Daisalana

Wheet- Yup.. my first job- Burger King. When I had to get fries, the top was so far down, I had to bend all the way over to get in there.. and it killed my already messed up back. And buffets, same thing. I have always hated buffets, for more reasons than just that but I always have to stoop down to try to get in there. As for pants, you should check out alloy.. they have dress pants & jeans.. the inseam increments are from 30-37" You can search by size (I.e. Size 13 34" inseam) and it pulls up all the jeans or pants in that size.

ARGH!!! I HATE HATE HATE the stupid hospital my doc does his stuff at. Their idiocy never ceases to amaze me. Remember I overpaid by $596 for the band. I owed $500 to the anesthesiologist. They said they'd swap it over, but I got a bill for anesthesiologist, and hospital said they can't swap it. So I said, no one is getting paid till I get my refund. They had to find out about the refund. Called me back and said "There's things waiting to be resolved with insurance (my previous fills under fluero) and we can't refund until we find out what is left over, and the $596 will be applied to that".I threw a fit, because that's MY MONEY and they owe it to me. So, insurance finally resolved everything. I owe $51. I GET A BILL IN THE MAIL TODAY FROM THE HOSPITAL SAYING I NEED TO PAY THEM $51!!!!! OMFG if they lived near me, I'd go postal on them. SEND ME MY DAMN REFUND AND I'LL SEND YOU THE $51. The whole reason they won't send the refund, is because of the $51 they were going to take it out. Now they want to keep my refund and bill me? I'm goin ballistic. They're lucky they're closed right now, I've been screaming to my husband about this. I am never goin' back to that hospital again. If my doc needs to do anything else to me, we're goin to another hospital or I'm goin to another doc. I can't believe how they try to hose me.. every..single..time.

LOL! Thats why I love the jeans at Alloy. I don't know who they have in mind for their clothes, but there's no 'bulges' anywhere.. they all fit to me perfectly <3 It's Truck, Piper, and Paris Blues jeans. Paris Blues has a website, but they only had 1 pair of plus size jeans advertised and they looked really weird.. I don't know why they don't have the ones Alloy sells.. and Truck or Piper I can't find anywhere. Even when I google the brand it just pulls up Alloy.

Yes, I don't believe Buddha or Allah is God. :eek: And that's as far as I'm going, I hate hate hate being in religious debates, and I smell it coming right around the bend! But I do so enjoy listening to people's opinions on it. :biggrin1:

Ohhh nooos :eek: We were all hoping to see how it worked out for Terry!! So 230 + 199= $429. The cheapest option I saw on bodybugg's website was $300 I think.. does that include everything you need to get up and running? There was another nearly $500 dollar package, I just figured that was bells & whistles??

I've never been able to wear a single pair of lane bryant's pants. Besides being short, they also have 'hips' for the plus size.. I have no hips.. just big belly! So they poofed out all weird on my hips.. But me too me too! If I find a pair of jeans that fit, I order multiple pair. Pre-op I had this one set of bell bottom jeans I loved, had 5 pair of them!! Around July they stopped fitting, and I went into panic mode, I wore those almost every single day.. now what?! But luckily I can now fit into some old old jeans (the nsv jeans on the b&a page)..and I ordered some new pants from alloy.com a few weeks ago and they fit great, and before I could order a new pair.. they sent me another pair! They have a lot of errors at their place, sometimes in my favor. My 'dream' height was always 5'3, and my friends would say 'can you imagine how fat you'd be if you weighed what you did at 5'3?'. So I'm suppose to be thankful, heh.

Don't let Tracy fool you, her nuggets are golden!! And Sarah I really don't have a response to you, much like someone telling Julie she's fat at 160lbs, it's not only mind baffling because after what we've been through that HOT AND SEXY!! But.. where the hell were people like this raised?! Adults finding it acceptable to just shout things out to people like that? Just thank your lucky stars it's not someone you know.. like a friend,bf,husband, etc. I always think of that when there's someone horrible enough to do things like that.. they go home to a girlfriend/family/wife,etc. And poor THEM!

Lauren- I'll trade you!!!! I bet it's easier to find petites that fit, than talls that fit! What stores call 'tall' is about 4 inches too short for me! There's only one place I can find pants in plus size & where I can specify the length I want (alloy.com..and they are full of idiots, so I hate that I can't buy them anywhere else). I love my pants touching the ground, so I envy your dilemma :eek:

My Peanut Butter has like 100+ calories in ONE TABLESPOON. I've not had it since banding, I look at it every once in a while (longingly). Some things I do for sweet tooth- Quaker Granola Bites!!!!! Cinnamon and Peanut Butter flavor.. little bites of heaven.. the chocolate ones taste like coacoa puffs, which I don't care for.. Cinnamon tastes like french toast, and oddly enough the peanut butter tastes like peanut buttery coconut. 90calories per pack, which have quite a bit for a bandster. (I count calories, not carbs or whatever else). Kudos bars.. I have these for b'fast sometimes, but they're a not-guilty indulgence for me. Theyre like rice crispy treats with a chocolate bottom and I have the ones with 'snickers' in it and 'm&m's in it.. they are 100 calories per bar. The bars are quite small, which is why I have them for b'fast. Curves peanut chocolate bars.. Another b'fast item for me. 100c per bar + 3 or 4g of Fiber, its good. My indulgences I limit myself to, are fruit chillers. I love the strawberry.. its like 200c per cup, but they last a long time because it's frozen.

