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well, I haven't lost any weight since July, and I've been very depresses about it. I have tried to be the model bandster, but I just can't get the scale to move. I'd gotten down to 242, but I gained weight some how and now I'm back at 248. Talk about depressing. The only reason I've got the 35 to my name that I count the weight I've lost since my all time high. I still feel like fraud... I have lost a lot of inches though, so that's a good thing. I also have 46 NSVs so that's the only thing that keeps me going.

Congrats! Great feeling isn't it!

Congrats and good work!

Yeah! WE miss you Greg! Having too much fun with that new grandbaby????

Oh Kare! No, I don't do this, but my DH does. I rarely get things stuck like that, since I'm almost obsessive with "chewing to goo". I've only had a couple of PBs that didn't end with me dry heaving and leaving me feeling sick for hours or days. It always freakes me out a bit when my DH does this because I know what happens in my body, but he doesn't have this same issue I do.

Oh Jigglypuff! I feel your pain. But please repeat after me : "the time before the fill is for healing not weight loss." Any weight loss before your fill is Bonus! And I don't think it's uncommon for people to gain a few pounds before their first fill, I know I gained back 5 pounds. We do not lose at the same rate as RNY folks. Heck, we don't even lose the same rate within our group! I know it's really hard to sit there and feel like everybody on the planet is losing weight with their band when you feel like you are not. Okay, repeat this after me too "I am not a failure. I am a wonderful person and deserve the best the Universe has to offer."

Okay, The cliff notes version: My favoriate weather guy is convinced that the KGB is using Japanese mobsters and terrorists to attack These Unitied Stated of America using weather machines. Katrina was a direct attack. Rita was a direct attack. The longer tornado season is a direct attack. Yakuza (Japanese Mob) the Aum Shinrikyo,is a Japanese Terrorist group responsible for a Serin nerve gas attack in a crowded Tokyo subway And Lisa, you're not fooling anyone you know. and since I can hijack my own thread any time... HI DONALI!!! She's back! She's BACK!!!! I've missed you terribly!

Oh Lisa, I would never doubt you... ever. Nuh-uh. Not gonna do it.

We just worry Teressa. It would be like a diabetic saying that they didn't need thier insulin or someone with high blood pressure saying that they didn't need their meds. Sleep apnea is potentially leathal. Deadly. we don't want you pushing up the daisies before your time. Please have another sleep study!

Your seamstres/taylor should be able to fix it up without much difficulty. You could always get one of Nana~'s corsets... oh la la ! Yes, you have done amazing work since getting your band! We are very proud, and you should be too! Damn, you lost 50, I lost 3. Excellent work on your part!

what you are going through right now is very tough, sorry. Can you have any liquids? I would have something that had a bit of fat, like one of the Kefer (yogurt drinks) that has some fat. Fat, along with Protein will help you feel full longer. Once you are healed with your band, you will be on real food again. The stage you are at IS NOT typical. You can do this. If I can leave my family for 4 years to get a college education, you can do a couple of weeks on this diet. Courage!

Gee, I was expecting some thing really bad, sort of like Robin William... Just because the media says you have to be a eunuch and wax your chest doesnt' mean you actually have to do that...

Poor them! Yup, you are way too classy! These people with no sense of history or historical hotties...

"One nation, indivisble, with liberty and justice for all." More powerful.

May the cities in your wake burn like candles on your cake!

