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tomorrow! tomorrow! i'll see ya'll...tomorrow! it's only a day away!!!! :wub:

I'm so excited for the get together! I can't wait to go back to Denver and see everyone. PS - Hi everyone! I haven't posted in probably 2 years. I'm Jaime, and I got banded by Dr. K in November of 2008.

The website says a new Biggest Loser: Couples (Season 8) returns this Fall. I'm guessing it will start sometime in August. They just announced yesterday that they are officially casting for Season 9.

I guess I"ll join the challenge, though I'm rather sick of being a failure. 5 weeks = 10lbs for me. I've just started going out to the local lake with a friend of mine. She's like a drill sergeant, "jog to this tree", "run to that trash can", "if you can talk you can jog!". She kicked my ass yesterday morning! We did a mile and a half in about 20 minutes and boy am I sore today. But that was only Day 1 for us, and we're going to do it 3 days a week at 6am before work. With her beside me, I can accomplish great things. This ball is going to start rolling, I just know it.

I've been MIA for awhile, mainly because I'm in one of those "Gain and Lose the same 3lbs" slumps. Two weeks ago my weigh-in would have been +3.2, but I didn't wanna admit I was such a failure after having such a big loss the week before. Then last week I was -1.6. This morning I'm -2.4 and have finally lost the 3lbs I gained over the last few weeks. *sigh* I'll weigh-in officially tomorrow, I just wanted to apologize for being out of the loop for several weeks.

Unfortunately that's not true. 1st place wins 250k and the 1st place at-home wins 100k. No one else gets anything, except their health of course.

Helen was 117 at the finale, she had lost 140 pounds (down from 257 when she started). I'm not sure where you read that the show had her put back on 20lbs, but it's only been 6 days since the finale, and I don't see the show telling her to gain weight after the finale is over. And I don't think her body could have handled 97lbs!

Mom2two, a friend of mine (also a band patient) told me about a girl she worked with who had gone to Mexico for her surgery. For 6 months she put up with the same things that you have put up with (because with a MX surgeon you can't exactly go back and ask what's wrong). Finally my friend convinced her doctor to take a look at her, and he said that (after a few tests) he could tell that the band had been placed around the bottom of the esophagus. He could tell the band hadn't slipped. It just had never even been placed around her stomach in the first place! So all that throwing up for all those months was because she never even had a little pouch. She was devastated, and she'd been through so much that she just asked him (begged him really) to just put her under and take out the band. She decided to get the band taken out and just go with the Bypass. I hope they can fix your band and put it back in the right place! You deserve success with all that you've been through, and I hope you get it! Keep us posted, and stay strong!

I'm really bummed that Helen won. I think she looked like she'd been fasting for a week or two. Tara looked much better IMO, much healthier. And Mike - wow, just wow. He's going to get so much attention from the girls when he gets to college. :thumbup:

I've been having this for breakfast lately, and it's so delicious and low calorie I thought I'd share the idea. 1/4 cup of Kashi Go Lean cereal (50cals) 5.3oz (one cup) of Oikos Greek Yogurt - plain flavor (80cals) one small cup of Del Monte No Sugar Added peaches (25cals) Mix together and enjoy!!! 155cals of deliciousness!

I would like to respectfully ask to sit this week out. :frown: Yesterday was my anniversary, and I ate like a fat girl the entire weekend, including my lunch and dinner on Friday! I'm actually up 3lbs in 3 days! I'm praying it's water weight, I hope my body is just in shock from eating so much garbage. I hope hope hope I can get back to where I was over the next 7 days.

I was thinking the same thing Mini. It's horrible just how much we've all been hit with so far this year.