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Hi all, Welcome back Candi~ Hey John - so sorry to hear about your journey so far but there is light at the end of the tunnel - the sleeve is suppose to be a great procedure. YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE A BAND TO BE A PART OF THIS SUPPORT FORUM. Join us - I, for one, can't wait to hear about your next step. Best of luck to you! Jes, you gonna go to your doctors office tomorrow? any new developments? I just skimmed thru to see what was going on but didn't see anything on it. Chris - hope the morning sickness takes a hike soon - looking forward to seeing the 1st baby pics. Tina - good luck next week - you will be in my thoughts. I can't believe I only have 7 days left!

Good mornin all, Heather, I think you should email Doc Fisher - remind him though where you live so he just doesn't tell you to come to Richmond. I HATE THE AUTOMATED SYSTEM! Pammie - how are you feeling? Headache gone? Jes, I am so upset about your dilema. I think Dr. Park should be doing more to help you since she messed up. I agree that you should just show up on Tuesday and demand to see somebody - Also, I would have the attending page your doctor to get the OK - vacation or no vacation! Your doctor can email Dr. Park! Nicole - did you straighten your friend out? Oh, Tina - you poor thing having to sit in traffic that long. It was bad on Thursday, not usually like that! LaChika - enjoy orientation! Let us know how it goes for you. Hey Donna - no blister! But that will teach me to log on in the mornings to make sure I didn't miss anything - like we're going to walk the bridge so bring your shoes HAHAHA. So sorry it took you so long to get home! Love the hair cut!!!! Want to find some of that "dust" that you use - I cut my hair too - about 4inches off! Was way to stringy and I had just been so lazy about it. Got 2 parties to go to today - a 1 year old party and a sweet 16 party - Lots a cake! first one starts at noon so I guess I better get moving - I'm the only one online right now anyway! Have a great day ladies - smooches PS: April - check in with us and let us know how you're feeling and what's going on with your claim!

I'm tired! gonna hit the sack - night ladies - skinny dreams

Ok, so we got TeenaMarie, the slim chick and Miss Nicole, the SKINNY chick!

Hey Gary - I belong to Kaiser in Richmond, CA and from what I hear they are #4 in the nation for their bariatrics department. What I was told is: as long as you stay below the 25lb weight loss requirement it doesn't matter what you do - just don't gain weight. The night before surgery stop eating by 6 and not even Water past midnight. the purpose of the initial weight loss is to shrink you liver as the band needs to be placed directly beneath it - they need the room to work LOL. Since you've lost what they needed you to, you're fine - no liquid diet required. You gain weight in your core region first so that is why it is important that you don't gain any weight between now and the 9th. I am not banded yet - my date is the 14th and this is the information we all get at our facility. BEST OF LUCK!

I will say that I like the directness of the two of them. don't need anything to be sugar coated - keep it short & simple hahaha

Wow Nicole - you are just my little energizer bunny right now! Tina you look really good in those pants! They fit you nicely and when you have on pants that ACTUALLY FIT, the weight loss is noticeable. I think you lost more than 1lb - you were just wearing heavier clothing! So, yeah! you deserve to be called a slim chick - if the shoe fits! Heather, if you just show up and get weighed, Kaiser doesn't get paid! If you have an appt - you have to pay your co-pay. If i were you, I'd work something out with your PCP - get to know his nursing staff. i don't do the weight checks cuz it was such a hassle. Bring em cookies LOL. Umm.... Jes, I spent 113.00 on soup & baby spoons LOL. At least you got a plant! So I rewarded myself for such a good day by..... Having some of my husbands potato! I can't reward myself with clothes right now and baby spoons didn't really do it for me so... Potato! Slacker!! Robin said she was gonna separate Jes & I in front of everybody... Then Jes went pee & Robin said " I hope she doesn't have anymore questions" She waited till Jes was out the door to say it though - didn't say anything to her directly - she's a "talk behind your back, kinda gal"

Hey Cinderella, can bra's be dyed? did I spell that right - having a brain fart. anyway - bras in my size seem to come in Black, white & nude - NO RED! Grrrr Hope all is well with your Reggie! Hi Riley, wish you coulda walked the bridge with us - you'd make us keep up the pace LOL. 8000 steps. Donna, are you really on or just didn't log off earlier? You home yet??

