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Hi Ladies, Yes, Donna, I'm back in action. Just a wee little set back. I did contact my doctor, finally, to complain! why havent' I lost weight in the last month. We went over my calorie intake & exercise routines - so now I'm going to the endocrinologist on the 21st - hmmm? we shall see if it makes a difference. If not, I'm calling 1-800-Jenny! riley you are such a worker bee with all your exercise! Ok, so who was it that said they have the shape up shoes? Nicole, didn't you say the duck had a broken leg - did you fix it? The place he/she's going to will be able to fix it? Did you give the ducky some good pain meds :smile2: I want a duck - because my 4 cats and 2 dogs aren't really enough animals. LOL Hey Heather - good luck on those midterms!

Riley, your so darn cute! I'm trying to avoid all those yummy treats - I hope I don't slow you down on an 8 mile walk! Liz would really enjoy this - she said we should do activity meetups as oppose to lunch meetups! Reggie, I've only walked in them once - just this morning - so I'm not real sure how much they work yet. I can tell you that I really feel it in my calves now, which I never have before. They are not inexpensive, I'll tell you that! I normally shop in the youth section cuz they cost less but they didn't have these in the youth section LOL. $110.00! I haven't watched the video that it comes with yet that tells you how to maximize the walk and what way works what portion of the body. I'll get back to you on that. Nicole, was it you that said you have these shoes? Somebody else has them, I know it! They may know better how good they work.

Jane, I was just thinking how refreshing it is to have friends that want to get out and do things besides going to Applebees to have perfect margheritas and a fat ass plate of - sorry tina - nachos. LOL

Perfect, Riley!!! I'm down for that! Jes, Tamra - ladies - anybody else down for that?? As soon as the park opens let's do it!

Riley, your little size 12 butt will be greatly missed Friday :smile2: If you are ever free on a Saturday, we can meet half way in Petaluma and do lunch if you'd like! Jess lives by me too and so does Tamra so we can all hook up - And anybody else who wants to do the traveling!!! Ok, so my husband and his bright flippin ideas! We got the skechers shape ups and we walked in them this morning and, now, on top of sore thighs from C25K that I also did this AM - Week 2, day 1 complete - I have sore calves! Grrr! All this pain with no gain - is it worth it? Hmmmmm?

Hi all, Nicole, you are so awsome! I wish I could rescue an animal and actually be of some use to the poor thing! BTW: Still no evite - I'm beginning to feel like you don't want me there :smile2: LOL I will have my niece (15) & nephew (9) with me - are kids ok? See you Friday? Jes, Thanks for missin me I've been down & out with a migraine. The injections I get from Kaiser knock me out for quite some time! Donna - so sorry I missed your calls - again, down & out! I PM'd you - hope you get it soon or got it but I'll call you when I get out of here. glad you got your fill - and all that flippin weight you're losing!!! What is the actual address to Mimi's? Reggie, I'd like a copy of your sample menu - seriously, can't get these last few lbs off to save my life! Can't wait to actually meet you Friday - whoo hoo! Pam, have so much fun at six flags! but you will be missed Friday! Tina - my weight is ALL OVER THE F*&^! PLACE TOO. I feel your pain. I don't know what is going on - I've emailed my Doc to have my thyroid checked - just in case - I have never NOT cheated on a diet, nor have I ever exercised so consitantly so I should be a size 8 by now - LOL. Seriously, I don't understand why I'm not losing anything at all - and sometimes my wight is up! GRRRR Tanifaire - Welcome. Looking forward to meeting you Friday and following your success. So, ladies, remeber Jessika/pnkpassion? She finally got approved by her insurance and no sooner did they approve it, her doctor moved her surgery date up to July 14th - whoo hoo! No required prior weight loss or special diet or anything! Guess things are a little different in Georgia - LOL. So, good for her!

thanks, ladies, for your encouragement. I'm just frustrated because I feel like I'm doing all I can and it's just not working. so if this isn't working, what will? I'm sure it will all work itself out eventually - my bodies just a little pissed at me for all these years of tortuing it. Hope everybody is having a good 4th.

Oh, ladies, I need help - I'm about to give up and quit! I broke out the scale - even though I promised myself I wouldn't - I had gained back .9lbs of the 1lb I lost. I just don't get it - I figured out my calories yesterday and even though I had the pork rinds I had a total of 700 cals. I've been power walking 4 miles a day and doing the C25K all last week - WTF????? I don't get it - so today I say the hell with it and I'm drinking crystal light because it doesn't make a damn bit of difference! Back to 4lbs to go when I was down to 3lbs - here's the messed up part - my waist has gone down from 35.5 in to 34 3/4 in - BUT THAT DOESN'T HELP ME GET TO MY SURGERY DATE! Sorry for venting but I'm at my whits end, my legs and feet hurt and I just want to scream!

