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Hey all. How are you? I think I am on a plateau and I wanna know how to get off of it~ I have been bouncing around the same weight give or take two pounds for the last three weeks. Nothing earth shaking going on. I need another fill I am fairely sure of that....and I hope that once I get the fill that will make a difference. But I feel sooo bloated and gross its not funny! Aunt Flo is just about ready to leave, shes packing her bags~ Good Ridence!~ And Im pretty sure that has something to do with it...but I am really seeing a slow down with the weight loss. How do I jump start this? Lower the caloric intake and up the exercise? That is sooo much easier said than done~ I have been stagnent now, without going back to work. However I did get a call from my old boss and she asked me if I would be interested in subbing for ClassRoom Aide....I may hear back from her tomorrow or Monday. It would be good getting out of the house and back to work. I know that will help me past this hump. Well, thanks for listening!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR J.Q. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUUUUUUUUU!!! Okay, Im dying to know....whats the tat of on your right forearm?

Hey guys~ Thanks for the input. I dunno whats going on. I know I need a fill. I am switching my normal diet for today...See if that helps and I am switching my exercise...God help me if I am gainning muscle...I have a big frame as it is. I will look like a pro wrestler~YIKES~ I will letcha know what happens. I am gonna switch afew things over the next few days and we will see...I will check out that Dr Fox's plateau busting diet...Sounds scarey to me...eatting what ever I want? That could be asking for T-R-O-U-B-L-E~ One more week till the haunted house opens...and I go NUTS up there. So, there will be a different exercise routine. I am on my feet and on the go for HOURS!! I go for a fill on the 27th, then we open on the 30th, I know that will help. OKAY DOKAY! coffee is calling~ Talk to you all soon

I have been banded now ohhh four months and the farts are unreal~STILL~ Ones to make my pappy proud! I am amazed some times at the noises coming from my body~

Thanks for the input Anne...When I find something that works I will letcha know ...Im sure reducing carbs would help, but I really dont do too many as it is. Maybe watching fat intake. I bet thats higher than my carb intake. I dunno. I have never tracked anything I have taken in since the surgery.

Dammit DeLarla...While your post was important, and very well put, my "ears" perked up for some Triple X conversation.......Guess I will go make a cup of coffee instead~ ehehehe I agree with you girl~

FIRST WEIGH IN SINCE JOINING CHALLENGE Starting weight 225 Todays weight 223 Lost ```````````2 pounds! Total to meet goal set for this challenge 18 pounds~ Oh my gosh, I think I hit another goal today~ That goal was to weigh the same or less than my father which hasn't happened in a very very very long time!!!! Today however is the day where I think I matched his weight!!! I will call him in a little while to confirm that, but EHA I think I did it~ Is this what is called an NSV?? YEEEAAAAAAAHH ~~ I guess my friend chasing me with that snake did have some benefits..ehehehehe

Estella~~ My mom has had two strokes. She is still mobile, but she has an array of other things too...High blood pressure, diabeties, chronic pain...You get the picture....I live three blocks from her....However, my father, He lives in Florida!! He isnt in the best of health either~So I do understand your stress. My dad hasnt told me all of his health issues and he wont. He doesn't want me to worry. He did however tell me where his locked box is....He gave me an extra key to it when I was down there this summer. He told me his last wishes for when the time comes and I am his next of kin on all his paperwork. Today is actually his birthday! He is now 65!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY POP....gotta call him later! I sent a card too....Anyway....I do know your stress and it doesn't get any easier when the doctors that they are dealing with or the pharmacy that they are dealing with make stupid mistakes like they did to your mom! Im so sorry!!! My dad has a very regimented schedule! He is a creature of habit and doesn't sleep after 5 am...Hes up with the birds. He works still and is never home during the daytime. Well he got put on a new RX and it makes him very sleepy. So, he did sleep past 5am the other morning.....and then wanted a nap...He was taking the day off to go to his doctor. So hes laying down taking a nap, and was woken up by a horriable horriable noise outside his place. At first he didn't care, but then desided I better go see whats going on. Well, when he opened his shades he saw the fire department, the state police, EMT's a streacher out....the entire works!! Outside his door!!! And standing behind all these wonderful rescue people was his good friend~ His friend got scared because my father wasn't in his normal routine and desided to take a nap...and his friend thought the worst of course!! So he called for help!!! OH AND THEY CAME! Everyone...all the EMTS and cops and fire people all stood there shaking there head!!! Hey, better safe than sorry I guess. I do feel better there is at least ONE person looking after my father~~~ My father is a very blunt man too...I could just imagin what he said when he opened the door!! YIKES!! ehehehehehe best wishes for you and your mom! hang in there girl!!!

