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Merry Christmas Y'all! We had a great time at DB house. We didn't get home until almost midnight, waaaaaay past my bedtime, but were were enjoying ourselves so much we didn't notice the time. Eileen - You are crazy girl! I am keeping some of the cookies for by dh, he takes them for lunch, but I am sending home bunches with the family today. I am only giving myself until Jan 1 and then comes the dreaded diet again. I also have gained and need to get back to the basics again. I bet your daughter was so cute! Sherry - Sounds like you are doing great! How long do you have to be on the liquids? I know a lot of docs are not doing it as long as they use to. Like Eileen, I am wondering what band you got. Pat - Where are you? I bet you are out laying on some beach tanning that great body of yours! lol Michaele - How is the construction going? Are you back home yet? Diane - What's up Missy? Are you out with Pat? Trish - How was your holidays? Darcy - I bet you are up at the cabin, that place looks so relaxing and peaceful! Opps, neighbor at my door, I bet he is bringing presents and I haven't wrapped theirs yet, I actually forgot. Dang and I got caught. Later!

Sherry I made the following: Chocolate chip Peanut butter Chocolate chunk and peanut butter Pecan cups white balls Oriole balls dipped in white chocolate Peanut butter crackers dipped in chocolate Carrot cake cookies w/cream cheese frosting (disappointed) Hmmm can't think of anymore, I posted this once and then instead of hitting the post button I hit the back button and lost it all! I also made some rice crispy squares (triple batch) and a triple batch of peanut brittle. Sherry - I used Carnation Instant Breakfast and fixed it like a hot cup of cocoa, and used jello and popcicles. I also used beef and chicken broth and all that helped me get through the first few weeks. Just close your eyes and make believe you are eating one of my cookies and drink you wonderful drink and you'll feel like you are eating something that you can't. tee hee! I think it is great the man has to do some of the things they take for granted when we do them. OK I am not going to try to remember what else I said, I can't remember anything right now. I just want to remember to hit the post button.

I am tired! Tired, Tired, Tired! I got up this morning and did some baking and mixing up of cookies. Then at 11 I had an appointment for a massage, my first one ever. My boss bought me a certificate for Christmas so I decided too use it today. Well, it was wonderful, and I am totally hooked. She told me I might be sore as she stimulated every muscle and boy did she ever. I came home and did some laundry, cleaned floors and then started baking again. I also was making some spaghetti sauce for supper. Well, it's almost 5 now and I can't hardly move. I know it is a combination between the massage and doing so much. Then I remember I stripped the bed down and didn't have time to make it so up I got to go do that. I tell you that was a challenge getting that done. I am going to sit my arse down and hope I can get back up again in a while just to finish supper. I was going to get my stuff cut up for tomorrow night, make a couple of pies too. I don't think that is going to happen. I was going around here saying screw that! lol I actually thought about walking to the mailbox, but it can wait till tomorrow too. I just hope I am not sore tomorrow, it is my haircut day and it is two flights of stairs to go up to get there. lol I thought about soaking in the tub, but I am not sure I can get back out! lol So, what is everyone else doing today? Are y'all done shopping? Diane - got your card! A pool boy sounds pretty good! I wonder what he would accept in trade? :thumbup: Later!

Sherry I am so happy things went so well for you! Take it easy, that work will be there when you are well. Believe me I know first hand about that! I mad two batches of peanut brittle today, so I am glad that is out of the way. I'm not doing any more today I want to be rested up for tonight. I do need to wrap the gifts to take though.

I shopped till I couldn't do anymore! I'm very tired, but I am done shopping! I did pretty good too! At least I think I am done, I better not think of anyone I missed! I even picked up a cooked chicken and some trimmings to go with it. No cooking, just warming up! that is unusual for me, but I am not doing another thing today! I have my Mr. and Mrs. Santa all turned on and my tree too. I have candles burning all over the house and even some in the fireplace. (it's too hot for a fire) It was really a beautiful day today, in the high 70's so not a good day for a fire. I still have to make some cookies/candy but I have from now until Tuesday night to do that! Wednesday is booked, I am getting my hair colored and cut and then I have to do some cooking and make some fruit salad to take to my DB for Christmas Eve. Thursday is cooking for dinner here. But tomorrow night is the neighborhood party so that is the fun night. We always have fun there. We do the White Elephant thing there and it's fun. Last year one of the neighbors bought some wine glasses that had been redone and they were cool. I ended up with them. After he gave them for the present he found out they were going on ebay for $700! Needless to say they are in the box still! I love them but I'm not going to chance them getting broke! They are a whole set! sherry - thinking about you Missy! Hugs! Later Ladies, time to kick up my sore feet!

