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Here is my contribution. This website has some great bras for those of us going for breast surgery. I plan to get 2 so I can wash one while wearing one. Just can't figure out what size I will need yet. Network Solutions E-Commerce Web Site - BRAS

I occasionally post over here on the 200 lbs to lose thread because I have a lot longer journey than some of my original Shamrock friends. Consider that one. 200 Lbs+ - LAP-BAND

Yes, I'm in the gang trying to lose almost 200 total lbs and it felt so wonderful when I crossed from 300s into 200s. Now I can't wait to cross from the 200s into the 100s but that could take most of the next 6 months for me. Just need to keep trying each day. Accept my mistakes and forgive myself and get on with it the next day.

Fenton - welcome back to the fold. We've all had ups and downs in the 2 years but the best of all is to just get back up and dust yourself off. Hearing that a relationship can get us eating again is part of my past. I'd lose 100 lbs to be pretty or thinner for a guy I liked and then I'd find out that wasn't the right thing and I'd eat my way back up again. Hope I never do it again. I'm losing slowly now but going in the right direction. I am trying to get to my -130 lb milestone this week and maybe -135 by my 2 year bandiversary on St. Patrick's Day.

Yea Harley! Welcome to the Century Club!

Chugging along like a little turtle but going in the right direction! Name -Starting Wt .......Goal/End Wt 2010 .CurrentWeight- SpecialK.............232.2.........155...................226.7 Scrappy_friend....149...........135...................141 LadyRoz.............220............190...................212 CandyStarr.........312............212...................312

Hi Candy. Sure come on in and join our weight accountability thread. When did you have surgery? I have found staying in touch with the March 2008 bandsters a real help to me. Also there is a +100 lbs to lose thread where all those folks understand what it is like to have to lose more than 100 lbs and even more than 200 lbs -- I have a total of 200 I am trying to lose. Stay in touch and you'll get there a day at a time. My best advice is use www.mydailyplate.com and start writing down for the next 2 weeks everything you eat. Hold yourself accountable. Don't show it to anyone else. Remember that you have to burn more calories than what you eat. If you eat 2000 calories you need to burn 3000 calories and I can tell you I find it hard to burn 2700 calories in a day now that I weigh less. Get exercise every day. Some kind - walking, free weights, or whatever you can fit in. If you have a gym and can commit to 30-45 min of Cardio at least 4-5 times a week that should help alot.

Friday Weigh in Day: Name -Starting Wt .......Goal/End Wt 2010 .CurrentWeight- SpecialK.............232.2.........155...................227.3 Scrappy_friend....149............135...................145 LadyRoz.............220............190...................212

Good morning Shamrocks. It has been a little quiet on here lately. Is everyone doing okay? I had a maintain this week but I know what my pluses and minuses were this week so I'm okay with that. Keep on keeping on!

Way to go Scrappy on your 27 years of marriage! I had my first PS consult today for Breast Reduction and Brachioplasty. She has my PCP and my WLS surgeon's recommendations, had the Mammograms already to review and said she can take the breast rash pictures I just took over the winter and submit those too. She said it can take up to a month for an insurance approval. Wish me luck. I am still going to go to the 2nd PS consult just to be able to compare and have a 2nd opinion but I liked her pretty well. If after talking to the 2nd one I like the first one best, we'll just let her slog on through the insurance stuff. It was a little shocking seeing what the arms may cost to get done even if its combined with the BR. There is still an incremental hospital fee, incremental anesthesia fee, plus her surgeon's fee and that is about $5K so I'll have to give it some thought on whether I want to finance any of that.

The invitation is open to all! Whether you are pre-band, newly banded or an old band pro. Friends and family members are also welcome to join us for these meetings. The more the merrier! Everyone is welcome! Where: Polaris Mall food Court When: Saturday February 13, 2010 Time: 2 p.m. Look for us near the entrance to the Great Indoors store in the back corner seating area next to Chik-Fil-A. If we're not there look for a large group of folks sitting at several tables pushed together in the areas on either side of the Great Indoors... that's usually us :-) Hope to see you there!

Okay Scrappy Friend -- so we aren't perfect at this but we weren't before WLS so did we have this nirvana idea in our head because we lost weight so fast that we would not fail? This is so helpful tracking the Long Term Progress over Time for Lapband versus RNY and I now understand even more so how those folks if they got off track, could gain all their weight back if they stretched their pouch out and were not one who had dumping from sweets. I am understanding more and more everyday what a Lifetime commitment really means. Maybe those of you who have been married a long time can appreciate more than me who is single,never married, that when you made a lifetime commitment to your spouse, you never thought there would be those hard days. Some make it for the long haul by just keep working at it, appreciating how far they have come, others, keep looking for the initial rush or feeling of happiness that may be hard to keep duplicating every day. I have so much respect now for my bariatric nurse coordinator who has kept her weight off for something like 7+ years with RNY. Stay warm to all. We are due to get hit again in Ohio with more significant snow again. Not sure where they will pile it up when they plow it, there are piles in parking lots that are something like 8 feet high, I've got some piles easy coming close to 3-4 feet high at my house. Spring, please come soon!

