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Reggie your really losing girl.............WOW!!!

Sheena that was a crazy weekend. I read through your blog....Glad you still going through with the surgery though. Next summer is a long time to wait. If you can just make it through the next six weeks............ You son looks alot like you. I don't know if I will go to the 25th session or not but I guess I am. I will have to take the whole day off. I am taking the whole day off on Thursday but my appointment is at 9:15 so if I get home early I will go back to work. I guess it all depends on if I have to wait seven weeks or not!! I might get the July group fill. But seriously I have to get out of jury duty that week just to make sure it doesn't overlap. I may see you ladies this afternoon but I won't be able to stay. Too bad your not coming to Jonny's but seriously ladies there is nothing to eat for bandsters over there. I am gonna just pick at a salad and try to look like I am eating.......LOL. Candy when I moved stages my weight loss stopped and I have been going up and down on the same three pounds for weeks...........I sorta think it is called bandster hell and happens to alot of people!! I have no idea why I barely eat nowdays........

Yea if there is something required on the 25th I need to ask for time off in advance.............hoping to get a straigh answer this week.

Riley I sure hope Dr. Baggs doesn't disclose to me he watched the youtube video cause that will so get my starting on shiny things like penny's, mirrors and ...........OMG!! LMAO!! Bald heads!! But if he is smart his head will be dull this time around!! I think you taught his a lesson!! I am gonna get the giggles if I start to think about you and shiny bald heads when I get in there...........than I will have to let the cat out of the bag and report your indiscretions to him!!! LOL.

Oh Nicole go to Greece you would LOVE it!! Different there people are very accepting and non judgemental. Family is HUGE in Greece...........and a bit of partying goes on over there. Well ok maybe alot of partying and night clubbing..... Yep I am going back someday. My daughters family all lives over there and her dad. So we are going back. Just to expensive right now!!! Nicole I agree with Mike Greece is a great place and very romantic if you go island hopping. Athens can be a pain sometimes which is where I lived. But OMG I LOVE GREECE. Greek men..........well ok like Italian men but here I go spilling all the secrets tonight. I already foolishly disclosed what I know about Italians..............and there I go dishing on the greeks..........will it never end!!

I am scottish american by blood and greek american by marriage or divorce whatever suits you!! I lived in Greece for awhile and was married to greek guy so I adopted that culture and country. My daughter is greek to the core so I am greek by default!! LOL AH I can cook some mean greek food but it is all high fat being I am vegetarian...............maybe I will try to revise that to low fat sometime!! The accent is all me. Funny you say that because everyone does but I was born and raised in California except for living in Greece for awhile.

Ok I will make a belt of braided measuring tapes and stylishly tie them around my waist!! Thing is I am crazy enough to do it just as a practical joke.............. Actually I am gonna talk to Dr. Baggs about the inches thing. I know they get it...................see what he says. He is a very funny guy and that just eggs me on sometimes!! I don't think I would try or say some on the things I do with Dr. Fisher!! LOL. I hear Italians make better lovers!!! :-) But shhhh........you didn't hear it from me!!

swrktp@yahoo.com Italians make the best cooks and I have heard other things but I have zipped my lips since I myself am not Italian!! LOL

Maybe I will go in with a measuring tape around my neck and suddenly blurt out............I wonder what this is for!! LOL.

LMAO!!! My new idea. I could wear my underwear two sizes to big to my doctors appointment ...........and when I get on the scale to weigh before they have time to comment about 12 pounds I could saw "oh great my underwear is just way to big nowdays and keeps falling down!!" Or I could wear my size 22's and safety pin them together and see if anyone comments on them!! Thinking, thinking.................subtle but effective!! LOL Oh the stress is getting to me now!! I am not loopy on mophine this time so I won't be able to pull off some the crazy stuff I did pre and post op without looking like a totally loony!! I would like to subtlely make my point that I have lost inches not pounds!!

Gonna try that "bread recipe" Candra you need to write a cookbook girl!! It is true I ate an hour ago and I am already hungry. Going to the see the doctor, the doctor, the doctor..........on Thrusday!!!!!!!!! ( sang in an operatic voice)

Oh lets not forget Christines ricotta cheese with tomato sauce and parmasean melted on top!! Oh that was a great recipe in the mushie stage........... Hey there is this cook book for bandsters/gastric I ready about that has recipes for liquids through mushies, purees and than to regular WLS food.........great reviews I want to get to barnes and noble to see it.........anyone have something like that. I will get the name and post it............

What I made was like a baked ziti thing too......tomatoes, soy meat, a few olives (please don't tell Robin;-) ) and than two spoon fulls of low fat ricotta. Than backed it for 20 minutes. Ok anymore great Italian low fat ideas cause girl that recipe really rocks!! Guess what is gonna be on the menu alot now!! Nicole a just don't won't a brace slowing me down. I wonder if I could get a fitted one at Walgreens. My ankle on that same leg is bad too..........if I walk or exercise alot the knee and ankle both get termpermental. But hey I want to do a 5K so what to do, what to do..........LOL!!

Well self help doesn't work well for me either but I still like to read about it and hope!! LOL. I have a lap band for life book by Dr. Ortiz that is really great I could trade you for!! I accidently ordered two copies!! LOL. I got over excited about the band back in November. LOL. Has anyone got the new lap banc success book out in April. I sorta want to get it!! Hmmm..............

