TracyinKS

I'm BACK! I made it to page 375 before I had to finally comment! HOLY CRAP I MISSED A LOT!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love the new avatars: Kat, Judy, Terry, Ms_Jen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Laura: I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU TO FIND THOSE JEANS!!!!!!!!!! Jennifur: GOOD LUCK on the mail room job! Everyone else that I've missed because I was too lazy to read the next 10 pages of posts.................... HIYa!!!! I'm back from vacation........ it was not relaxing..., it was hot, the boys did nothing but fight with each other and us, my son decided that he would would become an instant hellion at 4 and drive me insane........ we came back early if that tells you anything. I had trouble eating.......... unless I ate crap............ I ready to go back to work just to get away from the amount of testosterone in this house. Hopefully we will take the three older boys home to their mother today.... I just broke up two fights and I am sick and tired of yelling..... I got on the scale this morning and I weighed in at 233......which is what I weighed when I left.... I know that I am retaining water because my rings hurt my fingers.......... I tried to sneak off to the clubhouse and log on mid week, but their connection wasn't working.. I MISSED MY VIOLETS!!!!!!!!!! Welcome to all the newbies! Signing off for now.

HIYA Smly!!!!!!!! Sounds like you are kicking booty! I am definately super restricted right now....... or I'm having that first bite syndrome thing..... I am just going to ATTEMPT to go with it and see if I lose weight while on vacation........ right now my stomach is rumbling but if I take even one bite I need to stop.... I know its like what HouseHuntress described.. I have to take smaller bites and SLOW DOWN........... I'll try Denise: HOLY CrAP batman you are nearly in the teens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No way I'm catching up with you now! I think that I will be able to button those size 14's with the help of a gut sucker.............. not today but by Labor Day. REMINDER............. I WILL BE ON VACATION STARTING TONIGHT!!!!! PLEASE PLEASE send me BE GOOD VIBES!!!!!!!!!!!! One GOOD thing.... if I keep on with this level of restriction there is NO way that I will be eating a Funnel Cake Supreme... maybe ONE bite and thats it!

Call your insurance company and see if your employer EXCLUDES it. GOOD LUCK!

There are TONs of really good PCOS sites........ soulcysters is one of my favs.. just google PCOS and start reading.

and one more size......

haven't caught up on the posts yet, but here is our very own MS_Jen!!! (Jen right click on each of these images and save to your computer.) This is sized small enough to be your AVATAR

Ms_jen! Love The Pic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am also having a out of the ordinary period....... mine started 3 days early and my cramps were HORRIBLE....... I attribute it to the fat loss... estrogen is stored in your fat cells and when you have a rapid fat loss the extra estrogen is released..... don't worry in a few cycles it will be straightened out again and I'm betting you become regular as clockwork! This is ESPECIALLY TRUE if you suffer from PCOS!!!!!!!!! and if you've suffered infertilty due to PCOS ... watch out.. because you could get preggo..... (my son is living proof of this)

Interesting thread............ I guess for me.. I am in diet mode because the pounds are coming off and I LOVE... and I mean LOVE the feeling of going down in sizes in my closet..... it is almost orgasmic... I like so many here am an expert dieter.. I know what works for my body I just have to do it...... the band helps me............ plus the best thing is that if I do go off plan and have a chip, a cookie or a blizzard from dairy queen.. I can no longer eat much of it...... or wake up the next morning with an empty twinkie box at my feet Tonight I fixed brats I was able to eat MAYBE half of one cut up in tiny pcs.......... then df fixed a frozen pizza.. and it looked and smelled sooo good.. the crust looked thin enough so I had a little bite........... then a little more........ then THE PAIN THE PAIN THE PAIN..... I had to walk around the house with my arms up in the air until I felt it actually dissolve and move through my band......... the morale........ IT IS NOT WORTH IT! and because I couldn't devour the ENTIRE thing.. my size 14 jeans are a mere weeks away!

Pat: YOU ARE KICKING ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Next time at the buffet look around at the skinny people....... they are not sucking down 5 plates.. they are eating a NORMAL amount... you are just eating like a NORMAL sized person and soon you will be. (at least this is the conversation I have with myself every night)

Don't forget taking a loan out on your 401K as an option.

Had some cheddar today for lunch!

