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Caffeine was not off limits for me, only during my pre and post op diets. It does however increase your appetite. I will have caffeinated tea or a coffee drink. At first I was grouchier than normal, but I learned other things to do to help me with my depression. I took up cross stitching and crocheting...reading. Something to replace that old "friend" food :thumbup:. You need to have people you can talk to when you're depressed...someone you can turn to that will talk you through the tough times and help you overcome that kickstand in your life that always made you feel better when you were in a mood :eek:. You'll see what will work for you and what will not! Good luck to you. If you need to talk/vent I am always around

This is the off topic debate area...This site isn't just for talking about the lapband...it is also a place where people with lapbands can come together and talk, about anything...it's a lapband community

National Right to Life (Pro-Life) NARAL Pro-Choice America (Pro-Choice) Just thought I would share the sites...

You know...This thread is like beating a dead dog...niether one of us is ever going to be right in the other ones eyes...I am tired of trying to defend my beliefs...they are mine, not yours and nothing anyone says will chnge them. :crying:

So if a woman has conjoined twins and the doctors tell her if she seperated them one or both may die, but she seperates them anyways and one dies...should she be arrested for killing a child? Those children are human and they have their own brain and what not...Should it be illegal for a parent to seperate twins since they are not her body...why should she make the choice for one to die? hmm...

The baby is attached to the mothers body.

Without the nutients being giving to the baby through the mothers body. It would not survive...

The fetus is a part of the mother. They share blood for heavens sakes. A family has a right to pull the plug on another family member if they have no brain waves...Why is that okay?

Yeah and out of all those stages of life all of them feel pain except for one...hmm. Oh and I have read articles where it says that abortion is not painful for the fetus. I am not pro choice because they don't feel pain. I am pro choice because it is not the body and life of everyone else...it is the body and the life of the woman carrying the embryo/fetus. I am against making it illegal because it isn't anyone elses choice to make...It is not your life that suffers...it is not your body it is not you mentality or you life that is ruined...

I'm sorry...where in my post did I say that..? I just said the difference was that there was no pain. I didn't say therefore they're not human or therefore we can kill people if they can't feel..I just stated a point, that's all

That's kind of funny because science is 100% positive that when you beat a toddler they feel the pain...however, science has not proved that the growing fetus/embryo feels anything...maybe that is where the difference is...hmmm. I'm also sure that spouses and slaves feel pain...

That is why I think it is sad. I did not miss the point. It is disgustingly sad that people have to control everyone's rights just because of their beliefs!

I say pro-life...because that is what most of them wish to be called. I say pro-coice for those who believe it should be legal. I do not say anti-choice or pro-abortion. You don't see pro-choicers standing in front of churchs protesting or calling pro-lifers murders for the deaths they will cause, by making abortions illegal, of women who will die in labor or who will lose their lives...those who, forced to have an unwanted baby, will die emotionally, financially, mentally, or even physically. Either side can swing things to their views...I just think child killing is a term that is obviously to make their side sound better...but whatever. It is what it is

I just think they use words that they think will sound the worse against abortion...when they could just have easily said they are against abortions...

I never said the term was out of line

I like how they use terms like Child-killing. Thank you at least now I know to tell my hubby that I don't want to live in N.D. lol. This is a sad day for women living there

That was a very well written post!!! Bravo dare. I agree 100%!

Dr. Chock did mine! She is great! It is not a quick fix. I had mine done in September and I have lost around 60 pounds! It's still work, but it's easier for me with the band then it was when I was trying to do it without. I was 253.6 5'3''...I'm 194 now :rolleyes2: Good luck!!!

Wow...lol. That is quite a dream. Haha. Crazy! :crying:

This is about abortion. I am tired of discussing religion with you. I am not a Christian and I never will be. I like what I am and have no intention of "converting". You're happy being Christian and that is great, but I am happy where I am. Did anyone else hear about the Octo mom's 911 call...lol. Wow!

It was really good. My husband and I really enjoyed it! I had never watched anything done by him, but I liked it. He did a really good job! lol....check it out!

I have been to more than on "Christian" Church and they all are different, yes they are talking about the same "God", but they preach about different things. I have been to ones where they say they are the only true Christian church...what kind of crap is that?! That is why I think all this "religion" crap is a bunch of hog wash! It's ridiculous. That is why I am not "Christian"...You should watch the movie "Religulous"...it's really well done!

Their "God" may not be the "God" that you talk to...everyones faith and beliefs are different even in the same religion...

Do you know how many people lie when they are survied? Let me tell you there is more than 9%...some people say they are Christians because their parents are Christians, but they don't practice it or believe in it...most of them have never even read the Bible...

I know this because I have read accounts of that being so. I am indian. I am also related to Francis Scott Key, the man who wrote our National Anthem. People were afraid of what would happen to them if they did not conform to the religion being thrust upon them. The Christians that fled her for freedom took that freedom from the people living here before them. They were raped of their land, most of their rights and their beliefs...maybe you're just reading accounts written by the Christians and not by the natives...?