Daisalana

Yup, everyone post your numbers tomorrow and I'll keep it written down, and re-check it at the end date and figure the %. Make sure when you post your weight tomorrow, you also post your 'goal', so I can get the % figured out :wub:) We're going to Olive Garden tonight (all the fam) for a late Easter dinner. I am the official planner, so I was calling everyone to invite.. my poor Granny.. She is in her 70's but acted 40..till her room mate died last year. She has gone down hill really quick, her dementia and a new obsession with gold (ugh) has gone nutso. When her room mate died-- who was a million times worse than conspiracy theory guy in that movie-- he had gold & silver hidden all over the house & yard. Now my granny watches gold prices all day, every day. Making notes. Going to the pawn shop and causing scenes. We keep trying to get her to sell it just so she will quit obsessing.. and she is crazy obsessing about it!!! Anyway I invited her to OG, and she starts talking about how I need to have kids before she dies. I know it's a weird thing to say, but I've always kept that in consideration. Of all my family, my granny has been the closest in our lives. She's in everything, she's always been active.. it's really frustrating to watch her go down hill lately. I want her to know my kids, I want my kids to have known her. I was telling mom about the conversation, and my mom was saying how it'd be sad if she wasn't here to know my kids, but it'd be even more sad if her alheizmer's/dementia is full blown when I have kids and she doesn't know who they are. My granny is one of those people I just can't imagine losing at this point. She's such a big part of our lives. Apparently me having kids has been on her mind a lot lately, my mom had a 'puke bag' set up in her living room from (I don't remember what she said), and my granny was asking her if I was pregnant lol.

Hah what a funny question.. Do those 'butterflies' come from your actual stomach? I always feel mine lower in my abdomen.. like.. Uterus butterflies! In any event, I have had them since banding.

You're not alone. I have this problem now too, and I know others have (there was a thread about this before). Less insulation!

Can get them online.. google "IDS NEW WHEY" FitFuel.com I use to do the 42g, and shoot 1/2 at a time.

To make it fair.. take amount loss % compared to how much they are to goal. That way if someone is 60lbs or 10lbs from goal, it's fair. If I lose 6lbs and my goal is 180 and I'm at 232, the percentage lost would be 11%. If someone's goal is 150, and they are 170 and lose 6lbs they are at 30% loss and would win in this scenerio. :wub:)

Poor Tracy. Go have a hot chocolate!! What happens if you win Terry? Mondays are so boring. Usual stuff, makes me feel how repetitive my life is lol.

Tracy if it makes you feel any better, I drink 4-8 bottles of water a day religiously now.. with the exception of last night's coke, I don't drink anything else anymore.. and it doesn't make my scale any nicer!!

Kat- wow.. that was like reading a book, I couldn't believe you threw out Linzie's slinky! No liquid diet for me, if I did that, I'd crave food so bad, I'd either cheat or when I'm done I'd go nuts eating food. But lots of water, and good choices today!! Tracy- Yeah I was losing 2lbs regularly a week.. then the 2nd week I was on Chantix (when I stopped) I gained 5lb.. which is a 7lb gain really. It freaked me out enough! But what sucks, is I'm back to chain smoking to make up for food, but still have snacking issues that haven't gone away from when I was stopping. Still losing slowly.. slower.. You're doing good, and you're so close to goal!! I decided to try Chantix closer to goal, when I can offset the extra eating with exercise. Have you tried doing that yet?

Well I went to look at the website that the link you gave takes you to, to buy.. According to them I should be XL. So I'm going to go try them on, but that website sells them for $15 which is pretty cheap for a shaper. If they work well in the store, going to order some. Thanks again for the tip!

Funny you mentioned that Terry, I didn't say it since it sounds racist, but all the neighbors that are doing this are non-american. The ones from today are asian, and they don't speak english.. we tried to help them when their sprinklers busted once, went though 10 people living in that house (no idea how), and never found one that understood us. And this really is a nice neighborhood, it's frustrating. Ok girls, time to get my butt in gear. I let it all go this weekend... and tonight I was craving a Coke like you wouldn't believe. I don't drink it anymore, and Mt. Dew was my poison of choice, but it was such an intense craving, made DH go to the gas station and I've been sipping on it.. Mm. Tomorrow I WILL NOT be bad!!!!! I finally finished all my homework tonight, down to the wire. Spanish homework was really overwhelming today.. had to fill in words in a diary, and I guess I'm suppose to know Spanish by now.. to read it.. and to fill in the blank with some sort of appropriate word.. uhm.. yeah. I got the V's trip surprise tonight too! Here's a hint.. it's... get this.. violet!! :crying:

Thanks! I will check that out, I bought a spanx top a monthish ago, I'm actually wearing it right now. It does nothing to 'hold me in', but it actually fits me so I like it as a normal tank top around the house. And it does roll up.. ho hum. Why did I have to be born fat? It's too expensive!!! ---- Is this the one you got? That looks like the spanx one I'm wearing, and you say it doesn't roll up on you?

