Froggi

Does anyone here have 30/32...5x jeans or shirts that they could mail me that they don't need anymore. I am in need badly of some. I have one pair of pants that fits me and they are almost dead :thumbup: and I have very few shirts that fit me. I am losing slowly but surely but I really need some 5x's to hold me over until my surgery in November. Thanks.

-hugs bbk-

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Of course I did. :biggrin:

I must say...I make interesting threads don't I? :biggrin:

I'm starting to freak out about my liver maybe being too fatty at surgery. Since I am seeing a lot of posts about it. I mean shit I've lost 23 lbs but I started at a very high weight and still have 2 1/2 months of this insurance diet...then should have preop. Hopefully it shrinks enough if it is fatty.

Awesome!!! Lauren knows what she's talking about...she works at a porn shop. :biggrin:

Posting to say I like dishwashers :biggrin:

Hearing posts about the liver thing makes me worry. But I've been eating pretty healthy since February and have lost 23 lbs. Hopefully I lose at least another 10 more before my preop diet...then lose even more on that. Being so huge at the beginning 419 lbs and still huge now 396...I'm worried my liver will be too fatty -sigh-

Hmm I didn't know weight made your feet flatter. I still have pretty high arches...always have

Hate to say I told you so. :biggrin:

I just saw a post on OH by a DSer she says she eats over 8000 calories a day. Wow. I eat around 8400 calories in a week o.o

Everyone is getting surgery before me. :biggrin: -sigh-

So....poop?

Excuse me but I feel that I have a better memory of it. I recall I went there to see what someone I know had said...and I decided to post saying "Why does everyone say the DS people have poop issues and gas etc etc" (not exact words but close) In turn they thought I didn't have enough information on my profile and no picture so I was a troll...then this person I knew who told me about the link posted more...and they were being mean to her about choosing Lapband...sooooooo then I started being mean. :biggrin::biggrin: You told me I had no business being there giving them poor ol' DSers trouble and should be here. I had every damn right to. Then you pop up out of no where asking why I am there...when I should be asking you that. :thumbup: I'm surprised they didn't pull you into their own little world.

Yeah they bitch about Michael Phelps being able to eat all that food and have a body of a god. He works it off and needs the energy. They bitch about us. They bitch about other surgeries. It's pretty boring really. I skimmed through it today.:biggrin: I didn't do it. I'm a good froggi.:thumbup:

Lol I find it funny how some people change things around. I never once asked for anyone to support/protect/stickup for me on here nor OH. That person decided to do it themselves, I guess...yet at the same time made me out to be a horrible person on the other board. I never once said anything bad about the DS on that thread until they attacked me. And I have nothing against DSers who treat me with respect but If I am going to be attacked for choosing a surgery I feel is best for me, and I don't want my innards all chopped up like onions...excuse me. I feel the Lap Band will do me wonders and I cannot wait until I have my tool inside me fighting the battle of the bulge with me!! I have every damn right to have an opinion and these links that I post here are just about the DSers who have personally attacked me...and try to convert me to one of them. I am my own person, I chose the band...I'll get the band. Not one person on this forum has disrespected me...well a few maybe. Typical idiots who thought they were better than me in the first place, because I started at such a high weight, and that I say random things sometimes. It's all in fun. But once you post on OH and they know what surgery you're getting...and they don't like it...they let it be known. So it really peeves me off when some people come to this post in the R & R of all places...and tell me that I shouldn't say or post what I feel about the way other WLS patients make me feel and what I think of them. I think this post is long enough now...maybe...but don't give me shit...c'mon. It's not like I am posting this in the main forums like OH does...and I am not attacking any one person. It's their bad attitudes, and their 'oh I am better than everyone else' bull.

4 mile brisk walk with occasional jogging 60 minutes 30 minutes tricep exercises with 3 lb weights. SOOORE

No date yet but they keep telling me November for sure. Watch it not be November but I am hoping like they said. I asked Alex to add the rest of the months so we could talk. :biggrin: We need a name lol

whewww i missed a lot LOL

weeeeeeeeeeeeee freedom!

Aww sounds awesome. I also have eyeproblems so I rub my eyes a lot. I always get gunk in my eyes have to rub it out so I can see clearly. It's so annoying. And that smears my eyeliner =/

mine have shrunk a tiny like i said i hope they dont shrink too much more length wise...width i can stand cause i can adjust my shoes :Banane37:

I've always wanted my eyes and eyebrows done. my eyebrows have bald spots in them and have never come in nice :Banane37: POST PICS :sleep2: