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Teresita's Journal
 

Stress

I took off yesterday to get somethings done. I am stressed!! Washed clothes, cleaned up a tiny bit, went to cleaners twice in the morning, picked up kids, took them to Duke Ellington for tests, realized they get out of school in a matter of DAYS!!!! Traffic was tighter then expected getting there, visited friend in hospital, very pesimistic person, picked up kids, they came out late, hot out, traffic was silly going home, going over everything I need to do for DC prom thingy. Go back to cleaners and pick up clothes, beauty supply store spend more then wanted to. Ended up showering and blow drying DC hair, went to sleep after ironing blouse while watching made. he he he   This morning stressing about all that I still need to do before prom tonight necklace, nails, hair, wash car, her girlfriends hair, purse and who knows what else :faint:   How personal can I get on this thing......have you ever gased and it felt really good to have it out but it stinks...:eek:   I have gone to several threads/forums this morning and I can't even gocus to get my thoughts together.
Teresita

Teresita

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Ali's Musings and Meanderings...
 

another day in the life of...

My friend Mo wrote that the mood around here has changed and wondered if it was her...no, it's the mood. Shame but it'll change back- I hope. I love it here. I have never been able in my life to be so open about my weight, the struggles and the triumphs. So many people here know my weight and it was my most guarded secret EVER!!!!! :nervous I made new friends and had such a laugh that it became addictive. Now I am just being careful what I read and trying to keep things upbeat. I've had another good day food wise...brekkie yoghurt,lunch two crackers with eggplant salad and dinner mincedbeef with peas and mushrooms in tomato sauce. I put the rest of the meat into plastic bags and into the freezer. I tried doing a low impact aerobics video today but got worried about my ankle and knees part way through and so stopped. Guess I'll stick to walking and keep my ankle strapped up...somethings you just cant seem to win but I aint gonna give up. I want to be fitter and I so want my scale to do down Sunday morning...having scales with kilos isnt fair...we have to wait 2.2lbs for it to go down one notch:confused: Oh pooh bear!!!!!!!!!!!
A1ikou

A1ikou

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Berri Patch Thoughts
 

The first baby steps

It's been three weeks since the introductory seminar. So much info going around in my head! I have watched Jenny, my niece, with her lapband success and I wonder if I'm too old, too fat, or too set in my ways to change even with the band.   Now after reading all the posts on insurance I'm scared that if they do schedule me, will I be able to pay for it? Or will my insurance pay and the dr. accept? I have ChampVa, I'm hoping I will get approved fast and get it over with even though after reading some of the posts I see that some have had to wait over a year!   Jenny looks so good.....a totally different person. She has lost over 200 pounds. She's happy now too.   I had my first dr. appt. this week.....now I have so many appts. I don't know if I can get them all straight in my head....have wrote some of them down on the calendar...at least they were kind enough to make several on the same day since I work nights.   I'm scared, nervous, excited, dreadful, and anxious all at once. I wish I didn't have to work on the nights the Support Group meets. I need to talk.
mlt45

mlt45

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Nickysmom's Lap-Band Journal
 

down 30 lbs

I'm down 30 lbs. Hooray...but I thought it would be more by now. Eating little but sometimes throwing up because of the pain. I don't want another fill yet so I haven't called for an appointment. Will keep losing as is I hope. Waiting for the new gym to open.
Nickysmom

Nickysmom

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Jerseytammy's Journal
 

Let me start again...

Well when I started this journal I told myself that I would keep up with this, and just like all my diets I failed. So I have been doing some thinking, ok a lot of thinking, which isnt always a good thing for me. I am truly sick of thinking and trying to figure out why I am the way I am. Did I have a great childhood, no, but neither did a lot of other people and they didnt end up OB with panic attacks. So what makes me different or should I say weak? What makes me eat when i am not hungry and stuff myself when I am? Here I am at 40 years old and I still dont know who I am. When I started this journal I was asking myself this question and 3 months later I am still asking. So what now? I just dont know!
Jerseytammy

Jerseytammy

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chabutter's Journal
 

finally everything is faxed over

everything IS finally faxed over to Medical Mutual as of yesterday May 23rd, 2006. It took a ton of phone calls out of someone who HATES making phone calls for that to happen. The woman on the phone I spoke to was confused denying that they had received the psych exam, but she mentioned sharon had faxed everything to med mutual yesterday, and the person i spoke to faxed my psych exam on monday so that makes sense.   -- now its just wait, cross, fingers, wait, wait wait wait wait.... hopefully I will be APPROVED!
chabutter

chabutter

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Ali's Musings and Meanderings...
 

