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Congratulations Donna - Happy Bandiversary!!!!!

You'll make it for March for sure! I have one girlfriend just booked for January 23, so they are booking quite a ways out due to holiday vacations. Which Kaiser are you going to next Wednesday, Vallejo? I have to go to Richmond that day

Atta girl Tamra!!

Great new pic Minxz! Oh maybe it isn't new but jeez it's been so long since you posted, lol - good pic tho, really. Lo-carb works! I wish I was back there, but while I'm sick I totally crave carbs. I gotta gret better & back on track, only 1 week till my fill! Where ARE you guys? Donna, Maria, Tamra . . . my super-spy (at the bottom of the page) says you're on - so where are you all??

Atta girl! Set yourself up for success, not for failure. And remember: Each and every choice you make has the potential for bringing you closer to your goal, or taking you farther away from it. Post that one all over your house - esp. on the fridge & the pantry!! I would have replaced "choice you make" with "bite you take," but it's more global than that for me. I need to remind myself that I am surrounded by choices every minute of every day. I don't have to be scared of them; I can just keep my goal(s) in mind and make the right choice MOST of the time. As long as I'm moving closer, I'm not going to beat myself up. I learned this little goodie from my stop-smoking teacher, It was totally profound for me to learn that every puff was a choice - I never DID have to finish a cigarette. Or a cookie. Or a bocaburger. EVERYthing is a choice.

Oh Cin - the antibiotics - that's probably for h. Pylori, which is the bug that causes ulcers . . they have to get rid of it before banding you, because the risk of ulcers in the new little pouch is too high. it is truly awful medicine, but it does the job!

Hi Cin, congrats on your surgery date! What a great Christmas gift you are giving yourself :thumbup: I think it is normal to not lose in the 2 weeks before surgery, especially over the holidays!! Just don't gain and you will be fine. We all freak out a little right before, and that makes us eat more . . . just don't gain. Tina, when you went in for this last fill, did you get a chance to ask Dr. Baggs about fills if you lose Kaiser??

Ah I know it . . . so much to be done at work whether I'm there or not - if I have to be out more than today and tomorrow, I will have to go in tomorrow night when there's no one there to infect, and bring work home with me. Fortunately I finished my staff reports for this week and I don't have any public hearings, but I do have a meeting with my favorite Supervisor - just elected last year - tomorrow, and I am going to have to miss that. My boss will go in my place to that, because when the Supervisors request a meeting they get one by golly! I need to go take more airborne and zinc . . . maybe send my son to the store for Zycol, even though it's freezing out there . . . cranberry juice would be good too. I am eating EVERYTHING zero restriction, I am down 11 - 14 lbs since my last fill of .25 so I really need a new one. I can't believe what my body is eating right now - I am eating freaking sugar cookie dough! Not a lot but . . still, I never do stuff like that. I feel awful . . . .

I hear ya Tina, BAD sore throat! It sent me home from work; I was on the main phone line and the calls were constant and my throat hurt SO BAD I just couldn't do it any more and had to get someone to cover me so I could go home. Sneezing, post nasal drip and gunky eyes, so I think it's a cold and not strep. You got cultured and it was strep? That comes with a fever, doesn't it? I had that 1 time and I remember I felt TERRIBLE than 1 day after I started antibiotics I was like, whoopee!! It was a miracle. Went on the ski trip with my youth group after all :-) Have gained almost 4 lbs back, but having serious PMDD symptoms (i.e., I am going to kill someone, but between killings I will just sit here and cry at nothing) so hopefully it will go away when my TOM starts next week. Better be before I go for my fill! I am munching on saltines with butter, SO not like me!! Waaaa . . .

Good morning girls, and that you SO MUCH for this sore throat and sneezing!!!! I hope my check comes SOON so I can go get some Zucol and some Airborne . . . . I hate being sick. Tina, snow - I can't believe it!! That's crazy!! I am going to Richmond next Wednesday the 16th for a fill, I have a Robin appt. at 10 and a Dr. B at 11:30. Anyone else be there that day?? We can walk the parking garage, hey it's got hills, LOL I miss you ALL!

Tamra hunny, glad you are feeling better! I just PMed you . . . you are so much like me! There is a journal that I have, has a green cover - a diet and fitness journal, and I log not just food and exercise but also 1) how hungry I was each time I eat during the day; and 2) what my emotions arfe. It has extra room to add your own columns, and those are the ones I add. When I faithfully journal - honestly - every day, I lose. It is not only motivating for me but it has been very. very. very revealing about me :thumbup: and why I eat/overeat. Thank God my band stops me when I get all crazy now!! Gotta go swith laundry over; I'll check back later

Oh Candra, I am officially poor now, too . . . it SUCKS so I totally hear you. And it's really, really hard to make good food choices when you can't buy food and have to nosh on whatever your teenagers have brought home, LOL!!

JT so excited for you!! When I hit 100 lbs. it was the most motivating thing EVER!!! And you know how hard those last 12 lbs. are. You go guy!! Groupie, I know you hate your plateaus but when you bust through one, you REALLY bust it! You're gonna be headless soon :w00t: Jersey do you have the same DL issue that I do? I have lied about my weight on that sucker for so long, but the photos don't lie . . so now I am trying to tell them that I need a new DL because I have lost 100 lbs, I don't look anything like that fat pic - I mean, at ALL, I get questioned all the time - and they are telling me I can't get a new one cause the weight has not changed, LOL! That's what I get for lyin'! 169.4, up a lb. this week for no good reason - groupie I caught your plateau :-) Happy friday all!!

