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Ok Took me forever to find the file I put this in but I think it fits in with this thread. This a game and husband and wife who both were banded played Bed Football A little old couple prepares to go to bed. They no sooner hit the pillows when the old man farts and says, "Seven Points." His wife rolls over and says, "What in the world was that?" The old man replied, "It's fart football." A few minutes later his wife lets one go and says, Touchdown, tie score. " After about five minutes the old man lets another one go and says, "Aha. I'm ahead 14 to 7." Not to be outdone, the wife rips out another one and says, "Touchdown, tie score." Five seconds go by and she lets out a little squeaker and says, "Field goal, I lead 17 to 14." Now the pressure is on the old man. He refuses to get beat by a woman, so he strains real hard, but to no avail. Realizing a defeat is unacceptable, he gives it everything he's got, and accidentally he poops in the bed. The wife says, "What the hell was that?" The old man says, "Half time, switch sides."

Did three miles on treadmill Monday and will do three again today when I get home from work. I went to Curves but they said I have to wear a Sports Bra if I want to join. Whats up with that... Looks like everyone is off to a good start. Lets tough it up ladies and gentleman. and keep it up. Jan third may not be till next year but we can make it. Lisa. Hmmm want a mans point of view on how to keep the food out while traveling??? Ok since you said yes...here it is.. "Duct Tape". Can't put it in if you can't get it open. (stay focused here folks no comments)

Teresa, we're all proud of you too incase you hadn't noticed. Michelle. I agree no loss is still a victory. And the word discouragement is no longer in my vocabulary. Betty. I am watching that "Becky". I sleep with one eye open cause I can hear her right there breathing down my back. Darcy... Funny how the band changed my out look. Any other diet I would have given up and been back to eating like a horse. I guess this time I have really decided not to diet again ever. I have made a life style change and its just the way things are. Drop one pound a month and I'd be happy. (except during the challenge. Got to get that Becky girl) Haven't seen my Buddy who lives in Vegas for just over a year. He came into town here to be with his family for Thanksgiving and stopped by this morning to say high. When I opened the door his mouth opened even wider. LOL Wish I had a camera then. Said "who are you and what have your done with my friend". He was so happy for me ( was my scout car partner for years and was always on me about losing weight) that we embraced and we both cried. Neighbors who saw this may think I've gone over to the"other side" lol Ok good luck this week everyone and lets Enjoy the holiday. I'll keep you all in my prayers and will hold you all up to the Lord at church services on Thanksgiving. God Bless

Way to go Melissa. Enjoy the big losses. They slow up after awhile but don't come back so who cares LOL I've only lost 2 pounds in last three weigh ins and can't be happier. Betty you got right attitude too. I'm hoping the challeneg helps me too. Sittiing here at work waiting for day shift girl to relief me and then its home to the treadmill. (don't tell Becky but I'm going to win)

HMMMMMMMMMMMM I'm trying to think about what color I want. Vera the hats just highlight two very pretty faces. Nice job Becky.

Lisa g, Nancy, Nana...welcome to the challenge. I still need e-mail addresses. Don't make me name you here that your not co-operating LOL LOL Send them to me at above listed e-mail I have a participant list ready and will e-mail it to everyone so you can see who's as interested in you to stay focused for the up coming Holidays. DeLarla..."Full Monte" Lol. God didn't give me a Full Monte LOL...Although I have lost 8 1/2 inches off hips so rear view might be looking better LOL. Butt I can't see it. When I see your picture riding thru the dessert I'll post mine. Also get rid of that snow before Dec. 6th. Thanks Becky... I am very excited about being grandpa. Kids stopped by after church for a while and I was already try to schedule myself in for babysitting time. LOL Daughter in law says she's worried about me LOL. Afraid I'll show up and steal the kid. LOL hmmmmmmm where could I hide???

Another Monday morning upon us. Phew where does the time go Lost another glorious pound. One more ppound and it will be first time in 20 years I've been in the 250 bracket. Good luck all and God Bless Remember (Just incase you forgot Thanksgiving is for stuffing the turkey not our bodies).

