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Hi babyjane, I don't know where you're at size-wise, but you might want to check out Junonia. Their aquatard is perfect for aquarobics, and they carry shortskinis (my pers fav for Water aerobics) that wear & fit just like long shorts & a tank top. :cake: Here's a link to the aquatards if you're interested.

Her quote is for exempt employees, but her husband is non-exempt. :cake: Alex, I work for a very large company, one of th top 30 on the F500 list - I don't know our policy for sure because I've never actually had to report when I've gotten my notice, but I *think* our salaried exempt employees are covered at 100% for the duration, and our non-exempt at 100% for two weeks and 80% for as long as it takes after that. I could be wrong, it could be 100% for everyone. BTW - since you referenced your own job, did you end up taking the telecommuting position (I think you said it was a job you did before and loved?)

Today a co-worker comes up and tells me, "I can really tell..." Tell what? Tell who? I didn't do it... "I can really tell you've lost some weight since your surgery." Really? I never told you about my surgery. "I'm glad your health wasn't really bad." What? I've never been sick in the entire time I've known you... So I tell her, "Well, maintaining my good health was one of the reasons I had the surgery - I was really high risk for a lot of things like diabetes, high BP, etc. and wanted to try and make sure I didn't full-on develop them." She says... "Oh, wow - I can't believe you didn't have diabetes, that's really unusual for someone as big as you not to have it." I've yet to receive a good, plain, un-hitched verbal NSV. I always get these stupid little antithesis NSVs! :angry

All airlines have the "right" to require large people to buy two seats, but Southwest is known for being one of the only airlines to enforce it. I've had co-workers who have been required to purchase two seats on United & Delta, too. I would think there was a lot less wrong with it if there was a discrete (as in - you're not weighing me as I stand in the check-in line) uniform & universal standard by which the judgement on 1 or 2 seats was made. Of course the ideal solution is that airplanes understand that an awful lot of Americans have butts that are wider than 19", and built the planes accordingly, but I can't fault a "normal" person for wanting their seat to themselves, and I've seen some "innocent bystanders" who were awfully cramped due to the XL POS sitting next to them, and it's not fair to them. Most airlines claim the 1/2 seat decision is made on the basis of whether or not the person can get the armrest down after they're seated, but as many of us know -- having an armrest there doesn't mean you can fit in the seat, it just means you get 4" grooves in your hips for a while. Also - there's really no way you can judge that unless you see it happen. I HOPE it doesn't evolve into a situation like amusement parks are starting to set up, where you're temporarily pulled out of line of you're overweight, and asked to sit in a stationary seat while someone tests whether or not they can close the harness/lap pole over you.

At my highest i weighed more than most here, and never had to buy two tickets. Seats vary in width by class (1st/standard, as MariMaru said), and by plane type, and occasionally by airline. I prefer window seats, but they're no wider than the aisle seats. The only room difference you're really going to get outside of first or a specialty airline is front-back (front seats, exit aisle, etc.) not side-side. Check out www.seatguru.com. They have lots of seat specs. You can also Google and quickly find the exact width of a seat on just about any plane, as well as averages. E.g. Southwest averages seat widths about 19", United about 21" (if memory serves - I don't fly either unless there's no other choice!)

Questions like this are so hard to answer because it depends so much on your financial situation, other avenues available, your ability to make payments, credit score, etc. Just keep in mind that situations change, regardless of how good intentions are, and make sure you know as much as you possibly can before making a decision. For example, understand what your tax penalties are going to look like if, for some reason, you don't manage to replace the money you borrow out. Understand how your cafeteria plan works and make sure you're using it as much as you can if you know you will be self-pay (and even if you won't -- I don't use mine because I never wanted the risk of losing the money and I don't mind paying the taxes on the relatively small amount of would-be withholdings -- but if my situation were different or I were on a tight budget and knew I would have at least X in copays & OOP expenses, bet your butt I'd be using it). Understand the total payout differences between what a low APR loan would run you vs. what your 401k interest will. And also - having a loan in your name doesn't necessarily impact your credit rating, so if that's an avenue you'd wan tto consider there's no reason to rule it out completely. If you have a good record of paying on time, especially significant loan amounts, it can actually raise your score.

Hey PNut - eventually coming for sure, coming before the year is up - probably. It all depends on how quickly I finish my classes. I attend BSU online for my Master's, and will have to make it out there to meet up with my advisor & graduation committee at some point, which is mostly determined by how many classes I'm willing to take at a time (aka how quickly I get close to graduating). I will definitely post when I find out for sure. My only rule is - no molesting the redhead.

I get a significant sinus headache, the kind that no amount of Tylenol Sinus can help. I get it one eye or the other, never both, behind my eyebrow and slightly behind my eye. It's a very distinct pain. Within three days it rains, every single time since I was about 9. I'm a human barometer. Oh, and it also seems to rain every time I wear a pair of new shoes, go figure. Once in when I was in highschool I was getting out of my friends car, our school was on a hill... my new shoe slipped off and fell in the gutter and took off like a raft on a river.

I've always heard, read, etc. that most successful couples develop their own language, whether it's just a few words or an entire way of communicating. I love it! FD - DH and I are the same way - completely - I dig it. My husband and I use "poot" for the anatomy, but also for anything negative. We've used it that way since before we were married. "Quit being a poot." "I don't want to get up early, it's poot." Poot has also become our blame-all, specifically my poot, of course. An example - if I buy myself something to eat, and DH eats it before I can & knows he shouldn't have, I'll ask him, "Where did <whatever> go?" his answer (if he's eaten it, and knows he shouldn't have) is "It's in your poot!" With his accent it comes out more like "pewt" and it cracks me up every time. We've also developed a sort of second language, based mostly on the way he would pronounce things when his accent was still heavy (he's sadly lost 99% of it now). He would tend to drop letters, or it would sound like he was saying them in the wrong place, so our little language (that we only speak to each other) would probably sound a lot like baby talk to anyone else who heard it & didn't know it came from English not being his native language. For example, he had a hard time saying "elephant" and it would come out like "ephelant" - so that's what we'll call it. Dropped letters like "fip" for "flip" or "scoo" for "school". One time he said something about "orange juice" but with his accent it sounded like "arm snooze", so now that's what we call it, and all other "snoozes" too... so combine the dropped letters & the mispronounced words and we then get "appa snooze" instead of "apple juice" or "peetz snooze" for "peach juice". We can have entire conversations talking that way.

