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Good morning ALL, Hey Jes and Nicole (Coco lol)! Way to go John and Lee, it's good to see you guys post just before surgery! Best wishes and see you in a few hours sleeved. Here's my meal this morning and for the rest of the day. B-Protein Shake L- tossed mixed green salad with olives(6) Chicken baked with eggplant sauce Rice cake(1) D- Steak and mixed veggies. 1/4 cup mashed potatoes 5 pretzels :-) Wish me luck! Everyone have a good and healthy day!!!! Reggie

Jes I hear you about being a junkie, I find that is my new M.O. LOL. The good thing is I only ate 2 dark Rochers durng valentines and I counted that as my carb for the day. Continue to stay focused, send some of that good vibe my way!

It's ok, start over tonight and don't give up. I struggled over the weekend too. But hey have to dust off and keep on moving . The truth is I love See's california crunch mmmmmhhh! But i stay away from it like a ..... lol.

I hope you feel better Heather!! Hope Coco is feeling better. Nicole-PM me your number so that I can check up on you!

Hi ALL!! Nicole- sorry I didn't post to check on you earlier, but congrats and welcome to LB world. John and Lee - I wish you the best tomorrow. ohn you are funny about the MOM effects on aaaa.... LOL. Pat- How are you feeling and hope the scale is being good to you. Goodness thanks for calculting all our weight loss, that was great and yes we ROCK! Tamra- Hope all is well with you. Candra- How is Rambo, hey call me sometime. Jes- How are you? Mo- Hope you are doing well and staying away from wings LOL. Heather- I hope you are doing fine. I started over and I hope you have too. Riley- Miss ya! Ash- Hey girl, how is it going? Pam- Hey there! Tina- Hope you are well. I see you are traveling quite a bit. Girl hang in there. Donna- My soul sister, hope you are well and that your appointment at SSF was successful. Well I had a good day today. I actually went to the gym and worked out for an hours. Needless to say I ate too many pretzels (Candra, you are right about those pretzels but they are good!) I have decided to cut them lose. I did well for the most part. B- protein shake 30g protein L 3oz chicken, 2 rice cakes and slice of eggplant (baked) D- 3/4 cup beef with eggplant sauce 1 cup pretzels 35min Elliptical and 30 minutes treadmill. 50 sit-ups. I hope to work on the WII tomorrow and have the same meal except for pretzel limit to 10 pieces only. I hope tomorrow is better.

I am here Candra, you guys write too fast for me LOL. Doing fine except I am going through a gamete of tests with my PCP. Doing fine. Hope everyone is well. Nicollie Congrats, wow glad you are feeling ok. Let me know if you need anything. Keep moving and the gas will subside.

Hello Ladies and gentleman, OMG I had a wonderful time with you all Pam, Pat Candra , Ash, Mo, Jes, Heather, John (Nickie, John's wife), Donna, Nicolie :-). we missed the rest of you. Hopefully next time my backyard will be done and we can barbecue out there. I will get some non-etoh mixes then. It was a pleasure to meet and see all of you. We should do this often. Donna you are hilarious Teiko and Nii said thanks. Candra you are too funny and too cute trying to put on size 18 girl..... lol. Thanks for the Jeans and Nicole thanks for the top. Pat it was a pleasure to have finally met you. You are too sweet! I am so sorry that you got pulled over, I hope you did not get a ticket and if so I will be more than happy to pitch in. PM if you did :-). Jes, how dod the plantain adventure go? Ash I am glad that you came, cute as a button. John too cool with you back-up chics lol. Please keep us posted on how things are going with you as you embark on your Sleeve excursion. Please send Nickie my regards. Pam, I am glad your daughter had fun hopefully next time Teiko will be around to play with her. Mo, Funny lady, I had fun with you, this is only the beginning of fun get-together. Heather, Donna and Nicole I had a blast with our after party pow wow. Lets do it again soon. Well I did good with my meals today. Left overs of course :-).

I may be tempted to eat a tinny piece of cheese cake. that and Tiramisu are my favorite cakes.

Oh Mo I hope the baby feels better soon. Tina I hope you feel better as well. I can imagine how yucky you feel. So I am all ready for you ladies tomorrow. . Where is everybody?

Pat we are funny if this does not get I'm not sure what else will .

Hahaha I agree Donna you know the trick lol.

Cindy we'll be there, don't count on me swimming you might find me belly up lol.

Yeah our husbands are mad! telling us how much we can lose LOL, they've lost their blasted minds. girl pass the clothes on, i am game because I plan on being in 14 in a few months they will motivate me. Please make it on Saturday, I wish I can make the puppy face that my son does and it gets me all the time lol:sad: close enough.

Thanks you Candra and Cindy.

Ok, join the exercise is not my friend wagon. since LB I have not been able to get into the groove of things and no you are not fat just (thick LOL). I am sure by now you are not even thick anymore, girl you better save some meat cause you know most brothers like thickness LOL:lol: I am messing with you Candra. Massage the knee and do some light workouts.