I guess we were all thinking about her, I too have been checking. congrats on the new band Sherry! See, it wasn't you at all! I am anxious to hear about you new band and your surgery! Take it easy and get well and don't for get to sip sip sip and walk walk walk!

Good Morning Y'all! Sherry - Good Luck and let us know when you can how you are doing and all the details! Gosh, I really didn't mean to sound harsh or make anyone think I was saying it directly at one person, because I wasn't. I just had a very dear friend lose her band because she wouldn't listen to me. she was always spitting up and pbing. I kept telling her she was too tight and every time she was losing her food she was taking a chance of her band slipping. She didn't listen, she kept telling me she could eat and eat like a hog, but every time I went to lunch with her she couldn't eat much at all and she ended up in the bathroom even then. Well, needless to say she did lose her band. She slipped it really bad and now she doesn't know if she can get it fixed or not. Her insurance won't pay and she doesn't have the money to do it herself. It's still up in the air right now, but she is fighting her insurance. I have been struggling too, gaining weight, but I know it isn't just a fill I need, I know I am not eating right. I have just been eating junk and drinking drinks that are putting on the weight too. I know I would be losing a battle to even try now, although I am watching some, to start anything right now during the holidays so I am aiming for the first of the year. I am going to go back to eating right and limiting drinks to a certain day and not just when I feel like having one. So, please don't feel like I aimed what I said to anyone here, I am really just feeling sorry for my friend who is really going through hell right now. Of course if I can help anyone here realize not to get too tight, then I will do that. I just call that "tough love." EAT Protein LADIES! OK, back to having fun and no more sermons, I promise. Later!

Hello Y'all! One more day and I am off for a week and a day! I can't wait! I am going to try and get my shopping done on Friday, then start doing some wrapping and baking done on the next few days. I have a hair appointment for a hair cut on Wednesday. We had our Christmas party at work today, we had Babe's catered in and then a white Elephant. My boss gave me a $50 gift certificate to my salon so that was so cool! I might even think about getting a massage while I am off, now that I have extra certificates! Ladies - All of you please listen up. If you can't eat solid Protein you are too tight. You might think just because you can eat Cookies, candy, chips etc that you are not tight enough. Take a week and eat solid protein every day and then see how you do. I have met so many ladies lately that have lost their bands because of being too tight. The doctor don't want to take any fill out as it goes against his stats. You have to be the boss, you have to tell him what you want and don't let him talk you out of it. You are the only one that knows if you spit up or can't eat. You might think he is right, but is it really worth losing your band over? Go back and read your phamplets from Inmed etc. the ones that makes the bands and you will see how you are supposed to eat and do. Each doctor changes rules and makes it the way he thinks it should be. Just listen to some of the stories and see how different each one tells his patients they should do. I don't mean to sound mean, but each of you mean a great deal to me, and I hurt when one of you hurts. When you lose your band I feel bad too. So, please eat properly and eat your protein and follow the band diet. OK, I vented enough, now I am going to go fix my supper with lots of protein in it. Hugs to all of you!

baby it's cold outside!

Good Morning Y'all! It's in the mid 70's here but the wind is really high! Of course it is blowing all the leaves in the pool again. I went Christmas shopping this morning, finished up most of it, just a few more things and I am done! I can't believe the prices this year! It's almost 1:00 and I haven't done my first load of laundry. I am already tired but I do have to get that done. And, what is DH doing? Sleeping on the coach! Men, they have it so darn good! I do have a pork roast in the oven cooking away so that much is done. I did my floors yesterday, so that is also done. Sherry I am like you, I like my own chili better, but if I could I would just open a can like Pat! I should learn how to do that! It sure would save me lots of work! Next week I will probably do some baking. I am going to get my hair done again on the 24th, it is already grown so much! I am ready for it to be shorter again! Our neighborhood is really pretty with all the decorations. Almost everyone puts up lights and stuff so it is really colorful. Well, I guess I best get my arse moving or I won't get anything done today. I only have to work 4 days this week, then I am on vacation for a week! I can't wait!

Good Morning Y'all! Went to work yesterday, was there 1 hour and had to come home sick. What a terrible day! Needless to say I sat in the bathroom most of the day. I sure didn't drift very far away either. Sherry - All surgery is very scary to me! Just remember though that all of your angels on here are going to be in that room holding your hand, and we'll kick a$$ if they don't do things right. How can anything go wrong? Pat - You are so sweet, always thinking of one of us! We love you girl! Michaele - congrats on the w/l! How cool! I hear from Cindy once in a while, she is fine and enjoying life! Kat - Thanks for the list! I am mailing out mine today! Well going to go get dressed and see what I can find to put in this sore empty belly. Always thinking of food!

