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Sorry, didn't see the brain teaser thread...
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Donali, thanks for fixing my link, not sure what's up with that... Thanks Vines Candy, if you send me a pic, I'll work on somethin' when I have some time . And those cakes are amazing!!!
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Been working on this lately. No idea if I'll end up looking like that, lol... Something is off in the face.. I probably screwed it up trying to see what my face would look like a little thinner, but oh well. my dress design
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I hate how doctors always treat people. Kind of an "I'll get to you when I get to you" approach. If they are that busy, they should really quit accepting new patients. I mean, I know they want to keep busy, but when someone says "I think I might have a hole forming in my stomach and I need you to refer me to someone to look at it" and they say "Sure, I'll see you next week" it's just really horrible. Lisa, I hope you get your referral and your endo super fast so that you can have your nerves calmed. You'll at least know what's going on one way or another...
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Day 3 sans laziness. I even have an apointment with a personal trainer tonight for an hour. Yikes!
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Megan, Besides not drinking with meals (man that one is HARD), if you go in for a fill, you can get as little as .1cc's, so you could get just a little itty bitty teeny tweak, you know?
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Wow! Sounds like a whirlwind trip! Glad you had fun!
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Today is day 2 on the abolishment of laziness for me. I worked out yesterday, and I have to work out 3 more days this week in order to say that I'm not lazy
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Why are you supposed to avoid pills? I mean, big giant pills I could understand, but Tylenol cold pills really aren't that big, and aside for Dayquil they are what I use for a cold. The Dayquil pills are decently large, but you can still get the liquid stuff. It's nasty, but worth taking to get rid of horrible cold symptoms. Tylenol is pretty much the only pain killer/fever reducer medication that I can think of that is not on the NSAID list, and is therefore ok to take... but like Vines said, taking something every now and then and washing it down good isn't gonna hurtcha. (Of course, we aren't doctors, so you should probably call your doctor and see what he says).
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I always get tighter when I fly. I've pretty much gotten used to the idea that if I fly, anything that I eat on the flight or shortly after it, will be liquid or soft mushie. Couldn't tell you why it happens, but it does.
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Kim, I think that's great! If you took a break and didn't lose for 6 months, you probably mentally needed to do that, and now you are back on track!
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Hey try turnin' them around so the little stick part is IN the glass... do they hold better that way?
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1. What is your name? Sarah 2. What color shirt are you wearing? Grey 3. What are you listening to right now? People typing >.< 4. What was the last thing you ate? pizza Dog (in the process of) 5. Do you wish on stars? Sometimes 6. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Teal 7. How is the weather right now? Sunny 8. Last person you spoke to on the phone? My credit card processor (yay, lol) 9. Favorite Sport? None really.. 10. Favorite drink? White Russian 11. hair color? Red, out of a bottle 12. Eye color? Brown 13. Siblings? 2 Sisters (younger) 14. Favorite month? March 15. Favorite food? I've never been able to answer this.. 16. What was the last movie you saw? Constantine 17. Favorite day of the year! Hmm... Christmas I think 18. What do you do to vent anger? Usually I type it out on my private online journal. 19. What was your favorite toy as a child? When I was real little it was a red stuffed monkey. 20. Summer or winter? Summer 21. Hugs or Kisses? Hugs 22. Favorite ice cream flavor? coffee 23. Restaurants or home cooking? Home cooking if I don't have to cook it, lol. 24. Will everyone care enough to respond? Probably 25. When was the last time you cried? Last Wednesday 26. What is under your bed? A buncha junk 27. How long have you been a member of Lapband Talk? Just over a year. 28. What did you do last night? Sat at home trying to get rid of my headache. 29. What are you afraid of? pain. 30. Favorite car? Civic 31. Favorite flower? Daisy 32. How many keys on your ring? 7 33. How long have you been at your current job? Nearly 4 years. 34. Favorite day of the week? Saturday 35. What did you do on your birthday? Went to mom's for a little party. 36. How many states have you lived in? 3 37.How many cities/towns have you lived in? 7 38. What is your favorite form of exercise? Elliptical 39.Your favorite store for bargains? Online Shopping 40. Wasn't this fun? Yes
