Daisalana

Judy- Your new avatar pic is awesome! Losing weight and years, you look so much different from that first picture I saw of you when we were pre-banders!! You use to look like an art teacher I had in high school, and now... you don't! LOL And I'm with you on the hair loss, it's been fine all along, but about a week ago when I was drying my hair, it was just falling out all over.

Not that I need a reason to go to Vegas Me & DH normally go every beginning of February for our 'when we met'(which was in vegas) anniversary and my birthday. I might be able to convince him to go a little early next year.. That would be a lot of fun, and we've never stayed at TI.

I don't eat in my car either, but I do keep empty plastic cups around the house (mostly places like on my computer desk or night stand), for any PB moments.. which are very few and far between. But sometimes chicken sneaks up on me, and here we go!! I have done it in a water bottle before, it wasn't necessarily *hard* to do, as it was *NASTY* to do.

I guess I'm lucky then, the bullets are fine when I shoot them.. I toss back 1/2 of them (so it's 21g at a time), then immediately drink Water.. no after tastes or nothing.. but if I let it swish in my mouth BLECH. Life's too short to torture myself with Protein shakes (that's my motto!), I've tried every 'good' shake people suggest, but when I try them they are horrible and I know I have to finish it to get the protein, and it makes me want to cry! About a drawer at work, I do need to do that. I use to.. and I still kind of do, I have a can of bean & bacon Soup from mushies stage hehe.. and a can of V8. But neither of those appeal to me right now, I stopped makin campbell's soup after I was out of mushies, think I burned myself out on them.. I'll have to go home and stock up now!!! Thanks for the ideas, I do like some of those items.. just not nuts

If I lived in the fantasy land, I'd have Jennifer Anniston's body back when she did Rockstar. When she had that open white weave dress on, her curves were perfect! And I'm with Laurend. I've NEVER had perky tits! Of course, my bras make it look like I do, but my DH knows better

I wasn't born yet, I don't listen to bluegrass, and even google is confused! lol Sorry, it's not ringing any bells for me.

Today I've had one of those little boxes of 2% milk (still drinking it) from the vending machine.. no skim milk here And 3 wild berry skittles.. those are pretty grose, took me 3 to realize the nasty taste was coming from candy! I'm sooo hungry right now, got this milk to try to make my stomach be quiet. We're not taking lunch break today since I have so much to catch up on, and I forgot to grab something to make for lunch, even a snack!! :confused: :) IDS New whey liquid Protein That's where I get my protein bullets. My uncle who works out takes them now too.. he prefers orange, I prefer grape. I just 'shoot' half of one tube and chase with Water. I wouldn't ever try to 'enjoy' these like over ice or anything.. they're pretty foul.. But they do the job

I thought there was going to be a cure all here LOL. I gave up coke, and every sunday I see cokes and crave them to the point of obsession.. Having one in a blender is not going to cure my cravings.. will make me justify having them on a regular basis

First off, I doubt people are noticing how much you eat, as much as you must think they will If they ever ask (which would be very weird of them to do..), just say you're still full from breakfast.. or you're dieting. It's not a big deal! I bring my lunches in rubbermaid containers, those sandwhich 'box' things.. but it's filled with whatever leftovers I decided to bring.

My egg/tuna salad are the same thing.. 2 Hardboiled eggs all chopped up, or can of tuna drained.. Mix 1.5 tbsp of lf miracle whip (you can use mayo, but DH prefers miracle whip, so we use that one) and 1/2 tbsp of relish. Mix together and I sprinkle salt & pepper on top.. (paprika on top if egg salad) and ta-da.

I eat less than everyone else, but I am normally last one finished. I take a lot longer to eat something small, than they do something big.. like Julie said! And I don't get what the big deal about 'how you look' to friends or whatever.. I've never in my life had someone say "I can't believe you're not going to finish xxx".

Tracy- I do those protein bullets of 42g each. They work wonders for my nails.. I have always ALWAYS had nails that peel, but I grow my nails out anyway. Since surgery, I take those bullets, now my nails are hard as rocks and really nice looking.

Morning violets! I did get to go. I didn't do good in the tournament.. well I did best I could, I played good.. luck wasn't so hot. My dad finished 3rd in his tournament and made $20,000.. and he's playing in the main event today. I did however hit a jackpot on a slot machine! Filled up the whole screen with wild wolves.. so made $1,300 on a $1 bet Came home with $1,000. Woohoo. Back to work.. I weighed myself when we got in last night. 287lb. Seriously. GAH! I barely ate all weekend, room service was messed up and we walked constantly. My next fill is tomorrow, I'm going to demand he fill me up!!! hah.

The past 2 fills, I go to my doctor's office first (who I have pre-paid fills, so it's free).. And these past 2 times, he's poked and poked till I was purple in the face and body shaking from holding my legs up to tighten my stomach, yadda yadda.. So he sends me to the hospital to do it under fluero. Well I noticed this last time, they were poking all over inside my scar, and when it was actually hit under the x-ray, they went in from about 2 inches below the scar. They said my port tilted a little. So, insurance finally caught up to me, and said they are NOT paying for the hospital visits to get the fluero. So I have 2 bills already. My next fill is coming up, and since my insurance isn't paying for it, I'm going to ask my doctor to just keep poking and prodding and try to get it without x-ray. Is this a risky thing to do? Since it's tilted and they have a hard time getting it, does that mean there are chances they'll accidentally poke the wrong thing and either cause internal damages to my body and/or mess up the tubing on my port? I don't want to be pushy about him not doing it under x-ray if it can cause me to have risks of damages. Any info?

You will be hungry, it's the 'bandster hell'. But you need to wait till your doctor says, so your stomach can HEAL.. it has nothing to do with restriction. Some people even gain weight during this time. Good luck!

Haha, just saw someone posted Wendell explaining that this DOES happen. So there..

I wonder if, as we lose weight, the fill is looser, because less fat from surrounding is 'pushing' on it? Because I seem to notice by the end of the month (for the 2 whole months I had restriction), by time next fill came up, I felt back to square 1.. no restriction at all. And I was losing weight those 2 months.

LOL.. they just need to hurry up and make teleporting available darn it!

I do that too.. If it's near bedtime, which is when I get really hungry and want to pig out.. I take my sleeping pill and go to sleep! Or, I eat a 100 calorie pack, then go to sleep. Depends on how well the sleeping pills are working.

Oh, and my mom has said several times I need to give the clothes I outgrew to my sister.. who is 18.. And my sister keeps insisting they won't fit, she wears an 18/20. (My hand me downs are 24/26 and 26/28 right now). But she doesn't fit in her clothes anymore, so I think my mom says these things in front of her, to give her a clue.. and I feel bad for her, but I've been there and done that. When I was an 18/20 'back in the day', I refused to move up to 22/24 for a while.. you can only imagine how I was dealing with 26/28 right before surgery, knowing none of my stores go up any more sizes!

Wasa... Can I have your cheese crackers?

Congratulations, that seems like a distant dream for me right now!

LOL! Alabama! And I work for the Music & Movie Industry, so I get songs stuck in my head ALL DAY LONG. I've become amazing at retaining songs, and finding songs by only knowing little blips of lyrics.

Oh, so you guys know.. Sunday at noon (central) is when I will start the poker tournament. I haven't played a tournament in a while, so I want everyone to send me good vibes around then!!!

I would say nay, but I also don't have a taste for alcohol, so it's really easy for me to say nay! I smoke, and I wasn't willing to give up smoking after surgery even though it's the healthy thing to do.