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Oh I just found the YUMMIEST protein, I know you guys dont go in for the tofu but hear me out! Its called more than tofu and its by sunergie soyfoods Sunergia Soyfoods - Seasoned Tofu and Cheese Alternatives I just got the Peanut & Ginger flavor from Raleys and I think I just ate 1/2 the package, raw right from the bag! It isn't just flavored like most seasoned tofus; it has peanuts and quinoa and ginger etc. throughout the whole thing! Flavor, great chewiness - not the tofu texture, at all! I am in love :-) and only 2 net carbs!!! 8 g. protein 90 cals per 2 oz serving

Frustrated this morning - I woke up weighing 197!! That's a 2 lb. GAIN, dagnabit!!!! I must be really, really due for a drop . . . .

Check it out, here is the bill kortum trail you can go down to the beach at a bunch of locations - we did 5 miles total, about 2 in the sand -it was BOMB!! Wish they had pics of the ocean in here, but no . . . just the actual trail Bay Area Hiker: Sonoma Coast State Beach

OMG girls, 202 pages! I don't think I have caught up yet! Saw the group pic though; Reggie you are HOT girl! You have lost a load of weight since I saw you last!!!! Just got back from a luau where I probably ate and drank too much, but it was TEENY portions of quite a few things . . I was not hungry, but it was a party and there was stuff there, so I ate it! Bad bad bad. But a girlfriend and I had spent the day hiking the Bill Kortum trail all along the Sonoma Coast, we did some of it down on the beach in the sand and OOWWW I am SO sore now! Sand is HARD! But it was SO beautiful, we should do it as a group sometime! I love love love the ocean. The Petaluma walk, new trail does not open until the end of July but we can do the coast walk before if you want! I am game any, any, ANY time for a good walk, you girls know that! After all my hard work 10-15 miles a day every day last week I was only down .4 lbs. for the whole week - VERY DISSAPOINTING! But what are I going to do, it's not like I can turn the burners up any higher! My son watched me eat more cinese food than he did 2 nights ago and said mom, I think you ned more fluid in your band, LOL . . I think he may be right, my restriction is gone except in the AM. Just cant get over that pic, you girls are beautiful!!! I am going to try and get in on the 25th I think, I miss you guys!!

We are about to hit 200 pages and 3,000 posts! ROCKSTARS!!!!

or get there early and look for the circle of girls in the parking lot with their shirts up showing off their ports! LOL but it's TRUE

Just tell them Richmond Kaiser! I WILL SO MISS YOU GUYS! I hate being stuck at work when my girls are all out having FUN LOL Tina, my 9/80 is the Monday after your 9/80 Friday! Could we GET any more alike??? Feel better!!!

933 cals in today, I am too tired for anything else! One thing about getting all this exercise, I sure do sleep GOOD! Wish I could see you all tomorrow - take pics for me!!

Absolutely Tina! And it's hard to put up with guys who don't realize how perfect we really are . . . LOL, I know I am too picky, and I know relationships involve sacrifices, and right now I'm not willing to make them! Right now, it is all about ME - for the first time EVER - and it feels really, really good! I'm not giving this up!

YAY Jes, congrats! Yeah someone on here went somewhere else to get weighed in prior to making their appt. with Liz, they just have to put it into the system so the gals see it and will schedule your appt!! Yay, congrats girl!!!