Good Morning y'all! UGH it's Monday already! Where did the weekend go? I am not ready to go back to work already! Sherry - I made your soup and it was really good! Dh loved it too! Pat - It's not hard at all to make, in fact it is really easy! Loved your tree! Congrats on the 4 year anniversary! Michaele - Just think about how beautiful everything will be when it is all finished! :biggrin: Kat - The most wonderful trees are decorated at the hands of babes. It's totally wonderful to look back at those pictures! Diane - Is the job going any better? I haven't heard you say lately. Trish - How is your mother doing now? Sure hope she is feeling better! Darcy girl - How is the business going? I bet you are booming this time of year! Anyone heard from Donna? Eileen - Hey girlfriend, we miss your lovely posts, stick you head in more often. Did anyone get the Christmas list going? I need one! Well, sorry if I missed you but work calls and I can't be late so off to work I go. Later!

Hello Y'all! Just been very busy, got my tree up and all my indoor decorations put up. DH is doing the outside today I think. It is going to be 68 here today so it will be warm for him to put up things if he gets off his butt. lol We did some shopping yesterday, but haven't made a dent in it yet. I haven't done any baking and probably won't do a lot of it unless I get bored. I stay away from sweets most of the year and then at the holidays I go crazy. I figure I don't need all that around me, but dh loves it so much i usually end up making it. Today is laundry, finish cleaning and cooking. Is there ever time for a day of rest? I can't seem to find one anymore. I wish I could post a picture of my tree, it sure turned out pretty this year. Well, going to post this before I lose it, my laptop is so touchy I am always loosing my stuff.

Sherry my heart goes out to you! I know you are just miserable. I bet you can't wait to be fixed! Kat - please include me in the list. Mine is the same too, if you don't have it let me know. I need a new list too! I am running late this morning, catch you all later! yes, I am the one that USE to make the hundreds of cookie, but I quit doing it too much work and too much to try to not eat! lol

Good Morning Y'all! I am off work today, but I am sick. I knew something was going on when I felt so bad during the holiday. Sore throat and stuffy nose. Just what a person wants on their day off. I stayed in bed all day yesterday, never even got dressed. It feels like I will be doing much the same today by the way I feel right now. UGH! I hate being sick, especially on a vacation day! Later girls!

Hello Y'all! I survived, but can honestly tell you my whole body hurts today! lol I cooked two dinners and it took the best of the week to do it. I am not cooking a damn thing today! We have a ton of leftovers and it will have to do. I am wore out! Sherry so sorry you are having the problems again. Take it easy and I'll keep my fingers crossed they get you in soon. Make a call on Monday and insist on being seen right away. Don't let them drag their feet. Hope y'all had a great Thanksgiving. I had a really good one and enjoyed it all. I ate way too much food but what the heck, it is a day for us to enjoy. From Thanksgiving to New Years is a bad time for me eating wise. I am going to try to behave better this year, but you all know how that goes. Well, going to go get something for breakfast( eating again) Have a great day!

Hello Y'all! Just sticking my head in to say hello! They let us off early today so I need to get started on my baking and cooking! I have tons to do so the earlier the better! I want to wish you all a "Happy Thanksgiving" I hope y'all have a great one. All I have been doing is eating all week. I won't be able to waddle pretty soon. Why is it that all the sweet stuff is so bad for you? Ok I confess I have had tons of it. We had a big potluck at work and those people love to eat sweets. I had some of it all! I am sick to my stomach from all the sweet stuff, but it sure tasted good going down. lol Gotta run! Have a great one! P.S. Guess what I am going to do? Make some pies!

I didn't want to lose all that so I just posted it. Pat I am glad you are having a good time! I am so ready for a vacation! I thought about having another fill, then last night I ate something and it all came back up. Nope, I can't live like that, no pbing for me! I just can't take it! Sherry - What's cooking? You are like me always cooking something. Tonight I made some pork chops coated with corn flake crumbs ( I think lol) and baked. My dh loves pork and could eat it every day. I made some good Soup the other day, I just made it up as I went along and it was so good. I hope I remember it all again. lol Trish - I am glad you are back posting. We missed you! Darcy - Hey girl! You will have to tell us more about your business, it sounds like fun. Post us some pictures! Kat - Where the heck are you????? Do I really have to send out the monkies? Diane - You are too funny girl! I am jelous you get to spend time with Pat and I haven't even met her! But, I did get some of her Harley tops! lol Donna - Time you checked in too! Well, I probably missed someone but just mark it off to old age! lol I can't remember chit anymore! I still haven't been able to post any pictures and my hair has grown so much already! I need to go get it cut again because I love it this way and i get so many compliments on it even now. Oh yeah, I had my doctor appointment and things were great. He released me to do anything I want so the first thing I did was come home and sit in a hot tub of Water. lol I sure did miss my soaking! I can ride my Harley too! I haven't tried yet but I will if it isn't freezing out. I don't have to go back for 3 months, but he took tons of pictures. I am pretty sure he is putting me on his website soon. I am glad they won't put a face with those old tube socks! My next step might be the stomache, still thinking about that one! Later girls!