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LouLou, I recently discovered about myself that I have a really huge fear of change. It's wierd though, because it only applies to MY life. Change in other people's lives is great and they should embrace it! Not me though. Even at work I handle change well, but my personal life that is all about ME must stay the same or I am afraid. I also know about myself and recently voiced outloud that I put way too much into what my mom thinks about anything and EVERYTHING. I don't have a sMother like you do, but for some reason I give her the same power over me. And I don't argue with her outside of work. She mentioned the other day that no one is as perfect as I treat her like she is. That I must have started 'experimenting' with disagreeing with her at the office, because somehow it's 'safer' than in "real life". I don't know how it is different, but somehow it is. The other night I had a conversation with her and she told me all of the reasons that she doesn't think I should get married. She told me that she was afraid to tell me because she thought there were too choices for what I was going to do with the information. The first is that I would internalize it and it would never come up again but it would be eating me up from the inside. The second is that I would let her opinion ruin my relationship with her, when all it is is her opinion, and she just wants me to know. So after I listened to her I worked very hard to return my thoughts to her. This is something I have never been good at. This conversation was a very good place to take that first baby step for me. I told my mom my thoughts on ONE subject. I said all of the above to show you that you don't have to turn your life around all in one day. I will agree with folks that getting your medication adjusted is a big thing to help you balance out. I've been on antidepressants too, and they work best at the right level. My mom (here she is again) said something to me that made alot of sense on this subject. She said that medication gives you the balance you need to figure out your problems, or figure out what steps you need to take to create a solution in situations that throw you off balance. In other words, they don't solve your problems, but give you an extra moment to sort them out without becoming so depressed over them (or in my case bitterly angry all the time). Is there something that you could take a baby step on that might help you? Maybe you make a decision today and don't tell your sMother about it so that she can't have an opinion one way or the other. Or maybe next time she says something about anything you don't want to talk to her about you just say "you know, that really doesn't have anything to do with you, how about we talk about _____". Just little tiny baby steps. You know? It seems I went on for a while... heh...
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There is a lot of the Pro "ana-mia" stuff going on. I'm sure most of you have heard of myspace by now, and there are just tons and tons of groups and forum posts about how cool it is to be anorexic or bulimic. I've browsed some of the forums on suggested diets, and this one girl posted her 'diet' of 300 calories a day. I couldn't believe it.. Maggie, Lisa is right, you really need to learn to love yourself now. I don't mean this to sound as negative as it is going to, but how do you know you are going to be happy at 150 lbs? I see so many people who are determined that losing weight is going to make them happy, and when they are skinny a couple of things happen; 1. they don't think they are thin enough because they aren't happy yet 2. they don't understand why they are unhappy when they are so skinny, because losing weight was supposed to 'fix everything'. Again, I'm not trying to be negative, but I really think that you should explore this. Firstly, what does your fat do for you? A good number of us find some kind of security from being fat; we avoid unwanted attention from the opposite sex, or we have a built in excuse for things we don't want to do (ie: I can't go to the party this weekend because I don't have anything that fits that looks good), etc. I think you are very strong to have gone through what you have and come out of it able to look back and know that it was unhealthy. And even stronger that you are taking steps to avoid it happening again in the future. You love yourself enough to do that, right? Love yourself MORE! (Sorry for the hijack, Lisa).
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So here's the updates on my goals that I posted when Zoe first started this thread: 1. To have my driver's license be accurate, and then over (I think I lied in the first place ) Yes!!! It's even 5 lbs too high now! 2. To shop in a normal store. I'm SO close to this... 3. Also to not look around to make sure there are other heavy people around me. I still do this, but I think it's more me trying to compare myself to other people to see what size I really am, if that makes any sense... 4. To feel comfortable in a swimsuit. I love scuba diving, and I do it once a year with my family, but I always wear a big shirt until the last minute, and I have one of those suits with the skirt thing on it. I have a swimsuit now with NO skirt. I wouldn't say that I'm 'comfortable' in it yet, but I'm gettin there... 5. I don't know if 'normal' people have this problem so this may be an unfair goal; but after a few hours at an amusement part, or someplace where I am on my feet, they start killing me... I'd like that to go away Haven't had a chance to try this one yet, lol... And some new goals: 6. I'd like to be a 14 or a 12 for my sisters wedding in April. It's been a while that I was the biggest female member of my family, and I'd like that to not be true anymore... publicly. (Yes, it's all about vanity here.) 7. To be even smaller for my own wedding. I don't have a date yet, and it's likely to be about a year after my sister's wedding, so this is totally doable. 8. To buy an anklet and NOT need to add a few links to the chain. 9. Someone else mentioned using a regular women's size wetsuit for diving. I can't even imagine that, lol. I think that's cool for now.
