Daisalana

I've been taking a pineapple to my family's weekly cookouts, cutting it in slices and having them grill it.. it's wonderful and I have had no problems with it getting stuck

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I take 2 chewable flintstone vitamins(with iron kind) a day since surgery.. And for calcium, when released from hospital they told me not to take my calcium and no one ever told me to resume so I haven't yet.. but Viactiv makes chocolate chew calciums.. like a little piece of chewy chocolate.. you can also take Tums I believe (in the antacid area). They make the crunchy tablets, and some of them are quite good!

When I woke up from being banded, my surgeon told my mom (who then told me) he gave me the smallest band. I think it's 9.75cm. He told her that it should give me good restriction before even getting fills. At the time I was excited, I'd feel restricted during bandster hell.. not so much! I had my first fill last week, I asked him to be aggressive since it's a 3 hour drive and I was SO ready for the fill.. So I have 1.5cc now.. still no real restriction, I'm hungry so much at night (during the day I guess I'm alright). I just called this morning to schedule another fill on July 2nd.. hoping to feel SOMETHING! My bandster hell has been extended.

Speaking of orgasms.. One thing I was thinking about putting a poll up.. Just from 'logic' stand point it seems right, so I wanted to do my own survey.. When we have sex, he bends me in all kindsa funky positions.. I joke that sex is my huge workout for the day (not after today though whew) Well last night he had my legs up over my shoulders.. and I felt a jerk in my stomach in the port area.. wasn't bad, but afterward I felt a little bit of throbbing in there. I was wondering if there's a correlation with weird sex positions and port flipping? So I thought about doing a survey.. Who has had a flipped port and is sexually active in weird positions.. who has had a flipped port and does 'normal sexual activity.. who has had a flipped port and was not sexually active.. and who has done all the above without a flipped port.. just to see some numbers.. I don't know if polls can be annonymous, haven't had time to check which is why I haven't done it, I don't want anyone to be afraid to answer because they wouldn't want that info out there.. Anyway, just a thought I had last night.

Guess what I just did for the FIRST TIME EVER. WENT TO THE GYM AND WORKED OUT FOR AN HOUR! :clap2::faint::first: Did all kinds of machines, eliptical, treadmill, weights..etc I Feel like JELLO and it feels GREAT!

I get the opposite, my mom keeps making comments about how much I can eat.. cause right after surgey ya know I ate nothing, I was like a bird with broth.. I was in bandster hell, had my first fill last week and do not feel any different, so she likes to make comments like "You sure can eat a lot".. even though it's about 1/2 what I normally ate.. I read the goal is 1/3 what I normally eat.. Anyway, I did want to put my opinion out there on too thin.. Mostly on RNY Before & After, more so than lap-band Before & After, I see people who look too thin IMO. That's likely personal preference, I've always thought women with curves (hips/butt/boobs) and men with more shape to their body were more attractive than skinny skinny. In fact, at 6'0 my goal is 180lb which I am 'guestimating' will be a size 12/14.. I'm not saying I won't change my mind in time, but I really don't want to fall below size 12/14 for my height.. I want to have curves.. I don't want to be like the anorexic celebrities we see in the papers.. I think that's much more disgusting than being overweight visually.

Asparagus and Pineapple were on my list of things I won't be able to eat due to the fiberous-ness.. Well, I've only had one fill, but I can eat all fruits and veggies.. grapes, asaparagus, pineapple.. I can even eat apple with the peel on it.. I was happy I didn't throw out my cans of asparagus! (one of my fav veggies). I scheduled my next fill today, for July 2 so maybe I won't be able to eat the peel of apples eventually.. but I plan on keepin eatin pineapple and aspargus

adorable- interestingly enough..I do have port soreness lately.. Well, maybe it's just healign stomach from the first fill last week.. port has never really bothered me, but lately I feel like I've been doing too much to my stomach.. like how it felt right after surgery when you bend down. I kind of just ignore it and go about what I'm doing.. can't stop packing and cleaning right now!

Hey guys! I just called my surgeon's office to schedule another fill. They had me for August sometime if everything's going fine.. well I don't feel more restriction, so I called and they said they could get me in July 2.. 5 days before my wedding! LOL So July 2nd I'm gettin my 2nd fill. Now, I always felt jealous of people who could e-mail their surgeons and office staff.. but I just noticed TODAY that my surgeon now has posted, everyone in his office's e-mail..so I can e-mail them! I was going to e-mail and ask him if he has pics from when the surgery was being done (like Tracy has), and say thanks again, etc.. then I thought... I shouldn't bug him with silly stuff.. So all this time I wished I had an e-mail for them, and now I have it and I'm too scared to write anything!! DOH! I started PMSing *AGAIN* yesterday.. I swear.. this stuff needs to start regulatin me again.. now I know, being off b/c for just 2 damn weeks throws my system all to hell. I normally don't have my period, I take my non-sugar b/c pills back-to-back (under instruction of my gyno).. and so I haven't had periods in years.. now from 2 weeks of no pills, even though I'm takin them every day now and doing the back-to-back... I'm bleeding every other week!! Very frustrating, and I noticed it moved the scale in a bad direction. Grrs. I'm having apple juice and a naner for b'fast.. I am debating doing Atkins diet just till my wedding.. I know Atkins makes me lose weight super quick.. I just don't feel like I could commit to it right now.. no fruit.. bah.

