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Thanks for the text of the few people who are coming. . . If anyone else wants to come just let me know via text. I love get togethers!! This one is going to be very small :Dancing_sorry: but that is nice Colleen 041 262 0461

Last min get together A few of us are catching up this Sunday the 16th November at 1pm at The Settlement Pub in Cranbourne (the usual place) The Settlement Hotel South Gippsland Hwy (cnr Camms Rd) Cranbourne VIC 3977 Meet out the back in the bistro. If you wanna meet up informal chat and or lunch if you want or just a drink or Soup (for people like me who are still on mush) then come and say hello. If you want me to save you a seat reply to this message or text me 041 262 0461 Your welcome to invite a friend or pass this message onto anyone you think would like to come. Hope your all well love Colleen McCormack

Well. . . mine was really hard. . I am Australian (Aus) and my name is Colleen, it is the same as my myspace name www.myspace.com/australian_colleen

Thanks heaps for that I will make sure i print them out so i can memorise them all before I come to CA for the first time in less than 2 months. He he he

I am a gym junkie now. . to the extent my personal trainer kicked me out the gym on Thursday night at 8:30pm because she is scared i am going to get burn out. Since living at the gym i find i eat more and get less problems with blocking and PBing. I can eat a decent amount and can eat a decent amount in about 4 hours time because my body burns the food so much faster, but if i didnt excersice then the second meal would be a lot harder to get through because i would still be full from the first meal. I also find with working out so much i hunt for foods that will give me energy in the gym and sustain my energy because i am on a non liquid calorie diet, so all i drink is Water or green tea, so no coke or sustigen etc. . . Good luck with ya excersise endevors

I am going to be there too!! So very excited my first time to Canada

Just reminding people it is this monday coming Easter Monday

I am going around the world with my new body -- yippee:clap2: I am going on a pre holiday to Thailand on the 26th of April then back here then to Toronto (to go to a banding convention) then canada for a month then, maybe spain to running of the bulls, then Prauge, then North England (family) then London (friends) Then Scotland (millitary tatoo) then around Europe on a Contekik tour then home via Japan or Thailand. I wonder if you are going to the same get together this Sunday in Cranbourne? Thanks for your message

Howdy people Here is your Invitation to: Colleen's Birthday/ Good Bye/ Bannaversry and just a plain old Get together Party!! WOOHOO!! When : Colleens Birthday April 9th (Easter Monday)at 3:30pm Where: Coffee Club Knox Ozone Shop 2226 Knox Ozone Shopping Centre Cnr Burwood Hwy & Stud Rd WANTIRNA SOUTH VIC 3152 (03) 9887 3500 The invitation is for people in this group or any other banding group (and partners) Would just be great to catch up with the people I have met in the last few years along my journey before I head off over seas. RSVP: To me via a) replying to this post smsing me 041 262 0461 c) sending me an email australian_colleen@yahoo.com.au Hope to hear from you soon Colleen

What a great Thread, it is good to read what you have all been up to. Makes me realise how many people in melbourne do have the band. I bet there are at least 10 people you pass every day with the band. How lively it is in here and also in the Victorian Banding Group www.health.groups.yahoo.com/group/VictorianLapBandingGroup it is as if everyone in Melbourne is banded. But that is great. even if I was size 8 I would still want to have my band, it is great to have so much control over yourself.

Wow what a great response! It is going to be a nice day. The booking will be under "Colleen" at 1pm if you want to come last min or have any problems you are welcome to call or sms me on 041 262 0461. Have a great day

It is this weekend, it is not too late to RSVP, just reply here. . Colleen

Thanks heaps Anna

I am in Boronia so am happy to give you (or any one else) a lift if it on the way. Email me on australian_colleen@yahoo.com.au if you want to talk about it. I am going hyking this weekend so wont be in touch till earlier next week Oh and thanks for the compliment Jacqui i feel FANTASTIC I love my body and my life!!! Cant wait to see you too. Colleen

Partners and even people intrested in the band are welcome to come. . It will be great to see a decent turn out. Hope you all have great weekends

lunch At "The Hub", Karingial ALL WELCOME (near Frankston) Date:Sunday October 22, 2006Time:1:00 pmLocation:"The Hub" Restaurant : Karingal Star Zone Karingal, Karingal Dve Karingal, just off Cranbourne Road"The Hub" is down the back of the shopping complex park near the movies and genisis gym as it is not actually attached to the big hub shopping center. NOTE time is 1pm (later than normal) The best way to rsvp is to reply to this thread, or email (me) colleen or sms or call her 041 262 0461 or australian_colleen@yahoo.com.au I hope to see you all there.

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Bugger that you cant get it!! Come to oz and get it and have a holiday at the same time. . you can stay with me That just reminds me i need to get my changed before I go on my huge holidays if the states dont do them, i dont wanna be caught out.

Back in April I had a clothes swap party at my house, there were over 15 people there and everyone brought a plate of band friendly food, I got rid of most of them that way and cause i was a smaller size i didnt get too much in return, but then somone else came and gave me a heap of her clothes a few months ago, so it all equaled out (thank goodness cause I was down to one pair of pants in the middle of winter). Now today my sisters friend is coming to take my next batch off tooooo big clothes of my hands, and whatever she doesnt take I will open to the victorian banding group to take the rest of my hands. Some people do sell them on ebay, and we were going to start up selling them on ebay then using the proffits to buy people on the optifast pre surgury stage a box of optifast to ease the cost, but I dont know what happend to that. Oh and with my old too big PJs that are just a bit tatty, well i clean my car and bathrooms with them he he he I hope that helps, but i really think you shouldnt keep them around for too long, it is willing you and playing with your mind. Trust me when you look at your cupboard and it is compleatly diffrent than it use to be it is like that stage of your life is GONE!!! it is very liberating

it is called the elephant sitting on your chest. he he he. i have not experianced it but it is common, I am sure others here have felt it, so dont panic.

Maybe you should look into implanon. It is just a little rod in your arm, the only thing that hurts is the local anstetic. Oh and if you do get it, dont freak yaself out by looking at the needle it takes to get in there. http://www.implanon.com/index.asp?C=82653389830300578704

I had this conversation with a guy who i really like the other day. I didnt realise how much it was true till I was telling him yes I have lost 40kg but every day for the last year and a bit I have been beating myself up, then i felt the tears in my eyes. It is true, I have done very well, but I must have exausted myself I cant remember days where i made the right food choices, i cant reacal a day since banding where I have gone to bed happy with my effort that day for weight loss. EVERY-single-day I beat myself up because I am not working hard enough. I dont know what the answer is, but just know you are not alone.

You will be at the beach in your sexy swim suit in no time!!!! you wont recognise yourself. I wore my first bakini since i was a kid a few months ago in thailand, sure I am still a size 16-18 but there are somethings you can get away with in developing countries that I wouldnt do here in Australia. But it felt sooooo good to be hanging around the pool with my new found friends in my bakinni and my scars getting some sun on them. . It was an awsome feeling, and I hope one day you can feel it too. Colleen

:heh: I have impanon as do many of my other banded friends and i have heard no complaints. . I love it!!!

How exciting well done!!! I am clucky. . if any one knows someone who wants to go halves in a baby with me let me know he e he he he