IndioGirl55

Hey Denise I was on FB all the time in Feb I starting this farming this very addictive... But lately I have been just too busy at work and have been taking some vacation days so I gotta keep my desk up.. Plus I find that even on the weekend if I get on the computer 4 hrs can go by and I haven't accomplished a thing. FB has become the grown up verision of myspace :0) I have never really been a chat person - don't really like iming either.. I am just a poster.. :thumbup: How are you doing - how's your dad's estate stuff going You are lucky to work only part time - I wish I could - but I don't know how I would get everything done in 3 days.. I would love to work m-w and have thursday friday sat and sunday off !!!

Julie so glad to hear that you are doing so good... I am happy you sure have had your troubles with medical stuff for the last few months - but like the saying goes what doesn't kill us make us stronger :0) Don't feel guilty about not doing the food - Others need to step up to the plate sometimes - they will appreciate you more for all you do - when they have to do it themselves.. Well, gotta get my but in gear - cbl:wub:

Linda - Hugs GF - I lost my BFF 16 yrs ago to lung cancer also - so I know how this is affecting you - Prayer being said.. I'll get over my hurt feelings in a day or 2 but for right now I am still pissed - but it done and overwith - so I need to let go.. Meredith - Yep we just have to find something we enjoy and do it - and some times we may not enjoy it - but still have to do it - It was funny last night my GS had MJ - PYT (michael jackson pretty young thang) on his computer playng and said where in the hell did you get that - he said oh you don't know that song - I said little boy I was discoing to it back in the day and it's on my ipod - I grew up to MJ music - you werent born til 91 so how in the heck can you tell me I don't know MJ's music - Laura - I read that alot of pple have the same issue as you regarding there restriction - I don't know if another fill is going to help or not - I am lucky mine is the same alll day long and the only thing that changes it is stress.. Yes GF just do it (gym) you will feel proud of yourself for doing it and you will feel better after you have. Well it's almost 6 - I should have been in the shower 15 mintues ago.. TTYL

Good Morning Gang 38 yrs ago today at 5:23 a.m. I had and 8 lb 1 oz 21 inch beautiful little boy... Karla - I hear ya girl - I have pretty high expectations of what I want out of a man at this point in my life - I think that my standards are so high that no one really will be able to meet them.. Another self protection wall I have around me.. But I'm ok with it - If he ever does fall into my lap and is a great guy I would take him - but alas I don't think it will ever happen and I am ok with it.. Linda - how are you feeling today - how did the dentist go yesterday - hope you aren't in much pain and that the tooth came out without much trouble.. Phyl - Where are you... Steph - don't be mad at me I promise to leave you alone on the fill issue :0) Kari - Still haven't farmed - how's the soda addiction going.. Candice - only a week to go.. Are you ready for all of us :0) Denise have you recouped from all your partying Well I gotta jump in the shower - of to my lovely job (not) TTYL

EE The liquid phase is hard - I wanted to eat - I chewed and spit out just like you at that phase too.. Sometimes we forget that we have the band - Congrats on preparing the food and not eating it - There are pple here who will eat real food when they are suppose to be in liquids... Yep the tiny bites eating slowly and not drinking takes a while - I still suffer from eating too fast sometimes and I am almost 2 yrs out... I will occasionally pb but not often. Thanks for the props - I have worked really hard to get where I am and am still working at it. Yesterday - I was making all these excuses in my head as to why I didn't need to go to the gym... But alas I went - I have to if I want to maintain my weight and still eat.. Ya I am a real person with a real life - I will over indulge with various things (alcohol and food) from time to time - but what I know now is that after I have - I have to get back on track - this is what skinny pple do - we all see them eat drink and be merry and think that they do this stuff daily - well most don't they enjoy life from time to time but on a daily basis they watch their intake and exercise.. Keep up the good work - Good thought on your fill today... When you visit the doc - remember in your head he is a person just like you - you pay him he really works for you - just cuz he's a doc with a degree doesn't mean he's any better than you are.. So stick up for what you want -

Yep this is the hardest thing of all - learning the new and diff full feeling...