No...I didn't want a snack LOL

I told a new LBT friend of mine that I always write my journal when I feel like snacking so it distracts me :phanvan Anyway today that's not the case. I just felt like waffling! It's a lovely day outside in downtown Athens and I have drunk almost all my 1st litre of water for the day. In a little while I'm gonna go cook lunch for me and hubby...I'm having fish and peas and he's having whatever I give him;) Back in a while..must get cooking it's later than I thought! Actually I'm not cooking..I'm Bofrosting!!!!!!!! We have a company here who deliver frozen foods and good stuff too. One day my mother in law asked if I was cooking for hubby..yeah I said. She asked what and I said Bofrost things and she said oh...I thought you meant real cooking:confused: So now hubby asks me if I'm cooking or Bofrosting! OK I'm back..did you miss me? LOL I made hubby some mixed herbs a few oven fries and spinach and cheese fritters. He ate it all so must have been OK! I have lessons today (giving not getting) so I'm going to go chill out for an hour and then get ready to go. Feel much better cos I went for a walk...it would have been great if a stupid teenager hadnt accidently whacked me on the back of the head with his football...I need a treadmill!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A1ikou

A1ikou

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I8everything's Journal
 

Bipolarism is scary

A scary thing. Tripolarism is a new one. Here's a quote from Delarla today   I8Everything, please delete your nasty comments from MY fucking thread and go elsewhere, and take Telly with you, who I see lurking around dying for blood. I haven't so much as glanced at your Sunshine shit because I think you and your pals are sick and twisted vultures that have nothing better to do than infect LBT with poison. Why are you all stalking me? If you hate me, stay the hell away from MY threads. Go play elsewhere where they steal ideas for new threads by copying everything I have already done, inventing new screen names to fool members and thinking this is a place for battle. This is a damn support group, but every time I log on I see you and the same group of people stabbing ugly comments, huge RED fonts, rotten attacks and distate towards the entire community.   You just tore my heartfelt and serious thread to pieces because you knew it would set me off, so here's yet another perfectly decent thread that the moderators will lock. Many of us are starting to wonder if you and your friends were sent to LBT by another support group that hopes to shut us down. That's EXACTLY where you've taken this thread because the moderators can only delete or lock so many posts before Alex decides he's seen enough bullshit.   When you see my name, stay the hell away from me. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. If anyone else starts a verbal battle of bullshit, DeLarla's about to get damn ugly. Knock it off already, all of you! __________________   www.SlumberPartiesByLisaB.com YOU CAN MAKE MONEY AND YOU CAN MAKE EXCUSES BUT YOU CAN'T MAKE BOTH!!! Last edited by DeLarla : Today at 08:01 PM.
I8everything

I8everything

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Love, Family, Weight, Hip Hop & Vegetarianism
 

Got surgery date, hurrah!

05/23/06- Just got date yesterday. Going to Mexico on June 26th, 06 for my surgery. Puerto Vallarta Mexico with Dr. Joya. I did quite a bit of research and I've heard great things about him and Gerald his assistant was very helpful. I am doing selfpay because insurance company says I'm not fat enough and not enough co-morbidties. I do have High Cholestoral (240) and have been working out the lat few months, however, I now have heel spurs due to exercising too fat!!!! Catch 22, need to exercise to lose weight, but exercising is painful cuz of weight!     Anyways, the surgery is going to be about $8000 - bought tickets straight through to Puerto Vallarta from LAX, a $1000 bucks, wow! Upgraded to 1st class for the trip home because I'm sure I will not be feeling to great :help: :faint:  
BeacheeGirl

BeacheeGirl

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Breezie's Journal
 

I need help!

My surgery was March 11th. I have kept this surgery very private - no one knows except the girls I met in Mexico the day of my surgery.   On March 11th I weighed 222... today 20 weeks later I weigh 207. I thought the weight loss would be faster....   On April 20th I had my first fill - 3.5cc.... no restriction.   On May 3rd my second fill - 3.5 more... but I had to go back on the 4th to have 2cc removed.... I couldnt swallow my own spit.   I keep hearing people talk about the soft food stage - but I only ate soft foods for the 1st 3 weeks. I can eat anything pre-op - except for bread.   I have no support system because of my secret - and feel that I need help changing my mind set.... I desparately want to loose the weight.   Start: 222 May 23: 207 Final Goal: 160
Breezie

Breezie

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DonnaLynn's Journal
 

get it together!!

