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I need to go make my dinner - I am having tofu and edamame and yellow & red peppers & onions in curry sauce - it sounds really good when I got the stuff out to make it but I am just not hungry! I try to eat before 6:30 so I am already late, but I just don't want to eat right now. A year ago I never ever would have thought I'd be complaining about how I'm not hungry enough to eat! Ya just got to experience it to believe it! I ate lunch 5 hours ago so I should be getting hungry anytime, but I had walnuts and pecans at lunch and that seems to really keep me satisfied for a long time. Soon I hope -0 I want to finish before 7:30. Don't know what I am going to do in the a.m., dont want airport food so maybe I'll make a soy protein shake and drink it on the way - but then my shake mixer cup will sit in the hot sun in the airport parking lot for 4 days and rot!!

Thats what I paid for mine Jes, and it was at Wal-mart! SO if you get that price at Macy's go for it!!

OMG Candra you're in ONEDERLAND! Hey Reggie, we need to have another party!!!! Congrats hunny :-) That's a WAY big deal! At least it twas for me . . . .

YES Jes you need a magic bullet! First for full liquids, then for purees - I still use mine every single day. LOVE it! Candra I'm leaving for Oregon @ 5 am - good memory!!

YAY MIKE AND NICOLE!!!!! Way happy for you, and Folson, yay yay yay! Pammie - why were you even discussing his colonoscopy over tuna fish?? Yeeesh . . . . LMAO, that is so funny! Gotta go pack . . since my clothes are 1/2 the size they used to be - and I mean that literally - I have twice as much room! I am wearing DKNY jeans today, they were my "goal jeans" now they are just my favorites - one of my secretaries was walking in back of me today and said oMG, are those 8s or 10s? They are neither, but I DO love what they do for my saggin' tushy!! Have I told you guys lately how much my "100" card means to me?? It is sitting on my dresser and it is one of the most motivating things I've found! *****I love you guys man***** Rockin' with my band . . . Nicole acid reflux is a red zone sign! There is always someone on call from bariatrics at Richmond emergency if it keeps up over the weekend . . I got lucky when I went cause Baggs was on call! W@hat a nice man he is, even at freakin' midnight after a full day of surgeries and office visits - amazing.

Tina ya floor me cause you are so darned funny!!!

Nicole I had exactly the same for folate (WAY high, but the vitamin lady that came and talked to us last night siad that's fine!) and Hemaglobin A1c . . . . you are NOT diabtetic with that A1c!

Good mornig ladies! Candra don't tell Liz/Robin that you are doing Atkins shakes!! Pam Subway will make any of their sandwhiches into a salad for an extra $2 - it's a rip-off but you get LOTS of good vegies, enough for 3 meals if you don't ruin the whole thing with dressing . . . . Tina & Nicole, you guys FLOOR me! Chris you are going to make your Halloween goal for SURE! Look at you go! I'm going to be offline Saturday thru most of Tuesday, in Oregon no access, so nobody panic about my not posting! Donna you're going to do GREAT Saturday, just like last time! You're a natural

Put me down for 182.0! Wow - sweet spot for sure!!

You girls are ALL rockin' it! Got to go they are coming to unplug me anytime now . . . . boo-hoo!

Tamra my scale says all kinds of different things, I just keep getting in it until it says what I think it should! J/K, I do weigh at least twice and if I don't get the same weight I keep doing it until I get 2 in a row the same . . the first weight is almost always the lowest though, but sometimes I just don't believe it so I get on again and it says something different! It's messing with my mind . . . .

Hi SaZu! NO it's not a year - I asked my doc for a referral in October, had my orientation in November, had my surgery in February and am now down over 100 lbs less than a year from when I started the process. Yes it depends on how fast you lose that 10%! So go for it! Best thing I ever did for myself

Holy moley my girls are chatt-tiiie! Pages and PAGES . . . . all goof stuff of course, but better if Candra would summarize each evening :-) Just checking in, lots of moving while trying to work (I know ya hear me Tina!) today and I am pooped! I got my 10 miles in again today though, and a tad over 700 calories, so that;s good - plenty of protein the last couple days, but I just can't seem to get 60+ in unless I eat close to 800 or more. ANYways . . . .this whole sweet spot/green zone this is absolutely surreal . . . . not hungry, not interested in food - unless reading a cookbook or sumpthin! OH I wish you all the very best in reaching it soon, it's KEWL OK to much water today, have to run off and run some through again - then getting ready for bed. Love you guys!! Goodnight :biggrin:

Men who cause feelings that cause ice cream to be consumed = bad, IMHO. Goodnight ladies ! 1200 cals made me sleepy . . . zzzzzzz

Thanks Pam, just wondering if anyone has it? I like the book a lot - most parts of it - but I don't actually "do" it like it says . . when I have a cognitive therapy workbook before (can't remember the name, long time ago) I actually DID the exercises, and it was SO helpful in changing my thinking, I thought maybe that workbook's what I need. Maybe I'll go on amazon & get it, although its also good excuse to go to some big bookstores, and I LOVE bookstores :-)

Pam do you have the workbook that goes with Beck's?

Tina did you find your pedometer yet??

Ladies - such a lively, loving group! Have I told you lately how happy I am to know all of you and to be a part of this great group?!?! This would be SO much more difficult without you all . . instead, it's - dare I say it? - FUN!!! I love you guys!!

Candra do you think you could catch it giving me a new pedicure? I will be due in a couple weeks . . . .

Candra call the office and ask how many lap-band patients he has and if he does his own fills - ask them which doc has most (I think we can assume its Doc - and if you get banded by one doc there, can you switch to another for fills? Nicole the elephant is the recovery one that comes and sits on your chest when you first wake up! No one has ever actualoy seen it so we don't really know that it is pink . . . seriously I had been told to expect it so I did not panic TOO bad when I wole up and the elephant was sitting there - I know I had to get up to make the elephant get off tho, I struggled a bit with that - but at least I did not freak out that I could not breather, which I would have if I was not thinking to myself, "oh there's the elephant sitting on my chest!"

I got up to almost 1200 today Nicole, part of it because I had 3 venti soy slender lattes, 2 hot and 1 iced all decaf of course (130 cals each, so almost 400 just in lattes! Talk about drinking my calories!!) but part of it I think is from 2 days in a row of heavy heavy exercise,where I was working off more than 1000 cals but taking in only 500 . . . that it just too much of a calorie deficit! So from about 5 o'clock today until about 7 I ate pretty solid, all good just could not STOP it! Eat a little wait 20 minutes eat some more and repeat . . . . not the bandster way so * hope I am over that! Aunt Flo is leaving so that should not have caused it, I think it is the deficit from too much excercise + not enough food. Weird how it did not hit until today tho.

Iron could definately do it! And at my last visit, Robin told me to take calcium with magnesium in it, as the magnesium has a laxative effect. Isn't it great what we talk about onhere, LOL . . .

OOOHHHH. . . the "bathroom" thing! Sausage is the right term Jes, LOL . . . . Well 1200 is probably radically reduced from what you used to eat, so that is going to limit volume - and sometimes frequency - right there. I did not really have the issue pre-op but I sure do have it now! Not always, just like 1/2 the time, lucky me! They SAY it will not happen if you drink LOTS of water, and walk a lot, and I did both of those things and did not have issues. However I also do both of those things now, and I do have issues! For me, I think is was drastically reducing carbs. I was still eating wheat until the end of my pre-op journey, and I think cutting it out (whole grains, etc) created a problem for me frequency-wise. Liz and Robin will tell you that it is not at all unusual due to the greatly reduced volume of food, and you shuld only do something about it if it is actually uncomfortable. Then they recommend Benefiber powder, like the kind in the packets that you add to your water bottles? Looks like crystal light . . . .

Oh and the CPAP I only got 2 weeks before surgery so was TOTALLY not used to it yet, getting in maybe 3-4 hours a night with it on . . . . and I no longer need it, but I am totally addicted to it! I use it all night every night, get up to pee and put it back on when I go back to bed, it makes me go to sleep within a couple of minutes!!

Yup. Ah the infamous Richmond Kaiser Recovery Elephant! Most places just have a stuffed animal, at Richmond they got the real damned thing, lucky us :-)