Daisalana

I take 2 flintstone vitamins a day. I was excited to take them again too.. and all was good. Then I somehow bought the wrong ones (the box looked the same to me) and they were bigger and they are Flintstone vitamins COMPLETE.. and they taste like complete a$$. I took them just not to be wasteful.. and went back to the old ones, the ones I liked as a kid. Flintstones + Iron. (NOT.. complete ) . I also take a biotin vitamin when I remember to, doc said it could help with hair, and it does help with nails, and I later looked it up and it's a diet gimick vitamin pill too. So there's that.

So, the canned crab, or the king crab at costco in containers (lots of c's here) tastes yum? No fishyness? You guys have me excited, I would love to be able to eat some easy to throw together crab (and not have to bake the legs and smell up the whole house). And I'm surprised imitation crab is high in carb, I always thought it was made out of fish?

I avoid drama & bs in my life. Family members have enough, I live vicariously through their stories.. and the pots that are stirred in RnR. I have to entertain myself somehow!

I have never gone below the 260's in past diets. Even when I rocked the house with Atkins, I was somewhere in the 260's when I fell off the wagon and gained it all (and some) back. When I finally hit 259, it will be a milestone for me. A major one. When I told my mom this, she pointed out how I wasn't born 300lbs. She doesn't quite get it! But sometimes around 270lbs, I felt complacent! I bounce back and forth with motivation. I did have a week (before I got my fill back) where I just decided this isn't going to work for me, I'll never lose it all, and I had my Violets kick my butt back into gear. It passed. I took it one day at a time. If I could focus on 1 good day, I would worry about the 2nd good day later. I got my good fill and I'm back to not caring much about food, but the scale is STILL Dragging even though I hardly eat. Buggar. I am trying hard not to let it get me down, plateaus pass (supposedly?).

Lucky gal!!!! I am 95% sure I will have no PS. But I am noticing I have a pannis forming, and I don't know that it will go away.. but it's not very big, and I will just have to deal with it. Self-Pay surgery, i haven't asked my insurance but when I asked them about the band they said my policy 'covers NO obesity treatments'. I'm guessing they won't give a flying flip about extra skin either. I took a loan from my parents for the lap-band, but I don't think they'd loan me money to make my mons pretty and my tits perky.

Today I had coffee w/sweet-n-low & non-dairy creamer for b'fast. For lunch we went to a Chinese buffet.. I had a bowl of egg drop soup, 1 piece of general tso's chicken (the time it took me to eat this one piece, my DH had 10 pieces of that chicken and 5 pieces of sweet & sour chicken, and a whole plate of rice!), and a bite of rice. Going to the movies tonight, and I'm going to have a small bag of popcorn for dinner!

Come clean my house now! :girl_hug: I haven't vaccuumed in a month.. with 3 long haired cats and a dog.. OY!! I hate vacuuming :girl_hug:

My mom got us something a little different. She got everyone in our family a 113decibal alarm clock, with a disc that goes under the mattress and makes you feel like you're in an earth quake. This should be..interesting.

I still don't understand why anyone cares how it was lost. In a judgey way I mean..I have not met anyone who thought that WLS was the 'easy way out' or.. whatever. It's not like a cosmetic surgery, we're getting healthy.. who cares how?! It's just the stories I hear some of you post about how someone looks down on you for the surgery. It baffles me, quite honestly. I told anyone and everyone about my surgery and no one seemed to let on that they judged me for it (maybe I'm naive??). Some customers that only come around Xmas time, they've been coming in and keep saying how much weight I've lost.. I told them I had the lap-band, they ooo and aaahh and say I look fantastic and blah blah, and we all go about our merry way.

I didn't have the last meal syndrome, and did not worry about what I wouldn't be able to have post-op. The mindset changed for me. I am now post-op, and excited that I don't like burgers anymore. As for holiday food, I got a normal spoonful size of a lot of different stuff and picked at everything. Then I got a decent fill and I can't eat much. As I go along, I don't feel a loss that I can't eat like I could.. I am not worried about Xmas Eve Dinner, Xmas Morning B'fast, and Xmas day dinner (whew).. I'll find something to pick at, I'll get full.. and when you're full you don't want to keep eating, so.. that's that. I never got 'full' pre-band. So I'd binge and binge and binge some more. Ok, there is one thing I wonder if I can eat.. only because I've been craving it since last X-mas. DH's mom makes some northern recipe (they're from up north) that I thought looked so disgusting, but they made me try it.. hardboiled eggs pickled in beets.. so they're red and I don't like beets. I finally tried them and they were awesome.. I am hoping I can eat a piece of it without having an episode. I planned to stick to safe foods (squishy and wet) to avoid vomiting at DH's parents house.. but I am going to eat a piece of the red eggs!!

I thought the Fat Fairy whisks it away in the middle of the night? :x

I am more top heavy than bottom. My bottom area was never as big as my body should have made it. I have always had a non-existant butt.. and chicken legs. And then a whole bunch of bellies and flabby arms. Now as I lose weight, it seems my top is trying to catch up with my bottom. I could stand to lose some weight my thighs though, and a mons lift sounds lovely. I pull mine up every once in a while to see what it 'should' look like lol.

Haha, I can't wrap them now.. I'm at work! But I have an upset stomach today, so no worries of me eating them right now.

