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:welcomeB::welcomeB::welcomeB::welcomeB::welcomeB: I had trouble with navigation at first too... You'll get the hang of it soon enough!!

Yes, I'm anal sometimes... the order got flipped around with the most recnt post, so I had to fix it. Please don't hate me! Name...Challenge Start Wt...Current Wt...Challenge Goal...To Go Huntersmom...... 174........... 172....... 159............ 13 SWEETY.......... 202........... 195....... 180............ 15 MJsafari........ 268........... 252....... 238............ 14 captdanbo....... 211........... 211....... 185............ 26 PaulaD.......... 216........... 216....... 199............ 17 Stefanie42467... 206........... 200....... 175............ 25 Suzzzie......... 349........... 337....... 320............ 17 glindab......... 277........... 269....... 250............ 19 MM.............. 242........... 227.2..... 218............9.2 finallythin..... 254........... 254....... 225............ 29 BeckieT......... 259........... 259....... 239............ 20 Miscontext...... 303........... 303....... 275............ 28 ja9va........... 207........... 199....... 182............ 20 wombat712....... 180........... 172.4..... 165........... 7.4 Texasmom5573.... 252........... 252....... 230............ 22 Waters.......... 214........... 213....... 190............ 24 lessnless....... 206 .......... 191.2..... 179 ........... 12.2 MissDarlene..... 223........... 223....... 195............ 28 o2bthin..........238........... 233....... 215............ 18 insubordination..300........... 296.5..... 283...........13.5 Holliwagz........325........... 315....... 295.............20 cc...............202............200........190.... ........10

Lol. Thanks Stef. 1001 cals for your weight? wow... then I burned ALOT! haha. Myscales say 330 this morning. I gotta quit weighting myself daily. Its an obsession. I want to be under 300 so badly! Can't wait to weigh in at the docs office on FRIDAY!!

Lol. Stef! But it wasn't like at an 'exercise' pace... ya know. Oh, and I should confess here too... Lol... my friend bought an 'apple dumpling' which is a huge peeled and cored apple which is then covered with this breading stuff and deep fried. Then its covered in a thick rich sugary cinnamon sauce and toped with a huge scoop of ice cream! I ate about 1/4 of it! Haha. Ooopsie!

I think whenever we discover those that copy/paste wrongly we should evict them. Lol. j/k. But it is annoying. I mean... HOW HARD IS IT TO JUST copy/paste THE VERY LAST ONE!?!?!?!

Sounds like a good plan Stef! I hope it works for you! I went to the Renaissance Festival today with a friend and we walked around for 5 1/2 hours. Now, I want to count some of this as exercise... but know I can't count it all, cause we did stop in some shops and sat down to eat once. But I will count 2 hours of it! Lol. I think thats fair... what do you think? I swear I'm worn out!! So add 120 minutes to my total for the month! NEW TOTAL 230 minutes.

OK. Stef and Sweety are kickin my ARSE!! I was sitting around the house tonight with nothing to do... and it's Saturday, so I felt lonely and pathetic! All of a sudden I got this burst of energy from no where and felt like going jogging! Haha. Now, if you know me, you will see how funny this is. I'm 331.8 lbs (per my scale this morning) and I have large breasts... I can't even imagine myself jogging! ANYWAY, so afetr I laughed at this thought for a few minutes I got off my duff and headed to the gym - for the first time in just over 2 weeks!! I easily did 80 minutues elliptical and then 30 minutes of weight machines focusing on arms, legs, and abs. I feel so goo about this! I"ve never done this much on the elliptical before, and for me to be able to do that after avoiding the gym for 2 weeks, I'm proud!! So far my monthly total is 110 minutes. Yay me! Only 690 to go! Hahaaa!

Congrats on the job Missy!! But we need to meet before you move. Lol. You live so close to me, and yet so far away. Me, you and hubby need to plan a night out where we can go order an entre and split it three ways! Hahaha!! We'd probably STILL have take out boxes!

How do you all swollow prenatal vitamins? I've always taken them cause I like how they make my hair and nails look, but it's my understanding that those large pills won't go down through the band? I haven't tried to take any pills at all since I was banded in June. (Luckily I've never been on any meds for anything.)

Way to go Sweety!! THats awesome!

Oh yeah.. my scale showed me down to 331.8 this morning... I want to change my dang ticker soooo bad - but am only changing it based on my weight at my monthly fill appointment... which is this coming Friday. No, I'm not getting a fill that day, there is NO WAY I could handle more fill! (My ticker is still set to my weight 3 weeks ago - 349!)

