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...

It's great fun. I love to go, I need a smaller boat now because I weighed 330 when I bought the last one.

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Also have a pretty cool layout on my myspace account.

MySpace.com - JC - 40 - Male - DADE CITY, Florida - www.myspace.com/str8jacket29

JC

Well I will have to check both when I get home from work seeing as both sites are blocked from here.

Damn IT people! Well except for IT people named JC that is!

LOL. Yeah well I am used to it. I am surprised this site has not been blocked yet. Yet I do do some work for the bariatric center so this could technically be job related.

JC and BG

You two are on fire this morning.

I want to kayak too. But I'm not the best swimmer. But next year, I see me trying.

Hi Jenn.

Hope you can keep up. Things move quickly on this thread. Has Stacy got you out on a bike yet? Where are you in the process. Tell us about you.

In meetings most of today. Can't eat much, I feel irritated from yesterday's PB. I really don't want to do a day of liquids. Boo Hoo.

The weather report is rain, rain and freaking more rain. Could be worse I suppose, could be snow. At least we can still get out and get from place to place.

XO

Jenn, Welcome! I'm a newby here as well... I was just banded a week ago.

JC - way to set of a bout of PTSD with all this bleachers running talk. I run up and down the stairs at the house, but they are normal rise/run stairs. Last time I ran bleachers, I tripped on the way down & rolled the rest of the way (grace was never one of my strong suits). If that's what it takes to be a bitchbadass around here, you can keep it...

BG, HP, J, D - Morning! Y'all be careful in the weather up there...

B

D I am trying that Chessy Black Bean burger recipe you posted in the recipe forum. It had better be yummy!

D, I sure hope that recipe is yummy! Also waiting anxiously for bike pics.

B, stairs punishment is only for "Modified Japanese Mach 3" BitchBadAss Status. Patience Grasshopper, Patience.

JC

JC-

You are such a big effin' dork! God love ya!

I love me some nerdy ass folks. I do. I know it sounds like I'm insulting you, but I'm not. I'm recognizing a soul-sibling.

:-) :-) :-) :-)

BLah damn work is driving me nuts!

Ok, I have to vent! I am about to blow a freaking Ass gasket!

I have been stuggling with food since my complete unfill. I have remained positive, I have increased my activity level. I have been losing the fight. I add weight then I fight it off only to add it back again. This has been a huge stuggle, I have tried not to cry-baby or complain. I feel I have been strong.

Then today while I am sitting here trying to keep it together, and failing miserably, my sister calls pretty much tells me we are meeting for lunch by sending me on a guilt trip.

When I told her I have been trying to avoid food and resturaunts she had the nerve to tell me "I have been doing the same thing, you can just order soup that's what I am going to do" Deep breaths must take deep breaths and count to 3 or 4 million!

JC

Obviously she is not trying that hard to avoid if she is making you go with her. Tell her to take her soup and shove it up her ass.

Okay for real tell her how completely inconsiderate of your feelings she is being. If she denies it then tell her you would rather have lunch alone.

I say, tell her to grab a quick lunch and you'll meet her for coffee afterward. You aren't going to go into a restaurant.

Do we have the kick her ass too? Put her on the list with the x-gf.

We're going to become JC's cycling gansta bitches.

J. I love the cycling gansta bitches comment. I wish I would have read your posts before I went.

There were 4 other people sitting at the table when I got there. I sat by and across from two people I don't even know. There was no way for my sister to even speak to me based on the noise level and the seating arrangements. No one offered to shuffle around either. My sis offers me half her salad! What the hell happened to soup? I declined.

When the waitress returned, everyone else had already ordered by the way, I ordered an unsweet tea. She brought me sweet tea, I had my first pure sugar rush for the year. I asked what the soup of the day was "we don't have any soup today" I said "just bring me cottage cheese with fruit please" she returned with cottage cheese only "we are out of fruit and I could not find any applesauce either, would you like something else?" I replied silverware please. She brought me a fork.

Everywhere I looked I saw sloppy joes, spaghetti and hamburgers. The need for self-control may be my reality after my upcoming surgery, I was an OAK! I don't know how many more times I can be this strong, so I calmly eplained my point of view to my sis. She said she respects that view and we can meet outside of a diner type setting from now on.

I literally feel as if my head is going to explode! I feel as if I have almost busted my teeth out of my jaw from clenching. I don't ever remember feeling pressurized like this, ever. I hope with a strenuous enough workout, that this pressure will leave me.

JC