Unfortunately I hear that voice, and I'm NOT doing as good as I have when I did Atkins, which is haunting me. I lost 60lbs in 2 months on Atkins.. I'm down to 1lb a week right now.. slow sailin and it makes me nervous that it's not gonna work.

Busy day at work today! LOL! Had by nanner this morning for b'fast, drinkin my water with fiber in it, and took my protein test tube.. num num..really hungry right now, holding out till 4 so me and fiance can go to dinner and I can get a GOOD MEAL WITH NOT A LOT OF FAT OR SUGAR

First 3 weeks it hurt to lay on my stomach, I am also a stomach sleeper.. after the first 3 weeks I have gone back to it I tried to rig it so I could do it comfortable the first 3 weeks, using pillows underneath me, it didn't seem to help.

mdrai- join the club!! haven't you heard me whining about getting my first fill for weeks now? lol Bandster hell DOES suck.. I just got my first fill last week, so far I don't notice anything different except maybe in the mornings.. I dunno.. I still can eat just about anything at night. So far the ONLY thing I can not eat anymore at anytime.. is hamburgers. Which is a blessing in disguise I guess..and from the food thread about hamburgers, I seem to be alone in this. Ground beef in a patty shape with or without a yummy goodness bun.. just wont sit right for me, makes me feel sick. So yeah I feel ya.. you're normal, it will get better, etc etc.. I keep telling myself that

Oh boy, what a headache life is for me right now!! AEIIEIEIEIEI!!! The mortgage company calls us once a week and comes up with 10 more things they need us to get.. Today was no exception! I've had to call the IRS for forms 4 times in the past month, and they are not a fun place to call.. lot of run around and making me verify I have a fax machine? What, I want them to fax it to a fake one for shits n giggles?! So today I found out I needed about 10 more things, including school transcripts, which god knows how long that takes to get.. you can't request it by fax or phone, has to be a written request, all the way to New Mexico and have them send it back whenever that happens.. meanwhile our loan is suppose to be ready by June 22! I keep asking the girl 'Are you sure we're going to get it all done by June 22?' and her response today is 'oh that's 2 weeks, we have plenty of time'... but the mortgage company hasn't even sent it to the state for the review (we're getting a first time home owner's bond thing). I am biting my lip like crazy today.. stress stress!! Everything she asks for requires a lot of work and digging and begging people to light a fire under their butt. Now I'm having a problem with one of my good clients, and I can't give them what they want to make them happy, so I'm just having to do damage control.. very unfortunate, I hate things like this that put a wedge in the business relationship. Waaah. Days like this, I love that I'm a smoker and have a vice to fall on. I've been chain smoking between business calls, mortgage company calls, trying to get fiance to handle his share of the mortgage stuff which he isn't understanding because they call me and I have to relay the message. Also found out today, since I had to dig up some transcripts, I am only shy of about 15 credits in getting another degree.. So, I wrote the college an e-mail..other side of the country, asking if they have any long distance courses I can take completely not in person since I'm in Alabama, to see if I can get the last 15 credits.. for fun. May as well not waste it, the local university won't take out of state transfers for the most part.

and by 5/7 pants.. I mean 5 pairs of pants out of 7.. not size 5/7... that wouldn't happen even if I was anorexic skinny

My workout lately is packing the house! And our A/C sucks in the heat (I hate rental houses), it's 80 degrees + even in the middle of the night.. so packing my house, cleaning, moving boxes around and sweating like crazy. Today we went to subway, I got a ham & cheese wrap with lots of veggies (I don't like subway, but when I have to go I usually got a 12 inch with just meats and cheeses). I was only able to eat half of it!! Woot. I love the restriction I have during the day, just have to figure out how to make it last till I fall asleep at night I also bought some benefiber last night. My doctor never said to take fiber, but heard other people on the boards talk about it so I looked it up, it sounds like it helps lose weight! So doesn't hurt to try.. got the chewable sugar-free strawberry tablets, and also the invisible powder stuff.. tablets were way too big and hard for me to chew without going eww.. but the powder was great in my water.. no taste and no texture. I have been on a banana kick lately. Craving bananas all the time!! They don't sell any ripe ones at the store, so I had bought a bundle, and had to wait 3 days staring at them going 'ripen already!!!'..ate them all.. then Sunday I was wanting one so bad, so asked fiance to go get me 'lots of naners'.. so he brought home 3 big bundles of bananas.. been waiting for them to ripen now.. I have one at work it's mostly ripened, so I've been nibbling... mmm naners. I dunno if I'm lacking potassium or what, never craved a fruit like this. And can you believe im having a hard time swallowing a banana? It's amazing. I'm loving my band, I feel like I'm not losing a lot of weight, but since I found a bag of clothes while packing that I had outgrown, and now am able to wear 5/7 pants, I'm in a good mood with this. I think I am averaging 1lb a week.. nothing to jump up and down about, but still a continuous loss.. and I'll take it!