"Under God" was only added to the pledge in the '50s to show we were diffent from the "Goddless Commies" because it was better dead than red. Actually, at a Ping-pong game in China you would expect to hear the virtures of the communits party extolled, not a blessing. I've been hearing people decry the assault on Christianity in this country for about 20 years now. I've yet to see any evidence of this. But when people keep telling each other the same lie, they begin to believe the lie. Can anyone name a non-Christian President??? Are Christians being pursecuted for going to church here? I can't even think of a factual US news story where a Christian was killed because he was a Christian. I'm not talking about anywhere overseas, but only within the borders of the US, or even Canada, or the EU. I don't know about Austrailia, but I only read tech news from OZ... In many parts of American, Gays and Lesbians are beaten and harrassed and even killed simply because of who they are. They are denighed their Constitional rights, their human rights to be married. (and if you think that marriage is for the sole purpose for having children, then everyone who doesn't have children should imediately be forced to divorce. This would include infertle couples, couples who choose to not have children and people too old to have children. Why are these people permitted to have the civil protections that marriage provides but not Gays and/or Lesbians?) Christian Ministers, such as the Rev. Phelps and others, have saught to place markers celebrating the murder of young gay men. Here in Idaho, someone was beaten up because he had a Darwin Fish on his car. American Muslims have been killed because they were American Muslims. If we must have prayers and benidictions before sporting events and such, then I would like to see everybody get equal time. When was the last time an Imam gave a blessing for your event? When was the last time you had a Wiccan spell? A Pagan blessing? Or no blessing at all from an Atheist? A reading from the Tora or the Bagavagita? This would not be an assult on your rights, but an equalization of our rights, all the Non-Christians. 15-20 years ago I would get harrassed because I would complain about the smoking in my places of work, whether they were restaurants or offices. I'm a non-smoker, and I hated to be continually exposed to the smoke. Today I don't have to put up with all the smoke becaues our socity has evolved to the point where we understand that one person doesn't have the right to force others to smoke (breathe in the second hand smoke). I think this is a similar thing. Just think about it, put yourself in someone else's shoes, my shoes for instance. Honestly how would you feel if you had to hide your religion for fear of physical violence? How would you feel if you every time you did mention your faith, you would be verbally harrassed and well meaning peopel at every turn tried to explain why you were wrong, and that you should convert to The One True Faith? How would you feel if you had to move somewhere where you would have no access to others of your faith?

funny, my great big doppy son also did so much better when he was able to mentor younger kids too!

A man was sitting on the edge of the bed, observing his wife turning back and forth, looking at herself in the mirror. Since her birthday was not far off he asked what she'd like to have for her Birthday. I'd like to be six again, she replied, still looking in the mirror. On the morning of her Birthday, he arose early, made her a nice big bowl of Lucky Charms, and then took her to Six Flags theme park. What a day! He put her on every ride in the park; the Death Slide, the Wall of Fear, the Screaming Monster Roller Coaster, everything there was. Five hours later they staggered out of the theme park. Her head was reeling and her stomach felt upside down. He then took her to a McDonald's where he ordered her a Happy Meal with extra fries and a chocolate shake. Then it was off to a movie, popcorn, a soda pop, and her favorite candy, M&M's. What a fabulous adventure! Finally she wobbled home with her husband and collapsed into bed exhausted. He leaned over his wife with a big smile and lovingly asked, "Well Dear, what was it like being six again?" Her eyes slowly opened and her expression suddenly changed. "I meant my dress size!" The moral of the story: Even when a man is listening, he's gonna get it wrong.

Christians are not being stripped of their rights.

I was reading at age 4 so I was sent to a private school since the public school wouldn't accept me at 4. I was tiny, not big. The first day of 8th grade was a new school... the teahers wouldn't let me in the assigned class because they *knew* I was only a sixth grader. I had to spend my first day of 8th grade in the 6th grade, and I was one of the smaller kids in that class too. I got kicked out of the girl club in 5th grade or so when I perhaps unwisely pointed out that Donny Osmond was never going to pick any of the 5th grade girls at my school because we were IN THE FIFTH GRADE at some obscure private school in a small town. I say that if she is academically ready then do it. It is far worse to be in a class bored to tears than to be the biggest or smallest in size. Bored people are not actively particpating, they are not learning. They already grasp the concepts and want more. I never felt in synch with my classmates, but I have never been in synch with my peers. (see my thread on how I feel like a total freak).

You found out DeLarla! And here I was doing my very best to keep this hidden from your eyes only

Nope, she's still alive according to IMDB... Howard Hughes, in addition to designing airplanes, is said to have designed a "cantilever bra" to take care of Miss Russell's physical endowments.

All i can do is send you my best. I can't offer any advice, other that to remind you that probably everyone on the board has you on their prayer list...

Oh Alex! you have to buy silk! cotton is nice for everyday, but silk is simply mah-vo-lous doll-link!