Cracker snack tool - I don't know how you two do your portions with the crackers, nicole & tina, but what I use to do when I was on WW was buy the little snack bags and as soon as I got home I split up the box into the snack bags so I could just grab a bag and not have to worry about the portion anymore. I still do that with my husbands lunches and with my almonds & things like that. I have no willpower or portion control so it's the ONLY thing that worked for me. Can't wait to see auds little bed :eek: Tina, you're not too old to have another baby :smile2:

WOW! I had the craziest day 1st - Nicole - the crib sounds scary, like she could just jump right out and possibly hurt herself if the bar is that low on her now - I think I'd opt for the toddler bed - BUT... (disclaimer) I'm not a parent so please dont got on my word. Donna, I'M "down" for Friday at 1 - yeah reggie I get to finally meet you! Heather?? You down?? Thanks, donna felling better. Riley, so happy for you and your sweet spot! So, my car will be on CBS13 new tonight at 10 - LOL. Actually, it's really not funny! My girl called and was hystarical said she needed me to come over right away - Turns out, her husband ran over her ex-husband in their driveway last night. Husband is in jain, on suicide watch, facing attempted murder charges. her ex-husband is in the hospital, had surgery on his right leg, broken in 2 places and now has a rod in his leg! Crazy!! Reporters were outside her house for hours so I couldn't leave - well I could've but they would have had the camera all in my face wich is something I am not about to let happen! Stuck away from home unprepared I ate the only things available to be today: B/L/D - pork rinds & slaw. Oh so unhealthy and so high in carbs but that is all there was available in this crazy ass situation. Anyway, I haven't done crap today so it's time to walk. I wasn't suppose to do Week 1, day 3 untill today but I got busy last night & couldn't get my walk in before it got dark so i did it last night on my treadmill in the safety of my garage... Last night was another stupid incident - my sister in law couldn't "handle" having her kids last night so I had to drive to marin to pick them up and didn't get home till 9. GRRRR! will check back around 9:30 when I get back. be sure to watch my car (the little red one) on the 10 O'clock news, channel 13 LOL

Head starting to feel better - don't feel nausiated anymore - time to hit the water and hard! I'm behind

Yeah, Mike! Trust is a great thing when you have it! She's too cute, Nicole. She still fits for the moment. Can you trust her in a todler bed? will she get up in the middle of the night and get into things?

congratulations MarandaJanaye - Quick question... did your doctor explain to you that you can still have kids with the band? they do an "unfill" to let the food pass thru for the baby. Also, did they explain the malabsorbtion & the honeymoon phase of the gastric bypass. I only bring this up because I have a couple friends that did the bypass that was never explained to. Here is its a few years later and they are all strugling just like they did before the bypass & gaining back because they didn't fully understand that the bypass is a one time shot and after the "honeymoon" period, you're on your own - they didn't have their exercise & eating habbits in check by the end of the malabsorbtion period. NOT TRYING TO CHANGE YOUR MIND - JUST WANT TO BE SURE THAT YOUR DOCTOR IS MORE INFORMATIVE THAN THEIRS WERE!

Ok, caught up - took 3 excedrine and just waiting & hoping it takes the edge off! Grrr.. Jess, what lake??? Nicole, we believe you. We know its auds fault you've been snacking LOl - come on Elie - call already! Chris & Candi - can't wait to see the pic ladies!! Donna - we on for Fri?? Tina: congratulations your honor! hahaha Tamra, congratulations to you too - LMAO - food poisoning - lucky break - you must have lost a good 3 pounds from it - just kidding - hope you feel better soon!!! Heather, just keep downing that water girl and watch the sodium intake. Reggie, I will add veggies - Don't know about upping the protein though, because that's all I eat now - so how much more should I eat?

Good Morning all, time for true confessionsl I am about to cheat but before you judge me please note that I am exhausted, my eyes are swollen & tearing and I just can't help myself at this juncture! My husband is my accomplice too. He is on his way to walgreens for excedrine extra strength gel caps with all the CAFFEINE I can possibly take. I have had this headache for a few days now and I'm hitting a breaking point. It's not bad enough to subject myself to a 3 hour wait in the kaiser E.R. for an injection but bad enough to cheat. I am not suppose to take more than 2 maxalt in a 24 hour period and I've already taken 3 since yesterday afternoon - been up since 3:45 am - actually walked the block at that ungodly hour just hoping the fresh air & blood circulation would help but.... NOT! So here I am patiently waiting for my drugs LOL Yesterdays food: B: 2 poached eggs 2 thin slices uncured bacon L: FAST FOOD! 2 pices grilled chicken from KFC Nothing else because I was feelin nausiated from the stupid pain in my left temple & eye! wondering if all the ibuprofin, maxalt & excedrine have anything to do with the stalled weight loss? Time to catch up on all the posts I missed yesterday!