You guys are cracking me up! Dollar in the traveling pants - I really like that idea! You can write, "good luck on your journey! from Richmond Kaiser @lapbandtalk.com" or something like that, on the bill, and leave it in the next pocket! Pay it forward, LOL did anyone see that movie? OMG. . . Relationships yucko. I have been divorced for 10 years and have put my kids through 2 crappy men since. I swore them off after the last one - 5 years ago - and have let no one around them since. We were all much happier! But now the kids are older and I thought well it's time, started looking again and get plenty of attention now, but then I justy hate not feeling like I can be myself! I have a gazillion friends of both genders and we are out having a good time - GREAT time - most weekends, I just want to have fun with my friends and not worry about what some guy I am "seeing" is thinking of me or if I am giving him enough attention or if I am pissing him off or - WHATEVER. I am too independent, I love being me and having fun, and that's not going to change! If it happends that i meet the right one who can deal with that fine, but I'm done looking. Until I'm like ready to retire, then I'll settle down LOL Just got in from another darned hike, hey only 13 miles today aren't you girls proud that I am taking it easy?? No food after 6 for the 2nd night in a row!!! Yay!!! Oops now I feel hungry just typing that!

Hey Maria, welcome back! You will lose another 10 easy before your Dr. Baggs appt. at month's end - and you will be fast-tracked! They love us :-) Tina are you feeling any better yet? I watch the Hallmark channell when I get sick, helps me sleep on and off all day LOL . . last time I was sick they were playing a day-long marathon of "Roseanne" you call fall asleep and not miss anything, since they were pretty much all the same! I like Cosby show best tho :-) D - 2 cups spring mix with 1 egg and 2 tbsps. parmesan YES that is a LOT of food, and I am STUFFED but it has to last me! I need to have a soy milk with 1/2 serving of soy protein powder still today to get my 900 cals (I excercise too much to go lower!) and 60 g of protein in . . too stuffed for it now, so looks like it will be a snack before bed. Not sure if I'm going to go work out & swim tonight or not . . . feeling like laying in bed reading a book!

Wow Catherine, that's great! I want that kind of nice suprise! Hopefully not too many more months now :-) Congrats!!

Tina poor baby! I thought you must be sleeping . . .I am too tight when I wake from a nap. So go on liquids for the day, so what? You're sick! I would make you a nice decaf soy chai if I was there :-(

Ha! candra, my vitamin = 1 flintstones complete. I get over 100% of my calcium from soy milk, so I don't even take them - just a flintstones! Walking in the AM is how I energize for the day :-) I used to take a lot more stuff, some of it was kinda speedy I loved it at the time but frankly, I have more energy overall without any of it. Atenolol, hydrochlorothiazide, concerta, wellbutrin . . . . the last 2 were definately speedy for me! Kinda miss the wellburtin, but not the rest of it. Oh and I got more energy when I cut out caffeine, I found out it actually stimulated my appetite, that is how I lost the last 13 lbs. pre-op - gave up coffee! I have an occasional cup accidently now, and I am SO wired I feel like I'm going to DIE

yeah me Candra, I'm supposed to be working . . but I am on the incoming phone line for an hour, and it's not ringin', so I'm typin'!!! I know I said I was gonna take it easy today but I have 7.4 miles already . . jeez I just can't stop!

I agree with Reggie, Candra, you are there your scale just doesn't know it yet! Knock some sense into that thing . . . . better yet, make it have the chat with Heather's scale! Mine needs to be at that group scale chat, too.

Hiya Pam! I got my first couple bites of apricot stuck this morning too - it was a big one, reminded me of a peach! and almost PB'ed right here at work. I skinned it and tried again and it went down just fine! Good thing, too, cause I love them . . but it was the only fruit with a "skin" that I have dared to try. Next time I will either peel it first, or be WAY more careful about chewing it . . it was so juicey, how could I possiblky have a problem?? But I did! Sounds like you have great restriction right now, congrats! You waited a long time for it :-)

I started noticing at 60 lbs down - when I had lost 2 of my chins, LOL - but am just now feeling "normal" at almost 90 down. Going clothes shopping for 12/14s and M/L really helped me feel normal. I like the mirror now, but I still don't like myself in photos!

