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I am back from my trip and happy to see that everyone seems to be doing well. I was correct in thinking that I wouldn't get any formal exercise in, but we walked soooo much that I actually lost 2 lbs! My NSV from the trip was that on the plane ride I no longer require the seatbelt extender like I did on my flight 4 years ago. Not only do I not need the extender, but there is quite a bit of excess that it can fold back a little! I don't really lose or gain much any more. I stay between 95-100 lbs gone from surgery. I gained some when my mom was dying, but lost that soon after her death. I will begin exercising at the gym again tonight. Oh, and I went for my checkup and my doc did bloodwork and it seems that I am HEALTHY. I have the horrible family history of heart disease, but my blood pressure, cholesterol and all blood work suggest that I don't have anything to worry about, so I guess if I have a heart attack I get to call him a liar and punch him...right? seems only fair! Cynthia, keep you butt moving, girl. Don't stop! Hey, Donna, Good to see you check in. I just came back myself. I am active on a different website, because I hate the format of this one now.

The dress sounds amazing! Soooo, are you exercising yet?

Charlene, good luck with the sleeve and congrats on approval. If I were to ever lose my band, I would hope I could have the sleeve done. I don't qualify now, but I am afraid I would regain what I have lost without some kind of help. Cynthia, you have been through a lot in the last 4 years, but it sounds like you have gained wonderful family and an amazing man since then. Continue to fight, you are worth it! Update on my exercising...in the last 24 days I have only missed exercising 1 day. I am excited that I am able to stick to it and I was working on the elliptical mainly on level 7 as the lowest in the beginning and now it stays on level 13-15. I haven't lost any weight at all, but my husband and dad said I look smaller. Today I noticed my jeans were getting baggy and I realized I could pull them down without unbuttoning or zipping them! So, that is a surprising NSV! I hope I am able to keep it up. I am not sure I will be able to fit exercising in when I go to New York next weekend, but we will be doing so much walking that it will make up for it. Happy Bandiversary to us all and keep fighting!

Charlene, I don't see a cardiologist, yet. I have a checkup with my regular doctor on July 13th and I will see if he thinks I need to go after examining my test results. I also had a nuclear stress test about 4 years ago due to a little arhythmia problem. The doctor I had then blew it off, but I will have him look back at the readout to make sure. I just finished day 10 at the gym about an hour ago. I have gone 10 DAYS STRAIGHT and I stay on the elliptical for an hour each time at levels 7-11. I am determined to get healthier.

Charlene, I hope they get you approved quickly. I know you were having metabolic issues and that really sucks. I lost quite a bit, but I still have more to lose. I just started exercising again last week and I have gone to the gym 6 days in a row. Last night I was back up to 65 minutes on the elliptical. I am stunned and happy to get back into it so quickly. I started on Wednesday and had already decided to commit to it and Thursday night, my cousin who is 3 weeks younger than I am, had a massive heart attack. It is our family curse. We die young from heart problems. My grandfather was 36, grandmother was 57, his mom, my aunt, was 48 and my mom had a bypass at 48. So, that gave me an incentive to not skip at all. I have made a promise to myself to go everyday unless I am extremely ill or injured. The only way I am going to allow myself to skip is if I have gone 5 days in a row and then I can only skip one day. I have decided I am going to fight heart disease, like my life depends on it, because it does. If a heart attack wants me, it will have to take me kickin' and screamin'.

Wow, I haven't checked in here, in a long time. I stopped being active when they changed the format. It threw me for a loop and I really hated it. I still don't like it, but I wanted to check in. I plan on going back and reading what I have missed, but it will take a while since the last time I posted was November-ish. It seems that we all seem to struggle with the same few lbs up and down. The scale doesn't move much any more for me, but it is my fault more than my band's. I need to exercise more and eat more solid protein, I just don't do it. I gained about 6 lbs between Jan. and Feb. My mom was dying from Alzheimer's and it was just easier to eat it away than to deal with it. I am in a better place now, but still need to get off of my butt and move. I am presently teaching summer school and driving almost 3 hours per day to do it. With stress, it just seems easier to drink something than eat sometimes, it is a hard habit that I am trying to break. With our bandiversary coming up again, I think I am going to rededicate myself to doing it right. The band ain't cheap, and I seem to be wasting this tool that saved my life. I will check back in again after I have caught up on all of the older posts.

You have been given good advice already. Unless you are getting hungry or finding yourself eating bigger portions to get satisfied, I would wait on the fill. I was banded July '08 and I have only had 2 fills total, each one for only 1cc. I still get satisfied with less food, usually eat 1200-1500 calories per day and have lost 100 lbs. Really, I would like to lose another 35, but not if it means I have to eat fewer kinds of foods or less calories than this. I honestly just need to get off my butt and exercise now! Good luck and let us know what you decide to do!

