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I am under my Christmas goal so I took that ticker off :-)

Oh I am liking this fill! I fried 2 medium sized eggs for breakfast and I could not finish the second one. Yay! Full on one-and-a-half medium eggs!!

Candra, my favorite was to eat edamame: I boil them, drain, then top with Trader Joe's Pomodoro sauce (low carb) and reduced-fat cheese, nuke it to warm the sauce and melt the cheese . . it's a dense protein, great band food as long as you don't overdo the sauce - there should be more edamame than sauce. YUMMO I am going to go make eggs for breakfast - I am SO HAPPY that I can have food again! I am going on a big hike at 10:30 so need something to sustain me. Pat, congrats! You are rocking this thing girl :smile2: Have a great day everyone!!!

Good morning girls! My date was REALLY fun, also before that I went out with my female planning commissioners and my BOS's aides, we went out for drinks those girls are CRAZY so I had had 2 beers by the time my date got there. He was adorable - SHORT, but adorable - we walked all over downtown and went to dinner @ an italian place (I ate the top off of 1 piece of pizza, it was SO GOOD!! Basil everywhere . . . ) then cruised the beerpubs, where I drank and he didn't . . . he hasn't for 3 years . . . and kissed a LOT. My lips are still sore this morning! we met up at 7 and I got home at 1 so that was a long time for a 1st date :smile2: I got to start eating again yesterday, absolutely no issues with this fill, yay! And the scale is down . . . . probably from dehydration from those beers, LOL!! Bachelor #1 got back in touch yesterday, says his computer was down and I should have been calling him . . . huh? He should have been calling me! He may switch places with #2, who was #4 until last night #3 may drive down on Sunday. It's a good thing I have 2 weeks off!!!! :wink2:

Pat! 30 lbs, that is incredible! Congratulations, and Merry Christmas to your little self!! We missed you on Tuesday; we had champagne and cheese as a little mini-Christmas party. What a fun group! I log everything at www.caloriecount.about.com I find it the easiest to use - especially if you install the toolbar, which I have at home but it's blocked at work. It counts everything for me. Spark People has a free counter too, but I found it way too complicated - that's just me. I have not logged for the last 2.5 days because I am still on clear freakin' liquids! What a bunch of BS. I have lost 2 since my fill, but still not down to where I was the week before (still at 166). I lost zero yesterday, even though I consumed no more than 200 calories. Horse pucky!! I have a date tonight :-) Wish me luck!!

Yay I got my little teeny weeny .25 cc fill yesterday, which was just what I wanted!! I can't tell if it's going to work because I am on clears for 48 HOURS, can you believe that??? 48! Dr.'s orders. ugh. Dr. Baggs said there was some new study that even if you just pulled the fluid out and put it back in, not even adding any, it still increased the risk of (some fancy word that means getting too tight) for 48 hours, and they had been seeing too many people in the ER for unfills right after a fill so they changed the rules. I'M STARVING and I can't even have my soy latte!! Does anyone remember why it is clear liquids, as opposed to thin liquids? I'd sure like a little protein . . . . I had a great hour with Robin, showed her all my head hunger stuff I have been doing, my emotions log & all, She said that I am doing all the work, it's not my band. And asked me to come and talk to her lifestyles class! Wow. I had lost 11 lbs (not the 14 I was sure I could get to, but TOM of course) since my last .25cc fill in September. . . . so still losing almost a pound a week . . . . it's the weights!! I told Dr, B I am shooting for "goal" (154) at 1 year out from surgery, which is only 2 months away. I still only got .25cc, lol! That's all I wanted. I can go back if I think I need more. I feel like the spoiled lap-band child, to tell them when I need a fill rather than vice-versa. My port is so sticky-outty and easy to reach it was a single tiny poke and he said "perfect" and was already done, and she wasn't even ready with the water yet it was so fast. no bruise, no nothing. Fater than any I have seen on YouTube even! Painless. OK single ladies, do not sign up for too many online dating services at the same time, and do not give out your messenger address or you will never be able to keep up! This is crazy!! 3 is my limit and there are 5 in contention right now, #3 has slipped down to #5 for lack of imagination and social skills (also because his reference has not checked in yet), #4 has moved way up and is about to replace #1 because I have gone for 24 hours without a call, email or text from #1. #2 is back in contention after a several-day absence and . . . . ah shucks, I just want to hear from #1. Actually I want to do more than hear from him Skipping the gym today because I have had no food for 30 some hours and don't want to pass out - so here I am, you lucky people get me!! Tina I'm glad M likes them! They were SO short I wasn't sure you'd be OK with them . . . . glad all is good! OK time to go check my email Happy Thursday all! OH! Tamra! Good job girl :-) Remember how great this feels next time you want the gingerbread!!

