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Here ye Here ye.....one and all on the Canuck Thread.....This is hereby christened the "Chronicles of Cloe" Thread!!!

*smashes bottle of cyrstal light over Cloe's head (ummmm I mean thread) with one hand & cuts yellow ribbon with other*.

ahhhh.....tis now open for bidness!!!!

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Hey Cloe, I see by your ONE ticker, that you're at 265. Fantastic!!! and oh so simple to understand!!!

:tape: .....uh huh....thank-you.:rolleyes lol

I can't believe how much you have lost! That is so great. You must feel wonderful! Yeah for you!

Cloe, i dont care if your ticker challenged, any way you look at it, your doing GREAT!!!

Thanks guys, I do feel good!!

BTW....I'M Not the one that is ticker-challenged, it's Yoda and Mandi!!!!!!

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true....true.....I'll admit.

Me too Yoda! Guess I'll be knee deep in StarWars after Christmas. Little son has on list for figures and lego (and elves have made lots) with Star Wars theme - but Mrs Claus isn't letting light sabre with all the bells and whistles in the house - annoying! Yoda is his favorite. HELP!!!!

.....but of course Yoda is his favourite!!! LOL.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah, that light sabre is keeeeeeeeeeeeewl. They have it at costco for a good price. Believe it or not I"m having the same trouble with Mr Yoda as you are with your 8 yr old!! HE wants that sabre too (he ain't gettin' it!!).

The Darth Vader Mr Potato Head is pretty kewl!

Well, hubby went out and braved the crowds to buy it for him - I'll not hear the end of it!! Boys will be boys. I think he thought it was too coooool not to get it. Sigh.....I'll have to take some tylenol to stop the headache I can feel coming on.

I haven't seen the Darth Vader Potatoe heads....now that would be coooooollll!

Okay, new year coming up and I feel the need to purge and refresh. I got out my 'rules to live by' from my surgeon, just to go over again. I thought I would share them with you guys, just in cause you feel the same as me.

1. Eat only 3 small meals a day, dense with Protein and fibre. I need to work on this.

2. Include 2 Snacks a day high in protein, Vitamins and minerals. I need to work on this.

3. Restrict total meal size to less than 1 cup. I need to work on this.

4. Eat slowly - small bites, chew well(30 min/meal) stop eating as soon as you feel full.

5. Choose solid foods ONLY, after your soft diet. You will feel full longer.I'm not doing this as well as I should.

6. Do not eat and drink at the same time. Drink a minimum of 45-60 minutes after a meal and 15 before the next. I use to do this better.

7. Drink a minimum of 48-64 ozs of Water daily.

8. Avoid alcoholic and carbonated beverages. Ahh ya, hello, it's new years. No problem afterwards.

9. Exercise at least 30 minutes a day. 'hangs head low and walks away'

10. Take one chewable or crushed Multivitamin and Calcium supplement daily. This could be more consistant.

I guess you could call this the 10 commandments of lapbanders. I need to work on these things again, as you can see.

Happy New Year All!!!!

Thanks Cloe.....GREAT reminder to all of us boneheads (myself included)!!!

Thanx, Cloe. This is a timely reminder. By the way, your ticker is looking very good! Congratulations!:clap2: :clap2: :clap2:

Well, thanks green, but actually I havent weighed myself since Christmas Eve. I'm kinda (really) scared. I'm gonna brave it tommorow - Jan 1st!!

Thanks for the list Cloe. I haven't seen the rules before. They probably gave them to me but I don't remember because of my (then) drug induced state.

Well, I had to go back in the pages to find my thread. How sad is THAT:( !! Anyway, just thought I'd update you on my life, :bored :bored :bored ....ya, kinda boring. Oh well, read about me anyway....lol.

The Christmas junk food is finally out of my house, and I'm sitting at about 265-266, so I'm almost back to 264, geesh!! Doubt I'll hit my goal this month.:phanvan

My oldest daughter is still living with her dumb-ass boyfriend, apparently she wants to be a doormat a little longer.

Lambing starts again this Monday for 10 days, hopefully I'll work and shiver my butt off a little, lose a few more pounds:flock: (why are the sheep green?).

Green, I'm coming to stay at the Royal York at the end of February for 3 days. Usually we stay at the Sheraton. I usually do all my shopping underground between the Sheraton, Royal York and Eaton's Centre. This year I want to come out from underground and visit some neat shops and restaurants. Can you suggest some, within walking distance, that is???

Thanks for reading about my boring life. I'm still working on those pic's, I just cannot seem to remember how I made them small enough last time, Ahhhh!!!!!!