I'm with you Laura! I tried the eliptical and after 1 minute I was pushing the stop button!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think super restriction has hit full force............ I've been having a hard time with most everything.. that and I've been taking too big of bites and not chewing enough....... duhhhhhhh I KNOW.... but this is weird.. I'm eating cheddar cheese and shaved turkey and I'm having a HECK of a time! This is the first time I can really say that I'm REALLY restricted.. and I know it is because of TOM....... that and the dang scale won't budge for me........

WOW... the title got my attention......... I know most of what I think has already been said... but I will just add.. Everyone has their own path. My band is just as tempermental as my 3 year old. I can't eat Beans.. wierd.. but I can eat thin crust pizza.... if I'm stressed or on my TOM my band swells and I have a hard time eating.. WIERD...... the only times I spend over the toilet is when I don't listen to my body and STOP when it tells me too......... EMOTIONAL eating is harder to fend off....... Good luck with your journey

Can't see it, but if I lay down and like Chickie (feel myself up) I can feel it............. DF can not feel it or see it either......... maybe when I get further down the scale I might be able to see it, but I will then just get it changed out to a low profile version.......... NOT A BIG DEAL at all!

I've missed two days this week, but I will be going tomorrow! Terry: STEP AWAY FROM THE WINE and get your ass to the gym!

Efika! LOOK at those COLLAR BONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You look so thin. Julie: you are a crack up.... yes MENTOS are the same as Skittles! I've had exactly ONE massage in my life... it was a valentines present from a guy that I was dating and he had just graduated from Massage Therepy school....... it was goooooooooooooooooooood.

JUDY: SO GLAD to hear that you are ok!

TRACYK: That suit is almost tooooooooooo big!!!!!!!!!!!!! HECK if I LOOKED AS GOOD AS YOU DO IN THAT SUIT I MIGHT JUST GO SKINNY DIPPING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You have thin arms and thin legs, nice boobs, and since its a skirt suit I can't even tell how your belly is.......... I agree with schexymomma... you need a SEXIER SUIT cause girl you need to FLAUNT IT!!!!!!!!!! KAT: Hang in there........ I just got off the phone with my sons daycare he was in the back ground throwing toys, screaming and refusing to come to the phone........... it wasn't even 8:00 a.m. yet and they were wanting me to come pick him up.........these hot days are getting to everyone as they don't go outside at all and all excursions have been stopped for the summer........ he needs vacation as much as we do.

Terry! LOL!!!!!!!!! Congrats Judy on the boat! Haydee aka tan woman who spent last week winking at the pool boy with her sisters......... I have always bruised/welted easily. Jennifur: Have a good night at work... di you talk to that guy yet? Sara: it is so nice to see you around here again!!!!!! Denise where are you woman? Michelle is at the beach Pam is at the Cape MS_Jen is out looking hawt and bedazzling all the men! TracyK: where are you today Kat: Hope every thing works out with MIL Laura: You are so funny!!!!!!!!!! and BTW way to go on throwing out th cake! Have a great evening

LOL! I just sent a paypal payment for the motorcycle candy molds that I just bought.......... :tea: and I've been cruising the dress listings. OMG I have major TOM cramps............. I am about ready to just go home and lay down... (they are strangely HORRIBLE today) Must be the extra estrogen being released from my fat cells. I am forcing myself to down the water so that the bloating will cease.

BACK AWAY FROM THE SKITTLE's :eyebrows:

Peeking in on you August 06rs! I've been doing well with my exercise goals this month and I have to say that your thread gives me much motivation! HOLY CRAP Julie your in the 150's size 8 & smalls????? I think the boxing class with your crush could be fun! I'm always interested in reading what your dad has to say. I think its very cool for you to have an inside scoop. I know an arm lift will be in my future... and not the little armpit incisions... flap flap! My Labor Day goal is to button my well worn size 14 levis.... I posted a pic last week of me NOT buttoning them, so we shall see............ every morning when I'm doing my work out I've been visualizing those jeans...and I end up doing a few more crunches..... :tea: Have a great day and keep on posting........ I love reading about your lives.

Good morning! I have yet another busy day.... I am retaining water like a baloon and thank heavens my TOM arrived early so that maybe I'll be done before we head to Branson on Saturday.. I was hoping to hit the 220's this week but I keep bouncing today was 233.. so I doubt I will make it....... Have a great day everyone

To me the pic of the device looks about 100 years old and possibly doctored. I know my grandma had a port and a pain pump installed in her late in life soooooo really the above apparatis could be aNYTHING. My doc does fills for Mexican bands...... I would take the pic and the TONE with a HUGE shaker of salt!