aligirrl77

Its important for all of us to drink at LEAST 8 glasses of water everyday. My question is when do y'all find time to do it? Esp between meals... I find that i eat 5 small meals a day...and its hard to find time to drink all my water considerind you have to wait 30 min before a meal and 40 mintes after. i haven't yet mastered this and i'd like to see how other people are getting it all in...

wow! its soooo interesting to hear that so many people have met there significant others online! thats sooo great! remember when it was like taboo to tell anyone u met someone online???! hahahah! my! how the times have changed! seems like everyones hookin' up online nowadays

he sounds like a d**k...with a capitol D... dump him

my father is very overweight and my mother is very thin. She doesnt really undertsand our struggle at all. I have a hard time dealing with my father being overweight bc i know he has alot of health problems bc of it. Its scary to think of what envevitably will happen to him... i hate to even talk about it bc it scares me so much. Unfortunatly thats the reality of the situation. Hes not a good canidate for wls - even though its probably the only thing that would help him at this point. I get soo mad sometimes. Like why cant he just loose weight. But then i think to myself... I KNOW WHY HE CAN'T bc i suffer from the same problem. Its not THAT easy...it never was and it never will be. I couldnt help myself until i got the band. i know its soooo hard but i still get so mad and so upset when i think about what he is doing to himself. I feel so bad that i am so hard on him when i have the same issues myself. WHY IS THAT? I just can't imagine my life without him... and i know that at the rate hes going...hes not gonna be around for much longer. I know this post probably sounds really silly to most people. But i guess i just dont know how to accept that this is my father. This is the way that he is and the way he will alwasy be...no matter what the outcome. Im just wondering if anyone has had these feelings about a family member or friend...and maybe shed some light onto the situation for me

i know there are a bunch of things we SHOULD and SHOULDN'T do now that we have our bands. Anyone out there think they can list them for us so we have them to look back on from time to time...

thanks j! im gonna get some tomorrow...sound delish...

i cant help it ..i love to snack...very bad i know but sometimes it just tatses so good!

anyone have any new easy and delish recipes they want to share. No ones posted any recipes in a while so i thought maybe it was time to start another post!!!!!

i felt pretty darn sore the day after...i def didnt want to do anything except rest. I was pretty doped up on pain meds and they actually made me feel worse then better. If i could do it all over again i would def lay off the pain meds....like i would have tried to ween myself off of them alot sooner and just deal with the pain. I think by like the 4th day i was feeling well enough to go out and do stuff...but i had alot of gas pain in my shoulder as well...and that made it sooo hard for me to feel 100% better. NO ONE TOLD ME ABOUT THE GAS PAIN...that was the worst part in my opinion!

the only thing i can tell u is that over time the redness will fade to a color that is white and "less noticible" then the red ones. of course they will always be noticable and probably look 'horrible' to u... but they really will start to look better. I rememeber the first ones i ever got on my stomach when i was 19! I cried soooooo hard...really u would have thought something really horrible happened to me! It was one of the most shocking and painful 'realisations' i have ever been thru in my weight gain/loss journey. I couldnt beleive it was happening to me!!!! I thought WHYY IS GOD PUNISHING ME...first im FAT thhhhennn to top it off I HAVE STRECH MARKS. I was sooo mad!!! lol I too went thru EVERY possible creme and remedy on the planet. Keeping ur skin mosturized does help...so try and do it everyday. I used to look at them in disgust (sometimes i still do if im having a bad day)...but most times i think of them as battle scars...a reminder of what used to be and what is now. They never look pretty but i dont let them stop me from feeling good about myself.

yeah! i was scared at first too.. but *knock on wood* everything has been great so far and i am very very happy!

ok good...so if u dont feel anything then its not a problem?

THE BEST ONES...and believe me i have tried sooo so sooo many are made by a company called American Sports Nutrition. I LOVE the banana whey and double chocolate whey... sooo good...

cool! thats a really good concise list. tell me... whats the deal with carbonated beverages? why cant we have them? and what if we break one of the rules every once in a while...is it something that will hurt us immediatly or are they bad for u if u keep doing them over and over again?

how does crack make u feel??? ive alwasy wanted to know that too! haha just askin a simple question... i thought maybe someone could describe how it feels but i guess noooot

im sure ur fine... i bug all the time when i feel the slightest little thing now in, on or near my scars!

its such a great but strange feeling to me to be constantly loosing weight. like i will step on the scale after a week of not weighing myself and when the number goes down im shocked! i dont know whyyyyy- i guess i am so used to being a dieting failure that i cant beleive im actually doing it. i put on a jacket this moring that for the longest time i was neve able to even button and now its pretty baggy on me...buttoned and all...and im just still not used to it. i just cant beleive its true! haha i like it but im def not used to getting into a pair of pants that are kinda loose! what are other peoples feelings?

ok so i dont have a fill and i was banded about 2 months ago...and i have been fine for the past 2 months with eating...somethings are hard to tollerate others not so much but all in all ive been doing ok.... i recently had a surgery (a week ago) to remove a cyst from my ovary and i have been at home recovering ever since. I havent had any problems with eating until yesterday... i ate something pretty tough for Breakfast and then had troubles the rest of the day. finall at dinner i had a horrible pb and threw up. I dunno if it was the food i was choosing to eat or if something is wrong. Now it seems like everything i eat aside from cottage cheese and yogart is bothering me. granted its only been one day...but how do i know if something is wrong??? what are some of the signs? im totallllly freaking. i did a search on slippage and now im bugged out!!!!!!!! can someone please tell me what i should be looking for if it were a slip... or maybe some other things it coupld be so i dont totally freak myself out! im very upset and trying not to read into anything but i just dont know. Do bands get tighter at certian times of the month? or for different reasons...it just seems strange to me that this would happen all of a sudden...

u guys are awesome! i feel much better about everything and im gonna try not to freak! thanks again for all of ur advice... xoxo ali

I CAN'T STOP! i am sooooo good during the day but something in side of me CRACKS at night and i am snacking throughout the night...im not eating anything HORRRRIBLE but i just cant get out of the habit. I have tried to distract myself with reading, tv, exercise, crafts ect ect ect but NOTHING works... PLEASE HELLLLP MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Anyone every have one that was so large they had to have surgery to take out? Im having mine out on friday and just wanted to know if anyone went thru anything like this after they were banded. Im hoping mine weighs 20 lbs hehehehehe.... just kidding....

whats that all about???? I have a scale at home that i have been using and it says i am one thing then i go to the drs office and it says something else. Its only off by 4 -5 lbs but that makes a huge difference in my oppinion. how do i know what my weight is if every scale is different??? im really frustrated!!!!!!!

i dunno whats wrong with me latey...all of a sudden i am slipping back into bad habits again. Eating more then i am supposed to and not wanting to exercise. Im sure i need a fill bc i can eat alot more then i could say a month ago but i cant get one until april bc im having another surgery at the end of this week. my question to all of you is how do u refocus and get back on track? i keep thinking tomorrow is another day but then somehow i screw up again (eat the wrong things make excuses not to workout). HELLLLP!!!

why cant we drink after we eat? im sure the dr has told me at one time or another but im blanking....

i have some spinach here and i dont know what to do with it... i want to make something low fat but i dont know what...any suggestions