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congratulations! I like that you added HUMBLED to your post. I know the feeling. Best to you!

Meggie very cool to have your perspective. Thank you for offering yourself as a go to for younger bandsters.

**Homosexual behavior. My daughter's dog (male) is about a year old. He tries and tries to mount the other male dog we have in our house. It's to the point where I'm questioning his makeup.

You know you brought something up here that is cause to think. It's not something anyone likes to talk about but but the abuse thing is one thing and to feel safer with women, yeah, I've heard that. But you know I work at a middle school and one week a girl will be a lesbian, the next week she's straight. It's like it's a fad but I really think it's more for attention. You know, let's see how extreme I can be. My daughter had a friend back in elementary school who looked like a boy, acted like a boy. I swore she would grow up and be gay. She didn't. She is in the military and got married a few months ago. Another friend of my daughters was a young boy she was sweet on in 7th grade. He LOVED to dress up, loved his white jeans. We would drive them to the movies because he lived far out from town and his family wouldn't drive him anywhere. He graduated high school with top honors, moved in with my daughter's girlfriend and then came out a few years after high school. Back on topic, I also think if your circle of influence tends to be obese, you hang with who you are most comfortable with.

sleepyjean love your avatar. Nice retro girl there. ....................... Well the research is published in a respected publication, the study was done at Boston U. It says they looked at data collected, not sure where or who collected it to get the conclusion. My niece and her partner are a family with my nephew Edison being born a few months ago!! My niece was freaking out because her belly was so big. She is a health nut. Very fit, very into organtic eating as well as her partner. They are professional women who have done substantial studies on bad foods and kids. I think we live in a time when people in general are overweight. So with that in mind, perhaps that is why the study reveals obesity at the rate it does. The flip side to this is a friend of mine told me that she feels more comfortable with her body as is around women, gay women. She is overweight.

Sunta Water weight gain can fluctuate as much as five pounds. If you don't want a fill than you should get one. Follow your heart and stay on it the way you feel is working best for you. I know sometimes one gets the feeling that at some point a balance is met and you can do this.

I can guide you to the internet where you can search water + diet and find loads of articles on the importance of water. I just read that most Americans are dehydrated! But to answer your question, I have long known that you can lose more weight when you drink sufficient amounts of water as needed for health. The back of my water bottle reads "hydrates and nourishes your active body..which aid in energy metabolism as part of a daily diet." Digestion is aided by water. Water plumps the skin to make it dewey in appearance, it is also good for the hair aiding in oil distribution for a shinier healthier look.

Many thanks for the links to the online meal trackers!!

I can only offer this. I followed by diet presurgery because as you can see by my BMI I'm a big gal. Big gal means big liver. Your liver can get so large it makes the surgery difficult if not impossible to perform. So I encourage you to try and stay away from FAT because FATTY LIVER is not a good thing. As it was, I had FLAT liver. That was a liver that was big, deflated and flat but still wide. It added two hours to my sugery time. Stick to the plan.

:clap2: :clap2: AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHEW. Congratulations and pop a cork. That feeling is amazing.

I didn't see your post Scarlett. Sorry you got no responses. My doctor, Dr. Kirshenbaum, put me on a run of antibiotics for ten days. I was glad he did. I had a persistant cough that Hall's lozengez seemed to help but after four days I was really fine. I think had he not done that perhaps I might have gone into something deeper. I had no skin infections. Nothing with my port. I continued to use the cleanser that escapes me right now...Hibeclens I think is the name. It creates a protective barriar on the skin. I was told to use it three days before surgery. Anything green or oozing would send me to the doctor.

You know I crushed mine until I just got tired of it and swallowed one. I waited the usual 30 minutes and nothing. So guess who stopped crushing pills? I just take them with my Water, one sip to slip the pipe, down they go with another.

WOW. What a great first post!!! Everything anyone would want to ask you is right there. I say good luck to you and I'll bet your girl is really excited/apprehensive (mine was) until afterwards. Then it's exciting. Welcome!

I find it amusing to see how many are so offended by the offense of the offending words that weren't meant to offend. Oh, and anytime someone needs an interpreter to clarify, might go back and edit themselves. They do have that option you know.

<p>Hello Ray! Welcome and I'm excited for you and your sugery date. Happy hunting when you start losing that weight and can add your OWN pack of choice with that rifle. I myself am a Bambi lover but my future son-in-law is THE hunter with his gun collection and trunk of SKEET near his gun rack in his 4WD 4x4. Look forward to reading about your surgery. I can't offer you much advice but I am ahead of you by three weeks. I can tell you to take it easy after the operation, give yourself time to heal, follow the doctor's orders, try all kinds of soup broths, now is the time to do so.</p> <p>Best of luck to you tomorrow. It's an exciting phase in your life to think of all of the things you will be able to do!!! My favorite is to actually feel FULL after eating.</p>

thanks for sharing! I love happy occasions. Much love and long life to them!

Yeah, I'll CHILL when my cold dead body is taking a deep six dirt nap. Join me in the BLOCK USER. Now I can scan the pages without having to suppress a PB.

There is an option I will share with you all. It's how to block a user that you find offensive to the point of nausea, on your list as an IGNORE. Go to the user's name as it appears on all of their posts and click on it. The drop box will open and you can select VIEW PUBLIC PROFILE Once in there on the far right is IGNORE. Click on IGNORE and you no longer have to clench your jaws just to enjoy this website.

You know Carlene, I use to be a foster parent. My husband and I went to school for 10 weeks of training. One thing they kept repeating to the class was "they don't put cute white unharmed babies in foster care" trying to disuade those who might be fostering to fill some need for children. After years of fostering children that were in various stages of abuse, anyone who would be so ignorant, so blind, so senseless to the pain inflicted upon a child who has been molested by everything from a human to objects found on your grocery shelf, anyone who would equate that kind of damage EQUAL TO prayer in school needs serious therapy. They have major issues and our forum doesn't offer that type of professional assistance.

Everything happens for a reason. I know so close and to have this must be incredibly discouraging. Wait and see what happens. Surgeon may not have had time to read the results of the scans and speak to your doctor. Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

Can I offer Gerber's fruit juices in apple juice (apple juice to keep you loose). It helped me when I was taking the pain medicine. I can also offer that if you eat a large meal that may get the juices flowing. Children's cereal: Kaboom (they gave it that name for a reason) Good luck Paula

I thought about that BOYLOVE thread today and I put myself in check. I moderate another Vbulletin website and I'm the one who is always whistling the free speech whistle. When it comes to questionable items as in said BOYLOVE post, there is no debating the value of it as an item on the site. I call those kinds of posts "Baiters". They are designed to bait a fued, cause friction and division. It's not a Catholic vs. Wiccan issue, it's not a gay issue. The whole purpose was simply to bait and stir to get everyone's ire up. Think about it, does anyone coming to a website like this for the purpose of obesity/surgery/beneficial health information have need for BOYLOVE? And check out the first post. It's a missile at the christians on here that they have lightened up. Says who? So while I am disappointed that we all got baited into this thread, I will not give it anymore time than the penis post. It will die a natural death. Now I have weight to lose.

Because at some point someone should decide the customers don't want it on the menu. Rocky Mountain Oysters are still Bull's Balls no matter what you call it.

where are the moderators? If this site were one that was not family friendly, with a focus on health and wellness perhaps but BOYlove? C'mon!

I think not. Sorry folks, I don't think it's appropriate for this Forum. The name alone conjers up Dateline NBC "To Catch A Predator" visions.