Rob Zombie does it for me! I pop in his music in my CD player and there I go!! I haven't been in quite a while, but when life gets back to "normal" next week I am gonna start walking again.....

Okay, Im bringing this back cause I gotta new story! We are 3 weeks away from Opening night at the haunted house that I work at. We are ONE week from inspection! There are a million things to do to be ready. So, a bunch of us meet up there last night to paint and fix and decorate...My job was to paint the back side of one of the attractions. OK IEY IEY!! So off I go with my paint bucket and rollers and big high reachin stick. I was on a roll....Got half of the high stuff done...and I look down..DAMMIT A SNAKE...I took off running ~ screaming for anyone to come and save me. No one would come. All the guys up there "oh no, cant busy...oh umm lemme just finish"...SCAREY CATS THEMSELVES. So one girl comes back with me, she was gonna shoo it away...so we were standing there getting closer, and her brother (the owner of this place, and a very good friend to me) heard what was going on and came to save us. He carried a big stick....I jumped into a trailor that was there to observe the slaying...Hes bashing the hell outta this snake, then picks it up with the big stick and starts coming my way! Oh my gosh WHAT THE HELL is he doing....he is chasing me with the dead snake!!! I ran like the DEVIL himself was chasing me! I ran the entier length of the property within 2.3 seconds!!!!! Why is he doing this to me, hes afraid of snakes too....wait a minute......the snake fell off the bored PHEW A chance for me to catch my breath...Women my size should NOT be running like this!! What? Hes bending down to pick it up...NOOO HE WOULD NEVER....freekin snake was fake! He planted it back there and planned the WHOLE thing! THIS MAN IS PURE EVIL!!! He will be repaid~~~ Later this same night...he and I went thru this one attraction together. OH MY GOSH lemme just say...and this is the honest to goodness truth....I have never been so scared up there before in my life! I was screaming at the top of my lungs! I have NEVER been scared to that point by any of our attractions before!!!! And this is my fourth year doing this!! Customers are going to go NUTS over this one attraction! CANT WAIT CANT WAIT CANT WAIT!!!!!!!

Congratulations to you both!

If anything its opening up a lot of doors. Im eatting less, loosing weight, feeling better physically and emotionally...I can wear the style clothes that I like rather than what fits...and I dont have to worry about dying young and leaving my son. I think those benefits far outweigh anything that may be restricted after banding such as not being able to eat certain things...Your activity isn't limited in any way....except during healing of course....... I hope this helps ya in making your decision. If I had to do it all over again, I just would have done it MUCH sooner!!!

Ugh, DeLarla....Feeling gross too today. I feel like I need a fill and I dont go back to my doctor till the end of this month. The food seems never ending. I have been caving into tempations...potato chips today~ and Im just plain ol hungry. I keep saying, today will be better than yesterday....but guess what....NOT! My husband has been home with a slipped disk..Maybe hes throwing off my normal strong will and ablity?? Maybe my stress level is over taking my will? I dunno but what ever it is...DAMMIT GO BACK TO WORK! ehehehe...He starts physical therapy tomorrow....by the grace of God and some much needed good luck he will be back on work by the end of this week. Tomorrow is all ready Wednesday!

HOLY MOLY that is amazing! JQ~~Congratulations! I am sooo happy for you!

Welcome Janey! Nice to meet you!!

Im in!! My starting weight is 225....My goal for the next TEN weeks is 20 pounds. I will post pictures at a later time... Thanks for this challenge...I am gonna stick to my weigh ins on Sunday if thats okay. I have been doing it regularly since my surgery on Sunday mornings.