Hello Y'all! I have been extremely busy no other excuses for not checking in sooner. The leaves are falling and of course they go right in the pool. So, since DH don't get home before dark guess who gets to clean it up every night? The wind is so high tonight, and it's cold so lots of leaves are coming down and blowing in faster than I can dip them out. I finally gave up! Tomorrow is another day. Michaele - I am glad things are working out for you. I had a similar thing happen to me once. I was getting ready to go to work and put some Water on to boil while I took a quick shower. But, instead of turning on the water I turned on the burner under a pan I was going to cook some Breakfast for the kids. Well, the grease in the pan got so hot it started a fire and burned up the stove and wall. We actually had to turn off the electric because we couldn't turn off the burners because they were melted. We got the fire all put out but the whole house was full of smoke. I had all knotty wood walls and when the insurance man came out he said 1 more minute and the whole house would have went up because the fire would have gotten behind the cabinets. I was really lucky. Then he told me he could send someone out to clean it all up or I could get the money and do it myself. Well, I needed the money so I did all the work but it was awful hard. I had to wash all the walls and everything. I ended up trashing the curtains and getting new ones. The only good thing about it was getting a new stove and I had enough money to get a microwave too. I had never owned a microwave so it was a real nice thing for me. It sounds like you will get a whole new bath!

Michaele not any different than a regular fill except you can see the band and the stomach. I guess it really is neat to watch. Good luck with the fill. You are doing great! Sometimes the scale takes a break but you lose inches. Make sure you measure so you can tell when that happens.

Good Morning Y'all! TGIF! I don't think I could handle another day this week. It has been a hectic week, and I am hoping today will be just a little easier. We have a cold front moving in and it is going to be really cold. I wish you norther gals would keep your darn cold weather up there! lol I moved here to get away from it. Trish - I am always checking my cards, I just know I am going to get someone messing with them one day and I am not looking forward to that! It's terrible how they can get away with that. Pat - Hope you are enjoying your trip! Sherry - When are you going for your fill? Michaele - Good morning missy! How's it going? Kat - Are you still somewhere is Texas? Eileen - Where's the pics sweetie? Donna - I bet you had fun at Pat's party. I wish I lived near her, no I take that back, I wish she lived closer to me! lol OK, I know I am missing some but I have to pay some bills before going to work, so I'll catch you all next time.

Good Morning Y'all! It's raining and storming here this morning and it did it most of the night. We need the rain, but I hate the storm stuff. Pat you look awsome! You are just beautiful! You looked so happy and your face just showed it. I loved the pictures too! Your dress is absolutely beautiful! What a wonderful surprise from the dh. You can tell by the pictures that he just totally worships you! Michaele - My doctor never fills under x-ray, but my friends doctor does all hers under x-ray. She said she can watch it while she drinks and all. Well, the clock tells me I best get dressed and hit the road. I would rather stay here and play today.

Hello Y'all! It's a beautiful day here today. It was really beautiful yesterday too. We spent most of the day at Harley, but outside enjoying the weather. We did go out for dinner and that was nice too. Pat - Happy belated anniversary! Wow sounds like you have a winner too! I want to see the bling too! I bet it is beautiful! How sweet that your DH did all that! I don't know why I keep losing my posts, but it's probably because I am not use to using the laptop and I hit the wrong keys or something. My laptop is very touchy and I am always hitting the wrong keys or something. I can't even type as fast on one! Diane - Hope your special show and lunch is great! Have a good time. Sherry - I have heard so many cons against the sleeve, please really research it before you consider it. Maybe this fill will work better. can you have him just give you a little bit then go back for a little more when your system gets use to the first one? It's really strange how that does that to some people and not others. What is cooking today? Eileen - Glad you had a great time! Yesk, we do need to see some pictures.l Jetti - Your doctor has to be pleased with you, you haven't even had a fill! Amazing! Michaele - You are doing great too! I need some of yours and Jetti's willpower. Actually I don't do real bad eating, I just haven't exercised and that is what I need to do. Well, going to go get my laundry out of the dryer, I am ready to take a break and get a little rest before I have to start supper. Catch you all later!

Diane - that's really cool what your Hubby did for you! He sounds like a winner. Have a great time!

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