Julie I can tell you this - I will feel physically full after my dinner (see reply to Irene) but I still want to eat - being pouch full isn't the same feeling as thanksgiving full.. It takes time to get that thru our heads - for me my head hunger manifests it's self in to me thinking I am physically hungry - but when I really think about my stomach it's full.... But I want to eat cuz I like the taste !!!!

Hugs GF you are to fricking tight !!! For me - my sweet spot is being able to eat 4 oz of meat - 1/2 c of rice and 1/2 cup veggies for dinner and be physically full I can eat a bowl of menudo for bf - I can have a 2 egg omelette for bf or chircoso (sp) & eggs or 1 cup of raisin bran - I can eat a sandwich for lunch (reg lite sandwich bread not a roll) I can eat 3/4 of an english muffin. I can eat a salad (2 cups i guess) with turkey avocado & onions.. I haven't tried a submarine sandwich - I don't think I could eat it too much bread - would fill up way too fast.. I went out to lunch the other day had an enchilada and 1/2 my taco and some chips and beans.. For me it's about eating healthy 98% of the time and treats 2% of the time and exercise.. For me it's about eating at least 1 cup of food per meal if not 1.5 cups... That's my sweet spot... This is the problem with the band - it's really hard for some pple to find their sweet spot.. The only time I pb is when I eat too fast - don't chew or take a big bite - or occasionally one bite to many. Get some taken out - I know one girl who's nurse believed in filling pple so tight that they could only eat 1/2 cup of food well hell you can't live your life only being able to eat 1/2 c of food for the rest of your life...

Karla - lol a 53 yr old who owns only a motorcycle and driving a forklift - I know this is going to sound a little snobbish - but I sorta want a guy who has a little more to offer me.. I like lobster - going on cruises - our lucky #7 retreats - and I don't think a forklift operator is going to be able to pay for this stuff.. I have already done the guys who haven't had much - I'm tired of taking care of others I want to be treated/taken care of to a degree.. Well, forget it then - I want a clone of your Peter !!! Kari I just haven't had the time to farm - I have been super busy at work and just like right now it's 6:42 - I have gone to the gym - been on the lbt for the last 45 minutes - still have to cook - feed the dogs - watch a little tv and read if possible and have all this done by 10 p.m (my bed time) cuz I get up at 5 a.m So when it slows down some - I will go back and farm - just can't live my life on the stupid computer - heck - I haven't been on fb much at all for the last couple of weeks Now if I were retired like you and phyl - then I would have a mansion...

