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talk about your navel gazing....

Great job Wendy!

What a great start Nyke! 40 pounds in 5 weeks! That is amazing work! okay, you do not deserve to suffer. No one deserves to suffer. You are a person with intrinsic value, and because you have value, you only deserve the best. Please find some positive affermations and read them every day! It really makes a difference. I know that chronic pain plays terrible games with your head. I used to wear my pain like a badge of honor. I didnt' realize it, but that is what I did. Buy yourself different types of bottled Water until you find one you do like. I personally cannot stand the tap water here in Idaho, it's ... horrible. I've tried to filter it, but still, yuck! I find that the different bottled waters all have their own subtle flavors, and currently really like the Earth20 brand. Partly because I can get it in gallon jugs. The well water at my mother's place is terrible, but the well water that my sister had at her old place was WONDERFUL. Good luck finding a water you like! It's important! WOW!!! What a great analagy! I've never thought about it in these terms, but that is a great way to explain it! I hear by announce my intent to steal this thought! It will go along way to explain in terms my boy-ohs can understand. Water is generally my prefered beverage, but getting them to drink it...

Lisa, when I don't eat breakfast I find that I eat more at night. You're SUPPOSED TO EAT breakfast!

Pugs: one of the guys on campus has two pugs and an elderly daushound... I call them the pug patrol. I don't know why, but that just gives me quite the giggle. (cue 1939 radio announcer) dun duN DUN! It's Pug Patrol! Keeping the streets of Pocatello safe! I'm afraid that when I get home for the summer that I'm going to have to put my beloved Astro to sleep. He's 15 years old, which in doggy years is... dead. The vet can't believe he's still doing so well. But unfortunately, he can hardly move any more. When he lies down on our hardwoods he cannot get up by himself most of the time.

My biggest problem with easter candy are Cadbury's cream eggs and the malted milk eggs... looooove malted milk eggs. Luckily for me, there are no See's shops here in my exile. oooooo scotch mallows... bordoux bars... Yikes!

Elizas' getting her ba-and! Yay! hope your procedure and recovery go as great as mine did!

Hope your procedure and recovery went as well as mine! Laura got her ba-and!

Jenna got her ba-and! Jenna got her ba-and! Yay!

okay, I'm game, finally. yesterday: Breakfast one packet of oatmeal, blended with some milk coffee with 1/2 & 1/2 and turbinado sugar Lunch: one Protein shake snack: s/f pudding dinner: Homemade broccolli Soup onions, garlic, basil, broccoli, colliflower, chicken sausage, milk, olive oil snack: s/f fudgesicle

that's great news Pink! I getting a wee bit tired of liquids myself, just one more week before I get to experience the mushy stage!

Mr. Happy :pirate

Tuesday, walked 45 minutes, no horseback riding Wednesday, walked 30 minutes today, walked 60 minutes

Oh Shelly, this is wonderful! I'm so happy for you!

Yay Lisa! this is such wonderful news! I'm doing the happy dance for you right now!

isn't that funny. my right side is so much more comfortable than my left! (my port is just above my belly button...) I'm so glad you are making friends with your band Norma!

Nicole! This is not a diet! You are not cheating. Be kind to yourself. You only had one piece, not an entire bag.

Man, this thread is busy! I agree with Penni--I think a before pix is a good idea. Isn't that sort of the purpose of the band?

I would like to formally request some prayers and white light headed my way. I’m having a rough patch with my health, and it looks like it is getting to be … habitual. Two weeks ago, I had to be transported to the ER via ambulance. I’d had a terrible asthma attack. Monday, the 14th I had my band (a good thing). Last night I had to have an emergency D&C. They found some “suspicious” polyps, as well as a nasty fibroid that runs through both chambers of my uterus. (Yes, that’s right. I have two chambers in my uterus.) So, could y’all please send a little help my way?

Zoe! That is my usual scent at home! How'd you know?

oh yes, count me in!

Yeah, as a matter of fact, I also work about 20 hours a week... A nurse came into my room this morning and discovered that I was the "wrong" person. She jokingly asked if maybe I wanted her to bring me a baby... I laughed. My answer was "NO!, not just no but HELL NO!!!" Then I laughed, of course. I haven't had an issue with my period for a decade, when this happened. This period was just one from hell. I mean, I went thourgh an entire package of supers in 4 days. I don't expect to have further troubles after this D&C. Maybe I'm just being optimistic, but well, that is my basic nature... I do NOT want any sort of hysterectomy. The ob/gyn said that there is a new technique for dealing with the troublesome lining of the uterus. Ablative something... Thanks so much for all the warm thoughts!

wow, great work Pati! I'm looking forward to racking up some NSVs of my own!

I totally agree with Alex. A lot of people find it really difficult to deal with change, and you are changing before their eyes. There may be an element of jelousy as well, because you are doing what they have not been able to accomplish.

Wow! the results are AMAZING!!! My DH will have to have massive plastic surgery after he's lost more weight, and I've been a little aprehensive about it. Thank you so much for posting these pix.