Hi ladies, What a great day today -Class was ok, kinda boring but it is what it is - most of this stuff I already know of you guys. So happy I weighed in at 198.6, finally lost my cake weight. It was nice that Tina got to join us for a moment. Tina - YOU LOOK GREAT - slim chick! Missed you at lunch! Glad the interview went well - I think it's perfect that the job won't be open till October. I'm gonna need a copy of your resume' - Jes, yours too! so I hadn't logged on after Jes & Donna made plans to walk the bridge so I had to walk it in my paper thin, weightless flip flops - got two hugh blisters on the balls of my toes LOL. but the bridge is so nice to walk on a hot day that It didn't even matter. Donna & Jes, I thuroughly enjoyed your company today. Donna, thank you so so so much for coming and for my care package. It's perfect! How was the book store? Wally with Jes was alot of fun - spent way too much money there! but i got some great soups! Got baby spoons too and a sippy type cup so I don't guzzle my water like I'm use to LOL. I can't wait for this to be over. Just band me already, would ya! Heather, how's that reading going? Water exercises are very good for you - I too am the youngest one - and I'm 40 - whenever I go haha MISS YOU NICOLE! MISS YOU MORE AUDS!!! Tamra - we need to get together! Walk the bridge with us - bring your child & stoller Pammie - have you read any of those books from the library yet? Have a nice lunch date tomorrow :smile2: Don't forget the red push up bra hahahahaha

Heather - enjoy your day tomorrow! I'm gonna hit the sac, my head is getting worse so its time for Maxalt LOL. Jes, see you in the morning - Donna, you too? Tina? Nicole, txt when you know your plan for tomorrow

Hi All, I'm getting banded on the 14th by Dr. Fisher. I go to the Sac support group too - Hi Swrktp, fancy running into you here LOL - anyway, join us - the 4th Saturday of the month at 11:00, Kaiser Pt. West. Hope to see you there

Chris, that baby may just be the size of a lentil but what about the fluid he/she is collecting! Love the baby ticker! Heather - I Never have energy - welcome to my world! How's the reading going? Are they long chapters?????? Ok, so Liz told me to bring my vitamins to my physical appt with Doc Fisher - not to the class - good thing you said something cuz since I already brought them to THE DOC I hadn't planned on bringing them tomorrow LOL Oh, he said i CAN use the sustained release pills! said as long as they fit thru to the big tummy they are fine! I shoulda asked about my handy dandy excederine!!! I CAN'T eat or drink anything before I get weighed - it's so weird! I can weigh, have 1 glass of water, weigh again and be 5lbs heavier! So I was hoping to really be able to bring my coffee with me tomorrow - what is the concensus (sp) on that? I better put my binder by the front door too or I will forget it. Tamra - I expect you to be on track tomorrow - I got back on today - so far so good but I really want something sweet - funny you all are mentioning cramps cuz I've had them for the past two days but havent had a cycle for 4 years (depo!) I usually get cramps about a week before I'm due for my shot but as soon as I get it I'm cool - I got my shot 3 weeks ago so i shouldn't have any issues! Trying to drink lotsa water today. Donna - where are you? still coming tomorrow??? don't make me come pick you up at 4am LOL. Pammie - what's the word? Cinderella, damn girl - we miss you over here! April - how's the pain woman? Nicole - you have no excuse - I know you have the net ! LaChica - you still around? MARIA!!!!! What the heck - you hit goal, you dump us?? Hmmm.... who else can I harass RILEY JANE... When are they opening the petaluma trail? TeenaMarie... Txt when you get there or as soon as you are free! You should have my number but I'm gonna PM it to you right now

Yeah, Tina - there is a second session that starts at 10! so I'm sure you can get in then!!!

Tamra - don't make me kick your a*s! You can have water & salad at applebees - not ALL salads are a good choice but some are! GET ON IT!

Ah, riley - that darn cake! Nicole - I'm excited to see you tomorrow too! Jes, can we even bring in a Latte? Cuz I'm not trying to drink anything before I get weighed!! Before I say this I just want it on record that I never claimed to be the sharpest tool in the shed: I think I may have figured out my sweet cravings issue... So, like, remember when I said that smells are my biggest trigger... I got these candles - vanilla - and they smell so good, very sweet - I've been lighting them every evening and it just hit me that they are probably the reason I want to eat sweets so so so much LOL. I have a headache - blah blah blah

Nicole, he said it all depends on the person and what they can hold - just purposely fuckin with me! being so vague! We planned on lunch then a little trip to wally world for supplies - sneak down!

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So, Christine, sounds like Doc Fisher is a little more on the conservative side - huh. Seeing that he took fluid out this early in the game. Good to know! So, got that Heather, when it's time for you and yours to have a baby - don't tell Doc Fisher right away LOL

Ok, just got online to check my appt - it says 8am, bldg B, 3rd floor and we need to be 15 min early to park & register so 7:40 it is! Whoever gets there first needs to run up and get in the registration line!