Hello All, OK so I am trying to catch up on reading posts. Man you guys are writing bees. We need to enter some form of writing contest. It would be interesting for us to document our posts and go back and take a look at it when we ALL reach goal. It may be a support group bestseller for LB and sleeve( ok so I am thinking in$$$ LOL). So Pam I couldn't agree more with your post as well as Lee and Tina. The truth of the matter is we are all here for the common goal of weight loss and during this time we have become friends and for most of us it may be lifetime friendship. That is the way things ought to be. I know Richmond does not regard our group as a support group however, we are. How we decide to move our group forward is up to us. We all know what we have to do and if the course (journey) was so easy we wouldn't be here and I would be in a size 14 by now lol. I like it when I post for good days and bad days and get encouraging feedback from all who read. Support system is a group or person that helps motivate positivity and we are it. I love this group with all our successes and flaws. Our flaws makes us stronger and not only that we hold each other accountable for bad choices and commend for good choices. I could not ask for any better support system. When I fall off I come back and it is as if I never left. Knowing that someone will PM me and say hey where are you and how are you doing? gets me out of my dark moment. This is family and I am proud to be a part of this family. So cheer up and come and lets enjoy on Saturday. Cheers, Reggie

Candra, you MUST come I miss you too!! Mo- I am so sorry about the little one, I hope she feels better soon, tell her she has a house to ransack on Saturday and she'd need the energy LOL! Congrats on being in onederland!! Tamra, sounds like you are doing well girl. Pat- hope you are healing well. I Pmd you earlier this evening. I hope to see you all on saturday. I need a head count please. Tina, Pam, Mo, Lee, Nicolie, Ash, Jes, Candra(hold the doo LOL), Riley, Donna, Nicole (can you come?), Heather, Pat, John (will you join the us?) I know I am forgetting a few people plese pardo me just add on . Thanks.

Congrats Lee and John! You are so close! Mo- check you PM again I just sent it. Jes- Take it easy on the luncheon :-) PROTEIN, PROTEIN, VEGGIES. LOL I should take my own advice .

Candra, thanks for the words of support. I am still taking tests. He wants to rule out thyroid and any pancreatic tumors that may be causing the low blood sugar. I am still freaked out. I know I will be fine. He said my migraines have nothing to do with the low blood sugar. Jes: Girl you are right I do need to take this as the get it together sign to start over. I had a no carb hearty bowl for breakfast the day of the incident, so I didn't do too bad! Iam looking forward to seeing you guys on saturday. Mo: look in you PM box for my adress. It's supposed to rain on saturday you guys drive safely, I will have tea ready for you all :-). Welcome to all the new members!

Pam- Hang in there Pam, I know what you mean when there are personal things and weight issues. We have to get a handle on one thing and let it be our weight. The stress is our biggest nemesis right now so please don;t allow it to get the best of you. I know we don't talk on personal level, but let me know if there is anything I can do. That is why we are here not just for lapband.

I wish your sister well. Tumor and diabetes is my fear and that's why I want the CT scan done. I would not miss our get together for the world. The good Lord has spared my life and I must share with all of you. SO WE ARE STILL ON FOR SATURDAY YAY!:thumbup:. Tina if you get bored you can call me you know, I get bored sometimes too!

Thanks Tina, I id not get a fill the last time. The last time I had a fill was in august. Tina take it easy with the work stress, where there is a will there is a way. All will be well. They need to release some of the MHSA funds, there is a considerable amount available to save jobs I'm not sure why they are holding back gees! The bureaucratic tape in the county is awfully thick! -Pam, no they couldn't figure out why. I have an appointment with my PCP on Monday I am going to request that they do a CT Scan, because I have experienced something like this but not to the point of disorientation.

Thanks Heather and Lee! It was a nightmare, I guess I know when they say "your life flashing in front of you" I seriously thought I was going to die, I told my girlfriend to take care of my kids and call my husband. CRAZY! Thanks again.

Pat- I ate just before the incident. Thanks for you well wish.I know I went through the diarrhea cycle too.I stopped all creamy soups for a while. Cream o chicken was my nemesis. John and Canolie- Thank you both. Canolie I know how your boss felt it is the weirdest and scariest experience. I am not on any medication so you can imagine I have million and one questions as to why it happened.

"Reggie-I may bring my 6 year old daughter...Now the baby...That's another story.... She will distroy you place. Don't want to get kicked out...JK. I may not bring her though. Daddy's got to do somethin'. Do you want us to bring anything????" Yes Mo you can bring the baby, I guess you haven't met my son yet. He terrorized us a baby and still doing it. _ Hey Pat how are you feeling?? Gee you are up and busy writing already. Very good. Candra- How is Rambo?? LOL you are too funny. - Jes- please bring me a brochure from friday when you come so that I can support. Congrats on the scale moving keep it up! - Tina, you are funny "Sleeve"? Are you seriously thnking about it? - Ash- I am glad you are going to carpool with Mo. Oh I have to tell you guys this, I was driving to a meting on Friday morning, as I got on the freeway I became totally disoriented, I had no idea where I was, who i was and my body got excessively cold. I felt like my heart was going to stop, so I pulled over and called 911 from my cell, they sent the called the ambulance and firedept. My blood pressure was 208/110 and my blood sugar had dropped to 40. the had to give me glucose in the ambulance to stabilize me somewhat. My girlfriend was on the phone and she told me that I was slurring and I made absolutely no sense. I will be seeing my PCP tomorrow to follow up. I tell you a higher power took over the steering wheel because I can't remember how I really got on the freeway and when I pulled over. I was very blessed because if I had totally fainted behind the wheel while driving, it would have been catastrophic. So in all essence ALL PRAISES TO GOD! I hope you all have a safe and healthy weekend. Reggie