Never seen spaghetti squash before weird stuff and also very cool..........when I cut it open I had no idea that after cooked it would turn into spaghetti. Cool, very cool!! Nicole I just cooked it took it out and than added spaghetti sauce (soy for protien) and the ricotta cheese and than a little low fat parmasean cheese on top..........But I only use wheat Pasta or did before the bad so I am sorta used to the heavier, thicker taste.....that is what the squash tasted like wheat pasta.......... My daughter is so crazy she is getting crazy with all this diet and exercise stuff. Taking all my Vitamin, ah expensive...........and we went to ice cream with friends on Saturday night. I couldn't have any but I did take a spoon and taste hers. Now she is telling everyone I cheated...........arghhh.........teenagers. She is become my lap band spy and she is a bit to good at her job!! LOL

If that books cures people and fixes the head hunger than I gotta get to a book store..................................... Tell me some more about it. I might want to ready it too. I also get bad migraines. NOt as bad as six months ago but OMG when they hit I am in bed for two day.............. My knee is still bad today. It is getting worse everyday. I will mention it to Dr. Baggs but I am gonna have to go see my PCP and get an xray I guess............I am sorta tired of being a medical experiment I wanted to avoid this complication!! LOL. I don't want to wear a brace though. Oh girls the only reason I noticed this woman at Walmart was because she was yelling about how she had to stock up on foods for her by pass and I thought "oh cool we have something in common." but than I was such a nosy girl and I looked into the cart and I was like "ok we have really different doctors cause I couldn't have all that!!

Ah I just had spaghetti squash and salad............Ah Candra that stuff rocks!! I gotta tell you I was not so sure as I scrapped it out of the shell. But my mom made this spaghetti sauce with soy meat in and mushrooms.........so I got lucky and took her sauce than the low fat ricotta.........OMG it is so good. I had to admit it but I wa afraid of the first bite but was pleasantly surprized!!! making this again for sure............. I planned to have it all week since the squash was huge but my daughter (who no longer eats carbs she told me today!!) had four helpings so it didn't leave much........... Ok my next things to try is the cauliflower mashed potatoes............... Nicole I agree they should measure. Actually I think I should measure too since I haven't done that............I have lost who knows how many inches I can tell but the scale is basically still the same. But I am still happy because my clothes are fitting better and I am a feeling such much better than four months ago............

a 4cc band doesn't give you enough room to play around........... Oh I was just at Walmart shopping..........this large gal was there just putting her business out there at the top of her lungs............"and I am getting a by pass on June 15, 2009"..........but her basket was full of big "no, nos" I don't know but it sorta struck me and my daughter said I stopped my cart and stared at her...................I was floored because you knmow how Kaiser is about all that stuff..........I guess it was her last supper.......LOL

Afternoon all........... Ok I went and got the spaghetti squash and baking it now. I hope it turns out!! Nicole sometimes stress makes you lose too!! For me it does anyway. So what point do you hate?? I was confused...............I am very anxious for my fill but I don't expect miracles either. But a bit tighter will be nice. Even if for two weeks. I doubt I will make it tomorrow. If I do it will be to stop in for awhile and say hello. I have that retirement party across the street for my coworker. She actually took my caseload while I was out medical leave and kept up on things for me. So I really need to go to that.......... Nicole if you have to wait for 7 week I bet I do to so that would be march??

Nicole someone once told me to be as gentle as a dove but at the same time as wise as a fox................also trust has to be earned and I agree don't put your business out there to someone who has proved they are not trust worthy. Sorta sad though cause they are missing out on the real you .......................but I think if they truly do change than over time you will know it and than you can slowly open up if it is appropriate. I think it is good for Audrey have her grandparents around if possible and if they don't hurt her by being around. Would MIkes parents ever help with housing issues................... Girl you have your plate full right now don't you?? So much going on in your family on both sides!! Lots of chaos with everyone moving and family stress.............

how can we see who is viewing us...............I want to know who the lurkers are!! LOL

Hey Nicole I have been having a cup or a bit more sometimes......**hanging my head in shame"........... Salad goes right down for me. I will say I ate an egg sandwhich last night at a resterant and It almost didn't go down.................it got stuck in my throat and I had to use water to push it down..........It is the weird band stuck feeling...........never felt a pain like that before the band...........but I think I was close to PB'ing had I not used the water to push it down.........now eggs don't bother me much but I think I didn't chew it enough. And I really don't have restriction right now.........so I guess just a reminder from someone that I do have a band..............

Yep vitamins, calcuim and B12. Think I am gonna have a protein shake today just to up the protein...........I have protein powder and I think I am gonna start adding it to everything I can at least for awhile............... Ah Candra I am laughing so hard right now. I actually thought that squash pasta came packaged and was just squash made into pasta............LOL. i had no idea it was a real veggie!! I guess you can see I am not real cook.........thanks for the laughs!!

Oh and Reggie try that yoga position the upward dog that works too to get rid of post op gas..........but the only thing is that my incisions were still sore so getting back up took me another 15 minutes!! LOL> But that helped too...........

Ah Heather thanks but what your saying worries me. I agree with you it is a nutrition thing................I am gonna talk to Robin but I have got to change my diet I am pretty sure about that!! I don't want this to be a long term thing.........Robin to the rescue I guess I just don't look forward to telling her since I don't know where it will lead!! But hey I wonder if I should get some bloodwork done while I am out there to see........... HEy girls I didn't get an invite to the 25th group thing yet!!! LOL What is it? Should I ask to come or maybe they will tell me this week about it..........I have jury duty that day but hey...........health before jury duty so know I have a reason to opt out of it!! Seriously I already tried to claim health issues but not sure it will fly. I hve been out of work for two months almost I need to stick around to catch back up!!