AudricIan- I'm shocked, really. It's your choice duh, but I couldn't imagine it. And him not noticing! Where'd you tell him you went, when you went to Mexico? Does he not see the cuts on your body? :x To the OP- I was wanting RnY and my whole family, DH (who was DB and I lived with him) at the time, has firmly said NO for years. Last Dec I said, I no longer care what they think, I have to do this before I end up diabetic and immobilized like my g'g'ma who was 700+LBs at age 30 and bed ridden and died from diabetes at 35 . I was just gaining & gaining. So I was researching and came across Lap-Band. It eased MY fears drastically. I brought it to my DB and explained it to him. He wasn't real interested, said it's up to me, but he thinks I could do it with a diet (if they could only walk in our shoes). Then I took it to my parents, got approval from everyone who mattered. I did take DB to the first consultation so he would learn about it. He got to hold a lap-band and see how it works. He got to hear the doctor explain what we are to expect afterward. If DH disapproved, I would have still done it. But that's who I am in our relationship. I like his approval, but I am pretty stubborn. Anytime he says no to me, I do it just to prove to him that he can't tell me what I can & can't do. :x :x

Wheet- hah your husband sounds like mine, and great minds think alike. My DH had just started college to study astrophysics the year I bought him the star.

My mom and I were just wondering if we're the only families that did this.. we got her stocking stuffers last week. We raid the Wal-Mart travel junk aisle in the hygiene area. As kids we got crayons, coloring books.. and she makes a stocking for my 5 year old niece. But for all of her kids (us) and our significant others the stockings are like this.. -Toothbrush -Toothpaste -Shaving cream (travel size) -Gold bond powder (travel size) -anti-bacterial hand soap bottle -packs of the lip smackers chapstick divided among us -face masks (for girls)& tired leg gels(for guys), the individual packets sold in wal-marts make up area -tin of life savers -eclipse gum -some really smelly (good) bath balls.. individually wrapped you put in the bath and makes it smell yummy.. but last year she put them in the stockings and all the candy tasted like this stuff.. bad idea! -mix of mini-reese cups & rolos For my niece, she got most of the stuff we got but the kids kind (toothbrush, toothpaste, etc.).. no gold bond or shaving cream.. added crayons, and wal-mart has a selection of little gift packs for kids in the x-mas gift section.. so they got her colored bath foam soaps, a little pretend make up kit, etc.

This is the one I got from overstock last week. I wanted the dark brown, but they were sold out.. so I got the camel brown. Rina Rich is the maker, and I liked a lot of her purse styles.

I just bought that peanut satchel last time I posted.. and we went to Florida this weekend.. Normally I am partial to suede & leather (mostly brown, I like brown)... but we went to a head shop on the beach.. and they had a really cool hippie purse. I like fabric purses if they are real weird/different looking. This one is like a gradiant color from dark green to black, with yellows in it.. a muslin fabric.. with compartments inside.. and then tiny mirrors woven into the surface along the front. My parents took it from me and said they'd get it for me for x-mas, so I don't get to have it till then.

It's amazing what you discover when you budget!! I was writing out a budget last month to figure out where our money goes.. and I realized we make a substantial amount a month that is just 'extra money', and yet we never have the 'extra money' when we want it. I still can't figure out where it goes. My only guess is food & cigarettes. I cook more, so we save money from going out to eat, but I swear I spend at least $100 a week getting groceries..and there's only 2 of us!! I'm always stopping on the way home. It seems fresh fruit/veggies/meats that expire, are expensive and have to be replaced so much. I need to come up with a better solution for that. And I smoke so much more than pre-band, we spend quite a bit of my cigarettes alone.. and DH smokes too, but not as much as I do. If we could kick that habit, we'd be rich hah hah.

I figured it out! I took the dilemma to DH and he said we can wrap them and give it to his parents. DUH! Why didn't I think of that? Sometimes it's nice to have a DH hehehehe.

Hah! If you won't enable me, I won't enable you Seriously though, I keep looking at them. If I break the seal, I have to eat them all. I have to do something with them.

Banded April 16th. I lost weight.. then restriction wore off, I was hungry, and I had bad moments (I was working on my wedding), and I still lost an average of 2lbs a month. I never got a fill till Sept. when they fixed my port. My weight loss wasn't constant.. For example, in June I lost 0lbs. I didn't gain a single pound (WOW!) but I didn't lose a single pound. Then in July, I was on my honeymoon, wedding, eating lots of left-over wedding cake and restaurants in Vegas.. and I still lost 8lbs that month. Then 16lbs in August. So for the 3 months, I averaged 2lbs a week.

Ohh Violets, what do I do!!! I had asked the boss for 2 extra boxes of White Tiger Paws to send to my friends out in NM. Each box is 2lbs of these white chocolate turtles. They told me last week we ran out of them, so I decided to order one of them a wine basket. I already sent that.. well, they brought me 2 boxes today saying they moved things around so I can have 2 boxes. I sent one box to the person who I didn't decide what to get yet, but now I have an extra box of 2lbs of white chocolate turtles.. NUM NUM NUM. I have them on my desk and I occasionally lift up the box, I can't believe how heavy it is. What do I do with it?! All my family got one already, only other person I'd send it to is my best friend that moved to the Carolinas, and she's on a permanent diet, so that would be cruel of me. Help!

We have raspberry ice flavor & fruit punch flavor of crystal light in our stores. Unfortunately, the only CL flavor I actually like is pink lemonade (aquired taste, growing up that was our lemonade, I never knew it was a 'diet' drink). But if you like the others, maybe you'd like the raspberry & fruit punch.

I bought my husband a star for his birthday about 5 years ago. I have seen the own a piece of mars, etc. too...they're cute gifts. I named the star Sahara (hotel we met at in Vegas). And I got it in the Leo constellation since that is his birth sign thing.