Michelle, log in and post. I never received a confirmation email, but I am activated. Try it!

Well, I have an account over there, but it won't let me log in. So, until I can get it straight, I will keep in touch here or on fb. This sucks!

I still don't have approval yet.

I am waiting for approval, as well. I wonder what they will think about the sudden influx of new members?

Michelle and Jenn, thanks. I am eating now that she isn't in the hospital. The problem was that I couldn't leave the room at all or she would try to get out of bed and the moment I got home, I would shower then go to sleep. As soon as I got up, I would drink coffee, get dressed and leave to go back. As I just posted on fb, I just got home to my husband's fabulous meatloaf and homemade mashed potatoes. Can you believe I get rewarded for spending money? How lucky am I? I love y'all and will check out the other site as well. I will let you know if I get the same screen name. **Update** I am now registered with the same screen name. In fact, I replaced Jenn as the newest member!

Kat, I hope your shopping turned out well and that you stayed bundled up!!! I used to do all of the doorbuster stuff, but people get too crazy sometimes and I just don't want to deal with it any more. I plan on getting a manicure today, since most people will be shopping and maybe shop later when the frenzy dies down.

I was thinking about you and I am glad your day went well. Our food was good and I am surprised I didn't get sick. I ate a small saucer of dressing when it came out of the oven and almost ate it too fast. I realized this morning. I had not eaten since Tuesday afternoon. Yesterday I only had 6 vanilla wafers.

I will try to find you through Kat or Tracy's and send a request. I hate this new layout.

:iagree: On all of the above!

Damn, Tracy. You handled this slap correctly and in a way that will lead you to have peaceful sleep at night, while she will toss and turn. Be proud of how you handled this and remember you can't be responsible for what she is doing or feeling. She is obviously not a happy person and I am glad you aren't going to feed into this.

Since we don't talk about banding on fb, please email me your addresses and I will request. I don't really want to put my email on the post. . . . Still don't know if we can pm on here any more. I feel so lost and confused. Sorry Kat, our posts overlapped. Thanks, so now I know how to send...where in the world do we see our pms?

Girls can be so mean and catty sometimes. That is why most of my daughter's friends are guys. I hope her wrist gets better. My daughter's first and only ER visit was due to cheerleading. She played ice hockey and dislocated both knees and fractured her arm, but those waited for a dr visit the next day...cheerleading fell on her head at tumbling and sprained muscles in her neck! I am doing all of the cooking for Thanksgiving except for the turkey. My dad deep fries them every year, but this year he bought an oiless fryer.

I really don't like this new format. I can't find anything and I definitely don't want my stuff I share with y'all on facebook. Hell, I wouldn't even join facebook until very recently due to the invasiveness of it. Oh, and I share my band status with ALMOST ALL of the people I know, but not people who are from when I was younger. Kat, I hope you get better soon. I thought I was the queen of sinus problems, but it sounds like you have me beat! My mom has been in the hospital since Sunday morning. My dad is currently looking for a nursing home. I have been staying in her room at night. She went 36 straight hours without sleeping, which also means I wasn't sleeping. I came home this morning and I am so tired/delirious/semi-psychotic from lack of sleep, that I could only sleep for 2 hours. I feel a little better now, since I just got out of the shower. I will head back up there this evening to sit again. Oh, and I do facebook, and if you want to add me, please do, I would like that, but I don't talk about my band on there, even though probably 80% of the people on there know. Please pm me if you want my email to add, or send me yours. I will add...that is if I can find where the pms are here now....I still can't find anything!!!!!! OH, and if anyone can find and then point me to the "view first unread" button, please do so. I don't like having to look for where we left off. Ok, yeah, I don't even see where we can send or see private messages any more, so just go to my profile to send me an email and hopefully that will work. I really HATE this new thing. Oh, and do we have a place for our subscribed threads? I can't find that either.

It is good to hear that everything went well! I hope the gas pains ease up so you can rest. I just got up from a nap and I need to go get dressed for the midnight showing of Harry Potter. Have a good night all!

That is what happened when I had strep. Take her to get a shot. I had to have an antibiotic shot and a steroid shot because my throat was so swollen from the strep getting worse and it got that bad while on an oral antibiotic. It seems to be some weird strain of strep that is resistant. I was sick for 5 days with it. I felt better after the 3rd day after the two shots.

Oh, hello. I am sorry if you posted earlier and I missed it. I like new people!

Poor Macy and poor you. It is hard to see our babies sick. I hope she gets over it quickly. If they didn't give her a shot and she isn't feeling quite a bit better by Friday, please return to the doc for a shot. I was on Zythromax and actually got a lot worse in two days time. It took two shots to clear mine up.