That's exactly it, Pami!! Am I "good enough" to pass it off in the "average" world?? HEY ALL I AM ON FACEBOOK NOW! So how do I find you and add you as friends? I am on by my real name right now but plan to change it to the same username I have here :-)

oooohhhhh. I like that blog Ash! And she has a link to my "good carb" page!! GoodCarbs.org: Good Carbs for Good Health

Thanks Jes. I know I look better, the thing is that the boys I meet now didn't know me then - so I feel like I have to look "better than normal" rather than "better than I did last year." Does this make sense to anyone? Oh well off to the gym :-)

Hey Monique, welcome back crazy one! I cannot even imagine you in Vegas - but I can tell you it's a good thing we were not there together with that Jes, we would have TOO much fun! I need to go to bed early so I can get up & go to the gym tomorrow - I weigh 4 lbs more today than I did yesterday so guess who is chugging water and will be up pee-ing all night again! Goodnight girls :-)

OK I got another email from him - I am cutting out most of it! - but he does say "I liked your picture. You looked really nice in that dress! Thanks for sharing it." Why is it that we can't see ourselves as other see us, even after we have lost 100+ lbs/half of our former selves? All I see in that pic are my rolls. I can't believe I even wore it! I also can't believe how LITTLE you guys are eating!! Here's me, I definately win the biggest eater contest! Breakfast - 1/3 cup raspberries, 2/3 cup blackberries, decaf soy slender latte Lunch-2 cups spinach with 1 hard-boiled egg, 1/2 cup lowfat cottage cheese, 4 pickle spears. Snack - another decaf soy slender latte Dinner - 2 pieces of cod, 4 huge slices of grilled eggplant, 1 oz. sunflower seeds on 1 cup sliced cucumber, 2 tbs. peanut butter. Snack - 2 hard boiled eggs and 1 tb. peanut butter. Oh well at least there was no bread, LOL!!

Oh, Bachelor #1 wanted me to send him a pic of me all "spiffed up" for the party, so I sent him that gold dress one this morning - have not heard from him since! What is up with that?

Tina everything is going right down with me too, when I bring my food log on Wednesday it is going to show snacking every single day, well YEAH, I NEED A FILL!! Cute pic of you girls!!

Way to go Tamra! I hope they're not worried about you down there at Starbucks, LOL And hey, you are moving the right direction again!!! OK here's "the picture," me in "the gold dress" at the Christmas party, with Michelle my RNY friend we started together she did RNY at SSF I did Lapband at Richmond and she's down almost 160, at's my girl!!

It's raining men!:willy_nilly: I LOVE my banded life, love love love it. I go to parties, I put little food pieces on my plate and get full before I get to them all. I put on slinky dresses and spiky heels and go out dancing & get hit on. I go to the gym and it feels GOOD. Who would have thought all this one short year ago???? Tamra I do still go to Starbucks but I bring my own sugar-free, 1-carb soymilk (the one closest to my house is the only one that will use the milk I bring tho), I get decaf, and I never, EVER eat any of their food!!! Good God girl, have you gone online and looked at the nutritional info???? There is NOTHING in that glass case for you, nothing atall. Step away from the Starbucks! My advice: you need to set yourself up to suceed. If you cannot resist the baked goods then do not go inside the store - you are just setting yourself up to fail that way. Make your own decaf skinny lattes at home - Cost Plus sells sugar-free torani syrups in all kinds of flavors. Cheaper too! I would rather buy a new pair of heels that have 4 Starbuckes lattes.

Vodka and JOGGING, Tina, lol! Seriously, before I "jogged" it loose I would not have been able to keep that diet cranberry w/splash of vodka down! 4 hours was ENUFF for me. I was starting to think that I had a slip or something, because I could not possibly be too tight, I am down 10+ from my last fill back in September - and it was only 1/4 of a cc! Then presto, as fast as it had started it left. It sure did feel like being stuck, tho - and swallowing a golf ball, LOL Goodnight! Sweet dreams

Pat I'm not going to make it to the WF group tomorrow - I have 2 parties tomorrow one starts at noon and I still have to clean my house, and buy shoes to match my gold dress!

