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Apples - LOL I walk crooked & slur sometime and think I am just doing great - you know how inebriated pple are lol :0) How can you stand to be around them - but we always need that 1 person sober who doesn't let us get into too much trouble and to drive now a days :0)...

You are right Phyl - we use to post here more often and I guess we should make the effort - but sometimes there just aren't enough hours in the day :0) - I know that there is no one left who was here on this tread when I 1st joined in 07.. Welcome newbies !!! Phyl & Candice & I are all Lucky #7 (banded 7/07) and we are also in the 50+ age bracket :redface:) Yes our issue are diff than the younger ones - we have been at this a lot longer - we have lost and regained for the most of our lives.. Also for us I think we want to improve the quality of our lives as we want to extend the years we have left and if we stay morbidity obese - we are cutting the chance of that.. I was banded at 52 - reason - wanted to improve the quality of my life - I want to be around to see my grandkids grow up and maybe in a few more years see some great grandkids. Our bands are only tools - they don't make our food choices My #1 suggestion to all is always keep a food diary - this is a great learning tool - you need to know the amount of calories that you are consuming in a day - you don't have to do this for the rest of your life (some do - I quit after I got to goal) #2 is exercise or some kind of physical activity.. I think also that us in the 50+ understand that this is really a lifetime lifestyle change in our eating - we have heard this a million times before - but for me it really sunk in once I was banded - I finally figured out that my normal eating is what got me fat in the 1st place - This is truly about eating healthy and yes you can still have treats but not every day and not a bag of candy or 1/2 cake - but one candy bar or 1 slice of cake - it's not that 1 candy bar or slice of cake that got us fat in the first place - it cuz we ate the whole darn bag or whole cake :0).. Also it's important to eat your hard protein first so that you do fill up faster - be aware of slider foods - they are the biggest enemy against our bands as they slide right on thru and within 15 minutes we are hungry again... Well I gotta get my butt in gear - I'm at work so I better get busy.. CBL

I use to have it done but my girl never got it the right color (seems like hairdressers like beige blond and I like golden blond) I had appt after my bro died last yr - couldn't make it so went back to coloring myself - I have TONS of white too but since I am blond it doesn't show as much - I would love to see what it would look like w/o color - but am to chicken to let it grow out ;0).. Mine doesn't grow as fast as your maybe 1/2 inch.. Saving $35 a month ;0)... well a box of dye cost $8-9 ;0).. I have been coloring my own hair since high school - I am a natural light brown w/blond highlights that's how I became a blond - summer at the beach :0) Eva - We have alot in common there - in between bfs - I was a partier !!! Hell at 32 I was still out ther and having after hour parties til 5 in the morn !!!! But I got up and went to work (well motst days ;0) Like you I did my share during my youth and still love to go out every now and then - but not every weekend and no after hour parties til 5 in the morn :0) !!!

OMW you have me laughing this morning !!!! Ya he will - he will bitch and moan but get over it ;0) ... LauraK - Glad to hear I am not the only smoker :0) - So you are single too?? Quit for 4 yrs omw. The longest I quit was for maybe 3 months but was sneaking from and exbf.. Well it is what it is - I will quit one of these days :0) Hugs Julie - You need to talk to the doc on Friday - you can't go on like this Apples - No tiling jobs - not enough time ;0) On the job issue - I don't think you want to be driving those roads in the winter - That's to dangerous.. Well I got up early to go to the gym but ended up coloring my hair - I go tonite so it will be ok.. Off to the shower to wash this stuff out of my hair and get ready for work.. TTYL J

Good Morning - Got up early to go to gym but ended up coloring my hair.. Will go tonite Agree - Karri is our runner and works out like 2 hrs when she goes to the gym - but like you said she's a baby compared to us - a lot more energy.. I am glad she is doing this now - so she will be in better shape when she's our age :0) Had the lasagna last night but only 1 cup - it was ok but since it didn't have onion bell peppers or olives not my most fav - Andrew did like it - he doesn't know what's in it :0) I guess I could have pulverized onion & bell peppers so he wouldn't have seen it - but since he grated the cheese he was in the kitchen w/me - plus I don't have any.. Well time to go wash this stuff out of my head - talk to you all when I get to work :0)