Welcome on board Teresa Ok Having just a slight problem getting a form put together that I like but thats ok I'll get it done. Don't need it till next week anyway. What I would like to do is have everyone who is in on this to send me their weight to my e-mail address(above) and I will post that to my data base. Unless I'm wrong on how this is going to work we're not concerned about what your weight is just how much one losses during the seven week challenge. So As of tomorrow everyone is at zero on the charts. Data will start appearing after next Monday Tereasa I like your idea too about winner so lets do this. AT the end I will post who lost the most weight, who exercised the most (time wise) and those that will send me their Height and weight I will also post who's BMI went down the most. Also I don't want to miss anyone on here so here are the names of the people who indicted they are in: Becky, Betty, Zoe, Jodie, Pam, Nancy, Lisa(delarla), Marie, Penni, Teresa and me. If I'm missing anyone let me know by posting here or sending me an e-mail. Lisa Green. I wasn't sure if you were joining us on this or not so let me know. When you e-mail me tell me if there is anything that you don't want posted, eg..e-mail address, Weight or anything else and I will leave you off the charts that would apply. If I have missed anything let me know If not I'm heading to bed to get a good sleep before this starts. Plus I'm hungry and that will help me forget about it. Hey before I forget I just got a great motivator for my challenge. I'M GOING TO BE A GRANDPA for the first time. God Bless everyone and have a good time with this. We're already winner before we start cause we have each other.

Ok Let me be serious here for one minute if possible. Some very simple rules to follow. 1. Have fun. 2. Lose some weight 3. Have more fun. Ok minute up. Anybody going to have trouble following these rules???? Better not or I'm come to your house and flatten the tires on your Exercise bike. Ok Ok I have a confession to about the Speedo's. I consider you all my friends so posting a picture like that wouldn't be a good way to treat friends. SO my attempt to be funny has resulted in many women asking for the picture, you made my day. For that I give be hug and kisses. But the actual picture Won't happen folks. LOL sorry... I mean I'm no fool (depending on who you ask) This is the internet and God only knows where a picture like that will end up. LOL Ok... I have been working on the form to send to all who have indicated on here they want to join in. Its almost done and you will get it in your e-mail by tuesday. It will come as an attachment. Just download it to your documents folder. When you open it fill in the infor requested and then save as Week one and them e-mail be back an attachment of the form. Next week save the file as week and so forth. i f you have trouble. Jusst open the attachment write down the info I am asking for and then just send the info in e-mail to me. As soon as I get all the info entered on my master copy I will send it out to everyone so you can see how weel each other did. I'll also have some fun with charts and graphs for you to enjoy. Some have offered to send me money for supplies and such on pm's. LOL really if you have extra money I have a Charity you can donate to thru me if you want. Just make Checks payable to: Central America Shelter for Homeless... C.A.S.H. for short and I'll see they get the funds LOL LOL

Jodie Its a great feeling isn't it. I just pruchased my first Large size shirt. All my xxl and most of my xl clothes have already been given to the church. Went from 48 size pants to 42. I have also gone from eee wide shoes to ee. Never figured I'd lose weight in my feet LOL I went on Tuesday for the fisrt time to my family Dr since I had the surgery. He helped me get my insurance approval and hadn't seen me since I pick up the form for the Dr who did my banding. His counter girl who has known me from years of visits looked up and asked me my name LOL. I was shock when she did it as she never has done that before. When I told her my last name I beamed when she looked up very very wided eyes and started to say how sorry she was she didn't recognize me. LOL LOL I told her I was glad she didn't. On way home from Dr I stopped at the store to pick up some groceries and dog food. As I was walking from the car to the house with the dog food on my shoulder I though. "Oh my this is heavy and hard to get up the staris with the 40 pound bag. then it struck me thet if I added 30 more pounds to it that wold equal my weight loss. How did I ever survive carrying all that weight. I now believe that the NSV's are more exciting then the scale readings. I have lost only 1 pound in the last three weeks. But I lost inch off waist 1 1/2 off hips and 1/2 off neck in that time period.

Nancy, I learned about this surgery from a church member who was very kind to tell me excatley what he did when I asked what he was doing to lose the weight. So I decided that if others can get up in front of groups and admitt to being alcohol or drug addicts I can face my food addiction also. I carry brochures with me at all times about the surgery and I have a wallet full of the Dr's cards. (bet he wonders what happen to all the ones on his desk). So far I have had 4 others convert and have the surgery. I feel I have saved four lives like mine was saved by getting the right information. I also now work with the Dr by being a Post Operative Patient at the Pre- surgery conferences. I get my 15 minutes of fame at the end of the conference what I get to speak to the people and answer questions that only someone going thru this can do. Also I get lots of ladies that like to feel my port and see the scars. Being gropped is just something I have to put up with. ( LOL like I'd complain)

Good luck. If your still wondering if it the right thing to do then keep researching here and listen to what people who have had it done say. It saved my life and hs eliminated many weight related health problems and it is improving on the remaining ones. And is after all is said and done your not happy. It can come out. Option I cannot conceive of.

Lisa, Think about this...you put your two cents in but you only get a penny for your thoughts.Hmmmmmmmmm What happens to the other penny??????????