If you look in this forum area, there's a 'scar stages', and lots and lots of pics of the scars. Everyone is a little different. I was a little nervous about scars, but that was so minute in the scheme of things for me.. I was 23 and couldn't walk!! So I guess you take the good with the bad.. I now have a new scar right between my boobs, that I am carefully watching.. I really don't want my cleavage to be marred. But if that's the case, I'll deal with it. The lap-band really works if you work the lap-band :eek:

And Lauren, yeah I think as long as we make a statement about how we're not doctors or claiming to be, blah blah, it'd be a good cookbook! REGULAR meals for REGULAR (banded) people!

I just looked up the Sneaky Chef.. they have sample recipes. I am a lil horrified. Sounds horrible!! LOL! I'm kidding, kind of.. I would have a hard time making myself eat that.. But I can see how if you're the chef you could just trick the kids. Sardines in their tuna though? I would have hated my momma..

Ya know, I'm whiney and feel like I'm plateauing, but I just looked at my records of weight.. Sept. 25th I was 286lbs. Oct.9 I am 279lbs That's 7lbs in exactly 2 weeks, that's not bad at all!!!

I haven't taken my 'diet pills' since my 2nd surgery because my restriction is so tight.. the ones I have right now are HORSE PILLS. But they taste like crap inside, so I'm afraid to cut them in half.. they are coated in something ridiculously fake-sweet.. I hate the taste of that too. But if I take one, and it gets stuck in my stoma, how long does it take for something like that to dissolve? I don't think it would 'hurt' anything ingredients wise, since it's just a bunch of herbal hoopla. :help:

I tried baby oil! I tried alcohol.. I tried olive oil.. I tried these little packets that I use in bowling (they remove tape residue from inside the holes). Nothing. The best I got, was the bowling things, but it just made it all sticky again, but wouldn't come off. So I'm dealing with lint covered marks all over where I can't get it off.

1. I would be short.. like 5'3. My whole life I wanted that. 2. I would have a lot of money to do things as I please.. and shop for whatever, whenever! For spouse. 1. If he could JUST be an inch or two taller. I hate being slightly taller than him (1/2 inch). 2. Wish he was more open about his feelings.. he never opens up when something is bothering him, and when things are bothering me and I do open up, he doesn't know how to deal with it. He came from a very closed up family.

LOL Wasa.. I really enjoyed that! And I'm still scrubbing in vain at the glue balls all over my body from surgery #2.. I ponder if this is the worst thing about surgery.

Cause I have a lot of head hunger I guess.. till about 4pm I am fine with eating my small meals, but come dinner time I do a lot of eating, and don't get my 'full' signal, and have hard time with self control. So if I take a diet pill now, they make me nauseated at the thought of food, so by dinner, I'll eat little to nothing.. but it will still wear off in time before I go to bed. Just trying to break a plateau right now, thought I'd try getting back on diet pills And yeah Wheet, I was trying to deliberately take it so that it goes up and down through there, and I guess I was lucky! What are these magical ways you speak of to take it with little to no taste?

Hey guys! I'm sorry I don't check here often, I guess since there's not a whole lot of activity. I ended up having a flipped port, so none of my fills were going in!! I had revision surgery in Sept (by my original Surgeon, Dr. Freeman) and now I have great restriction.. but now I'm plateauing.. GAH!! With so much weight still left to go, I hate the idea of plateauing. Hope everyone is doing great!!!

Thank you for posting this, and congrats!!! I feel like I'm at a plateau and getting frustrated. Finally good restriction, and the weight isn't dropping like I thought it would. And congrats so much on onederland, I dream of it

Nevermind, just took it with a half a bottle of water and I felt it squeeze through.

I ended up having turkey & cranberry instead of the caprisun & beef jerkey last night.. it was 120c more than I was anticipating. Still didn't go over, so I'm not going to fret it! Weight loss has slowed with my new found restriction. I'm really torn.. why is this happening?!! AND my cravings at night are worse than ever. I know if I take my diet pills I won't get hungry, but then I won't be able to sleep.. and that's the only time I need help. I haven't been exercising since 2nd surgery. Originally I was taking it easy, but last week I decided I'm ok again to bowl, so DUH I'm ok again to walk around. Besides I've walked around stores since surgery. I'm being lazy... It's 90 degrees outside again and my body just says nooooo. I hate getting hot. Wish the damn cold fronts would hurry up and come through and make this a little bit easier for me to make myself unlazy. Someone give me a swift kick in the butt, I need to get to moving. I'm eating less, and losing slooooowly.. it's a sign right? TIME TO GET TO MOVIN!!

Get someone to go to the drug store for you, they have anti-nausea medicine.. It's called Emetrol. It's a clear pinkish liquid. it's safe for liquid diet, and will help the nausea. I don't know if you smoke, but if I take pain meds and smoke a lot I get nauseated. And calm down! Stress makes the band tighter.. take deep breaths..

Actually, I disagree with Wasa! I bought the book used from Amazon, and I thought it was a good read. I did read things on there I hadn't found on the board. Maybe I would have, but after months of reading the boards, I did find useful information I hadn't read here or heard from my doctor. It is a QUICK read though.