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I am going to earn my chip for exersize. I am going to say that I will do 4 days a week. I joined the gym last Tuesday and worked out Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. I did not do Friday because I had a horrific day at work and decided I didn't have to go. My boyfriend laughed at me because I actually had a conversation with myself that I should go and it would make me feel better, but I didn't. Yesterday and I had a pounding headache, which I think is a pretty valid reason for not going. I can still get 4 days in this week also. So today will be day 1 in abstaining from laziness. Penni, I can host those images on my webspace if it will be helpful. I don't know how much bandwidth it would pull for those little things to be on the signatures, but if it doesn't go over what I'm allowed in the month, I'm cool with howevermuch it takes, my website is mostly for personal use anyway, no one really looks at it, lol.
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Mine was 45.7 when I started, and now it's 36.3. We all had to start somewhere
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Fortunately I work mostly with my family. There's a few other people here, but they mostly keep to themselves (and all eat healthy and bring in their lunch everyday, go figure). I can't say I'd give in every day if there was an Erin in my office, but I'd probably give in enough to halt my weight loss even more than it's already been halted by my lack of exersize (which ended last week, but anyway). I think that I could ask a person to not offer me stuff, but I'm not sure I have a strong enough personality to beg/demand/yell when she didn't respect my request. Probably until reading this thread, I wouldn't have considered something like that 'harassment' or 'hostile work environment', but now, I can totally see how it could be. But then again I don't think I've ever filed a formal complaint against anyone at the work place either. I s'pose there's not really a 'point' to what I said above, just mostly to say that Lisa, you are a much strong person than I am, and I'm proud of you for escaping temptation so often when it's quite literally SHOVED right in your face. I like the idea of a sign on the door that says "No food in my office unless you have an appointment in advance". It's not 'mean' but it gets the point across with a little humor. Alternately, whenever you make/bake something for you and your hubby and there are leftovers you don't want, just put them on her desk. Maybe it'll drive home the point that you don't even want the extra of what YOU cook at HOME, let alone the crap she cooks in the office. I gotta say, preband, it's pretty possible that I ate as much as this chick does, but I didn't want people to see me doing it, you know? Sorry your band is buggin you, but maybe that'll make it easier to go day 5 without sodas .
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I have to go with the idea that they are supposed to go on the side of your glass to mark who's glass is who's. I just can't think of anything else. Did your mom get to the station??
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You opted for the option I would have chosen for you had I been around the day you asked for opinions, lol. I very much like the more 'natural' blonde color on you. Lookin' hot!
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Hope you are feeling better now Zoe! We look forward to hearin' from you
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I think that you make really good points here Lisa. Of course it all goes back to the 'do your research' thing. If had this to do over again, I would have done more research before hopping on a plane. I didn't have a single problem with my doctor, and it's highly likely that I would have chosen him anyway with more research on other doctors and facilities, but I definitely should have done more research. I have a question on the erosion that is highly likely if you've had a port infection; would it not be better to be checked out now and maybe have your band replaced, rather than having it erode to a higher degree and have to have it removed without a replacement? Just curious on your thoughts there. The re-using of stuff and the issues that come from it is probably part of why Mexican health care has the reputation that it does. My boyfriend was pretty freaked when I told him what I was doing and where I was having it done. He felt ALOT better when we got to Monterrey and he saw that Mexico wasn't the back alley country he had pictured in his brain (thanks to television and movies I'm sure, lol). Hearing about the re-using of stuff in animals urks me too. Good to know though... now I can make sure it doesn't happen to my animals at least.
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Happy Birthday!
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Weight:223 Chest: 39 Waist 41 Hips: 48.5