Hello there Band fans....I got banded March 28th-2007.

I told myself....Bycyling would be a very good choice. Fresh air, muscles working for the sake of "Cardio". After one week passed--in April. I purchased three new bikes for me and my two sons. I have defeated many things doing that. No more not riding with my children--we ride as a crew (family). We could not conquer the hill on my street. We used to stop 3 to 4 times before getting to the top ( I did). So now the wheels have turned. My kids ask me---"Daddy can we stop--our legs are burning". Thank God I am doing well now. Now with 21 pounds gone---but just riding bikes. I am ready for the next Journey...The 1st fill--I am looking forward to the next 4 to 6 weeks--maybe 12 or 20 pounds gone...who knows...:faint: this is how I feel on many days after my ride. Today--(8.5 miles) It was walking, riding around the fair in my town--but that is what my speedometer said when it was all over...

Bg is going to see 199 soon!

I just want to see 213, that will be an even -100!

Yeah the lice thing sucks. I did not see very many eggs on the kids head...they were really hard to find so that is a good thing. But the problem is me. We share a hair brush and i can't check my own head, and my hubby is a douche bag when it comes to things like this. So seeing as the back of my head is extra itchy I am looking to treat myself too. The kids has so much fricken hair that I am not surprised she picked something up this year. Last year when I was working later I used to french braid her hair every morning to keep it out of things but now with this 5am shit it is not so easy. I think I am going to braid it after she gets out of the shower the night before and just have her keep the braids in for the day. Ugh. I hate lice.

I want to see 260...LOL

You guys are so much farther ahead of me....

Well, if you werent so far up I would come and buy it from you....

Did the school tell you or are you having to tell the school?

Hey, isn't the wedding tomorrow? What are you wearing?

I was just in the middle of sharing some of my depression and hit a hot key that closed out the tab. I wish I new which key I hit it was pretty cool.

So I am thinking that it was a sign to keep that "downer" junk to myself and focus on the good things.

John, barring something bizzare is now an Eagle Scout!

This is my one year anniversary with the band and I believe I can call it a successful year to say the least.

Whoever decides to shoot BG, if you could save a bullet for me that would be cool. j/k

JC

BG, I bet that darn 199 is calling your name! I would not be able to focus on much more if I were that close!

You should be very poud of yourself.

Happy Friday everyone.

JC

JC

We love ya dude. So if you feel the need to share, you can.

I hate the hot key delete thing! It's so frustrating.

Who is shooting me?

I am going to contact the school today. Blah.

Happy 1 year JC

I have no idea what I am wearing.

ah guys.....I heart you all...I think I have found the hot key...Mine is the one next to the control key on the bottom left it has a Fn in a box on the key. I guess that is the function key huh? I hate that key...I hit it allllllll the time.

OKAY so I lied....that is not what is doing it

My son's Jack Russell passed away, I hate getting attached to animals. I didn't want to know the details, so I am not sure what happened.

I haven't been able to ride my bike all week because of rain. I am going to be on call this Saturday, the first day in a long time that they are not calling for 50 % or more chance of rain.

I am not where I wanted to be after a year with this band. I am glad/happy/excited to be closer to that point than further away, but I keep having stupid things like the above paragraph as well as the following paragraph happen to stop me.

I ate two stupid bites of a rib last night and it got stuck so I had a PB/Slime attack. I fought it for 2.5 hours before I gave in, God it hurt. Now I am swollen shut again and fluids will barely go down, but I am so freaking hungry that I want to hit something. I know I am going to have to stay on liquids or I will be in the ER again! WHY?

I was strong enough to fight the urge to wretch and I carefully pushed it back out. I had a few PBs When I first started eating solids again after my initial surgery, when I was learning how to do this, without this Damn swollen thing happening.

This Damn VG band is so freaking tricky. You get sucked into thinking the thing has loosened up because there are times when you can eat as if you have either no fill or no band at all. Then out of no where bam! Locked up! it could even be something you ate yesterday without any trouble.

Now I sit here with life in the way of the amount of exercise I require to lose weight, I was at one point 5 pounds away from my goal. I just feel like I am in a fistfight with something I can't even see much less defend myself against.

I am not being sarcastic when I say aside from all that, things are pretty good. It's just when I have time to stop and reflect that it gets me down.

JC

Just know that if you go super low carb you are going to be a stark raving bitch for about 5 days. Then amazingly hunger disappears and it becomes much easier. Stock up on cheese slices and string cheese because they are easy snacks. And have some yummy things like bacon and sausage. If you are low carb you can eat those high fat things and not gain. Oh and lay off the wine. It is full of those evil little suckers.

I am going to have an exciting weekend of dealing with head lice. Shoot me now please.

BG, I was commenting on your, shoot me now please. In the quote above. I am sure if someone was going to try you would kick the living shit out of them! :-)

JC

Sorry about the pup. It's always hard to lose our pet friends.

Just breathe. You are not in competition with anyone to get to your goal today, next week or next month. You've got to do it a pace your body will accept and can handle. Thinking about how close you got only builds feelings of remorse. So stop it.

You're on the right path, thinking how far you have come. You are fit and active and dating and well on your way to meeting your goal.

As for work and biking, sucks no? But it happens. You'll get out there again and soon. Lucky you, you are not looking at cold ass weather keeping you indoors like the us three northern chicas.

The hunger part will go away when you pass out from lack of nutrition! Ha. No, you'll loosen up, try to find something destracting to do. Search dirty pictures on the internest or something.

XOXOXO

Yeah looking really forward to that cold.