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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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Thank you Yoda, but i didn't have a very good week last week, i actually gained 1 .25 lbs.,:cry tonight is my weigh in so hopefully i will have had a better week.

Maria:)

Maria, do you weigh yourself at night?

Ya, I think eating quicky foods was starting to creep back without me noticing. Also I think subconciously I was gravitating toward softer foods to avoid golfballs and irratation. So I took note to really pay better attention and within a few days the results really started again!!

Cloe, i still go to my weight loss club, so our weigh in is on Monday nights, and because i started on there scales i like to weigh in on the same scale every week. I don't have any scales at home that way so i don't have the temptation of weighing every day. Maybe when i finish with the club i will buy scales then.

You are doing great:clap2: :clap2: keep up the good work.

Maria:)

Maria, what's a weight loss club? Is it like TOPS?

That's a good idea... once I start going to the gym, and my home scale breaks, I won't be buying a new one!!

Yes Mandi that is were i go TOPS. I like going for the support and encourgement. it does help.

Maria:)

Cool... good for you! Are there any other bandsters in your group? Do they know you got it done? What do they think?

Hey Maria,

I'm curious....do your fellow "Tops" people know about your surgery? If so...how did they react to it?

whoah.... trippy! LOL

Hey that was neat!! You both said the exact same thing at the exact same time!! :wacko: twins

Yes guys i had to tell them, you see they give out rewards for different levels of weight loss, and it would not have been fair to the other TOPS members that i am now losing weight every week, when i was so up and down before.

Everyone is very supportive, and actually admire what i have done. We take turns at presenting topics for discussion each week, ie: weight loss tips, motivation tips, excersise tips. When it was my turn i did it on the lap band surgery, i brought my little hand book and the diagram of the lap band so they could see how it works.

I explained to them that i still have to watch what i eat, that the band is just a tool to help me on my weight loss journey. If i do not eat properly i can still gain weight. I get lots of encourgement from everyone, we give each other lots of encourgement, it is really nice i like going there, they are all a great bunch of women.

Maria:)

That is kewl Maria.

Hey Mandi...great minds think alike, eh? LOL

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Yes guys i had to tell them, you see they give out rewards for different levels of weight loss, and it would not have been fair to the other TOPS members that i am now losing weight every week, when i was so up and down before.

Everyone is very supportive, and actually admire what i have done. We take turns at presenting topics for discussion each week, ie: weight loss tips, motivation tips, excersise tips. When it was my turn i did it on the lap band surgery, i brought my little hand book and the diagram of the lap band so they could see how it works.

I explained to them that i still have to watch what i eat, that the band is just a tool to help me on my weight loss journey. If i do not eat properly i can still gain weight. I get lots of encourgement from everyone, we give each other lots of encourgement, it is really nice i like going there, they are all a great bunch of women.

Maria:)

Are any of them interested in undergoing the surgery?

Yesterday I started talking to another plus size woman whom I met while hanging out in the plus size section of Hudson's Bay. I found myself telling her all about my band, that I had it installed two and half weeks ago, yadda, yadda. She said that she was diabetic due to her weight and was on a long waiting list in Nova Scotia which is where she lives for bariatric surgery, and that it will be paid for by the province. We yapped for quite awhile. I told her about this site. I also said that the lapband seems to be the way to go. I also told her that the only guy in Nova Scotia who does it will only service his own patients!

Yeah, unfortunately a lot of people....even a lot of doctors don't even KNOW about the lapband. For instance, my obygn who I see for PCOS...didn't know about it and was stunned that they did this. He was interested though and I gave him all the info for his brother; as he said it is something that maybe his brother should look into.

It is sad really...because if the docs don't know about it, how can they adequately explain all the options to a patient of theirs who may perhaps like to undergo bariatric surgery....ya know?

I also told her that the only guy in Nova Scotia who does it will only service his own patients!

Did you mean New Brunswick? There's no one doing the lapband in NS, only the bypass.... I'm 99% sure of that. That must be what she's on the waiting list. EVERYwhere pays for the bypass.. you just have to wait 7 years for it!

7years!!!! Boy, thats helpful. :phanvan