:thinkyou can, or you can't - there is no try...Yoda   I got to get it together. I did my eliptical today, 12 minutes. Gyped myself of the other 3 cuz no one was here to witness it. What am I trying to do to myself....
DonnaLynn

DonnaLynn

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Stitchy's Journal
 

2 weeks out

It's nearly 2 weeks since banding. I thought that I would bounce back sooner, but I'm still draggin my ass. I told my work that I could only work 1/2 days for a little while. My stomach starts to hurt and I am getting really tired in the afternoon.   I still have an ache below my sternum, just above my port. I'm getting tired of it. Maybe if I were 30 years younger .....:cry   I get to start mushies on Wednesday :clap2: :clap2:
Stitchy

Stitchy

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chabutter's Journal
 

hate doctors.... no one knows what they are doing

Today I went to see the psych doctor Doctor Taliaferro) to see what the hell the problem was. It has been TWENTY days since I saw him for my psych evaluation.. thats twenty days too long, and twenty days delaying my potential lap band surgery over a fucking psych evaluation.   The office claimed to have sent the information on thursday but the weight management center called me today, saying the had not received it. Extremely annoyed, I discovered that he wasnt even in the office so I couldnt even retreive it with my own hands to hand -deliver it (which is a HUGE trip in itself)...
chabutter

chabutter

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Teresita's Journal
 

Today is a Gorgeous Day

I decided to take Friday for myself. I went to the park early and did my 3 miles.   Saturday I walked my first official 5K for Diabetes Association w/Pooky,Karen, LSasha, Pat and Jackie. It was a great since of accomplishment.:clap2:   Sunday I went to the park early and walked with Karen. It always great to get a walk in and over with.   9 miles for the weekend.....I am so excited about where all these miles are taking my body. THE WEATHER WAS ABSOLUTLY GORGEOUS ALL THIS WEEKEND!!! WOW THE SKY AND CLOUDS WERE AWESOME!!!   I can see my body changing. I finally see some more diffrence in my face. My thighs, wow there is actually less of them. LOL (I can't see using the word smaller when talking about my thighs). I think I can keep this walking up because I do see results. I really enjoy seeing the numbers of the scale come down. I am going to ask my sister in law for a scale for my birthday. I still won't be able to weigh on it but it will be a goal. The scale I saw goes up to 350. If I am about 390 now that is 40 pounds.....I could make that a Christmas goal realisticly speaking but I would love to do by fall. You never know.   Weigh in is tomorrow and I am excited. At my unofficaly weigh in last week I gained about a pounds so I know I will have a nice lost this week.
Teresita

Teresita

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Ali's Musings and Meanderings...
 

Sabotaging everything...

I was right...didn't lose anything this week. Now I have to get over a stupid little mind game I play with myself...maybe it sounds familiar? Weight didn't go down so diet not working ....if diet not working why bother....therefore I have to right to eat what I want! I know it's ridiculous and I know my band is working fine...I just need my infantile brain to catch up with this logic! I have been resisting the temptation to nibble...anything and everything ...all day. Not the most positive of days but the weekend is finishing and tomorrow starts a new week and I'm usually pretty good at new weeks :nervous
A1ikou

A1ikou

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Barbara12375's Journal
 

5/20/06

Another entry so soon?   I plan to start the Atkins diet tomorrow. Looks like so many people lose weight before their surgery. I guess shrinking my liver is a good thing. I never knew my liver got heavier, etc.   I am so ready for this. I am anxious about the insurance. Even though I planned on being self pay, when they told me my insurance would cover it I was very excited. I'd hate to have to pay it all now and David would not be happy. I won't let anything stop me..........not money, not anything.
Barbara12375

Barbara12375

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Beaglebragade1's Journal
 

Been awhile

I know it's been awhile, and I am ashamed that I haven't gotten farther than I have. I switched Doctor's to one that will be more aggressive about getting my thyroid under control, but other than that I haven't done much! I started my spring semester this week :nervous the semester is 6 weeks, and there is just so much to do, I dont think college will ever be normal, its always going to overwhelm me!!! But its no excuse I need to get going with my surgery.
Beaglebragade1

Beaglebragade1

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Linda TT's Journal
 

Its in Gods hands

i'm sitting at this pc reading thru this site for the first time. I feel so fat!!!I was weighed in at the pre-op 284 lbs.I know there are a lot of people who have so many more problems than me so I've decided to leave it all at the cross!!I'd appreciate hearing from fellow believers,i so need to talk. I'll wait and continue to pray:think
Linda TT

Linda TT

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