I have to take my niece to school in the morning so I can be there at the earliest by 7:40. You tell me - shoot, where is it LOL

Jes - enjoy that soup. I'm not feeling anything healthy LOL. I just want to eat eat eat for some reason - I think it's the carbs I've been taking in - like you, I only have 4lbs to play with so I GOTTA get on it! Tamra, hey hey hey! Thanks for stopping by hahaha. OK, you get back on the wagon with me right this minute young lady! Lets get a meal plan going! Whats for lunch? Dinner? I'm gonna try to make me some lentils when I get home. On a funnier note.. My husband has always been in good shape but since he's been off work for the last two years (due to work related injury-ugh) he's put on 12lbs and so now he's trying to take that extra weight off and CAN'T LMFAO! Now he gets it! He's a late night snacker which is what messes him up - so he's trying not to eat the junk food and carbs but he's having the worst time of it hahahahahahahahaha That's what he gets!

Thanks Riley Jane - I will try that and see how it goes with the hubby. wish there was some way to print a post on here - copy & paste always works though. Congrats on the 10lbs - I'm stuck again like I was with the 4lbs and I'm sure, this time, it's my own damn fault! Pammie - exactly what I want to know! Why pick cakes now? us girls already have our shoes! I'm not too upset about that because they were only 30 bucks but they argue so much that I don't even think they will go thru with the wedding. Any-who - I'm done with it all for now. Ok, jes... let us not forget that I am 1/2 Sicilian - I got a little ethnicity to me too - my Daddy's favorite meal growing up was Ham Hocks & Lima beans. And my husband is NOT caucasian so I have to adapt. It's a comprimise - I make him whatever he wants as long as it's not breaded & deep fried. And he eats pasta now Tina - good luck with your fill appointment - hope all works out for you! April, did I read correctly that the bridge will be closed tomorrow morning starting at 5 am? Guess that means Hwy 37 and 101 will be so so so backed up as well as the GG bridge. Bad enough to have to go around and sit in lotsa traffice but then have to pay an extra dollar - Grrr.

Heather - I know you'll rock it! so much energy - must be nice to be young Donna, you can come in with me! Jes, I got the whole day free too so lunch & shopping sounds great - Donna, you down for lunch? I want you gone no later than 2 because after that, you'll be so stuck in traffic It'll take you FOREVER to get home! Yep, tomorrow is my Friday! 5 day weekend!! woop woop! Riley & Tina - at my husbands request, I made small white beans for dinner and thought of you two. I love beans but never think to actually make them - Ah, but my husband likes chunks of ham in his so I make them a little less vegitarian than you all do LOL. I really want to try lentils - don't really know the difference between them & beans (stop laughing at me!) so can you tell me how you guys make them? This waiting game sucks! Did really good with food yesterday - back to my 3 1/2 cups of protein but today I sucked - AGAIN - did good till about two hours ago. I had already eaten my 1/2 cup dinner but had beans anyway, then my husband broke out the almonds - had a large handful of those & then my stepdaughter showed up with cake! F#$%#KING CAKE! Had 3 bites GRRRRR I'm never gonna get these two lbs off let alone keep from gaining any more! The waiting game makes it hard to focus. Hope everybody else is doing better than me LOL - christine, how's that baby coming long?

Tina - will miss you (AND DONNA) on Thursday but NO worries! get your life together first - we can kick it another day!! Tamra - what's up girlie? I've been bad too! its this whole wedding thing but I told my little bridezilla - who has informed me that it just may not be till July 2011 till they get married (ugh) that I'm up 2lbs because of all this so I absolutely can not participate in anymore tastings. I'm still under goal but gotta be good till the 14th and I'm having a tough time of it! what are you doing to get back on track?

Yeah Mike! glad he likes is new position - but I'd stay away from the glass table! you hafta clean it every 5 min AND with miss Auds, it may get chipped - Just my humble opinion! So glad ur getting ur internet! I would love to come hang with Auds but I got a sweet 16 party to attend on Saturday and Sunday is "husband" day. We try to spend every sunday together - Just "us" time. I don't like this part either - it was cool when I was just focusing on getting to my goal weight but now i have nothing to focus on but my operation - and my scars - an my big ass port LOL. Oh, and my saggy skin LMAO. Seriously - I'm way excited! Pammie - those sound like good books - I want reviews so I know if i should check em out or not - never heard of that movie though. You don't need a how to date book - all you gotta do is strut that sexy body cross some SMART mans path and he'll b hooked! go pammie, go pammie