ketchup flavoured potato chips.

I think the wait in Edmonton is at least a year... AT least! If you got it done in Edmonton, that's where you'd get your fills. Otherwise, if you went somewhere else, I'm not sure about Edmonton, but for sure in Calgary there's a few options for people to see for fills. Usually all that's involved is going into the doctors office/room, lying down on the exam table, he'll feel your stomach to see where your port is, he'll take a needle out, fill it with some saline, put the needle into your stomach, hopefully hit the port on the first try without too much trouble. He'll inject a little bit of saline into the port. (this is different for everyone, and also depends on what size of band you have) You probably won't feel anything or have any idea that he's done anything. You'll drink some Water, to make sure it goes down, and then you'll leave. If all goes smoothly, it probably won't take more than 5-10 minutes. Which clinic are you looking at in Ontario? There's a couple to choose from. Look around all over lapbandtalk, and you'll find info about Mexican surgeons, the good, and the bad. And ask more questions if you want

Ok, so I was gonna take a picture of my scars to show you what they're looking like 6+ months out, then decided just to take a picture of myself with the same blank stare that I have in my ID picture.. and I did. I wanted to compare my ID picture with what I look like now... and here it is. Apparently I looked like this at one point (back in 2002 when I got this ID pic taken... at maybe 250 lbs. Who's excited? LOL!

My fill last time was painful... BUT it's because of all the pushing and poking the nurse(s) had to do. I had the nastiest bruise ever.... black and blue. The needle isn't bad, it's the wiggling around with it in your stomach they (might) have to do, and that pushing to find your port. Maybe your port isn't as deep as mine, and that won't even be an issue.

Cool... you'll have to let us know how it goes on tuesday! I was at the grocery store, stopped at the pharmacy, and asked the pharmacist what Wellbutrin looks like (for size comparison), he brought out some of the 'SR's and they were quite big. Then I asked if he had XL's, which he did... showed me, and I think they're doable. They seem to be the same size, but probably twice as thick as my thyroid pills. So... I'm gonna do it. I at least know what I'm talking about if I ask for XL instead of SR. I'll have to do this Dr. thing probably within the next couple weeks, cause I need some prescriptions refilled, and only have enough to last that long. I'm almost excited. I hope they do they trick.

Thanks everyone who's commented so far. Green, do you know if you can still get Wellbutrin SR? What are you going to do, if you can't swallow the ones you're taking now at some point?

LOL, sorry... I'm an idiot. You can still try that, but I won't be able to help you if that doesn't work! I didn't realize I was posting in the TLBC message board post, and not the Cobourn one! Whoops!

Hmm... where you would enter your username and password, look for somewhere you can click 'forgot my password', it'll ask for your username and email address, and then either send you a new password, or remind you of what yours is. If that doesn't do it, let me know, and I'll contact the admin or moderator for you, ok?

I've tried the patch at least 4 times in the last year... I definitely don't need anything else impeding my sex drive!

did you get an email that you had to click on a link to 'activate' your account?

Cloe, you should have an email waiting for you, let me know what happens.

I totally agree with all this. Food has lost (alot of) its appeal to me. Sometimes I want it, some times I could care less, and only eat cause I should. Sometimes it feels like its more trouble than its worth. I almost feel like I need to eat only the best tasting stuff, cause I have so little of it, it better be damn good! I had a huge craving for toast with peanut butter the other day... I took a couple bites, it wasn't going down too well, so I licked the melted peanut butter off. :omg: LOL