MacMadame

I got the email about the success stories section, went to find it, and found the top story was a No Success story. Why do people do that? I'm sorry that you aren't having success, but there are plenty of other places to post something like that and the "Lap Band Success Stories" is not one of them.

Hey, boobs are boobs.

Except I think Oprah would be gaining a pound of fat these days. What theory? A spoonful of muscle does weigh more than a spoonful of fat. You people are confusing me!!

But what if you wanted to know which was the best cat for you - persians or siamese? :tt2:

I got to onderland. That's new. I dyed my hair blue. That's not that new -- I did that last week. Oh and I tried to pay for my surgery today but the stupid debit card won't go through. Now I have to get a cashier's check and drive to SF, which I was trying to avoid. Bleh.

But, plain, everyone knows that flouride is a communist plot! Where have you been? :tt2: Anyway, when it comes to the band and hunger, the band does not change plasma ghrelin levels as some of the other WLS types do, so all hunger control comes from getting proper restriction. If you are hungry, you either have head hunger or you haven't got proper restriction. This is actually the main reason that I decided against the band in the end. The *only* reason I want WLS is for hunger control. I'm not going to pick a WLS type that has the iffiest hunger control if that's my main problem. I'm just glad I figured this out *before* I got a band. I don't think that means the band is deceit and bullshit though. It works how it works and how it works works for many people. But no WLS works for everyone and therefore the band isn't going to work for anyone.

Well, if you are going to have Pottyboobs, they should definitely be Sleezy!

There is absolutely no comparison between the two.

I was going to recommend LapSF too. Dr. Cirangle is my surgeon and I really like him. Depending on where you are in the SF area, Dr. McKeen also does fills on patients not his own but he's in San Jose.

While I understand that some people are sensitive about the word retarded, I don't that word has been regularly used to describe people with intellectual challenges for at least two decades so I also understand that to some people the word has little power.

Dorfus Chuckle Pants???

Everyone tells me it's common to stall when you go to solids and you'll start losing again. OTOH, my surgeon says stalls are almost always due to too many carbs and not enough exercise.

Oh, maybe that's my problem? I keep waking up in the middle of the night to pee. Several times. I'm SO TIRED...

The stationary bike was at the gym at work and you need a key card to get into it. But my Wii Fit finally arrived so Mr. Mac could rig that. He'd need to be careful though because he's got a Wii Mii in the Wii Fit Plaza so he might explode himself!

My surgeon says Yes, no problem. Everyone wants you to wait until you get to goal and have been there a while though. I think that's true of all the surgeries.

Well I weigh myself anyway even though I'd eaten breakfast and it turned out okay. :thumbup:

I didn't sleep much either. Plus it's my official weigh in day and my mom called in the middle of my morning routine and not only did I forget to take my medicines but I also forgot to weigh myself!

Ahem, for a short person, a size 0 (US) is not particularly unhealthy.

Because I've been dieting to get ready for surgery, I am now BELOW 200 lb. This, naturally, has given me pause because now I don't feel so enormously fat. But I was at the hairdresser today, that place with all the mirrors, and guess what? I AM ENORMOUS by pretty much any standard you want to use. Plus, to get to my ideal weight from my starting weight means I have to lose 100 POUNDS. Think about that... 100 pounds of excess weight. 100 pounds! That is a tremendous amount of weight for a person to be carrying around with them. It's a mind-boggling amount of weight really. It's only in the WLS world where a person with 100 lb. of excess weight is called an Lightweight and people are convinced they aren't fat enough for WLS. In the real world, such a person is a big tub of lard that people are disgusted by, discriminate against, and who is damaging their body every day by carrying around that much weight.

I loved that movie. And, yeah, I decided to take a break from pink and go for blue. On purpose.

It's supposedly highlights but the entire top of my head is very very very blue. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get a decent picture of it. The last one dh took, you could barely tell and the first set were noisy and the blue was too bright. I'll try again tomorrow in more natural light.

I HAVE BLUE HAIR!!

I rode the stationary bike at work yesterday. And I didn't die!!

Me too. It's interesting because I'm somewhat impressed that McCain didn't go with a old white dude, but many of her positions have pushed me over to the "will never vote for this ticket" camp.

Well if they don't look fake, then it's fine. But on some women they look fake. The pink is very obviously fake so that's why it works for me. :biggrin: