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Do they have those things for thighs? Most of the shapers I have found stop mid thigh. Which leaves me with hour glass thighs. Not to sexy if you know what I mean. I have tried those panty hose shaper ones that are like the mid calf leggings. They feel so uncomfortable and with being as short wasted as I am I can wear the tops as bra's!! (Low rise pants fit me as mid rise). My tailor is really good though, generally only takes about a week for my stuff to get back, and since I live off the clearance racks right now (I am cheap, I can't help it) I wind up paying roughly the cost of new jeans (around 20ish) after it is all said and done.

I have to get my cloths tailored ... I have no other option. I have to buy them to fit my legs which puts me at a 22/24 then bring it to a tailor to have them size the waist down to fit my waist which is roughly a size 14/16 in missus. It is only a 32 ... so you can imagine how goofy I look when I wear cloths that actually fit me instead of buying shirts that will slide over the hips .... Welcome to my world ....

In the Banders Pet thread I gave a brief back story on my dog and oldest cat. I love my animals; I would do anything for them. I love them just like I love my kids. First Jakes story, from what we have been able to figure out he was severely abused as a puppy in two possible scenarios. The first one, we think someone just beat the tar out of him, splintered his hind leg and left him for dead. Part of his ear was missing and his ribs were cracked and broken. Someone found him and brought him to the humane society, they treated him with such indifference it broke my heart. They didn’t even try to get him treatment, or even clean him up. When I found him he was laying in his own feces and urine in the back of this abysmally small cage. Now Jake is a Black Lab mix, so his fur is black, but it was crawling!!!!! He was so infested with fleas you got the impression his fur was crawling all over him!!! He was totally petrified of men, yet they had a guy show us him and this man was just mean about it!! He grabbed Jake whimpering and crying and pulled him forward so we could see him. I wanted to cry for this little guy!! My hubby and I then and there decided we were going to take this dog and do all we could for him. This is where it takes a weird twist!! They didn’t want us to adopt him!! They kept trying to get us to go look at the “healthy” dogs cause “that one isn’t worth the time”. Someone actually said that to me!!! I wanted to cry they didn’t think he was worth adopting out! They wanted to just put him down and pretend he didn’t exist!! Needless to say almost 6 years later he is a hale and hearty 3 legged goof ball. He eventually got over his fear of men, and he is totally my husband’s dog. Well except for the fact he listens to me better then the hubby ROFL. Chaos, well, he is a trip and a half. We rescued him also, but not from the shelter but from a family that didn’t give the fella the love and care he needed. See, when we got him they had ignored him so much he was partially feral. He was let inside for food and that was really it. He was so scared of people that when we got him home he hid for about a month under our bed. Finally he got to know us and loved us so he came out all the time and wanted attention (doesn’t like being held all that much but he is getting there) but when people came over he ran and hid for hours. We have been working with this guy for so long now that he loves company. He will at first dash to the room (old habits I think) but he will come out and investigate the new people. Now I am not begrudging the people that had him, I disagree with how the treated him, and they did love him in there own way, but he didn’t get the care he needed. He needed to be socialized and kept inside. They did neither, so my anti social half feral bangle/tabby cat is now a house cat that just loves his humans, and his brother Jake and sister Moe (our baby kitty that adopted me). (sorry this is so long, but my furry "kids" are just as important as my boys. don't get me started on those two knuckle heads .. it will be even longer ROFL)

Well still waiting on that magic date, but my last pre-op is this monday ... and my last visit with the coordinator is friday .. so *cross's fingers* I will be an April bander too .. here is to hopin LOL

LOL Honey, that is my daily fantasy while I work out ... I loves my country boys ... :wub::tt1::frown:

Smoking will be my biggest issue. I made a deal with myself that I wouldn't worry about quiting until UNTIL i had my surgery date. Then these nifty patch's have on my desk were going to get some use. My surgeon agree's that for some smokers it has to be a thought out plan of when/how/why etc. I will have to take the patch off the day before my surgery and can't use it for two days after (I think he said) but then it goes back on if I feel the need. This time when I quit, it will be fore good. I need to, I know it, I have needed to for a long time but I have this stubborn gene that hasn't cooperated until now. I think I finally got its cooperation. LOL:lol:

Try being a waitress, I have been waiting tables off and on since I was 14. I just love the fact someones bad day is my fault and its 9 at night ........ and I have never seen them before Then I worked tech support ... yeah idiots abound .. I could write a book ... LOL

Darlin I have had insomnia since I was a kid. Normally when it gets really bad I take ambien, but right now since my husband is deployed and I Have two kids, I suffer through it. I have found that that simply sleep by Tylonal helps me fall asleep, and there is a tea called Sleepy time tea I don’t use them all the time, same with the ambien, and sadly when the hubby is deployed I wont take any pill for sleep, but I will drink the tea. It really does help my brain go to sleep sometimes. (sadly not all the time, but sometimes) Sometimes it gets so bad that the ambien wont even touch it but those are the days that I have a horrid stress day though... G'Luck .. I hope

I have 3 ... two cats 1 dog .. First is Jake, he was a "double rescue" someone abused him as a new pup shattered his leg and left him for dead. The humane society put up his pic but weren't trying to adopt him out like a "healthy" dog, I got him the day he was due to be put down. He was in a cage, sitting in his own feces and urine, he was so flea infested you could see them crawling all over him. He is a black dog and his fur was MOVING!!! They just didn't even try with him :biggrin: it was so sad. But 5 years later this is my baby Jake. As for breed, the vet and I agree Lab (that is a duh) but he also has serious character traits of a Malamute and a German Shepard. What ever he is Jake is my 3 legged wonder dog!! Now for Chaos, he is a bangle Tabby mix. Again, another rescue, but this time from an owner that well in MY opinion didn't give him the treatment he needed. He was totally antisocial, hated people and would hide for hours if someone came in for even a moment. He is MUCH better now and is full of love and loves to be petted (on his terms not ours .. yet)... And finally Moe, I hadn't planned on a THIRD animal. But we went to petsmart to get more food for the dog and cat. And I just had to see the kittens, and this one just won me over. She was trying to get through the glass to get to me. When we went back to see her she climbed IN MY SHIRT and hid there purring like crazy. Yeah, we had another cat. I don't know WHY they named her Moe but it stuck and since then she has earned it well and true!! (Think Larry, Curly, & Moe) (she is roughly 6-9 months in this picture she isn't a large cat, but she is long so it makes trying to gauge her age hard)

I am TRI-West Prime, and it is covered through tricare. But since the hospital near me does the Lap Band and Bypass I can't get a referal out (I wish I could but...) I have to go through the process with the hospital here. It is a pain in the arse but it is slowly moving along. I go to my mental wellness check monday then back to the coordinator and then off to the surgeons office!!

You know, this is what you can do, when they bring in the donuts, bring in a veggie platter!! Keep THAT on your desk. They have some great low cal low fat dips out now that even taste great. I haven't tried those sprays spritzer things yet ... but my friends tell me they are the best. IMO I would be at your desk with the veggie platter than in the kitchen with the donuts any day .. I can't stand those things..

LOL You reminded me of what happened to me right after High School. I was over 300lbs in HS and dropped down to the high 100's (I think I was about 190ish) I ran into an acquaintance and he actually had the nerve to ask me if I had AIDS!!! I almost smacked the crap out of him. I looked him right in the eye and said "No, but you must have gotten brain damage" .... All I did was swim ALOT (to the point I was begged to go on the swim team) and ate right. Few weeks later I ran into my HS crush (who never even looked at me by the way) and he started hitting on me!! I turned him down flat, gawd that was an awesome feeling. I walked away smiling and he was floored that someone actually turned him down!! I did eventually gain some of that weight back (two kids back to back) and now I am getting banded to make that loss again and then some!!

MicheleK, Oh hun, that is never right for anyone to do!! He was just down right cruel and evil. But you know what? His karma will come and bite him on his ass. You just put what he said out of your mind, people like that aren't even worth the scrapings from the bottom of you shoe sweety. I know it is easier said then done, but in the end he will always be a total asshole but you will always be a loving person

So this morning I weighed m'self. It is my monday ritual. I had to do a double and triple take of the numbers ... 238!! I was like HOLY SHIT RIGHT ON!! ... Then I just had to go and step on it again ... just to "make sure" ... right back to where it was last monday ... no change no nothing ... its broken ... I wanted to throw it out the window ... maybe it just needs new batteries .. yeah yeah that is why it wont move .. batteries are dyin ... yeah yeah thats it .... Gonna throw it out the window anyways... just to make me feel better .. only wish I lived in a multi story house .. Don't think much will happen to it as I live in a single story house ... damned scale

Sounds like you are having a reaction to the surgical tape (bandages) I can't have them cause the glue makes me break out. Regular bandaides make me break out hard core. Talk to the doctor and ask him (her) if they have some hypoallergenic ones they can change you out too. They do ok for me I don't break out super bad, just enough to be annoying. The dark end of the spectrum is you might be allergic to the stitch's or staples they used. I know when I was a kid they used the cat gut stitch's and I was major allergic to those. The ones they use today (silk I think) I am not allergic too, but the staples I have a minor reaction too.

You might want to try the low sodium V-8 before you give up on it. I can't deal with the regular stuff because of the salt content. But there are plenty of varieties now. Spicy, low sodium. Try a few more before you really give up on the V-8 ... If those don't work call the nutritionist (or your surgeon) and find out if there is an alternative you can try instead. Explain that it is making you ill and that chucking it back up is a bit counterproductive to getting your daily veggie servings.

I got the insurance referall from Tri-West for my Psych eval. Bout time they sent it I knew they would. The hospital here has a bunch of loonies locked up so they don't have time for us insane people yet (ok that was wrong... but it made me smile). My appt is this monday, so by next week *crosses fingers until they bruise!!* I will have my surgery date!!! Cross your fingers they don't find out my secret that I am really nuts ... :biggrin::thumbup:

oh honey .. everyone in the world will know when I get that date ... hehe I am prolly gonna steal a bull horn and announce it out .. LOL :shades_smile:

I have a weird fear of needles .. Well I should say reaction... If I can not see what happens I react in a violent way. When I was 12 I was watch them give me my immunizations and at the last minute he turned my head and poked me. My mom said my arm came up and broke his nose. He labeled my records as "violent reaction to needles" ... Second time I was fighting the ER doctor about putting a shot in my rear. I told him I can't do that I have to watch I have to see the needle. He went on ahead and jammed it in my cheek (he was an arsehole) my elbow went flying back and made contact ... that was the second persons nose I broke cause of a shot. I told him, warned him that if I am poked or prodded with no way to see what is happening I tend to react violently to the pain, especially since I was already in pain and he was refusing to dim the lights (massive migraine). He tried to have me arrested for assault but after even the nurses warned him (one of them was moonlighting in the ER but she worked for my PCM during the week and KNEW my story) and he got hold of my records which had in BOLD LETTERS "MUST WATCH ANY AND ALL SHOTS or patient reacts unkindly to medical personnel" .. across the front he was up the creek. Most times if I know I have to get shots and I can't get them in a "watchable spot" they will give me Valium first. We know why I react this way too, just don't know how to stop it :biggrin:

and yes for me there is a big difference between chopped and shopped for photo's .. chopped is fake out 100% .. (ie she is actually really short and made to be tall etc, or many different photos made to be one real one) While shopped is manipulating a real photo and making it something else while still keeping with the aspects of the original photo. Does that make sense?

heheh Wheetsin you have good eyes, the story behind that picture is it was taken at the same time BUT (gotta hate that word) the 6'5" girl was walking a few paces ahead of the shorter gal (I think they said she was 5'3" or something close to that) what they did was move half the picture "back" so it looked as if they are walking together instead of apart. The girl is actually pretty tall (I mean 6'5" for a female is pretty damned tall IMO) While the photo's are doctored to make them seem 'real' they are actually real photo's ... does that make sense? The one with her bending down "talking" to the guy, she was actually on a step, and they took that out and blended it into the floor the guy is standing on, and they lowered the arch in the wall a little bit so it seems that he is "normal" height. You can see the arch edit as they forgot to edit one side of it so it is up higher then the other side. LOL We tore through the whole series of pictures in one on my classes. I don't understand why they edited it to make her so tall, personally at 6'5" she is tall enough LOL

Wheetsin those aren't photo chopped. Those are actual pictures, but (always a but) she is posed with shorter then average people. AND she is wearing insanely tall shoes. She is actually 6'5" or something like that. Check out the link to snopes I listed above and you will see.

Sorry sweety, but snopes says otherwise .... Cute story though ... but ....

I loath LOATH group projects. I am a perfectionist and 9 times out or 10 if I am stuck with a group project I wind up pulling the weight of the group. The last group project we had, each of us were assigned a specific portion to work, we would only be graded on our portion, but if there were missing parts we would be marked down for each missing part. It was a 5 person group, 3 of us were thankfully perfectionists. The other two were 20 something airheads who thought they would get carried. Needless to say the 3 of us drew straws to finish the last two parts. I was not the lucky one and got tagged with extra work. I finished it as did the other person in the group. We had two presentations written up, the actual "group" project and the one the 3 of us did together (hoping the other two would wake up). Well we submitted our 3 man group project with OUR work. We got full marks and the two brain dead students couldn't understand why they got failing marks. Sad part is they weren't stupid kids, quite smart but I think this was there first go with a college level group project. Second group project, same 5, the two brain dead ones did much better, even apologized for failing to do there part in the first one. *shrugs* Well one of the two showed marked improvement, the youngest of the group did bare minimum and it showed in the final project. Thankfully the rest of us weren't marked down on this, but his final grade showed his lack of effort.

I still remember when I gave up the fast food meals and pizza's (oh I still eat them its just rare) My energy levels went through the roof. I am a naturally hyper person as it is, and this made it worse. My husband actually thought I was on something I think. But it was a good hyper, my mid afternoon crash became fewer and fewer between. I think now the only time I take a nap in the afternoon is when my head is killing me (chronic migraines suck by the way) and I have to take a pill. All and all I love the feeling I get when I start the day on a good meal and end it that way.. I sleep better at night too.