Great - Hugs - I know that when my son wanted to get a divorce and move in w/me - I said HELL NO... If you want to get divorce then go get your own apt and live like a grown up on your own - (they got in a fight and he was drinking). Hugs on GM issues too - sometime you can't make pple happy no matter what you do - they just get in that kind of mood and I don't think they even realize it. I am so jealous of you too meeting - but I guess I have been the luckiest so far - I have met my #7 gang - Pam & Kathy from this thread and Eva this weekend.. Melissa - Thanks for understanding my smoking - so many pple now adays hate smoker :0).. Great on taking up knitting it does help - after I eat lunch I crochet and while I am watching tv too.. Julie - OMW I would be still pissed about that too... Laura - Hugs & Prayer - Enjoy your time with the family.. You will be fine even with the band - just remember eat slowly tiny bites and chew :0)..

Good Evening Gang Karla - I seem to be hungry at work all the time - more than when I am home - don't ask me why - today I had to print all these emails for a lawyer and that just made me want to munch - it's the boring stuff I have to do that makes me want to eat - but if I am really invovled in a project - I am not hungry.. As far as letting go - well gf we know it's not going to be easy - it's easy for us to talk - but we aren't going through it - so here's a big Hug... Well I didn't go to they gym - came home and made Andrew lasagna he has been wanting it - but I don't think he's going to like it - I got turkey italitan sauage when I should have just gotten regular turkey - but I don't think he's going to like the taste - well if he doesn't I can take it to work and they will scarf it down - I do plan on having it for my dinner tonite - and set the alarm to go off early so I can hit the gym Cuz I really shouldn't have skipped tonite cuz I can't go Sat morning cuz have to take Sheba to vet to get fixed at 7:30

Nawlyns - Ya I just saw this at lunch on the t.v. If you are physically fit the WII isn't going to give you a huge workout - I say the wiiactive gives you a better workout (thye have kick boxing lunges etc) that the regular wii fit - Wii fit has the yoga which isn't super strenous - but it's still a work out - Most of the stuff is balance board stuff nothing that really gets your heart rate up there. But it's still moving - and better than sitting on your butt.. Heck when I was play the ping pong - I was swinging my arm - i just don't flick my wrist like my gd does - I get into it :0)

You got that right Diva - the majortiy of our problems lie in our head's not our stomachs... Congrats on the moderator !!!