Toots - I hate to say this but it is all about food in vs calories burned and the doctors really need to take the word diet out of their vocabulary - that word in it self makes a fat person run to the pantry and eat everything in sight... It's not about dieting - it's all about eating healthy. I eat real food - I just don't eat high fat - high sugar and I am lucky I can exercise. I am a nite eater - always have and always will be - I don't buy into this don't eat after 6 crap - I lost all my weight even though I consumed the majority of my calories at nite - I just budgeted them to fit my lifestyle - not some books - 3 meals and 2 healthy snacks - that's what I do - I just eat lighter for breakfast & lunch - (during weight loss phase about 200 - 250 calories per meal) dinner around 300 - then my snacks would make up the balance - I ate 800 to 1200 calories a day during my weight loss phas so on a 1000 cal day - I would have 300 calories for snacks - that's 1 bag of 100 cal pop corn - 2 sf WW fudgesicles and 2 sf choc puddings .. Do you have water aerobic classes - those are good for pple who can't do normal stuff due to their physical limitations.. We have to find other ways to soothe ourselves - for me it's LBT - Facebook most evenings... Also on the weekends I try and get out of the house as much as possible or if I am home I clean - for me boredom is a big food trigger.. Some pple also go to counslers to help with the mental issues as to why we eat.. IMHO it's our drug of choice - it's legal and easily accessible - the pple who make the stuff entice us every 20 minutes (commercials) I gotta say I have always loved veggies didn't eat them often cuz my DS nor my GS eat them - so I just got out of the habit.. But now a days - I want them - I crave them. Gotta tell you I do cook 2 meals most nites (my GS lives with me) Last night made him pork chops & mac & cheese - I took my pork chop cubed it up threw it in the frying pan with a little evoo - onion bell pepper garlic brown jasmine rice cabbage and a little lite soy sauce - had a great dinner.. To nite I will have 4 oz fish - 1/2 c rice - 1/2 cup veggies - I am eating - I don't feel deprived (well sometime I miss pigging out) I go to parties and have 1 piece of cake - I go out and have a drink or 2 everynow and then.. Hey there 2bthinagain long time since you have posted - You have lost weight and again due to your physical limitation it's going to be a little slower/harder.. For me the pbing is when I have eaten too fast - not chewed well or taken a big bite - also stress seems to make our bands tighter too.. You are 60 some lbs lighter than 2 yrs ago and for us over 50 gang that is good - it's a heck of a lot better than being the same weight you were 2 yrs ago - it's a loss.. Hopefull - today is the 14th hope you had a safe surgery and praying for a speedy recovery..

Bugs Sorry to hear that - you will know when your time is right... Well Gang cking in - gotta tell you I really really tried to talk myself out of going to the gym tonite... #1 excuse you can do your Wii EA or Fit instead. #2 You have been doing ok going just 3 days a week (but got myself on that one cuz over 4th of July - I missed 2 days) #3 it's hot 114 degree Well, I just did it - I came in the house changed clothes and went and did my 3 miles burned 341 calories and I feel good. I have been to the gym 308 days in the last 2 years - the 1st yr it was 179 days and this past year 129 days.. Pretty darn good for a former slug bug !!!! Laura - you know what your receipt is like my one pot wonder - I just don't stuff the squash but slice it up and cook it in a skillet - but again I use ground turkey instead of hamburger..

Well, Candice - Never been married or divorced - Karla GF there must be a reason... But if he looks like Peter he's gotta be cute even if he is bald..

I'm going to try it with ground turkey !!! Thanks Laura !!!! Cassie What's wrong - We are here for you..

Kari - I made myself get off the computer at 8 ish last night - I have to as if I don't I don't have any tv/reading time and I must have some down time before going to bed - I haven't farmed in weeks - last night did jump on FB for just a sec to see what I was missing - Saw Denise's great pic !! then signed of and ate dinner - my one pot wonder - popcorn - fudgsicle & 1 tsp Pb & raisins - So food yesterday was good for me.. So you and I will be the single girls - well Phyl too but Tracy is coming with her (I think)... What an AH - can your girls call and ask for $$ can't he add them to his insurance.. Well I beleive in Karma - so he will get his in the end.. Hugs for your tough situation !!! So Steph tell me if I have this right - You are putting this Breast Cancer Walk stuff before your own personal needs/health?? Do I have that right - cuz I get confused easliy. You can't say - Hey pple - I know I have signed up for this - but I need to do this for me. IMHO I just hate the fact that you are putting everyone elses needs before your own. IMHO I think this is why we reward ourselves with food - no time for us - so we deserve that bag of M&M's.. It's all out of love baby girl - I just hate it that you are so tight - I really would have to put the brakes on for 2 days and go get unfilled. You are important - You are worth the time - You need to learn to say NO :0) !!!! Did you see the movie 27 Dresses :0) Hugs - I will now leave you alone about the unfill issue - I promise - Hugs Denise - I saw your pic's on FB last night looked like you had a great time - Next yr hopefully it will be the Lucky #7 gang in NO have a great time... Hugs on your kitty - I saw her pic on FB last night - yep blood test for animals cost just as much as for us humans.. Linda - Have a great day with Cora - I gotta say I sorta miss the baby days.. Yep we always need nurses !!! and they make good $$$ to - espeically OT.. Hugs on the teeth tomorrow !!! Well Gang another day in paradise !!!! Ya right maybe I should move to WI and have Linda be my teacher and become a nurse - well alas - I could never spell or pronounce those medical terms - so I guess I'm stuck here :0) - Well unless I meet some fabulous guy in Canada who would be prince charming sweep me off my feet and promise to take care of me forever - (weren't those the fairytales that we heard as children and that have really screwed us all up cuz we beleived in them) and I could quit Well off to work I go - (well i am here but haven't started working yet) 8 more day !!!

