Hi there,

I am considering Dr. Kirshenbaum in Aurora, CO (www.lapbandrockies.com) I know that there are a few of you in LBT that went to him. I am interested in knowing your thoughts on him and if you have had any complications. I am just a little leary since the price is so low, there is little on the internet about him, and I will be traveling from WI to have this done. Any information you could provide would be much apppreciated...

Thanks!

Sheila:)

Well, I decided to listen to my husband and not worry about getting a fill until after the holidays. I just feel like a failure because that would mean that this year I only lost 25 lbs. I am paranoid about gaining. And I just want this to be done, because I have no patience. Anyway, done complaining. I will try for a stress free holiday season, and maybe I won't weigh myself for a while.

Put me down for a 1.5 loss... sorry I didn't post earlier, but have had a cold and a sinus infection...

Thanks, Tina

http://tinyurl.com/ydl69nn

Congrats to everyyone and their losses this past week I gained back what I had lost :biggrin:

Heading to MI tomorrow, so I wanted to say good luck to all. I will go ahead and post next weeks losses as soon as I can (have to go to my moms to use her comp)

Everyone have a great Thanksgiving!!!!

Julie, have a great trip & Thanksgiving. Don't worry about that gain, you know it will come back off!

For anyone who wants to use the database to record their loss, here is the link:

http://tinyurl.com/ydl69nn

This is strictly for those who want to use it.... I'm still keeping track of losses the same way we started.

Good luck on Friday, all. :biggrin:

Thanks Julie, you know I heart the spreadsheet!

I have lost 5 so far, and 5 to go!:biggrin:

For those that like to track their own weight loss, I set up a spreadsheet for the Christmas Challenge.

I based it on the Halloween Challenge with a few changes.

There are columns for each week. If you like using the spreadsheet, you can report each weekly loss here. Of course you can continue to report your losses to Julie.

If you are comfortable sharing your weight, you can put your starting weight in Column C and your goal weight in Column E. If you don't like sharing your weight (and for most folks, I didn't know their start and goal weight), I just used the number of pounds you wanted to lose by Christmas as your start weight and zero (0) as your goal weight. So if you don't like sharing your actual weights, you can use your goal loss as your weight.

When it is your weigh-in day, you simply enter your weekly loss under the appropriate date and pounds lost/left to lose will calculate.

Have fun.... losers!

Spreadsheet here.

Hi RobinAnn,

I have updated my info on the spreadsheet and then added it to my favorites to see if it will be easier to find this time round. Thanks for setting this up - I really like it.

Glad you like it Mary. And glad you posted because that caused me to go look at it again and notice that I had the dates wrong (but you entered yours correctly). I changed the rest to match the actual dates of the challenge.

Here it is again (click the graphic below)

Does anyone know the cheapest way to get from the airport to Dr. K's office AND BACK? I am flying in and out the same day for my fill and would rather not rent a car (unless it is much cheaper).

ANy ideas for me?

Does anyone know the cheapest way to get from the airport to Dr. K's office AND BACK? I am flying in and out the same day for my fill and would rather not rent a car (unless it is much cheaper).

ANy ideas for me?

I've found a car to be cheaper...

SuperShuttle costs $19 each way. I've usually been able to get a car for .... what the heck has happened to car rental rates???? This fall I was able to get a car for approx. $25/day. Now they are showing in the $70s....

I guess I'd go for the SuperShuttle. SUPERSHUTTLE

Edited November 23, 200916 yr by RobinAnn

Thanks so much! That will work perfectly for me.

I think the rental rates go up in the winter. Grrr.

Does anyone know the cheapest way to get from the airport to Dr. K's office AND BACK? I am flying in and out the same day for my fill and would rather not rent a car (unless it is much cheaper).

ANy ideas for me?

go on priceline.com and bid for cheapest price. i got a full sized car for 18 bucks a day. it actually got cheaper the closer the day.

down -2t this week.......hard to believe with Thanksgiving yesterday!!!!

wow, I managed to gain 4 pounds since the last weigh in... gobble gobble I guess...

Tina:redface:

I lost 1.2 this week.

Down one pound this week. Happy to have the house to myself...no need to cook for four people until Christmas time. There's way too much fattening food lying around my house even though I sent most of it with my daughters.