Good Morning - a busy bunch since last night.. Laura - Hugs - I am glad you all will be together for the holidays - that is so very important. All you can do is make the best of it and enjoy what you have today - don't worry about what's going to happen tomorrow - enjoy the day you have now - Hugs & Praryers - I know how tough this is.. How I handled the holidays during my weight loss phase and even my maintenance phase - as surgar is my heirion !!! First of all everyone knows I am banded - the 1st Thanksgiving - DS & Family went to Brawely - GS at his Mom's so I didn't cook - I went to a gf house - I had a little bit of everything Then came Xmas - as you all know to me it's a big deal to make cookies w/gd's and how do you make cookies and not have some (plus they are my most fav cookie - frosted sugar cookies) - Well my trade off was - I did not partake in any of the sweets that were in the office - I said no - I eat lunch in the lunch room everyday where all the junk was but I just kept telling myself - you are saving those xtra calories so that you can have 5 or 10 xmas cookies when you bake them - Well GD & DIL & I make cookies & tamales - I had 1 tamale and a few cookies (most likely like 10) - I also made sure that I went to the gym - I didn't skip any days and even threw in an extra one or 2. Xmas Dinner - had the immediate family and made prime rib - again had a little bit of everything - it's one meal - 1 day of the year I too lost weight during the holidays that 1st yr and I was not deprived - I had my cookies I had my Thanksgiving meal - I had my Christmas meal - what I didn't do was to eat all the junk in the office - I look at that stuff as posion - that if I eat that I will get fat again - I won't be able to have my treats that are most important to me .. I made a choice.. Last yr I remember over doing it on the cookies - but nothing like before - but again I didn't gain weight - I had all the meals in fact 2 thanksgiving one at my house then went to ds house and we had another one - it's just a meal and not my last so I don't eat like it is.. So my advice would be to eat your Thanksgiving & Christmas meal - they are just one meal - have a little bit of everything that you enjoy and want but alway eat protein 1st Plan for your treats - you know that you are going to families homes and they are going to have stuff that you can't pass up - then pass up the stuff you can prior to that - Throw in a couple of days extra exercise and watch all the other meals - Plan Plan Plan - But don't deprive yourself - it's a balancing act - but it's do able.. Apples I love the remark about the streach pants That's what was in my closet prior to banding - really didn't have too many zip up pants - now a days I won't buy anything that has an elastic waist (well execpt my exercise pants) It must have been Becky O - someone put a tree in their bedroom... I may just have to go back to last Xmas to find out who it was :w00t: Great - I do think we were more mature than our kids - I would say that most of us had families and responsiblities at that age - were as you DD doesn't. IMHO they should act like guest even if they are family - keep room neat - help around the house etc.. But that's the kind of guess I am - I try not to be a burden when I visit pple - but age I think that's our generation - where as our kids generation is all about me me me !!! When's the wedding - how many more days months ;0)... Eva - I'm an introvert too - so I understand - I need my alone time - I need my recharging time if I don't want to do anything I don't have to - I am a grown up and I can do as I please - it all gets done in the end anyway - That's how I look at it anyway.. As to the food - well it takes practice not to turn to it in those times - Just keep moving forward and don't look back... Laura K - Like I said - I have a little of everything - on those 2 days - make the family fav's - you can partake - in a few bites - Tiny - I stay out of office politic's - but gotta say that our office does really get along well - most of us have been here for years.. Hugs as I do remember the day when I was invovled Charlene - you leave the 1st of Dec don't you ?? Ok started this 2 hrs ago - am posting - before another hour goes by..

Karla - #1 WTG 81 LBS GONE !!! Love the house and yes spartan is good - but not as spartan as my DS - he won't let dil hang pics :0) - For some reason he is against clutter - I wonder where that stems from - did he grow up in a cluttered house - well a tad -I wasn't always the best house keeper. When I moved into this house I gave away so much stuff - just for that reason - I had way too much.. Love the house - yes your kitchen is totally bare - but I know they say that's good - not to have too much clutter - I love watching sell my house kind of shows - Make sure you put a tea kettle on the stove and add some cinnamon and boil it in the morning before you leave - they say that helps...

Yes Melissa - I still smoke - I got some chantix cuz a while back I was ready to quit - or at least try - I still enjoy smoking - I smoke out side every where :0) - but sometimes it's a pain - But then the urge to quit left - so - just like weight loss - when I am ready to do it I will - I am not going to force the issue - and in the back of my mind I am worried about gaining weight - I quit for 10 days prior to surgery - but the day before surgery I smoked - due to nerves mostly - I told the doc when I went to the hospital that day - they still operated.. I gave up food and exercise - Not ready to give up cigs too !! That's asking a lot - like a gf said everyone has to have a vice ;0) and cigs are mind - I smoke about 1/2 - 3/4 pack a day and that's includes just smoking 1/2 cig not the whole thing - - ok yes justification - I don't smoke like my x - 3 packs a day ;0) Apples I don't have knee problems per se (that I know of anyway)- they have been achy the last couple of days - could be the cooler weather - the knee cap area aches..

