Daisalana

-Crossing my legs is my number 1 goal. Anywhere, anytime, either leg. Right now I can cross left over right in most situations. I did it at dinner the other night at a restaurant for the first time, and kept gushing to my husband (who completely does not understand the significance). -To be able to exercise regularly without feeling like I'm going to die. -To wear the clothes I WANT to wear without bulging out all over. ----- Boysaway.. I don't know where you live, but knickers makes me think you're not in the US.. However, I found a couple places that make knee-high boots that will go over a big calf.. Roaman's (can google their website) and torrid.com

Tracy you are doing so great, and you are so beautiful!! You look 10 years younger :cool: Towel on your head and all LOL! I would NEVER IN MY LIFE take a pic of me with towel on my head. It makes me look so horrible and fat fat. I won't even let hubbie see me with a towel on my head hah!

Wasa- Rephrasing my question.. so you're paying 4k for the surgery?

Not sure what you were posting, but your tag made me think of a good slogan. Save a tree, eat a beaver!

Jack- EW. I'm bored too, Mondays are horrible here. And Derek- Aws <3 It's good to be appreciated :biggrin1:

Something I put together for a funny contest..

My regret is also not getting it done sooner. Just think of how far along I'd be by now :cool: I HAVE had a complication and had to have revision surgery on the port, and I'm still a happy camper. I'm overfilled at the moment and that IS pissing me off, but that's easily fixed next week.

Well I decided if someone was in there, and looked at me funny, I would say "Do I LOOK bulimic to you?!" That's just paranoia though, if I heard someone puking in the bathroom I would think they're sick..

Fingers crossed for you tracy!!!! Judy- that's awesome, I use to really resent my mom for things like that. But I was never a size 14. I was a size 22-26 around middle school up till high school. At that time my mom was a size 12. And when we'd do our clothes shopping, I would get so mad that she could wear the (what we called) "Britney Spears" pants. Low cut, makes your butt look good, etc. And she could wear the fitted shirts that show off her figure. And there I was in old lady looking clothes from Lame bryant! Such is life I guess. I made an easy chicken dumpling soup yesterday. (Lazy day) I couldn't eat the dumplings, but if you're not over filled you probably can!! Big can of chunked chicken (I used 1 large can from Sam's.. equiv of about 2 normal size cans). You could use normal chicken breasts, sear them in the pan with a dash of EVOO, cut it up, and then let them cook 30 minutes in the broth before continuing with the recipe. Toss it in a pot, cover it with 2 14oz cans of chicken broth (I used 4c of water & 3 buillion cubes). Bring it to a boil.. I added garlic salt, parsley, salt, pepper, and a dash of thyme. Then I made biscuik dumplings (2/3c of biscuik, 1/3c of skim milk). Dropped them in, let them cook 10 minutes uncovered. Then I sprinkled them with garlic salt & parsley, cover and cook 10 more minutes. I added a little corn starch to make the soup thicker too. Husband gave me a thumbs up on this, he said he liked them better than Cracker Barrel! (That's all he gets there).

I can not for the life of me explain it, so I thought maybe someone else experienced it and it was caused by _____.. Sunday morning I woke up, and my ENTIRE BUTT and back of my thighs feel like I fell down a flight of stairs. They are so bruised and sore. If I even TOUCH my butt it hurts. Sitting on the toilet hurts, sitting at my desk hurts, etc. I did not do anything special (or exercise) on Saturday, so this makes no sense to me. We did a lot of cleaning, but I do that every weekend. The ONLY thing I could possibly think of, is that I rolled onto the remote in my sleep.. but I can't believe it would cause that big of an area to be hurt (it's every inch of these 2 places). I joked husband must have done something to me in our sleep that night.. But I am honestly clueless as to why this has happened. Today it is still bruised and sore. I'm taking my Vitamins and Protein. :cool:

I ordered an Enell sports bra, they look pretty but the hooks in the front look 'itchy'. I had a bra like that once that drove me nuts. But since it comes recommended, I got one anyway! I really need one that takes the boobs away. Interestingly (and confusingly) enough, weight loss is increasing my cup size. The rib cage dimension is shrinking.. but all my pre-op bras, my boobs now bubble out the top ridiculously. I went from 46D to 40-42DD right now.

YAY! Husband fixed it, it's something with this computer at work. Stupid computers! I'm going to go around lunchtime to the work's gym and treadmill it. Woowoo.