B - 1 apricot (20); diet carberry juice (20); latte with soy protein powder (55 + 70); 1/2 cup eggbeaters (60) L- 3 slices tofurkey (60); 15 cucumber slices (8); scant 1 oz. sunflower seeds (110)

Nicole, that's what I was thinking too! I am down 7 from the fill right now, that may be too much in just 2 weeks . . . so my plan is to wait until about the 20th, then emailhim and tell him that I WAS down 10, but now I am re-gaining weight and need a fill again. He said I could call for one if I started to regain! It is my pattern you see. . . but he has also told me that I am far enough out and have lost enough weight that I do not need to be coming in every month for a fill anymore. Gotta lose to get one, but you ca'nt get one if you lose too well . . .

Yucko Tina, feel better hunny! Lots of fluids . . . . even though you will want salt, not so LOL . . . Heather, so happy about your scale! Maybe your scale can have a chat with my scale about how to behave to keep us motivated?!? YOU GO GIRL!!

OK, for all you girls (oh good morning BTW) who hate excercise and think I'm a sicko - YOU ARE RIGHT!! Just as I thought, after doing the 17 miles yesterday - burning off 1,777 cals and taking in 1,013 cals - my scale is UP a pound-and-a-half!!! My body just freaks out with that kind of a deficit and starts hanging on the everything that it can - water and otherwise. So my plan today is to drink a gallon of the diet cranberry juice, and eat salad, fruit and other high-water-content foods - soy protein powder and soy milk, all plant-based today and I am hoping that will help me with my elimination issues! Should never have gotten on the scale this morning, this happens every time I overdo it with exercise. I log my weight Friday mornings, so I should have just waited the other day! Scared I will be up though, and I don't want to have to record another gain . . . Seems like I have not had restriction the last couple days, but I have not been hungry either so maybe that's where I'm supposed to be. I am trying to get down enough that Dr. Baggs will let me come in to the next Pinole group fill - what day is that again? 23rd? - instead of waiting until August. "Enough" is probably 10 lbs., and I don't think I'll make that but I sure can try!! Have a great morning everyone!!:thumbup:

Oh my goodness, I haven't seen this much btyping since high school typing class, LOL!Q 1,777 calories today - out, not in. We just got back from Spring Lake, ended up doing 6.5 mile hike instead of the 4 I was counting on, so now I have way too much exercise today - 17.5 miles, jeepers thats just too much, my butt is sore from the hills! feels kind of good tho, LOL . . . but this much will def. put my body into starvation mode, so I am going to just do a smaller version of my morning walk tomorrow - maybe 2-3 miles instead of 4 - and skip my lunch walk, then do weights & swimming tomorrow evening with the girls. I need to give my bod a break! Edamame with yogurt butter sounds real good right now but I am way too tired to get up & go downstairs and find a clean pan and make it! Just want to sit her with my Crysal Light, watch TV and read till I fall alseep . . OMG all I do is excercise and work now, my house is SUCH a pigsty! I have not even done laundry for amost 2 weeks:tt2: ya don't want to try to walk in here! K gonna retire, Tina sounds like you had a good "green zone" day! I was more green than red today too, LOL Yay to all of us, we are rockstars!!

Of course I am not mad at you!! Silly girl! If I didn't want your feedback and ideas I never would have posted it here! Goodness gracias :-) 6-15 miles a day of walking for a regular person isn't right though - I got a figure of 4 miles from my Kaiser class . . . a little over 5 is 10,000 steps, which is what they have a whole program built around! In any case, when I started this journey I set my daily steps goal at 6,000 . . that is less than 3 miles! So I was NOT walking very much at all. I agree I should be losing more! I have a 1,000 calorie per day deficit, even on a "bad" day, which should lead to 1 lb. of loss every 3 days. Hey wait - that IS what I'm losing!! Maybe it just feels slower than it is . . . Anyways, no never mad. I promise! That cold is killer; I had it and the cough that follows it lasts for almost 2 weeks. Take your zikcam, zucol, whatever else to shorten the duration, drink the liquids you don't want (try diet jello, popsicles and - my favorite - hot & sour soup) and GET BETTER!