Jackie glad you got to eat a little meat.. Glad Courtt is doing so well - Good thing your friend has you ;0) Karla - can't wait for the pic's !! playing hookie is ok - you got stuff done and when you are on a roll you gotta go with it,, Yep being busy busy is a great thing for a diet - I'm like that - I don't eat when busy - it's when I am bored that I eat.. We are keeping you in prayers for quick sale... Ya I saw of FB that you had that potluck/deer thing yesterday ,.. Sweetie - the left side of the closet is top - they are all color - the back were jeans - cords - dress slacks - purple & brown cords - 10 pair of blue jeans - 3 pairs of black jeans - Navy blue dress slacks - black slacks - gray slacks - purple knit skirt - black knit skirt - the right side - was my leather jackets (2) - Jogging outfits - White - purple - navy and black - and then my workout clothes and if you look up on top - orange - lime green - white - black & jean capris My bottoms are normally a solid and I wear color/pattern on top - What you didn't see was all my summer dresses - which are all bright bright colors Shoes - well I work and I dress for work and when I go out and want to look cute and with 112 lbs gone - I can wear the heels without my feet killing me - - Truly the only time you will find me in tennis shoes is at the gym - or with a jogging outfit - but now I have some coach tennis - so I will be sporting them - The only thing I don't do in color are my purses - black and brown and gold evening purses - I leave the color purse for Phyl :0) Happy Anniversary !!! OMG WOULDN'T THAT BE FANTASTIC --- YOU DESERVE IT SOO MUCH !!! Keeping that in my prayers too,.. Well back from the gym - got my trainer to reduce my fees by $10 a session so that's about $90 a month and then told the gym I would stay if they reduced my fee from $19 to $10 without me paying the $99 start up fee.. Dinners on the stove - dogs fed - think I am going to head for the couch - cbl

Melissa - we all go through our moments - I stopped at Walgreens to get cigs - I wanted CANDY COOKIES - they has some cookies at the cash register - I said why do you guys have this stuff right here - I told myself no junk - she could tell I had been to they gym - she say you can work it off - I told her that cookie has 400 calories - that's a meal - that's and hour on the treadmill - no thanks - Today I was strong but who knows what tomorrow will bring .. Laura - Hugs on the back - I think all that stuff I did messed with my knees along with the cold...

Ok it's Charlene then I think who puts a trees up in her bedroom - OMG it seem like yesterday we were talking about Christmas and it's here again so fast.... How can you remember if you get stuck on stuffing - I guess I only make it for Turkey day - and I can't remember if I ate it last yr or not - I remember having my 2 nephews - stepbro/gf and uncle - but that's it.. I usually am not hungry after I have done all the cooking and preparing - I usually eat around 8 once everyone is gone.. I think I can eat it though - but like I said - gravy on my stuffing.. Great room - ya that's what it's called.. I just decorate this area - includes kitchen - nook - living room.. I am use to my picky eaters - I hate going to restaurants with them though - OMW no lettuce on the plate - all hamburgers plain - it's a pain... Stress is the only thing I have noticed that tightens my band - and GF you have had major stress For me no problem with flying.. I use to put my tree up on the 15th of December - that's when I could afford to buy it.. But now adays - I have a fake one and put it up after thanksgiving.. Well now that my Stepbro & Gf & Uncle are coming don't know if I will make the steaks - but might grill some carnada asada.. Alot of pple in this area of the country have potatoe salad instead of mashed tatoes - or in addition too. It's funny how everyone has diff tradtional foods that they are use to for Thanksgiving & Christmas If I make cookies like I plan - I won't be baking a cake. Last yr I sent all the left overs home w/my stepbro and will do that again this yr they are on a tight tight budget don't have much and they will be able to eat good for a few days.. I don't know what kind of cook his gf is - I don't care for her that much - but can put up with her for a few hours in the name of family.. Back from the gym - was careful with knees - trying to talk the gym into reducing my membership to $10 a month without paying $99 up front - right now I pay $19. Got my trainer to reduce his fees - so that I can afford to keep him - Savings of about $90 a month.. Fed the dogs - my dinner is cooking... I started this before I left for the gym so most likely have some posters since :0)