Your insurance company can tell you who the letter (are you sure it's even required?) would come from. If your coverage requires a referral, then typically the letter of medical necessity would come from the pro in the particular field, not the internist/PCP. A friend of mine just had her PS covered by her insurance, but she had to have the letter come from the PS, not her PCP. With that said, my knowledge of how insurance works is pretty much limited to what the people at work share with me (I work FOR an insurance company, but do not work with insurance), and there are bound to be differences.

My mother had to have one a few weeks ago to look for polyps, it was not band-related. My surgeon used to require a bowel prep prior to band surgery, which is also what people having a colonoscopy have to do - maybe that's what she meant?

There's a similar thread on another board I belong to and it's pretty interesting. In our area, which is a suburban development area of Kansas City, MO a million will get you this: (pics are not mine, they're from a realtor) 5 bed, 4.5 bath, 6,000+ sqft w/ suspended garage.

'xactly. Ice cream sales go up in the summer. Crime goes up in the summer. Therefore, eating ice cream causes people to participate in crime.

And sorry, I'm not in TX, but I can find just about any news online.

Personally I'd doubt her collapse & the band are related, esp if COD was cardiac arrest as the last article indicates. Unless you meant the relation was between the death & the closing of the center...

So I'd been feeling really frumpy lately, because all of my work clothes (sz 28) were pretty much hanging off me, and I do make a lot of effort to look nice at work. My pants would catch on my hips and that would keep them from falling down, but I had to constantly pull the legs out of my shoes and the crotch was hanging to my knees - thug style. Even my tops were getting really questionable - I don't think twinsets are supposed to hang straight down like t-shirts! :tired But at the same time my next size smaller pants were still just a tad too tight to wear... a little too pulled on the rear where, what I refer to as my "shelf", as located, and a little too taut in the thighs. So for the last two weeks I opted for the saggy baggy look over the "Just because I can get it on does not mean it fits" look. This morning I'd had it. I did not want to go to work looking frumpy again. For me, how I appear really ties in a lot with how I feel, and I just don't feel good when I look messy. So I figured F'it, I'll put on the pants and maybe they're a little too snug, but by the time I wear them for an hour they'll be stretched out a bit anyway, so I grabbed a pair and put them on and they fit really well! Now - I had to retire most of my 28s because I was afraid that if I sat the seam would literally rip out, which put me into a what - snug 32, comfortable 34? Something like that. I'll go with that. The pants I have on today are still size 28, but they are the same size measurements as my other 26s, which means... I met my first mini-goal! Granted, they are still a little snug when I put them on, and it's 13 days past the date I'd set for my goal, but who cares? They're on, and it's still in the same month!

Waterlily, I've never tried it, but I've recently read on here about a protein drink that comes in a small bottle, only takes about 3 swallows to finish, and has something like 20gm in it. Something like that might help you meet your protein requirements. Lunch too short to overeat -- that's a good thing! Can you fit a nutritious meal in though?

Heheh ehehe hehehehe. There's nothing like having to undo your pants in order to tie your shoes. Know what else that means? You don't have to paint your toenails and just guess the other side looks good, too! Yay you! :clap2:

I'm not following. You've had three fills that were 1cc each, you have the 10cc (VG) band, but you only have 1cc left to play with? Do you mean 10cm (4cc) band, or do you really have a 10cc band? If you have a 10cc band, there's still lots of room for adjustment. If you have a 10cm band, do you *feel* restriction? Also, as you get tighter & tighter, it will no longer take a full cc to make a difference, and you could feel a 0.2cc adjustment now more than a 1.5cc adjustment earlier.

A wife has been telling her husband for 20 years that if he didn't stop farting, he'd end up blowing his guts out of his bum. He never believed her. One Thanksgiving morning, while starting to dress the turkey, she had an idea. She took the bag of turkey guts, went upstairs to the bedroom where her husband was still sleeping, and - holding back the giggles - spread the turkey guts around his bottomside. Then she headed downstairs to wait for him to wake up. About 15 minutes later she heard his alarm go off, followed by silence. A few minutes passed, then she heard the coldest, most blood curdling scream imagineable, followed by frantic footsteps to the bathroom and the sound of the bathroom door slamming shut. She couldn't hold back the giggles, and was quite pleased with the prank she had just pulled off - "That ought to show him!" she thought to herself. About 10 minutes later her husband came walking down the stairs, as white as a ghost, and with a slight limp. "What's wrong dear?" she asked, trying to hold back her laughter. "Well," replied her husband, "you were right. You always told me I'd fart my guts out, and sure enough - it happened. But with the grace of god, a little Vaseline, and these two fingers, I got them back in."

D'oh, I didn't even look. I mean... umm... Dammit! Mini_me! Some joker on the 'net already stole all your ideas...

What are you eating? How much are you trying to lose?

You can get some ideas here.

Marimaru, here's a joke for your sister. Next time you see her, point up at the sky and yell out, "Wow, look at that dead bird!"

Jack is rated "ARRR". (hahah hahah hahhahhhahha... anyone else get it?)