EmileeKaye

(((HUGS))) P'nut....I know the TOM is right around the corner for me also and I'm a little nervous, I have been kicking butt and staying motivated these last couple weeks, but I aso usually feel like you during that time.

I was self-pay...more like mom-pay. She ended up paying a little over 18,000 for my surgery....yet I have not felt any guilt. Maybe because other siblings have had house down payments and businesses paid for them....and the fact that in reality she had spent that throughout my childhood on Jenny Craig, WW, TOPS, many personal trainers, and so on and so on...most of those I went into not wanting to do. This time I had done the research and had been the one who was ready to change my life. I knew it wasn't going to be a waste of money. I don't think I'm spoiled or selfish.....but maybe I am :confused:

I gained back 20 pounds recently. I hadn't had a fill for over a year, although I won't bame it only on that. I wasn't doing any working out, and eating all the bad foods that were able to go through my band easily, ice cream, chocolate, cookies....I don't think I stretched my band, just fell into bad habits. I got a fill two weeks ago and have already lost 13 pounds of that 20.

When I got my band I didn't get a fill until 7-8 months later, I had 2.2cc put in my 4cc band then, I had good restriction. I then got my second fill 15 months after that and he filled it back up to 2.2cc...a little had leaked out I guess and have had really good restriction since then.

good luck, hope you get an approval. I would think it would only help with the process.

Congrats! I can't wait to join you, hopefully soon I can keep my camera in the bathroom and make sure I get my pedi, I want to be that close!!

Wow Telly, sounds like you live in a crazy jungle! Here I am living in Iowa and freak out about a spider (maybe the size of a penny at most)...I'm a wuss. Heather, that sounds really scary. I know that is one of my worst nightmares. And here I'll be in South Texas for a couple weeks at the end of the month.

TriciaK, that's AWESOME!! I can't wait to take a picture like that myself. This morning I got on the scale and it said 220..I was like, WooHoo! thats 3 pounds gone, but got on 3 more times and they all said 221, so I'm going with 221 still. That's 2 pounds, not bad at all! Congrats Telly on your loss!

Ooo...I really lke the look of that Volvo SUV.

2003 Silver Pontiac Grand Am, that I got for a graduation gift from my Dad. I want a new car...but with no job and no more gifts in the near future, I'll be keeping this for awhile :eekB:

When I got my calico six years ago I was suprised when my vet told me all calicos are female, since then I've realized all calicos I had known and have met since are female....I wonder why that is.

I'm a total tv addict and we have the DVR too so, everything gets taped. 1. Sopranos 2. Big Love 3. Desperate Housewives 4. Real World 5. Survivor 6. Prison Break 7. The O.C. 8. Real Housewives of the O.C. 9. Homecooking with Paula Deen(and all Foodnetwork shows) 10. Nip/Tuck 11. American Idol 12. Intervention And the list goes on and on....

I got a four mile walk/jog in today with my Dear Boyfriend! OMG Telly....I just re-read that, 31.2 miles?? You are crazy girl! But you're GREAT, makes me want to do even more!

She's beautiful!! My first cat ever was a siamese, I still miss her.

I was banded June 4, 2004~almost two years! 4cc Inamed band 2 fills Dr. Mike Wolpert in Sioux City, IA No erosion to date...

I had Dr. Mike Wolpert in Dakota Dunes, SD band me in June 2004. He is Amazing! Dakota Dunes is right on the tri-state border of SD, IA, and NE.

Welcome!! Congrats on finding this site before your surgery, I was a year and a half post op and I still find this site so helpful daily! I was also self-pay, it was so worth it!

I'm reporting in Sarge, I think I'll be weighing in every Sunday for the Challenge. I'm -5 from last Sunday at 221.

The black one was named Lucy, short for Lucifer(hehe), she is no longer with us, but the calico is named Baby and she is now around 6 years old.

Around $2.76 here in Southern Iowa last time I filled up.

Please Sarge let me join late! I am SO ready for this, have already been doing the work and cutting back on the food and getting all my water in, just never saw this thread somehow. I'll be a good private, promise!

Wow Tricia, I can only imagine how frustrating that has to be. SO close!! My only advice, although I'm sure you already know, is just change some things up. If you walk on the treadmill put the incline up a little for a little longer and you should see some difference, and of course try to cut out just a little from your diet...I know we will see a 199 scale picture by Monday, you can do it!!

Telly, you will be proud! Weighed this morning(my offical number), and I was at 221 already, my two pounds are gone, now I need to make sure I maintain this weightloss for Monday or hopefully even lose some more!! Hope everyone is doing good too!!

I was told not to drink any for 1-2 months after surgery by my doc and you can drink but know that its a lot of calories and can make weight loss a lot slower.

MmmmMmmmm, thank you for sharing the Egg Drop Soup recipe! I just made a batch and it is wonderful. I have really been craving this for awhile and we don't have any Chinese restaurants around here...and I knew it prolly wasn't very healthy how they make it. THANKS!