I only get my pants from one place, so pants aren't an issue.. they are fitting fine (and encourage me the most since my hips are a size 12 at these plus size places!!). It's really tops that I am lamenting about. I can wear XL tops from 'normal store', and 1-2x tops at 'plus size' stores. It all depends on the place.. but, they all have the same problem.. unless it's designed to fit bigger (like babydolls), I hate how it sits on my belly.. if it fits me right, it will be too tight on the belly and it's so 'gooey' now, it bounces horribly. If I go up a size, the shirt looks too big on me.. and coworkers point out how I need to go down a size! I loved babydolls, but for about 5 months in a row the lady who does my hair asked me if I was pregnant.. I finally figured out why she asks.. babydolls make me look pregnant!! Since my belly is the biggest part of me, the babydolls just don't help me out. For tailoring, never done that before.. I always assumed it's expensive & timely.. I have 10 dollar shirts, pay $50 to tailor and it won't be ready for a month, by then I am in a new size. This is just how I always thought it, is it different from that?

Welcome CPR The trash thing.. :crying: It was windy, I watched the beer boxes & cans rolling down the street. Then I saw a cop pass twice, never stopped. I guess since it all blew away he didn't know where to stop. Then I took a nap.. just got up, look outside.. said beer box & cans ARE IN MY FRONT YARD........... ARGFHGFHSEUT. So Mad.

It won't be long! I went from busting out of 26/28 to currently wearing size 15 comfortably. And I started wearing 15's last month and that's only 10 months out! Take all the hand me downs you can, it gets expensive!

I just called the police.. (non-emergency), just asked if the guy with beer, kegs, and beer cans laying all out in the road is illegal.. she said littering is illegal, so they're sending someone out here. Hopefully, this will get them to stop in the future now.. cause since I know it's now illegal and they will come out, I'll keep calling.

So Pam, you're like one of the L word girls? All the lesbians really get to hang out with the posh gay men (and why are they always posh!!). Hah, I am definitely envious, everything I've ever seen on TV of those poshy places are unreal. I'd have loved the dinner too! Sorry about DD Kat, sounds like a rough situation :wub: Hopefully, she will do what's good for her DD! I have kept my blinds open all day, watching all the neighborhood kids. Lots of fun, makes me want my own (yet again). And then there's the asshole neighbor who stacks trash for pick up but doesn't put it in bags.. lot of beer boxes and cans ALL OVER the street in front of my house. Can you call the cops for things like that? I get so mad at these people. This is a nice neighborhood and their laziness causes all these brand new houses to get trashy looking. I have to pick up OTHER PEOPLE's trash out of my yard every friggin day. I figured out why I can't breathe!! It finally clicked, thanks to mom. When I went to docs, I said yeah I had seasonal asthma as a kid, but I haven't had it since I was like 12!! Well, when I was 13 we moved out of the country. Before that, we lived near fields and CROP DUSTERS!!! So yesterday, we were pulling out of my neighborhood.. we have a field connected to our backyard, and they were crop dusting. So, mystery solved. I can't breathe the pesticides. Kind of sucks I'll have to deal with this every year.. mom said use a face mask when I go outside, but I figure it would still get in our a/c since we're right on the field. Going to go make some new outfits for my clothing store, going to be a lazy day.

I don't have a problem with rice, it's pretty filling too. Tortillas are another story. Maybe if I ate them plain and slow(why bother).. but if it's like a burrito or something, instant problem on the first bite. I like to eat fillings out of tortilla things if I have to go to a Mexican restaurant.

I hate marshmellows and jelly beans! Couldn't pay me to eat a Peeps.. The minieggs aren't like those normal cadbury eggs with fillings (and their minis), they're like big M&M's.. they have a rough texture coat and solid chocolate inside. In case I don't post again tonight, hope you all have a Happy Easter!