Found something new to share. I watch this tv show called Unwrapped.. they show how different foods are made. They did one with Fruit Leather. It's 100% pureed fruit, that is dried specially and it makes it little 'leather' pieces of fruit. A week after that, I saw them in my store. I never noticed them before, but it was in a weird section near pharmaceuticals. Anyway, they are 45 calories per package.. I bought 3 different flavors to try them. Husband said he ate those as a kid, and he didn't think I would like them (his evil ploy not to let me buy 1 of every flavor I have decided.) But I tried them, and I have to say I think they're awesome. I got apple, grape, and blueberry. Blueberry was my favorite. Tastes like a hard fruit roll up. And a nice texture, very chewy. Stretch Island Fruit Co.™

I am starting to graze very badly. BAD LAURA BAD!!!!! I think it's because I get panick-y about not being able to eat. I made chicken & dumplings yesterday, for us to eat lunch & dinner. I had Protein Shake for b'fast, some broth for lunch, and at dinner I tried 1 dumpling. Wouldn't go down. PB'd. So then I ate yogurt. Then pudding (with Fiber, that makes it ok right?!). Then chewed on some beef jerkey. Then had some ritz chips (painfully, but not as painful as the dumpling). I am just snacking on crap!!!!!!!! I'm getting really tired of this. I'm not going to get anywhere if I can't eat my normal meals. I kick myself while I do it too. Like when I had the ritz, I was at war with myself mentally. I said.. PUT THEM DOWN! Then the other side said, No we can't eat, and finally we can eat something! EAT THEM! NO! WAAAAAH. I'm letting myself down, and I wonder if I'm trying to make myself fail :cool: I want to blame this all on my over-fill, but damn if I can tell myself to put it down, and I don't listen.. that's all me! My appt. is Oct 22, going to ask for something to help hair loss (I remember at the pre-op meeting he mentioned he would give me rx for something if I needed it), and an unfill. I hate myself for sabotaging me. DARN ME DARN ME!! I am so tired of not being able to eat the good food. This isn't helping me. I keep looking longingly at the good food, as I fill my face with crap that will go down. On another note, I'm doing the couch-5k program losingjusme posted. Anyone else see it? Husband is currently trying to fix my stupid iPod.. I hate apple stuff. Hopefully he'll have it fixed and tonight I'm going to be doing that instead of grazing. SIGH!

Yeah, there was a group of hot guys at a table near the bathroom that looked up at me everytime I went by, I thought they figured I had diarhea.. :cool: And in the bathroom first 2 times, I was lucky no one was in there, 3rd time I didn't care if someone was in there. But I have had out of all my PB episodes, 2x at home where it came up unexpectedly and I threw up on myself (yuck). I am worried that will happen one day, I would be so mortified I don't know what I'd do!!

My husband is a computer geek, but he doesn't know anything about iPods either. I was hoping to do this on the treadmill today at work, but I guess I'll have to wait till tomorrow so he can look at it tonight :cool:

Ok I need help with my iPod!! I'll be honest, I don't know much about iTunes, as I hate apples and everything that go with it LOL. I got the iPod for x-mas the year they came out, and it sits in my desk most the time. Anyway, I downloaded week 1 and 2, I imported them to iTunes, then I made a playlist 'workout', but 1 & 2 in it. Then inserted my iPod, said manually sync.. told it to sync with 'workout'. So it did, said it copied 2 things. So I eject it, look at it.. and 'workout' the folder is on my iPod, but the 2 weeks aren't on there. So there's nothing on the iPod, just an empty folder???? I tried doing it again, it said it copied both songs.. but again, it's not on iPod. What am I doing wrong?

TGIF's did it to me too. Was my worst ever public PB situation. I had about 1 tsp of the inside of their sicillian quesadillas.. And it stuck majorly. Went to the bathroom and slimed and spit up. Back at the table I asked for coffee (hoping it would loosen me up), but it just built up.. another bathroom break to spit all of that up plus more slime. Back to the table, husband was eating his lunch and I felt nauseated (which is new to me). So I ran back to the bathroom, this time threw up, and it was HUGE spit bubble. Must have formed in my stomach and tickled my nausea nerves!! Everyone in TGIF's thought I was crazy, constantly running to the bathroom. I have been leary to go back there now. We use to go there for lunch at least once a week since it's near our work.

I haven't gotten it yet, but I read reviews that if you add it to hot liquid it clumps.. so they recommend putting it in cold things, or cold things then heat it up. I'm likely going to try it in soup and yogurt.

Hm.. mine only gave me 1 name, even though I have it both my names.. Guess my last name is too stupid to translate. Married Name- Trauma When I do my maiden name it gives me a full name- Faerie Corpse Hm!! It gives my hubby a name- Candlelight Chaos Still won't give me 2 names with my married name. They're discriminating!

Ohh I see. I got the 32 serving cannister.. $10.99

Your daughter looks adorable!!

Sounds like your doctor didn't give you guidelines on paper with examples? I had every week spelled out for me, with examples of food (and some weeks the ONLY food) I could have during that time period. Popsicles, pudding, yogurt, broth were ok my 1st week. If you didn't get any guidelines from your doc (or maybe he only told them to you and you forgot), you should call and ask them.

Well, considering I just want to add it to food like I do benefiber to give it a boost to Protein (especially things that are low protein). Says 1 box thing (which is what I bought) is 192 servings per can. The thing you listed says serving size is 1 scoop which is 25 calories and 6g of protein. I don't get what you're saying?

I got 6 pre-paid with my surgery (self-pay). But since none of the fills went in, and I ended up having to pay out of pocket to revise the surgery.. doctor didn't charge me for his revision surgery and for right now I have 'infinite' free fills.. probably till I make that $2,000 back the hospital charged.