No You didn't call me stupid - but you call pple who don't think like you stupid - that's the point. Bible and Politic's - OMW - There is a dangerous match... No winners there.. And I don't think the bible has a section about health insurance. Have at it - it's just so funny to read all your post - how seriously pissed off and angry you all get... Have fun :0)

Great - I forget what kind of bend (the #) are you suppose to get w/your knee.... Yes I have one son Joseph - daddy to grandson who lives with me :-) who's really my son (;0).. On the menu - Well my family (the boys joseph & andrew - along w/Kaitlin the 15 yrs) are pickey eaters - they really don't like turkey much so Melissa (dil) and I figured we would do a turkey breast and ham - I don't think Andrew likes either and most like either does Kaitlin - so may have some steaks.. DIL and GD's like green bean casuourla - I don't :0) but will make a small one for them - I think DIL and I are the only ones who like stuffing/dressing - I think we all like mashed taters - I like gravy on my dressing not tatos. I will make butternut squash (something we always had at my dad's - in fact last yr my 2 nephews came and their mom told them exactily what I would be cooking - and they laughed cuz what she told them is what I cooked - Dessert - again I like the double layered pumkin pie and it's low fat/sf so I will make that - Andrew likes cheese cake - Joseph choc cake - but since I will be making xmas cookies with GD - II think that will be the dessert - but who know's - I have invited my Uncle and my stepbro too - so I need ot have some traditional foods - heck sounds like the turkey breast is going to turn into a small turkey if I can find one There will be 9 of us and I will send alot of left overs home w/Uncle and Stepbro... Apples - I am into Nativity's too - I have alot of them - a big Costco one that goes infront of the fireplace - a little one in my village - some in Water Globes.. How sweet that you go your "mom"s - As a child we alway had one at the base of the xmas tree and it was my job to set it up... I decorate the family room & kitchen (they are one big room) and that's it Is it Charlene or Great who has a tree in their bedroom :biggrin: Sheba was just a kitten last yr - and she did mess with the tree a little - this yr I don't know how she's going to handle it Heck I may just decorate before the kids get herd - cuz I do want a couple of down days - Oh I could do it on the friday after thanksgiving as the kids will be going to see DIL family in brawley..

Patty So I am stupid and make you sick if I am a democrate and don't believe the way that you do... You don't even know me - you are going to base your opinion about me based on my political view points... No by the person I am.. Do you know the broadcasters on MSNBC or CNN personally to say that you hate them and they make you sick Wasn't America founded on the principle of freedom of choice to belong to which ever party you have chosen to.. Does that make one party right over the other one - I don't think so.. You know what - I don't watch Fox news - cuz I don't agree with the majortiy of what they report and feel it slanted to their point of view - so I just don't watch - but I am not calling them names and thinking they are stupid for what they believe I don't hate them or you for what you believe in - that's your right as an American Obama is OUR PRESIDENT - the AMERICA People's President - Just like George Bush was My President too - he wasn't just the President of the Republican Party. We survived Bush (well barely) You will survive Obama and in another 4 or 8 yrs someone will be bitching about who's in office then. Same sad story - just another day... I got more important crap to worry about - that's in my control - well what little control I have over the universe.. Like "I am not going to eat a bag of candy tonite" or will i go to the gym"... It's too funny to read how wound up you all get over this stuff - when it's totally out of your hands and who know's how it's going to end up - gotta be a better solution than what we have - cuz that's aint working too well as it stands now.. Ya there may be some kinks along the way - but don't we have kinks in the system that we have now - but I guess it's better to know your kinks instead of not knowing - but in the end it's still a kink... Stop and smell and enjoy the roses .... The smelll doesn't change by who's in the White House.....