Ryan, Don't worry about that shrinking too. It doesn't.. I made sure I checked with my Dr before hand. (we all have our priorities). BUT KNOW THE GOOD NEWS: RYAN..THE MORE YOU LOSE THE BIGGER IT LOOKS.

Lets work on this one as a free-be no money involved. (just my suggestion but will go with majority rules) Lots of folks here are cash pay customers for the surgery and they need the $50.00. One thing I am comfotable with is knowing how you here are all fantastic people I know the winner would have won the honest way. But you have to understand some of us (probably only me really) will go to any means (leagally) to win money. LOL Was thinking like just before the end when everyone is down 30-40 pounds and there are just a few pounds seperating us I would post a picture of me in a pair of thong speedo's. LOL by the time you all recouperate and get out of hospital from the heart trama or pyscialogical damage I will have passed you all up. lol

I'm holding my nose as I type this one handed, Sure hope you shower before Dec 6 Lisa I got some chapps to wear because you all were. I put them on and go shopping.. If anyone ask I'm just saying the Hog is in the shop... Did get some weird looks this morning. So I trimmed the pick lace off the chapps. Now the Powder Blue Chapps look better.

Lisa, Get on board here and do it now you old lady you... I have to go back and look at the pics you posted. Hmmmm must have missed the one of you on the Quad I am working on putting to gether all the suggestion both here and in PM's for the rules. Only thing set in concrete so far is Mon Nov 22 Start date and Jan 3rd 05, end date. I would like to get any e-mails that I can sent to me so I can send the forms out when done. Only mandatory info on the forms will be your Monday's weigh in. Any other infor will be voluntary. Also if you profiles are set up that I can't send you e-mails either chage it with moderator so I can or if its a privacy issue then send me PM with it in. I will not give it out and when challenge is over I will delete the file on this. Just want to have fun and make it thru the Holidays Good luck to all on this and remember we are all friends here and this is to be freindly and not personal. (Becky this excludes you ) lol

Ryan, Was it a boy or a girl... oh wait wrong tread LOL So good to see you back and doing well. Get some rest we got a holiday excercise challenge going that starts Monday LOL Feel up to it?? Looking forward to hearing about your surgery in the fashion only you can tell it. Be well my friend

Congralutations Stephanie, I've lost 69 since 08/10/04. Just came home from a support meeting. We do have a great time there lol. Where about in Mich are you??? I'm from Harper Woods

On your mark, get set, I'm in

Zoe, Gee never thought about a prize. Hmmmmm Let me see if I can find some millionare who wants to make a TV show out of this LOL and we can get Nationwide coverage. And a Million Dollar prize. Winner with their new slender body will also be on the next Survivor Show and If they get thru that will appear on The Apprentice. If they get the job with The Donald then good for them If not and they are married we can get them on The Wife Swap program. If single we can put them on Fear Factor. If I win I just want my entry fee to the World Series of Poker paid LOL ok back to reality. Just win the bragging rights and my undying gratitude for pushing me thru the challenge.

Zoe, Becky and I would like to extend to you the invotation to join us in our challenge. We will use your time frame and conditions as the ground rules. I will develope a progress chart that I can e-mail back and forth to all and everyone can see the others progress. I like the honor system here also. We all have been lying to ourself for so long about our weight and since we have done something about it I think the process of trying to fool each other is out the door. Let us know if you accept the invite. We also welcome anyone else who would like to join us. Becky suggested a new thread for this and we will call it the Holiday Challenge. Let us know Anyone who joins us and losses one pound is a winner. And if no other men join I can brag to the guys at work I'm running around with a whole bunch of beautiful ladies LOL ( my wife would kill me if she read the BS i do here....LOL LOL)

Ok Ok hang on here now... Lets get a male point of view. I have to agree with everyone so far that you are very pretty. I do vote for pic#2. Pic #1 you look like you didn't want to do this LOL pic#3 You look serious and cute But pic #2 shows your great smile and it looks like you enjoyed this one being taken. Pic #4 should be deleted someone's going to want to hurt you for looking so good at the beginning. LOL Which ever one goes on its nice to put a face to the typed letters.

That is fine with me Becky. So its Your BACK you want watched.. Oh well..Ok I can do that I guess... Darn taking the fun out of this already.

Ok Becky, I'll do the gentlemanly thing here and allow you to set the rules. Since we are both at the stage where our weight loss should be comparable each month I don't feel I'm taking advantage of you. And since I am already behind and its your rear quarter panels that seem to be your concern I'll just stay here and keep an eye on them and let you know how they are doing. (not being sexist just being concerned). Butt I will pass you up before the end date. I have just one suggestiion and that is we start on Monday Nov 22 as that is the weight in day. This challenge will help me stay focused while in Vegas. You pick all the other rules.