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Hi gang, Ive been stuck at 202 for a few weeks now. I know that I have been traveling a lot lately, and my schedule is totally out of whack, and I have been eating a little more lately, but alas, I have not lost for a while and it bugs me. If I try harder and add more exercise, I think I will break this plateau, but I am running in six directions. I am so grateful, I am not gaining, as I would have in the past, to me that is victory. I think by fall my life will return to normal and that seems a long way off, but it really is just a few more months. O to be in onederland!!! The last time I was under 200, I think I was a fetus!!! lol :faint:

Breadlady, how are you doing? I am hoping you are on the better side of your cold. I believe our bodies are created to heal and I do hope you can go forward with your band. Are your lungs clearing? I am praying for you to be better and to proceed with your banding. Take care and remember your fluids!

That is great news! I am so glad you are keeping us posted, God is truly awesome and trustworthy Enjoy your trip! and God bless!

I'm not sure of everyones age, but I think that if you are older, and fairly sedentary, the time before you feel better could be longer than usual. I am over 50 and I didn't feel really great till about week 4. I was not in any great pain by week 2 but I did think that I was slower that most in my recovery time. Just a thought, and now that I'm over a year and 1/2, I feel 20 years younger, and 90 lbs down. I think that is slower than most too, but I'm not regularly exercising, and I am a late nite snacker before bed:embarassed:. Don't tell anyone OK?

Hi Chim, I did have shoulder pain from the gas used during surgery, then sometimes later I would have an air bubble locked in my stomach like I had swallowed air, and in certain positions, it would bellow out, sometimes embarrassing me. Occasionally I would feel bloated from the foods I would eat but, that has pretty much subsided over time and now my digestion is regular and healthy, no bloating and I feel great. I think it just takes adjusting to the new eating and also, as I lost weight I could feel my insides kind of aligning themselves and not really ball up as much. Hope this helps!

Has anyone used zwinky.com? I think it sounds fun but I dont want to download another toolbar just to find out about it. I think it would be fun to make an avitar out of myself just to see what I would like as a cartoon, or avitar. Just checking to see if anyone knows about it.

I dont think you should be waiting that long. The dizziness you mentioned is the thing that bothers me. The numbness does sound nerve related, the problems I wonder about is where is that nerve? Spine? When my dad had an ischemic stroke, those were his only symptoms. When my heart was in trouble I was dizzy with the coldness too. I dont want to scare you but why wait, If it is stress, you could find out a way to help yourself too. I would rather be safe than sorry. Dearheart, you are worth it!

Thats cool, I feel like an Invited guest. Thanks for the link.

God bless our Troups, There is a move to follow Winston Churchills request for a Nation wide prayer called Just the right time to pray. If you are on the east coast, Pray for one minute at 9:00 PM, 8PM for the Central, 7PM for Mountain and 6PM for the Pacific time zone. Thats it. Just one minute every day and we will all be praying together for the safety of our Troups, and the safety of America, and for the timely and correct end to this war. Just an FYI,and this was a totally awsome vidio.

Cute! Did you get to choose the rainbow and stuff? Does it look like you?

Did anyone PM them?

I think that your pharmicist could answer this question best, they can let you know if opening your tablet is a problem. They could also let you know if there is another way to get these meds on board without one tablet or capsule. I take several pills, and the powdery capsules tend to float up in my esophogus so I need to chase them down with a nut or two. I have taken some capsules mixed in penutbutter on a cracker, but yucky taste, and I switched to a different med with the help of my Dr. Good luck>

I think that your pharmicist could answer this question best, they can let you know if opening your tablet is a problem. They could also let you know if there is another way to get these meds on board without one tablet or capsule. I take several pills, and the powdery capsules tend to float up in my esophogus so I need to chase them down with a nut or two. I have taken some capsules mixed in penutbutter on a cracker, but yucky taste, and I switched to a different med with the help of my Dr. Good luck>

Thanks Mandy, I have used the virtual model from my landsend purchases. I thind zwinky is meant to make an avitar that we could use here, Just curious and will probably check it out!

I think your should be calling your primary care physician, this can be so many different things. It is almost certainly not band related, but, only the Dr can figure this out for you. Did it come on suddenly? Is it severe, or is this something that has been progressing? I could only speculate, but when I had my heart problem, my under arm was cold and tingly, not the armpit but the part of the arm that flabs back and forth. My legs were never involved though. My hip pinched my nerves and I had shooting pain behind my leg, but that has all gone away with my weight loss. Please let us know when you get a resolution for this, as we too might someday come across something like this. Do take care!