Oh now girls, we were not having a date, we were just going to meet up because I had not met him in person yet! As it turns out, I fell asleep at like 6:30 and apparently I had my ringer off because about 9:45 my phone buzzes and it's a voice mail from him,oops! But he said he did not expect me to get up and come out in the rain that late, he was going to drive back to Napa & call him tomorrow. He's still bachelor #1 but there are more, although #2 kinda fell out of contention and I am waiting for the background on #3 so Candra maybe I should meet your brother! 44 is my low limit :-) But they can't be shorter than me. I'm just sayin . . . . . So yeah, that was a long and awful episode, I could not keep anything down and I was sliming for 4 hours - ugly stuff. But once it passed, I ate a salad with Quorn Chik'n and big hunks of cheese, some cottage cheese, 2 string cheeses, etc. - no problems at all! Very, very weird. So glad THAT is over.

RELIEF AT LAST!! Ahhhhhh . . . believe it or not, JOGGING did the trick! Well that and a shot of vodke in my diet cranberry to relax everything - all is good now! Holy moley, that was 4 hours of misery!!! I am going to have to carry some adoph's or papaya (or vodka!) with me from now on! And jogging shoes LOL Nicolie so glad to see your smilin face on here again! :-) Tina I mailed Michaela's package yesterday :rolleyes2:

AWWWKKKKK! OK for the 1st time EVER, I am too tight! Got up at 3:30 in the morning, ate 3 fried eggs with NO problem (not tight or anything), had a SF soylatter for Breakfast all was fine, then tried to eat 1/4 cup of egg beaters with cheese about 11:00 for lunch, and nothing has gone down since the firstbite! TOM due today, and "bachelor #1" just called to say he wanted to drive up tonight to meet me in person, and WHAMMO!!!! Band is like a freakin' vice grip! Ay yi yi, what to do, what to do? NOTHING is going down, and I can't be too tight . . . . could something actually be "stuck" for that long? It feels like a swallered a golf ball!! I've been sliming for 2 hours. Advice? meat tendorazer, papaya enzyme? It's not meat, but ??? I don't know what to do! Except calm down, but #1 is coming up tonight! Aggghh!!!

No no Jes, 1 lb + change from my Christmas goal - still have 12 or so to goal. Thanks for the rule Heather! That makes sense - so I guess I should have gone to the gym yesterday when it was just in my head and throat, cause I for sure have the cough today. I went on Monday AM thank goodness . . . and hopefully I can go again Friday morning - i will cycle through this thing fast!

She asked me what kind of diets I had been on, how I felt about exercise, what I expected for surgery to do for me, what I thought life would be like after surgery, why I wanted to do it, what I thought would change, what I thought my eating style was, if I had ever had any issues with binging or purging, and (!) to name the last 3 presidents!!! That was actually the warm-up question, LOL. There is nothing to worry about; they are not there to keep you out of the program. They DO want to make sure that you have your house in order with respect to any psych meds and or counseling, because it is tough tough tough after banding and every person I know has gone through a bit of a mental state. So be honest, make sure you are set up to succeed. Good luck!!

oh I am on the diet cranberry juice too, I have regular and grape they were out of my favorite, pomegranate so I am mixing the two. I don't want to add Water but I guess I should. I am going to drink 32 oz more before bed, who cares if I am up all night since I don't have to get up and go to work tomorrow!! Does anyone know the rules for working out when you are sick? I sure don't feel like it, but when can I start again? I got light-headed putting the groceries away today, so it's too soon but - how long?

Yeah Jes still sick . . .Robin at 10, fill at 11:30 Wednesday. Going to get down there early to miss the traffic, gee why doesn't anyone want to walk the parking garage "hills" with me, LOL?!?! Hey Pat want to take off work next Wednesday & come watch my fill??? That carpool lane sure sounds good, LOL

Heather you HAFTA find a place to log on and check in . . I will seriously have withdrawals! HAVE A BLAST GIRL YEAH! Candra! Wellbutrin is the bomb, made me forget about eating too! Of course so did this Tofranil when I started taking it, now . . not so much. I want Wellbutrin again! Cutie kitty . . . . . . poor baby, thanks for not posting a pic of its butt tho LOL OK I have a man on the email, better go pay him some attention - I told him not to call me tonight unless he's into sniffles and frog voice LOL . . . I AM SICK!! I stayed home sick all day and missed a work party today, my (adopted) mom is flying in tomorrow eve so have to go to the airport to get her, and I have 2 Christmas parties on Saturday, 1 afternoon and 1 eve, plus the SR Support group meeting/party until noon . . I'm going to stay right here in this bed and get better before tomorrow eve, 'cause I don't like to miss no parties!!