Hey Laura - you must have been posting as I was typing. Yep it is so easy to under-estimate what we are eating - so easy to forget those 2 string cheese we had during the day or those 4 crackers... This is why I really beleive in the food diaries - I still will jot on a piece of paper what I have eaten - it really helps keep me honest The stuffed zuchinee sounds good - give us the receipt.. Have a great family day !!!

Julie - So good to hear from you... OMW you sure do have your struggles when it comes to medical issues Hugs & Prayers !!! I have the same cut - had it 2 weeks before I turned 30 !!! You will be limited what you can do for a while - glad your band is ok ... Rest and recoup !!! You really are doing so well with all that you have been thru lately.. HH My ds & dil both are over weight - I want them both to get healthy - My DS says I'm going to get the band like you Mom - I told him I don't think it will work for you cuz they think that the band did the work and not me and that they would eat around it - My DIL is a big carb/starch eater truly for them I think bypass or sleeve - but not until they are ready to do the work involved - besides my DS is a meat & potatoe guy - he doesn't eat veggies at all - so for him healthy eating would be nearly impossible.. I just figure that they in their time hopefully will understand how their weight is limiting their lives.. I accept that somethings are beyond my control :0). Long Yep we know that this is a lifetime of work no matter which surgery we choose. Good Morning Gang !!! Just cking in - everyone must be busy... I know I have been. No much to report since last night - I really need to make sure I go to the gym tonite - Tues can be a flake day for me... Especially when it's so hot like it is right now - s/b 114 by this afternoon !!! I don't care how much a/c is on it's still hot.. Well, need to get my butt in gear - Have a good day and as usual - I will CBL :sad:

No I usually cook it in a frying pan - tonite in a soup pot cuz of the cabbage ... the jalapeno aren't hot - but if you want just leave them out Yep nothing is sticking cuz you are eating slider foods dear.. Hard protein !!!! Well you can't talk to the man and see if he will help - is he that big of an AH that he's not going to help his daughter with college..

Props HH - That was very nice :0) I have a couple of friends with bypass and they have done very well too.. To each their own and I think for some that bypass is a better opinion. My doc had you fill out a questionnaire about your eating habits and then he suggested what would be best for the individual. As we all know no WSL is the magic cure to our issues with food.. Right now I want to eat with abandonment and not worry about how many calories I am consuming.. I can eat around my band if I choose to - but alas - I can't and I know this mentally - but if I want to keep the healhtier body that I have today - I can't and even though I hate the saying - nothing taste as good as thin feels (cuz it's not really true) I can say right now nothing is going to taste as good as the new found energy that I have since losing 112 lbs .