Thank you Jane!! I got the mail earlier, 2 greeting cards in there, I had to think really quick.. not anniversary.. not our birthdays.. lol. Then I realized it was for Easter. It kind of snuck up on me. Haydee those eggs are so cute!! We have cook outs at my parents, I assumed we were tomorrow but dad has a Tee-time.. so I guess not. Mom asked if I'd go to church with her, I said yeah, but neither of us belong to a church and had such issues in the past with our old church.. so after discussing the different church options, we kind of decided not to go. So I doubt I'm doing anything.. Well I AM avoiding stores that sell minieggs at discount tomorrow. My menu for tomorrow... chili! Sundays are chili day at our house now. Aw and thank you Judy, I just got your card. Re-itterating my need to stay away from discount minieggs!! :thumbdown:)

hahaha.. I have insomnia too, as does my mom. I can't believe you fell asleep in the bathroom!! I totally would have taken pics of you too! My mom swears by Tylenol PM, but I don't like taking 'medicine'.. so I've taken Unisom for years. It gets me to sleep, but doesn't keep me asleep.. I still wake up throughout the night, but groggy enough I can fall back. One thing I really like about it (opposed to Nyquil) is that if I get a full 8 hours, I wake up bright and perky.. Nyquil gives me a hung-over affect till noon the next day. My sister was on Ambien, so I tried it one time, to see if it's worth finding a doc to get it.. it didn't do ANYTHING for me. I was up for about 6 hours after taking it. I don't talk to my docs about it, afraid they'll think I'm a looney tune. So Unisom has been my self-medication since I was about 18.

As you can see, when I planted these in the fall, I expected that one small plant to grow bigger than it did (I experimented and just bought different interesting flowers and made a hodgepodge.. in the other flower bed it all looks fine). But I'm going to buy another bush and plant it there sometime soon. Now where are my blooms? :cheers2:

Oh and booboo.. time to post new pics!! I wanna see :cheers2:)

Yeah I was thinking LBT is more like a medication, keeps me sane during work.. and when I do stupid stuff to bypass my band I come here and remember why I'm doing it. But psychic fill.. does sound better.. we go with that.

I 100% want to do the ghost walk.. and tubing.. and alamo. Can we get a final name count of who is going? I know we had one, but people changed minds, etc, wanted to see how current the list I had was. I wanna do somethin special for ya'll so I need the list :cheers2:) Someone will do ghost walks with me right? :smile:

Yay so glad to see this site working again!! Jane I hope you feel better!!! I know Pam gave you a good list of sick foods, but some reason (I think my dad made this up, so maybe it only works for my psychology lol), when I am sick with food issues, it's beef jerky & cream soda. I haven't been bad sick since honeymoon, but since I couldn't get those things in room service, I swapped to ginger ale. Ginger ale is a miracle worker for upset tummy! And yup, Pam the Bose is fantastic, my parents have it and it's like you're THERE (that and their 70 somethin inch LCD). Watching movies at their house becomes a little anxiety ridden for me.. Horror movies where you are in the movie.. eek. Terry.. why aren't my azalea's blooming?! I guess I'll ask my mom later today too. It's been warm for weeks, they are in good full green condition.. but no blooms. :cheers2: I wanna know what color they are!! I just watched Final 24 on Anna Nicole Smith. Was so sad, and hearing the final walk through and what the problem was, it could have been avoided. The nurse watching her was on the phone and thought she was sleeping, but never checked despite all the meds she had laying out. If she had just paid attention earlier... They said her show was a flop, but I loved it and everyone I knew loved it too. She was hilarious. Last night at dinner, I told my dad about our V trip to Greune (mom was talking about tubing in Ocoee). Then I said the Alamo, etc.. very excited!! He goes "Who are you going with?" and DH says "A bitties club". I was like WHAT!! We are not bitties! He assumes people who have WLS are old fat women. He doesn't believe me when I tell them, there are MEN on this forum too, and women of ALL ages. None of us in our group are old bitties! So just so you guys know, we gotta take some great pics so I can prove to him we're not bitties. I'm getting really psyched for our trip, not too far away and I've been craving lazy rivers. Time needs to pass, because I'll also be DONE WITH CLASSES by time we go. THAT is a huge bonus. I don't even mind the flying right now, I just wanna gooo! I remembered when looking at my flights the other day, no layovers, just a straight shot. Should not be too bad on my nerves... and going to get something from my sister just in case. Done rambling for now, can't wait to meet you all! I've been thinking about that a lot lately!!