Oooooh, I loved Wellbutrin - it made me lose weight!!! You will all be happy to know that the diet jello shots set up perfectly!!! Scale moved only 1/2 a pound yesterday, I was expecting a big drop-off since I gained 4 back over a 2-day period . . . uhm, not so much! Caloriecount.about.com says that I am running about a 1,300 calorie per day deficit, which equates to a 2 lb. per week weight loss - I'm waiting patiently!!! Good morning all, happy Friday!!!!

Maria, mine burned like an SOB for 6 full weeks!! Some folks on here healed in like 4 weeks, but I was bothered by it for 6 weeks. . . . Dr. Baggs said 4-6 weeks is normal. HOWEVER - as you may know, mine got infected, so let me warn you!! If the skin around it becomes red and warm to the touch, get into the Kaiser Richmond ER as soon as you can.

Candra keep that appointment, you can shed 4 lbs. by then!! You KNOW you can if you want to, go on liquids or whatever. My appointment is the next day, and I have to be down 5 lbs from this morning's weight (but only 1.6 lbs from my weight a few days ago before salt-carb days, LOL) and I am confident that I can do it! I may be on liquids for the last 2 days, but I'll do it. YOU CAN TOO!! I just made jello shots for tomorrow night - but don't worry folks, I used diet jello!!! So it's all good; they are carb-free . . . and really, what else do they expect for us to do with all of the leftover 2 oz. cups & lids? :w00t:

Happy Birthday Tamra!!!:w00t:

No, Candra, you were not too harsh! I agreed with you 100% - it's the inappropriate messages that I'd like to see deleted. I would hate to think of what a newbie would think about our thread if they came on and started reading 1 page ago!! No no, you get hugs :-)

Jeepers! I'm going to ignore the ugly stuff, except to say that you can go back and delete your messages/posts if you do it fast enough. Congrats Pat! Awesome date, and right when you wanted it!:w00t: HEATHER I AM TOTALLY PROUD OF YOU Candra you need a big hug, here it comes - wait for it, wait for it - ah! Much better K girls, got to go check in on pof.com - "fish on," as they say! ttfn Riley (yes, I prefer Riley, thanks!)

Jes she gives huge fills! I have one friend that got 7 cc's from Dr. park - it is the only fill she has had, and she's A-OK

RE: Fills if you lose Kaiser - I asked Liz McLaren about this, and SHE told me that once you have surgery, the Kaiser facility where you got your surgery will continue to do all of your aftercare, INCLUDING FILLS WHEN YOU NEED THEM, even if you lose Kaiser coverage. She said that that excluded labs, which can be expensive, but that Kaiser provided aftercare regardless of your insurance. This was less than a year ago . . so I am really confused about what Dr. Baggs said, Tina what exactly did he say?

Yes but . . . not NEARLY as much as I thought I would have! And I'm OLD, with HUGE stretch markes from carrying 3 babies and 130 extra lbs. mostly around my middle. I mean, wow! Amazing what exercise can do for ya! I do have some pannus hangin' yet, but I have 13 lbs. to goal and it has shrank up almost completely in the last 20 lbs - from a 4" hang at 210 lbs to a 1" hang now - so I expect it'll be darn near gone by 154 lbs. or whatever I settle out at. The thighs don't bother me, the arse has come out well enough that I get compliments! The worst part besides the pannus is the girls - they have become ALL skin, so I'm with Jachut - someday I may get some nice new bouncy ones - not bigger, just put back where they are supposed to be - but I might just buy a new leather couch! I shop at the right bra stores :-)

Yes Pammie I have that book too, and her workbook as well! Her and Kessler say the same thing in different ways, Kessler has hard science behind his book - LOTS of research - but I like Beck's simpler terms better. We have a workbook to from this class, that has all of the "D"s in it - I use what makes sense to me! I am sorry to hear about your little hamster . . I love hammies, and I just won't get them anymore because they die!!

Oh my brain re-wiring pontification comes from my materials for the "Understanding Emotional Overeating" class that is taught at Kaiser by my favorite LCSW :-) The one I call my head-hunger class! David Kessler's "The End of Overeating" was the textbook for it, I am taking it again in January - there are 5 or 6 different series. Tomorrow I am going to talk in her 14-week pre-surgery class, I have done it before but this time I told her to get me in early so I can talk to them before they have all already decided to have RNY! Looking forward to that, and in defiance of the stupid "stats" I have now lost 90% of my excess weight - better than your average RNY loss! But really I am going to tell them that they HAVE TO exercise and deal with their head stuff - Bonnie calls it "chow-chow," all that negative head talk that we do - if they want to be successful and KEEP it off. RNYers have a difficult time keeping it off, if they have not changed the head habits by the time they start absorbing calories again at 12-18 months out, they are just going to gain it back!! Heather did you hear back from Fisher? Tina did you hear back from Baggs?

You girls are so funny!!! Crack me UP. Candra I am buying into your theory too. I don't agree with the 1200 the way it is in the binder, either it has too many carbs for me, and trigger foods! But Robin specifically said - to all of us in the pre-op class, which was 1/2 bandsters- that if we ate the Protein first and then the veggie or fruit, if we never got to the carb that would be perfectly fine with her! I also do not agree that I should be eating under 1,000 calories a day, I need to eat 1,200 or Candra you are right - my metabolism STOPS! I work off 500 to 800 a day for Pete's sake, I have to have 1,200 to lose - and I've done a damned good job of it to date, so maybe our theory IS right! Tina yes I LOVE that diet ocean spray juice!! Did you get the cranberry pomogranate? Thats my fave, drinking it right ow! It cleans me out, not the same kind of cleaning as MOM just the liver!! Love love love it