Cph - Congrats on your band !!! Gas X Strips are the best for gas and walking... QUOTE=lindaa;1272167]Candice--neither front or molar--it's a bicusped--#12 if that means anything. I won't be doing much smiling for the next several months (except around my friends in Canada--after a couple of thoes marguritas!) Needy patients! I know them. How can people not realize??? Sometimes I feel sorry for them--they really are low functioning, but other times there is just nothing we can do for them but listen and listen and listen. Hummm, maybe I'm a "Needy patient" when it comes to the dentist? Linda - they gave you a local and some valium right :0) I know where 12 is :0) - I would say most of my molars have crowns - I have a bridge w/4 on lower right side - I am missing #14 on top right - but you can't really see it - they want to do a bridge - but I hate the drill and it doesn't bug me - it's been gone for years and teeth aren't shifting. Heck my dentist has the gas ready when I walk in the door... :0) Needy patients - I have need clients they call me instead of the insurance carriers to ask about billing questions - their policies are direct bill - I don't have access to that info only the carrier does..... Can't beleive your mom didn't notice - but again I guess I can - I am so jealous !!! I want my eyes done - well maybe thanksgiving time.. [ Candice - That would piss me off too... I am lucky I don't see 99.9% of my clients - I talk to them on the phone or email - if they saw my face I would be in big trouble - I can't hide my emotions all the time.. or if I did have to I would be a raving maniac !!! Steph - Go out to dinner you need real food - and how come you can't take a day for you... Why can't you put you on top of the list.. Kari are you coming with your dh or alone?? Don't go to the store - I guess I am lazy - I won't get up get dressed and go - I will look for stuff around the house to eat - and since there really isn't much to pig out on - I am pretty safe.. Darling - get some protein in :0) - you are going to be hungry in a little while... and if you aren't focus on your protein tomorrow.. I agree with Kari - food devil is rearing it's ugly head for me too - 1st the hang over - not bad really but too many carbs/starches - Saturday not bad but seemed like I picked all day long and had that frozen yogurt - yesterday better... Today good granola - fish/salads /fiber one bar and 1 c watermelon but I am still pissed/hurt about my non important 30 yr at job - tired and want to sit down with a bag of cookies - or cake - somethings sweet.. I want to eat and not worry about the amount of calories that I am eating... Even when I do have treats when I am away from home - I still think about it and worry that my addiction will rear it's ugly head and I won't stop... But alas - I can't eat like I use to no matter how bad I want to !!!! - and I do feel better since I got back from the gym.. I am making a one pot wonder - Chinese Pork ;0) 2 pork chops cut in cubes - 1/2 bell pepper - 1/2 onion - 1 small jalapeno pepper - 1/2 cup brown jasmine rice - 5 or 6 dashes of soy sauce - 1/2 c water - 3/4 sliced small cabbage... It will be my dinner tonite along with a salad and my lunch for the rest of the week..

Laura I'm going to Nottawasaga - Ontario Canada - it's about an hour outside Toronto (that's the airport I'm flying into) We are going to some Elvis Festival on 7/24 street dance thingie... I don't know where I am going execpt to my friend Candice's house :0) in Canada :0)

DOING GREAT LAURA !!!! Love the pic's Ya I can't beleive you have such crappy insurance - I get 500 for healthy $1000 ded & Dental 1500 of coverage... But each yr we keep losing something.. Yep food still scares me..... I will be 2 yrs out on Friday the 17ths and I am still scared that I will go back to my old eating ways. Yesterday GS had made a mirco wave burritto - they are that crappy good kind of food - I had a bite then another one - then threw the damn thing away - I wanted to eat it - but it's like 350 cal for a tiny burritto. So yes I haven't lost my taste for unhealthy food - I miss it at time especially when I am down or tired.. IMHO I think to a degree this is going to be a life long battle- but Meredith you have age on your side - the way I look at it I wasted alot of years telling myself I was ok being fat.. I feel too good to go back and that's what stops me 98% of the time Hugs & prayers for a safe surgery and speedy recovery - are you going to WW ?? Glad the bears didn't get you :0) Glad no infection - Laura had the same thing - you will be ok Hugs Bugs - Congrats on your approval - ya some doc offices are crappy - I'm lucky to have a great doc..