Lol. Glad you like them Stef! I'm taking them for my Family Thanksgiving! Toni- Thanks for looking for Heather for us! OK, as if losing my hair wasn't enough... I found my first ever GREY hair today while I was at work! I was seriously reduced to tears. (I have age-related anxiety and have cried about every birthday since I turned 24... it gets pretty serious!) So I had a mini-freak out today at work... I even ate a bite of cake someone brought in - before I realized that I didn't want to be grey AND fat! Haha! But, OMG, I was freaked! I'm having issues that I never thought I'd have - I'm not hungry. I've eaten about 1 cup of chili today, and the one bite of cake... and thats it. I'm just NOT hungry. food doesn't interest me today. I even thought about ice cream, and because I know I can't eat much of it, it doesn't even sound appealing. Anyone else think this way about food? I've done 2 Protein shakes today, otherwise I'd be WAY down for protein. Bah.

Lol. No prob Faith! I just can't eat that much. I ate just under 500 calories today - and that actually inclues a protein shake. I only counted calories yesterday and today (yesterday was about 550). I can only eat about 1/4-1/2 cup food at a time right now. A small Smart Ones frozen entre takes me 3 'sessions' to eat. I don't even eat 'meals' anymore! I just try to eat about 5 times a day... but I can't always even do that. And to think... I NEVER thought that the band would ACTUALLY work for me! haha!

Faithmd, HOW do you get in so much protein?!?! Do you eat it all, or do you drink it? Cause I can't do it unless I drink it!

Has anyone heard from Heather lately??

Lol! YES! I've done this since surgery! It mostly hapens to me now when a bite of food is passing through the band. I usually have to belch right afterwards. People I eat with rarely notice, its so lioud to us because its inside of us!

I've been saying that I was going to shave my head and buy a good wig. Lol. Think of the money I'll save on shampoo/conditioner and hair cuts! Lol.

Hey Insub! The chew/spit thing - Yeah.. I've been thinking about doing this!!! I was driving by Burger King the other day and thought OMG! Whoppers smell good! I want one! I seriously almost got me a jr. whopper - with the full intention of chewing and spitting. I didn't do it thouhg, mostly cause I was scared that I'd forget to spit one of the bites and get stuck. Lol.

Ohh, I just tried a banana this morning... haven't had one since before surgery I don't think... and I took a big ole bite - like I would have pre-banding - not even thinking ... and OW! The pain. Haha. I hate being stuck. So now I have 5 bananas I'll never eat. Lol.

I'm still DEFINITLY going! I'd prefer to go as cheaply as possible... so during the week is perfect for me... but overall I will go with the majority here. I just need to know minimum of 45 days in advance to secure my days off from work. As I said before I can also share a room with who ever else is going alone... haven't heard from BeckieT in a while, but we'd talked previously about sharing a room.

OK all!!! Just home from my first meeting for the weightloss challenge thingy I signed up for. Everyone was super nice, and they didn't push ANYONE to by the Herbalife stuff! I was shocked! They mentioned it a few times, but it wasn't like "This is awesome and the only way you'll lose weight." Haha. Actually, one of the distributers that was there has GB last year and that is when she discovered Herbalife, and started with the protein shakes. ANYWAY. It was all very awesome. We all got weighed and measured (let me add here that I am seriously the only one that has more than about 40 pounds to lose... they were all so thin!) AND!!! Tonights guest speaker was a personal trainer from a gym here in town... and she is offering up a 30 minute personal training session for the next 5 weeks for each of us for only $5 per session!!!! OMG! Thats freaking amazing! I'm soooo doing that! That will help me out for when I got to my gym and work out on my own. I'm very very excited about this!!

Wow Dan! WHat an AMAZING difference!!!

OK - I just posted about this tonight on the June 2007 thread! MY HAIR IS FALLING OUT! And its dry and blah looking. I used to have beautiful thick hair. (OK, its still thick...) As someone else said I'm also clogging the shower daily, and then when I comb out my hair after the shower I lose even more! My bathroom trash is filled with my hair. Some days its a handfull, other days its very little. I hate it! I've been taking 2-3 childrens chewable vitamins a day, but just today switched to a liquid multi vitamin that the lady at GNC recommended. We shall see if it helps any!!

Hey there gang! I'm back in it to win it for October!! I really want to start FEELING thinner and more energetic... not to mention totally WOW my family at Thanksgiving! Lol. I'm in for 800 this month... I'll start tomorrow. (Lol, seriously!)

Yay for flushing the chocolatey minty goodness! I swear I was about to get in my car and drive to your house to get ther rest of the box. Lol. (Of course it would be MUCH closer for me to just go to the store and buy them!) I haven't been able to have a chocolate free day yet! Its one of my biggest weaknesses... Today after work I went to GNC and bought some unflavored protein powder and some liquid vitamins that the lady swears up and down will absorb well. I've been taking 2-3 childrens chewable vitamins a day and I don't feel like they do any good at all. My hair is definatly falling out and looks all dry and icky. Not to sound stuck up or anything, but I've always had beautiful healthy thick thick thick hair!Everyone in my family and all my friends, co-workers - everyone always compliments my hair ... I can't lose it! I'm VAIN! What else do ya'll suggest?!??!