Not me - I havent' been journaling my food - I feel like this is my journaling - and it's robin in my ear that has me not eating anything

Reggie, you may be right - when I was eating 4 to 5 small meals a day I was losing like crazy but then Robin got on me with the 3 times a day only and the weight loss slowed way down - actually stopped - LOL. I haven't been eating salads because Robin said "salad is not your friend" hahaha. I think I was doing better before a dietician entered the scene. I'm gonna give it till Monday, ive decided, to weigh in since I've only just started the C25K program - hoping the joggin a little bit - ramping up my heart beat will help. If not, I'm going back to MY WAY! Donna, you didn't bore me with it You are right but i don't know what else to do - doc won't give me one! Just keeps telling me to lose weight - even the sleep study doctor said the same thing - I don't qualify for a machine based just on the waking up so much thing I guess. Riley, I'm gonna look for that form & see if I can bring it to my PCP - maybe if I'm annoying enough they'll give in LOL

Good Info, Riley - I don't really know what Dr. Fisher will have me do becaue he said he's not going to have me do another sleep study since I had already done one. But maybe I will still get to do the sleepiness scale thing. Everytime I talk to my PCP about it he sends me I'm depressed and sends me to the shrink - the phychiatrist just sends me back and says I'm not depressed - LOL I never get anywhere with it - I've had this problem since my early 20's.

Nicole: I will check it out! I eat like this only to lose weight - I know my body and I will NOT lose an oz if I don't stay away from ALL carbs, white flour and/or sugar. I swear I'm like a crack addict when it comes to that stuff I was thinking you said that it was easier to lose weight before the band but you have to know the bigger you are, the easier it comes off and you are so tiny now that your body is in survival mode! LOL Riley: No, I had a sleep study done last April and was told that I have sleep apnea - the night they monitored me I stopped breathing an average of 5.5 times per hour & woke up 12 times without even realizing it. Their prescription for me is "LOSE WEIGHT" that's how I got referred to the bariatrics department for WLS. I am so tired of being tired and having zero energy!

I talk Waaayyyy to much - i always seem to have the longest posts - LOL Forgot to post yesterday's food: B: 2 scrambled eggs in 1 tsp butter L: 1/2 tuna salad w/2 tsp mayo D: 2 sticks pepperjack cheese with 5 oz deli turkey meat

Morning/afternoon ladies... Geez, I have one hectic day where I can't monitor my computer and you all chat away page after page after page. So sorry I missed last night, Jes, my nephew got sick, then a bloody nose & his mom didn't show up till 6:20 - whew. I was busy with him so dinner didn't get made till late but: COUCH TO 5K, WEEK 1, DAY 2: COMPLETE. Got it done late, but got it done! Riley, send off some of those exercise addiction vibes to me will ya? Also, Im not a morning person - I wake up tired so send me some of those vibes too. Im on facebook and I will try to figure out how you can find me LOL. I hardly ever get on it though - I usually use it just to check on my inlaws in Alabama! But I will make an effort on that. Heather - you could be retaining Water in the heat with the exercising thing. I do! my hands & fingers get swollen when I'm working out - I can retain as much as 4lbs - I weighed myself one morning - my fingers still felt thick - took a real hot shower and weighed again after drying my hair of course and was 4lbs less than I was 30 min prior. Oh, and Jes, you will be at goal in about 10 minutes, whoo hoo! Pam, enjoy the shirt and let your arms show girl! people are too busy checkin out that cleavage to even notice your arms! Red push up, Im tellin ya! Can you tell that I want one of those real bad LOL They don't make them anywhere close to my size Speaking of bra sizes I just learned yesterday after spending 30 minutes on the phone with the lady at barenecessities.com, that european sizing is much smaller than UK sizing so even though you order the exact same size they won't be anywhere close to the same. So, out with the european bras and in with the uk bras! Tamra, that's what I do too - look at pics for motivation - that's how I found 2flyguys and pnkpassion (jessika) Have you all seen 2flyguys - she has done AMAZING with the band - so well that people keep trying to tell her she had bypass! She's rockin size 8 now - down from, I think a 24 - in less than a years time! Check her out. So I haven't weighed myself in a few days, decided to follow Christines lead - I will weigh in tomorrow morning and let you all know if the new amped up workout is helping me at all Oh, Tina, I got on the other pair of capri's that I got from you and guess what I found - a dollar in the pocket - it's been thru the washer & dryer but it will still work - I'll save it for you! Congrats to Mike, Nicole - I will keep my fingers crossed that you will be happy with the offer. Also, I use to date a body builder and he said the same thing about working out too much will keep you from losing weight - our bodies aren't stupid ya'll! They will do their damndest to hold on to all it's stored fat for a rainy day! How can I get an advanced look at the stuff you're selling at the party Saturday - I like to be prepared!

I've tried, Reggie! It just won't show up! Ok, ladies, I've gotta get some crap done around here - TTL

Speaking of details, Donna - where's your siggy full of details? Wish I could get that darn ticker on my siggy - just as well, probably to depressing to watch right now anyway LOL

Jessika, we LOVE to have people join us. The more the merrier - it helps to keep each other motivated and to bounce Ideas of one another is certain situations. Come visit always

Mums the word Nicole Don't worry about the post - people who haven't struggled like us just don't get it!