I was looking for Sept bandsters and found a link but it was from 2003 so i thought5 i would start a 2005 I will be banded sept 30 getting very excited here and surfing all the forums lol i will have corpal tunnel lol

My first fill is on Tuesday, October 25th...I'll keep you posted on how it goes.

I can sometimes eat quite a lot (especially mushies) and other times I get "stuck" after a few bites. I did a real no, no the other night...I ate a roll and it darn near killed me! Was really bad!!! I had to run out of the restaurant I was in so I wouldn't throw up in front of everybody! My poor friend thought she was going to have to call 911! I didn't pb, just slimed but it felt awful. It was a very scary experience for me...by far the worst episode I've had so far. For the most part, I do pretty well. It's eating too fast or eating the wrong thing. Sometimes you have to just try certain foods to see if they will work. Now I know, bread is a big NO for me! Interestingly enough, I can eat popcorn without a problem! Every day is a new challenge...but I'm loving it!

Holiday Challenge! Ok, all you September bandsters... we should all be getting our fills in the next week or so. So... as of November 1... the challenge is to meet one of the following goals:

1. Loose 15 pounds by New Years Day.

2. Cut out something you are doing wrong, i.e. drinking when eating, sodas, etc.. you get the idea.

3. Add 20 minutes a day of any exercise.

If you are planning to participate, email with your choice(s) and then every Tuesday you will recap your week, tell us how much you've lost, or how many days you abstained from doing the wrong things, or what type of exercises you did for the week and how long...

I am in!!! I get my first fill today in the AM.

1. Committed to losing 15 pounds by the New Year.

2. Work on not drinking while eating.

3. Walk at least 4 to 6 days a week, with some stomach crunches being added twice or more a week, starting 2nd week in November.

Im in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My challenge will be lose 20 pounds by New Year's. No drinking and eating, I usually sip but I shouldn't. My first fill is 11/18.

Banded 9/08/05

Good luck to us allllllllllllllllllllllllll

I really think I should be able to lose 20 pounds by New Years Eve.

I will drink more water

I will exercise at least 3 times a week....did I say that? Yes, I WILL!

Does the pound I just lost count??

I'm in too.

1) 20lbs by New Years Eve

2) 60 oz water per day

3) exercise every other day, no exceptions

I'm in too.

Try to loose 20 lbs by New Years.

Try to cut out carbonated drinks.

I'm in too.

Goal:

1. Lose 20 lbs by New Year.

2. Excercise at least 3 times a week.

3. No drinking around meals.

Lotus

208/193/110

Im in! Exercise everyday someway! WAlk at least 1 mile 4 times a week try for 7.

OK now I have a funny story to tell you guys.

As a lot of you know I was on a cruse last week. It was a 10 day cruse. We avoided Wilma by hours. Anyway for the most part I was pretty good. I had shake in the AM some type of chicken or fish for lunch drank Water like crazy, everyone else was drinking alcohol, so I added lime to my water. But then at dinner time.....they came around with these wonderful little (really they were little) rolls. In the begining of the cruse I had 1 then half way through I went to 2. Then I'd have some Soup maybe 5-6 TBLS then some type of proitien chicken or fish and then a few bites of desert. I have not been on the scale yet, I go see the doctor tomorrow so hopefully I didn't gain.

Well the last night of the cruse I went outside to try to see if I could use my cell phone. The wind was so strong I had to hold onto the railing..MY UNDERPANTS FELL OFF! thats right right off! Thank God I had pants on or I realy would have been in trouble! I was laughing so hard and trying to hold myself up, that I couldn't pull them up. This man saw me laughing by my self so hard that he started laughing..I went into our gang just about dying with laughter and told them...We desided to put on the comment card that the food was so bad my underpants fell off due to weight loss!

Well I'm hoping I did lose some!

I measured my self the day before sugery which was 9/25 and I measured yesterday 10/25 I have lost 15 1/2 inches in a month.

Congrats Dianne!

Im in! Exercise everyday someway! WAlk at least 1 mile 4 times a week try for 7.

OK now I have a funny story to tell you guys.

As a lot of you know I was on a cruse last week. It was a 10 day cruse. We avoided Wilma by hours. Anyway for the most part I was pretty good. I had shake in the AM some type of chicken or fish for lunch drank Water like crazy, everyone else was drinking alcohol, so I added lime to my water. But then at dinner time.....they came around with these wonderful little (really they were little) rolls. In the begining of the cruse I had 1 then half way through I went to 2. Then I'd have some soup maybe 5-6 TBLS then some type of proitien chicken or fish and then a few bites of desert. I have not been on the scale yet, I go see the doctor tomorrow so hopefully I didn't gain.

Well the last night of the cruse I went outside to try to see if I could use my cell phone. The wind was so strong I had to hold onto the railing..MY UNDERPANTS FELL OFF! thats right right off! Thank God I had pants on or I realy would have been in trouble! I was laughing so hard and trying to hold myself up, that I couldn't pull them up. This man saw me laughing by my self so hard that he started laughing..I went into our gang just about dying with laughter and told them...We desided to put on the comment card that the food was so bad my underpants fell off due to weight loss!

Well I'm hoping I did lose some!

I measured my self the day before sugery which was 9/25 and I measured yesterday 10/25 I have lost 15 1/2 inches in a month.

That's story has made my day! OK, the clincher...Did you buy new underpants yet?

LOL no not yet!!!

Dianne, That is hilarious! But, how did your underpants fall off if you had pants on?? I'm a little slow. Karen

Everytime I think about this I crack up!

Thank goodness I had pants on! They feel down as low as they could go! LOL I had just changed out of a dress thankgoodness!

My doctors appointment. Well going on a 9 day cruise didn't stop the scale! I lost a 51/2 pounds! Yippie!

My first fill won't be for another month. He doesn't feel I need it yet. So I'm cool and happy. My next weigh in the the 28th of November when I go see my pcp.