OH Juli

I got the interactive one as well. Too cool.

TX OMFG, I just ordered one of those yesterday and sent the email to BG and HP (because I don't have anyone else's email in my gmail acct.) I got the pink one, how about you???? I think it's important to have something that says I've got a lapband, but I didn't want to wear a medical ID bracelet. Two great minds...........

Not to hyjack the thread, but now that I'm smaller the bat wings are wingier. The lose skin just hangs. My six year old finds nothing more pleasurable than flapping them around when we are cuddling. Also she asked about the stretch marks in that area, and was please to tell me if they went in two directions they would be plaid, not just lines. Bless her heart. I see the loose skin as a sign of all my hard work!

Hi gang, Just thought I'd put a little shout out there too. Niki, Special K, Hippie, I hope you are all feeling great! Mrod-I'm thinking about you! I know Turler is pending. Who else out there has a surgery date? The weather is slowly getting warmer. I'm hoping with being able to get outside I'll be able to get pick up the weight loss pace. It is very slowly coming off now. But it is still trending downward, so I can't complain. Where at Polaris is the fashion show happening? In front of JC Penney's? Isn't that where Santa sets up and they have rotating events? Smiles!

With my daughter we call it growing and not growing food. There's room for not growing food in everyone's life, but growing food is what we should be focusing on. I like your on/off target framing.

Congrats! You should be proud. That dinner party will be great fun!

B, No Chi Town???? Oh, I'm crushed! I bet your wife is pleased though not to have you across the country. I was hoping you'd become a mid-westerner like the majority of us here. Stef and Texas still get to have you. Alas. Traveling like that is rough. Might I suggest a skinny latte with sweetener, if you are looking to shave a few calories but still get that caffinated frenzied feeling? It's my drug, er I mean drink, of choice. All my writings about Starbucks has me so into that place it's freakish...my HR class has me delving deeping into a corporation's practices, and since where I work is broken badly, I was sent out to pick a public company. I chose *$, and now know everything their PR department has put out there. I'm pretty certain they're not as fantastic as it all seems, but I'm in love with them as an organization, anyway. XO, Dude. We're thinking of you.

Caparsi, Hi and welcome! You're size on the bike is a non issue. It will hold you. A properly inflated tire will hold you. Promise. As for your tushy, smaller seat equals better. You do need to get used to a bike seat, typically it takes 2 or 3 rides within 10 days for you to break in your butt...If it still hurts after that try a different seat. For your kid there are tag along trailors when they are that small. Get him a helmet too so his noggin is as safe as yours. Please consider exploring cycling further. You might find you'll love it! We all do. Keep talking to us about it, we'll give you lots of encouragement!

Oh, just wait until she hugs you and her arms reach all the way around!!!! When my 6 year old's did that we both jumped up and down. I don't know if she knew why we were jumping when we started but she knew by the time we were done and she now hugs me all the time with squeezes because she can! That's a great A Ha moment. I don't know that I had one, I felt like there were many signs that lead me to lapbanding. I love yours though. Congratulations.

smiling............ :0)

I love idioms. And I swear quite a bit. I love puns and sarcasm! However, I grew up in a house where one parent was German and one was Hungarian and their common language was English. I was forever trying to rationalize idioms for them. My father ranted about the value of a public school education, "Vat da hell are dey teaching you?!" To add to the mix I now work at Deaf school where sign language is beautiful in it's clarity of thought and complexity, but it lacks the circuitous approach much us of like. It's been a challenge to say the least. Or, “ASL, Hard!” At any rate it's fun to see our language and how it impacts us and others. Thanks for sharing this.

Where are my people???

I love the signature line one, Lion. And look at you, in Onderland! I just made it there myself last week!!!

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How to eat at restaurants, negotiating holiday foods, sharing how an individual overcame a specific obstical, discuss who is a support who is a barrier, visualize what success will look like, setting short term and stretch goals...these are what I think about. Look at some old Weight Watcher ideas.

I can't say I've read every post, but has anyone asked what about the big droopy mons? I'm down more than 100 pounds and the mons is going to need be lifted with plastic surgery when the tummy gets tucked... has anyone addressed this with the waxer? Or do you just put your goods out there to be waxed and let them deal with the saggy texture of the skin with out comment?

I'm writing non-stop about Starbucks for my MBA degree. They'll train you. It's a great company. It will certainly be a different pace from teaching. Enjoy!

Everyone has hit everything as far as food goes. 30 minutes a day of walking isn't going to get you to your goal. Change your exercise routine every 4 weeks. Make goals that stretch you. Walk faster, walk on incline, get a jump rope, shoot for 45 minutes, run, cycle, weight train. If you want different results you need to act differently. Good luck.

Penney I hope all is well with your port now! Let us know. Pamela, Where the heck are you????

BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB I've missed you, Buddy! How are you? What's your deali-o?

Oh should I post, or should I just pass this by....the decisions, the decisions... Oh wait, that's my right, I can post. I can write about anything that moves me because wait, now why? Oh yeah the Constitution says I can. Something about the freedom of speech. Crazy founding fathers what were they thinking? Don't like it, don't read it. Very simple.

I rode my bike today. It was colder than I expected because the sun was shining! I got flurried upon! Snow! So woo hoo, I got a few miles on me! And I didn't fall down. C- Congrats on being Cancer Free! That's fantastic. Do you have a surgery date set in stone now? Is it the 1st or the 10th? Those were the two possible, right? Zoe is back in school this week, but I'm happily dealing with an empty work place. I hope everyone is fine.

I'm probably not going to be any help, but just hit subscribe to podcasts and it automatically downloads to my iTunes account. When I recharge it uploads the newest podcasts. But I go to podcasts via iTunes site, not from other sites on the web. Probably why I don't have issues.

CNN just sucked me in. Well, here's to the system doing as it should. I feel bad for his wife and kids.

JC- I was told I'd probably have to take a B12 supliment. In pill form. They have it as a sublingual (under the tongue) for RnYs since they'd not absorb it. Why don't you look at those options before committing to giving yourself shots? My X's grandmother used to do shots of B12 and she thought of herself as Wonder Woman afterward, like they gave her a huge energy boost. I don't know if it was in her head or not, but that's my only experience with them. HTH. Good luck with the shoes. Mine are comfy but more imporatantly they match my bike.