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Chris, I think the moral is to avoid eating and driving. Well, obviously, the moral is to avoid PBing...

Not sure where I should post this... DH is taking me to see "The Man With the Screaming Brain" Monday! WOOT!!!! It is Bruce Campbell's latest, AND HE'S GOING TO BE THERE FOR A Q&A! I'm gonna get my Ash action figure autographed!

My soon to be sisters-in-law were absoulutely terrified that a Water fight was going to break out at my wedding. You see, at my neice's wedding, that is exactly what we did. had a giant water fight. 'Cause I suppose that is the sort of people we are. I don't think my sisters-in-law have ever had a water fight in their entire lives. More the pitty. We had about 250 people at our wedding. We had our cerimony at my in-law's rec center just south of Seattle, in Normandy Park. It was a beautiful late August day. I'm firmly convinced that August is our reward for the rest of the year. It's always just the most beautiful month here... The limo was a vintage Bently. My dress was a cream Renaissance inspired dress, and DH and Spudboy were both wearing tail coats. Our groomsmen (I think we had 8 of them) wore traditional tuxes, but my ladies were all in Renaissance dresses. Thier colors were from a pale pink to a deep burgundy, depending on their color. (I bought their dresses...) DH had arranged a harpist. .... A small stream demarked the area where the cerimony was from our guests. After DH and I exchanged our vows, DH and Spud exchanged their vows to be dad and boy. The three of us lit the Unity Candle. To greet our guests we met them at the bridge. the reception was in the rec hall, with a big buffet of cold-cuts and cheeses and stuff like that. All the left-overs went to the one of the local soup-kitchens. (We sort of doubled our food budget so that there would be plenty of extra.) the next week we went to another wedding, and all anyone could talk about was my wedding. I was soo embarrased for the other woman. ... My dad had died a little more than a month before my wedding, after a long bout with cancer. My younger sister thought I should cancel the wedding, and didn't speak to me for years because I didn't cancel. My dad would have had a gi-normous fit if we'd canceled and lost our deposit money. He was funny that way!

Paula, honey. Get a nice blank book for each one of your kids. Write all the cute stuff in that book, and viola! no worries about forgetting. Or mixing them up.

When Spudboy was about 10, we were driving home from our tae kwon do lesson. In a very tiny and quite voice he askes if I know any ... geeks. I start laughing, and say yes, there two geeks in the car right now. He protests. "You're not a geek-mom, you're a fun mom." I asure him that I'm about as geeky as women get. We drive is silence for a while. Then he asks me if I know any other geeks. I start laughing. At the time, I was working at Microsoft, in a locked lab testing 3rd party network software. (see, told you.) As part of my contract there, I made them set up a workstation dedicated to Spud with all the MS games installed so when I had to work on the weekends I could just bring him with me. More silence. "Mom, is George a geek?" At this point I had to pull the car over because I was laughing so hard. George is THE geekiest guy I know. You see George in the grocery story and you just KNOW he's a geek. Then Spud proceeds to name off the 3 geekiest of geek-boys I worked with, wanting to know if they were geeks too. I had to explain to him that EVERYONE I worked with was a major geek. Turns out, some kid at the bus stop had been calling him a geek, but he didn't know what it was, and just knew it had to be something bad. George took Spud under his wing and helped him understand and accept his geekhood. I'll always have a very soft spot in my heart for George.

okay, Let's add a twist to the pix part. I say we wear the same outfit in the before and after so that we can get a realistic portate of the weight loss.

See, this is exactly why I don't try to give advice to RNY folks. I know NOTHING about it. So... in otherwords, Giveyouthemoon, they were saying you didn't have the guts? Heh heh heh, who doesn't have the guts now vomit-boy??

I'm in, but with my luck, I'll not have any weight lost, but I'll have at least 10 NSVs...

Howzabout Katiedid and the Crickets?