Good Morning Gang Talking about depression - I can't say I am really depressed just hating my job and didn't want to come to work this morning - Joseph Bday is wed am going to have to overnight cards and Andrew tells me - I messed mine up - I have to get a new one - we have til 4 this afternoon - "@#$%@#$!" So this morning I took my little 5 mg of xanan or I wasn't going to make it thru the day... Yep 9 more sleeps til Canada.... Well gotta get to work - CBL

Tootsy Darling you have done very well - it take time to lose the weight we didn't put it on over night and they banded our tummies and not our heads and that's where the main problem lies imho... I will be physically full but that doesn't stop me from wanting to eat more - being bored - omw that's my biggest problem - I want to snack - 3 meals (low fat - sf and limited carbs/starches) and 2 healthy snack - that's healthy eating and thats what we have to do to lose the weight - ya restriction helps - but as we all know - slider foods can be our down fall.. This isn't a diet - it's about a healthy lifetime lifestyle change in our eating - our eating normal is what got us fat in the 1st place - so we need to understand that... I don't care what kind of WLS you have all of them are only tools - even bypass pple gain their weight back too...

Good Morning Gang Candice - I'll tell Deb you send your luv - Took her shopping carried in the groceries and then put them away - we came back to my house watched a couple movies then went and had frozen yogurt for dinner :0) Well I did have a omeltte later on cuz yogurt does 't stick... Linda - Maybe I will be inspired to get my face done - I'm such a chicken - I do have 2 weeks off at thanksgiving time.... Maybe then.. Glad you are having a good weather day - it's hot here 112 today - I need to get going soon - I got my stuff to do today and with my eating for the last couple of days - I really need to get back on track.. Not bad - yesterday a little mendou for bf - then popcorn - peach - 2 100 cheese 3 slices salami - the frozen yogurt 420 cal. egg and 130 for pasta - well that's not as bad as I thought 1540 - but who know's what I forgot :0) Ya bosses - screw them - I agree the friendships that I have made with some of the pple at work are what I take as the best part of my job... Phyl - Sounds like you had a good time w/GK's !!! I know how much you will enjoy a quite evening .. Congrats on the complements - you do deserve them !!! Steph - Quite being bummed out and come back - everythng will work out... Karla - You are doing great - don't worry about Mark... Take this time for you... How far away does he live?? Kari - Ya we want to know if you have gotten your passport and if you are joining us?? Karri - Hope your run yesterday went well and you are resting today.. Well I gotta get in gear - it's 8:36 need to get dress and get my stuff done... CBL :frown:

Well I want to hear what it takes - My DS & DIL need to go - but alas they gotta work - and I think my DIL would flake out - helll she won't walk up the stairs if she doesn't have too.. Laura - Hell even 3 yrs going to the peace corps - a card lunch or something !!! Bosses now a days can be so insensitive The issue on your niece as we all know there is nothing we can do til they want help themselves - I know watching my DIL eat last weekend - was sickening and to think I ate some what like her prior to surgery... She eats way more carbs than I ever had and eats alot more than I did - she is most likely pushing 300 lbs.. Heck I have to bite my tongue alot of time when I watch other eat and how they eat - you know like a reformed alcoholic smoker - we go the other way :0) Glad Nelson is better today - $1000 for 4 teeth - you guys don't have dental insurance - That's a bit pricey... I agree that it's most likely from his beginnings - and no prenatal care or care for that matter after his birth... You are both lucky him for having you and you for having him. Meredith Ya I had fun til the time that I don't remember :0) ... But I'm a happy drunk :frown:) Won't be doing that for a long time - I'm not much of a drinker anymore... It interfers with my program :0) How much longer are you on a liquid diet?? and we all have our fat days - just take it one day at a time... Talk to the doc - I'm not diabrtic so I can't help at all on this.. Good Morning Gang Yesterday had to help my GF who threw her back out - today gotta get my own shopping and stuff done ... 1 week from thrusday I leave for Canada for my Lucky #7 trip... Gotta figure out what to take - just want to take a carry on.. I need to shower - will cbl later have a great sunday..