**Jenna** You are SO not a lone in this cheating/guilt cycle! Im right there with ya. I haven't been very good these last few days. I have been over confident I think and eatting whatever. This is exactly how I have blown HOW MANY diets? I can't even count any more. I am just trying REALLY hard to stay out of the kitchen and away from Taco Bell untill 9-6-05...Thats when my son goes back to school. I plan on starting to really exercise faithfully for 30 minutes everyday after I bring him to school. If I get my job back, which I am really not counting on, but hey stranger things have happened...I will be walking all day long anyways....Sooooo I just gotta hold on one more day! I think I can do it. And it doesn't help that my good friend works at an Ice Cream shoppe, and I have been going there a lot to visit her. Oh lemme have just a little bit of this, or a little bit of that...can ya put some hot fudge on that? EWL! Damn chocolate!!!! Its from the Devil I know it!!!!! I haven't been in that shop in a week, so maybe the temptation is subsiding? I dunno...Its scarey though. Weigh sure does come back a LOT quicker than it goes away...THEN my halloween thing starts on the 30th!! eha! I run around like a nut up there and I know that will help me get over this hump! We RUN sometimes from 7pm - 2am~~ Some nights are way busier than others! I think the latest I ever got home from the haunted house was 3am, 3:30am...That was after clean up, and our nightly bragging session on who scared who worse! ehehe Sorry, to always go on and on about that place and Halloween, but it is my passion! Gets the mind off the other passions in life...CHOCOLATE... TTYL

lins12.... Thankfully it wasn't anything worse, but whoa how scarey! If I can ask, what kind of meat was it? Was it chicken, steak, chop meat?? LITTLE BITE LITTLE BITE CHEW CHEW CHEW LITTEL BITE LITTLE BITE CHEW CHEW CHEW (This is what goes thru my head now when I eat because I was getting stuck and things just weren't going good for me...) TTYL

AAAMOM!! YOU DID IT YOU DID IT YOU DID IT YOU DID IT!!! I am soooo happy for you!!! Im right on your heals..I have lost 48 pounds!! We were both banded in May! I was 5/5/05....Okay Note to Self: CATCH UP TO AAAMOM ~ You are inspirational!!

Ummmm I have an IDEA of what you got!! ehehehehehe GOOD FOR YOU!!! Does it fall into the category with animal names....Beaver,Rabbit,Dolphin...ehehehehehe Gotta get a catelog from DeLarla... The company that I typically order from is always "threatening" me..."This is your last chance to order" ~ Or "Due to the high cost of advertising this will be your last catelog".....They keep coming....ehehehehehehehe

Great to hear from you Debbie-Do!! I am almost half way there....10 more pounds and then I will be half way to goal. I so agree with you on the walking! Its very important. I haven't been out in a while, so I gotta get back on the wagon with that. My son will be starting school in a few days so I think I will be out there walking then. I still dunno whats going on with my job. I haven't spoken to the Union as of yet...the rep is out on vacation till the 6th! What ever happens, happens...Im really not upset about it anymore. If I go back, great, if not...then onward to a new chapter in life. I had to lose 110 pounds!! eck! I have lost just about 50 now! I am at 2.0 cc's with my fills. I think a fill is going to happen at my next visit with my surgeon..We will see. I had been getting stuck, almost BP, but I was under a tremendous amount of stress, and I wasn't concentrating on the Bandster Montra...LITTLE BITE LITTLE BITE,CHEW CHEW CHEW sooo I did it to myself. Now that I am at peace...things are going down better. Okay girl...Thanks for checking in...Good luck to you at reaching your goal! You can do it! Look how far you have come!! TTYL

HotLikeHer!! WAAAHOOO You did it~~you did it!! Congratulations!!! St Petersburgh huh? My Dad lives there.......BEAUTIFUL place...now you can enjoy it soo much more...espeically when you are HOT LIKE HER!!!

Unreal! Makes ya wonder whats making HIM so depressed that he has to tear apart a total stranger! Good for you for not taking off a limb or two on your way past him!

Yep can feel mine too! Mine actually moved! It was just below my largest scar...and I went for a follow up the other day and said to the doctor, whats this?? I was feeling a lump about two inches HIGHER than my port scar....So I showed her she said thats your port! I said NOOOO Its down below the scar...she explained that as you loose fat your muscles move and tone up and get tighter... She said its a good thing that it moves, it means my muscles are getting toner...which is what we want to happen. The port was sewn to the muscle wall...PHEW Thought that it broke free and was roaming around in there aimlessly! ehehehehe

Congratulations Jodie!!!! WAAAHOOO!!!