Fortunately that 1lb or so was disappearing over the weekend so that gave me peace. Just need to keep putting one foot in front of the others and walk to my goal and not look back!

Yes, that's right, just snow flurries so I'll definitely be at the mall for our get together.

Went in the wrong direction this week by getting into Valentine Candy I supposedly bought for others.... Name -Starting Wt .......Goal/End Wt 2010 .CurrentWeight- SpecialK.............232.2.........155...................229.7 Scrappy_friend....149............135...................145 LadyRoz.............220............190...................210

Valentine Candy -- stay away! I thought I could handle having some candy around and the idea was it would be for a bridal shower but then I dug into it on Tuesday when I got stressed out, kept nibbling away on Weds and it was depressing finding I gained this week at my weekly weigh in and it was all my own fault. Clearly not going to be buying candy for anyone or whatever tempting things without leaving them locked in the trunk of the car! Anyway, Happy Valentines Day to all out there in LapBand Land.

Hello to all my snowbound Columbus lapband friends...okay so it isn't that bad but I still think we should check in here on Saturday before noon-ish to see what the weather holds for us if the next storm comes thru and makes for more shoveling out.

I have one and it just has Gastric Band, No Blind NG and a phone # for emergency contact - that easily fit on the 3 lines I was allotted.

Okay I am going stir crazy with all this snow. More today, more tonight, and more coming tomorrow. Yikes.

See posting http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f21775/recommend-mid-ohio-surgical-associates-wls-bariatric-surgeons-109727/#post1410948

Okay, one more accountability step for this new year to get us moving and keep us moving. Who is up for COMMITTING to 2010 MINUTES of Exercise by 3/17/2010? Let's see how that breaks down: January has 31 days February has 28 days March 17 would be +17 days Total Days = 76 days 2010 Minutes divided by 76 days = 27 minutes average per day? Can we round it up to a nice 30 MINUTES a day challenge to end at 2010 MINUTES?? There will be days when I am sure I will do lots more than 30 minutes and days when I will be a "slug" and take a day off but I'm committing to hitting this goal by St. Patrick's Day and I do plan to do a jig ("dance") that day if I make it. If you get some funny exercise related cartoons or things along the way to help us "smile through the sweat" please do post. Okay, same as with the Weekly Weight Challenge accountability thread, log in your Goal, Current Week # Minutes and Total to Date each week. Instructions to update this on Fridays are to copy/paste from the last post to add a new update and if you are joining the thread new, copy a line from another person on the list to try to help us keep the numbers in the columns easier to read. Name Goal# Current Week: Total to Date: SpecialK.........2010 Minutes..........10.............10

Okay, I started this thread and now I'll "put it to bed" officially as I now realize for me that 2010 minutes wasn't going to be that big of a challenge. This past weekend I did 6 hours of heavy exercise pushing a snow blower and shoveling snow so that is 240 minutes in one day. I'm way over 2010 minutes for 2010 and Valentines Day isn't even here. Will have to keep challenging myself on exercise in other ways.

Lynn-- yes, it looked like the Wash DC/Delaware area got it even worse than Ohio and PA. I did my shoveling in 2 hour batches and was pretty tired today. Just taking it easy. Amazing what we can do with less weight stressing our joints.

I weighed in yesterday a.m. and had a .2 gain but weighed this a.m. and was down 2 lbs so that's what I am counting! I saw a new number this morning I haven't seen for more than 10+ years! Also I am getting excited now about my PS surgeon consult on Feb 15 for BR and brachioplasty combination. I feel like I probably have at least 4lb breasts on each side and at least 1 lb of skin/fat extra on each arm so maybe between all of that I will peel off another 5 lbs from that alone and get more mobility to keep exercising. Name -Starting Wt .......Goal/End Wt 2010 .CurrentWeight- SpecialK.............232.2.........155...................228 Scrappy_friend....149............135...................145 LadyRoz.............220............190...................210

Yes I don't know what HCG is either? I am getting alot of exercise here now and have started slowing but steady losing now even with a few food hiccups so exercise is the key for me to keep losing. Lots of exercise today shoveling snow in Ohio - I bet I easily have 20" out there right now on my driveway! I shoveled a good 10" last night and I'm working on the second 10" that fell overnight now. Gotta get out and get my hair colored -- I have my priorities and covering my gray hair is one of them!