Well they are liable and do have to fix it, I'm not worried about that. What sucks is we're renting right now, we turned in our move notice, our close is June 22, if they have to fix the brick, cement, and redo the carpet (they will, red clay is not coming out of white carpet), and the foyer that was painted.. it might move our close date, which is a huge inconvenience for us. scheduling this with our mortgage company was a big enough pain in the ass as it is.. without having delays due to stupidity. I do blame the builders though, who leaves a paint bucket in a construction site with all 3 doors wide open??? I'm just baffled, since the appliances are in, the light fixtures (Chandelier, ceiling fans) are in.. why on earth would the house be unlocked. They even boast how they put our frame together in a warehouse so they the lumber isn't stolen from the job site.. yet when the house is a week from closing they have no door knobs on the doors and they are all wide open? Sheesh. They will be fixing it, I just don't need any delays.. We need to be moved in before we leave on July 5th for the wedding!

Mornin' guys! Yesterday we went by our house, we're suppose to close in a little over a week.. They still aren't locking the house up??? I don't understand why. They have all the fixtures and appliances put in. Anyway, so we go by and it's been vandalized Someone left a white paint can, and so someone else took the can and painted some of our dark red bricks white.. and THEN dumped the can to spill all over our doorway, and then on the hardwood foyer, as soon as you open the front door it says '666'. STUPID KIDS. I told fiance we need a gun.. I would love to be there when people vandalize my stuff, shoot them in the foot. This happened when I got my sports car. A month after I got it, fiance was out of town, I was asleep.. cops knock on my door, say some guy was drunk and took a hammer to my car.. MY BRAND NEW CONVERTIBLE. They got the guy, he was sitting on the sidewalk in handcuffs. Oh man, I wished I caught him before the cops did. He collapsed my top, dented in the curves of my hood, knocked off my mirrors, bled all down the windows (think he took the mirrors off with his face). It cost me 1k to fix the car (deductible). I sued him for it, I won, but he had like 10 other cases against him (looked up his record), and he doesn't pay them.. so I have a judgement for 3k, but I don't plan on ever getting it. Meanwhile, he walks the streets. The cops didn't even arrest him that day, they just took him home. GRRRR. Ok done ranting, I just hate people's lack of respect for other's.

Oh wait, my fiance hates bleu cheese and cream cheese.. but he loves brie!

I agree, the creamy cheeses are the BEST.. but, I also love cream cheese, bleu cheese, etc.. if she doesn't like those (crazy girl :girl_hug: ) odds are she won't like the brie. Of course DO try it.. especially on fruit.. mm..

That's right Terry! You've been doing GREAT! But I understand the down moment, notice I have not posted any B&A yet :girl_hug: We're all proud of you! 298 this morning! YAY! 1lb more gone gone gone. What's the deal with popcorn? I hear people mention it, I don't understand.. is it just it gets stuck, or it expands and makes your stomach expand or what? Me and fiance talkin about goin to a movie tonight and I wanted to have popcorn..

congrats adorable, i looked at the website and omg.. i couldnt do that!! not yet I did water aerobics years ago with my mom and g'ma.. now every sunday at the family cook outs (parents have a big pool) i swim in their pool.. not float around drinkin beers like everyone else, but actual laps! whew!!

I found some bags of clothes tonight while packing (for our big move yayay!), and I pulled out 8 pairs of jeans/bell bottoms I forgot about. I tried them on, 5 of them fit now.. 3 still too tight.. can't believe I was ever able to wear them!! Now, I need help! I'm not savvy with wedding rings.. we were looking at styles online.. I found one I liked, talked to the owner of the store about if it would look right with my solitaire.. she said yes, but I'm very skeptical and think she just wants a sale. So, anyone who knows.. I have a princess cut (square) solitaire.. Would this clash with it? http://www.juliesjewels.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/4376.jpg Since it's roundish and the diamonds are circles?

Laurend.. Really though (I should have posted this last post!) Bri is more of a creamy-bleu cheese tasting cheese. I am in love with it. But.. if you like the harder cheese (which I don't) you may not like bri..