Doh! I didn't even make the connection! My silicone friend doesn't have a name, but I have noticed that I feel soothed when I rub it.

Lately? hmmm, "of course you like to play The Sims, it's a doll house, and you're a girl." It hadn't even occured to me, but he's right, It is a doll house! From when he was little? hmmm, he'd just seen his first peacock at age 3 and burst out laughing and laughing. I asked what was so funny. "the goofy bird thinks it's a butterfly!"

Double Woot!

years of being told I was fat and ugly, I suspect. I have a very bad self picture. I see photos of myself can can't believe it is me because the pix doesn't match what I see in the mirror. My older sister thinks it is because the camera doesn't capture "me." Maybe because I'm reminded that I have one of those downward mouths? I dunno. "fat and ugly."

DH has, but I've never BPd

Hey Flower, head on over to the food forum, and you will see a couple of threads devoted to the various stages of food. You will also find good recipes and suggestions with just a little digging. g'luck!

Lisa, I actually do have extra kids. I have Skylar, and Casey and Terran and sometimes Chrisie and now Ayla, Spud's girlfriend. hehe, during finals week, one of my buds in ID introduced me to his best friend. I dont' know how the converstation turned that way, but I said something about missing my boy-ohs at home. 'Your boy-ohs?" Yeah, you know all the teen-aged boys that hang out at my house...." The look on this guys face was priceless! "uhm, why do you have a bunch of teen-aged boys hanging out at your house???" "oh, they are all friends with my son." "*silence* uhm, why do you let your son play with teen aged boys?" At this point, Mark, my bud, is just dying. His friend though I was maybe 28.

http://lapbandtalk.com/showthread.php?t=5050&highlight=haiku

several of my recent ones are under the Haiku thread.

I LOVE "Sean of the Dead!" One of the most clever movies I've seen in a very long time. I have to fess up, I'm 43 and I watch Saturday Morning Cartoons almost every Saturday.

you continue to inspire all of us! Great work!

Another day, another NSV. Today, not only am I wearing for the first time, a shirt I got for Christmas, but I RAN FOR THE BUS. Yes, you read that correctly, I RAN for the bus. It's not like there wasn't another bus in 5 minutes... but I RAN. Me! and I wasn't winded either! Heh, sure, I'm happy with all my NSVs but a part of me is wondering when I'm going to start having some weight loss!

Thanks Betty! That pix really shows how much weight my DH has lost so far. I'll have to dig up a before for him. Think I could post before and during pix of him on our main thread? He will never come here, since he wants this to be "my" place. I think he's finally lost 200 pounds and is in Tripoli!

First, great work! You've lost more than 50 pounds! Okay, sounds like you've hit that dreded platoue. (gawd, I wish I could spell.) I'm beginning to thing that these are rather on the desirable side, since they give you a chance to get used to your new size. Some speculate that it's the body's way of maintaining it's sanity. I noticed right off you haven't listed any of your NSVs, which in my book, are more important than scale victories, especially given that the scale is a damn lier. Look at how fit you are! WOOT! Have you had a real measurement of your body-fat taken? it could be that you are losing fat and gaining muscle. You didn't publish your weight, but it could be that you have an athletic build and will find that at 180 pounds you have a body-fat of 23%. Woot! In my not so humble opionion, the body-fat percentage is much more important than what the lying lyer of a scale says.

I really like the EAS Advant Edge. I like it better than the atkin's cans. I haven't tried the others on the list. I like that the EAS has more Protein than the atkin's. But I don't like all the sugars....

great work on getting to size 16, Fantastic! And yes, aren't mothers special? (as a mother myself...) I was raised by wolves.... But you know what, she's right. Sorry. You are not dieting. You have made a serious life change. Diets, by the way we define them, are designed to be a temporary state, not a permanent state. Because you (and nearly all of us for that matter) have had the Band, you are doing something vastly different and PERMANENT. Or as permanent as the Band is.