babygrl1234

Are they like dry like nuts or like a frozen food? Or can you get them both ways?

Where at in the store did you buy them and how many calories do they have?

Congrat LJM!!!!!!

I started my journey at 278 pounds which was my highest weight ever. I am not really sure exactly how I got there but it is what it is. I never really thought I was that big, I was just kind of in a huge denial of my actual self. I originally went to a seminar in July of 2006 to learn about the bypass. The nurse coordinator and my mother had worked together way back when so she has know me forever. I was convinced to come to the meeting when I saw how great she had looked and that she had a bypass in 1997. At that meeting I learned about the Lapband which I had never even heard of before. I got my info and thought about it but decided to try dieting one last time. I lost 30 pounds that I promtly regained. In Decmeber of 06 I gathered my doctors documentation and had my consult. I could have had my surgery in January but opted to wait until Feb. I had my UGI and psych eval done and I was ready to go. Day of surgery. I was scared out of my mind. I had never had surgery before and I could not get myself to calm down. I kissed my kids and held them tight. Once I went through preop and was lying on the bed I finally got some meds to calm down. I remember being pushed to the OR room and it felt like I was flying there. They transferred me to the bed and the next thing I remember was being pushed to my room leaving the postop area. I have been told that when I woke up in the OR I felt up and down my body and exclained "Holy shit, I am fucking alive" This whole past year has been the hardest journey of my life but the best thing I have ever done for myself. I have struggled with head hunger, emotional eating, plateaus, and frustrations, but it has taught me that I can survive. I have gained a new confidence about myself. I know I am worth more than i ever thought was possible. I know I can be a good wife and mother. I know that even if bad things happen, I can and will overcome them. With the loss of these 85 pounds I have gained a whole new sense of self. I always said that weight loss would never change me but it has. It has opened up a whole new world that I never really knew existed. It has challenged my thoughts of how my life was and showed me just what it could be. Instead of the facade I put on daily I have now gained the confidence to finally truely be myself. I can't wait to find what my second year of banding has in store for me.

Because I have been a rockstar lately and i wanna stay that way.

That's awesome. Congrats and good luck!

Pretty much yeah. It totally blows but the craving do go away.

Many insurances that cover something will only cover a panniculectomy which is the removal of the hanging stomach skin, and only if it is deemed medicaly neccesary due to rashes and such. Very few will cover anything beyond that.

Like everyone else said, you will get ot of it wheat you put into it. It is not an easy fix. The weight will not come off effortlessly. You have to lose it. The band will help keep it off. Bypasses can fail too if you are not working it. There is a girl at my hospital who had a bypass the same day as my band and I have lost more weight than her.

Okay people I am going to have a job interview sometime this week or next for a the Director position at one of the Teen Centers that our hospital runs. This is so effing huge I cannot even get over it. I am scared out of my mind and I want this job so bad. I am blown away as it is that I even got an interview. The fact that I could possibly get a job that is in my field of study just friggin tickles me pink. So now onto interviewing skills. Someone please help me. Juli, Miss business degree? I need to sell myself.

gOOD TO KNOW YOU ARE FEELING BETTER jc!

You say that you are irritated that people say we took the easy way out, and the insunation that we cheated upsets us, yet you say you overlook these comments because you don't have to answer anyone. Which one is it? I am not trying to be a butthead but your comments sort of conflict themselves. Personally I applaud them for being able to lose the weight. It takes a superwoman to drop that kind of weight. I have been there many times. And every time I gained it all back. Maybe it will be different for them, maybe it won't. As for surgery being the easy cheaters way out, I laugh my ass off in their faces. I know how hard I have worked for this. The weight does not just fall off. Every doubter around me who thought this was the easy way out and has seen me work my ass off, deal with being stuck, pbing, full out vomiting, not being able to eat things I want, and everything else so dandy that goes along with banding, is now singing a different tune. I have what I have because I worked for it. It is enough for me to know the truth, I don't need strangers who know nothing about my life saying I am a cheater. I know that I am not.

Yeah not my proudest moment.

The cheese itself. I got up in the middle of the night with diareha and had horrid cramps. I was crying, my pulse was racing and felt like I had to puke. I seriously thought I was going to have to go to the hospital. It is probably the closest to a rny dumping episode you can get without actually dumping.

I just took a wheat tortilla and put a little pizza sauce on it and broiled it in the oven for 7 minutes. It made it all crunchy and easy to eat, not to mention delicious. I have not tried almond milk but I absolutely adore soy milk.

Yucky stuff. I am sure there are some good brands but the ones I have tried were nasty. I have been doing pretty well without it. I was tempted by some cheese bread last week and boy did I pay for it. I was so violently ill that even that the smell of my kids pizzas with cheese on them did not even smell appitizing.

Spawn.....

I just made a cheese less pizza on a tortilla instead of the veggie burger. It is delicious.

Thanks. I heart lingerie. I need to focus on buying an outfit for the interview lol. I have long grown out of my business clothes.

Oh and I have lost 13 pounds since December 27th so it must be working.

Vegan is no animals or animal products (milk, eggs, etc) I draw the line at honey because I think bees are assholes. Many vegans will not wear fur, leather, use anything with beeswax, yada, yada, yada. Vegetarians will still eat dairy and eggs but do not eat anything that used to have a face. I started out with the no meat thing because of reading the book Skinny Bitch. I had also stopped eating refined sugar since I was having huge problems with sugar addiction and I just figured what the hell. After a few weeks with the no meat thing I decided to remove the dairy from my diet because cheese is really fattening and I was eating a lot of it. It has been more of an experiement than anything else and it seems to be going well. The scales are moving in the right direction and I am eating pretty much anything I want whenever I want. I wish I could say I am doig it for a more valiant reason, like the suffering of animals, but no it is purely for health reasons. I feel better than I have in a long time. I am not tired in the morning, I have not needed any coffee, I am not exhausted all day long. I feel pretty effing great.

My psych eval was with this awesome chick that also had a band. She said shit and fuck alot which I found extremely hilarious. I really loved her.

I agree with TG that you may be a tiny bit too tight. And it is so good to have people here actually chatting it up.

I have actually gone vegetarian and then vegan in the last month. I eat pretty much anything I want that does not have animal in it. Today I had a bowl of high fiber cereal with soy milk for breaky, a vegan waffle and banana for snack, a veggie sub 1/2 of a 6 inch from subway) and a little salad for lunch, peanut butter on toast and chocolate soy milk for snack, and dinner will be a veggie burger with salad. I pretty much feel like I am eating all day but the weight is coming off again.

I have to poop.