Apples I won't be going anywhere - Kids are coming for turkey day and I usually decorate my house and do all my xmas shopping during this time - I hate crowded malls/stores - I don't do them - I don't do black friday... Eva coming Saturday - Leaving Sunday - DS & family will be here Wed - leaving Saturday I hope cuz Sunday will be a mad house and I really don't have much shopping to do - since kids won't be coming for xmas - I will give them $$ to by Brooke presents and they will get gift cards.. Andrew just want's $$ and Kaitlin (15) bday is 12/1 so have to celebrate that early too.. Hope to make xmas cookies w/girls on Wed before thanksgiving - and GS & DS can put up outside lite and after everyone is gone I will bring out the tree and decorate the insides - or may do before they get here.. Just hanging around the house - most likely will have Phyl and DH over for dinner that 2nd week of vacation.. Saturday when I had so much stuff thrown on the floor and didn't know where to start - I was thinking - I WISH APPLES WAS HERE TO HELP" Pantry - spices - forget about it :0)

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Candice - WTG on the lost pounds !!! Karla - I use to be very mechincal - but not so much anymore - I will when I have to - but not like I use to be. Lunch was cauliflower and some ukcy chicken - ate maybe 1.5 oz - the rest was too dry.. I'm still hungry - having a hot flash right now (mini one) I have gym tonite - legs if knees hold out - took some advil this a.m but just now kicking in (on an empty stomach so that it would go right down) Knees are feeling alittle better Well back to work - cbl

Good Morning Gang Apples - OMG you have packed and packed and packed - I bet you are pooped !!! Sorry you didn't get any sleep I hate that when it happends to me.. Meredith - Just cuz you are banded doesn't mean that you aren't going to over do it sometime - the diff now is that you will make better food choices this week - then in a couple of months it may happend again - the diff is now you think about these things where as before we ate with abandonment - (well at least I did - I never felt guilty for eating a bag of candy or the pan of brownies).. It's ok it's life - just move forward thats all. As you all know I have my moments too - we are human.. Julie - Glad you had a good time w/your Family... Betty - Welcome !!! I was lucky on my pre-op my doc allowed me to have a lite meal - fish & salad for dinner- just had to stay away from the carbs - and I only had 1 week pre-op diet - I guess he wasn't to worried about a fatty liver. Like Apples said 6 months from now you will have forgotten ths whole pre-0p and be feeling so much better from the weight loss Well I have to work this week then off for the next 2 week :0)

Good Morning Gang Karla - would love to see the house - when you say trim - do you mean crown molding or base board.. Either way still impressed - I don't know how to use any power tools - well I do have a drill - but no saws.. Not much to report - except my knees are bothering me - they ache. I work this week then I am on vacation for the next 2 :biggrin: Kids coming for Turkey day since they won't be here for Xmas - I think I will make Xmas Cookies with Family the Wed before Thanksgiving :0).... Then if GS want's cookies closer to Xmas - I will buy the presliced ones and frost them - he doesn't know the diff :0) CBL

Laura My closet looked like that at 250 :yikes::wink2::tongue2: Well maybe not so many jeans - but it was full back then too I wore alot of dresses - shoes well maybe not as much but not a lot less - now there are more heels.. I gave away ton's and ton's of clothes.. I always have been a clothes shopper... Love your pic's !!!! I take it that's your hubby - handsome guy.. Nelson is a doll as usual At least you are able to fly to see your Mom and Dad often and that's what counts... Well phone is ringing - cbl

Candice Yes they all fit ;0)... Its an accummilation of what I have gotten over the last yr.. Hugs on the being sick - that's the pits - As to not having a shopping buddy - you have me - but the problem is all the $$ you gotta spend to get here ;0) - well our taxes aren't as much as your 8.75% Jackie glad you got some taken out being too tight is the pits and being sick on top of that makes it worse.. I got nails done - ross & marshall shopped (candles - lotion - no clothes !!) Target - cut Angel - got some clippers but I think they are going back - they don't work too well. Well I haven't eaten today - I am hungry - cbl