Dear Chimboree, I feel for you, your car burned? How awful, But I believe that God wanted a different car for you, perhaps it would have left you in a really bad situation, and you needed a different one? I know extra payments are a bummer, Just as we did not expect to pay so much for my dog. I believe a second job for me is the only way we will meet our needs this summer. I did have a second surgery for my dog as I just could not put him to sleep. After we made the decision to have his eye removed, I really felt a lot of peace. So today he had it taken out, and he may return home tomorrow if the bleeding stops well enough. I will be praying about your finances, and a breakthrough for new ways to earn it. I also believe in praying for supernatural provision. Something unexpected. I love it when I hear about a way that God surprised his children. He is trustworthy isnt He. God bless you!

My port never sounded any alarm, but my old underwires did! Im so glad I dont need them anymore. Dont forget that all your liquids, jells, toothpaste,shampoos etc cant be more that 3oz each and they all must fit into a quart sized zippy bag. Its ok to check on bags that have more liquids and jells though. I found out that I can keep my medicines separate, like my rx toothpast. Happy flying!

First off Im so happy for you Chimboree! I am excited for you, and you are less than a month away! I remember when I was at that stage, I started to question my resolve and was beginning to wonder if it was all too good to be true, and then once I had it done I asked myself, What have I just done to myself? It was the very first thought at awakening. Im glad you are excited, now comes the liquid diet stage soon right? The reason I am asking for prayers is that I have a precious pet dog corgi. I just think he is the cutest little bugerbut and I may need to put him to sleep. About a month ago, we took him to the vet because his eye kept mattering up. He had an ulcerated cornea. We started with drops and 5 days later, no improvement. So we gave him surgery, it was a radial kerototemy, and more drops. He stayed in the hospital for a week so he could get drops every 2 hrs round the clock. After one week there, he had slight improvement. Now his eye has really no progress and we are on 3 mor different rxs. He needs to see a canine ophthamologist. He probably needs his eye removed. The problem is that we are out of money for this. We already put about $l500 into his care and I feel just awful about that. I think of all the hungry children going to sleep without good food. I think of all the sick people just suffering without simple medicine. I think of all the dear mothers that cant get the right medicines for thier kids and watch them die. We are so blessed in America. We have it all. and then some. I was very conflicted to get this dog in the first place. When a family we knew was getting a divorce, they were going to distroy the dog. I just could not let that happen. We have loved him for seven years. Now that he needs more care, I put him up for adoption in a corgi rescue. I am just sick about that. I dont understand why his eye wont heal. We are keeping him indoors, medicate his eye faithfully, feed him out of our hands and offer Water in a small cup as the cone on his head is huge. I have been crying on and off for about a week since I came to the realization that we were probably going to loose him. He is suffering. Its so sad. Really. I am praying for a miracle, we need one for him, and we need one to be able to keep him. This is just so out of character for me. I have weathered some really bad life events and I have always felt the presence of Jesus throught them all. I still feel Him. I just dont understand, or even desire to. I have always felt great peace in the middle of great problems. This is so minor on the scale of things so why am I so emotional? I just want resolution one way or another. I guess the hardest part is to watch him walking around with this big ugly heavy cone on his head. He clings to me closer than a shadow. I know he is hurting. So please everybody, pray for this simple little creature that God made. I hope you dont think I am silly for asking for prayer for a dog, he is just a sweet presence in our family. You know the saying, Lord, make me the kind of person my dog thinks I am? Its his unconditional love that gets me. OK, there. Its out there. Thanks.

I like Lost too! I miss too many of the episodes, so that the story line and characters sometimes get too mixed for me. I like the mystery though and someday I will get the series on vidio to fill in all the gaps. I really wanted to know what the heck those black bee like things that stared down the Christian man was. They were only in a couple of episodes though, I suspect I may never know what those things were supposed to be. Any guesses? I hope the series continues for a long time.

Hello Ghettofarm24, I was just checking out that convoy organization and it sounds wonderfull. Someone with the gift of administration must have started that vision. Its awsome. I just love learning about those kind of organizations, they glorify our Lord so. I know that your blessings are in heaven, your joy in your report shows how much you have a servants heart! If it comes to our neck of the woods, I know Id love to be a part of it. Thanks for the info.

What is the reason that I cant stay logged in? I log in two or three times each session because I get logged out somehow. I will log in, see my name at the bottom of the page where it list the users, try to post and when I hit the reply button, I get a Vbullitin. I will sometimes reply to some ones post and again lose the post because it asks me to refresh my page, log in and continue. Its very frustrating. What is going on? Does anyone else experience this? Does it have something to do with the cookies etc? Any feedback will be helpful.. Thx:help:

I have to check out this guy Frand Gehry, I love to find new sources! Thanks!

396, and Chimboree, Its great to get to know you! We will meet someday soon right? God bless.

Dear Reesh, I am holding you and you family in prayer, I believe that a praying wife that fights her battles on her knees, gives her battles to God and He will show you amazing things. The hard part though for me anyway is to trust His timing. I have prayed EZ. 36 where God said He would put His precepts into the hearts of men, (people), remove the stony heart and replace it with a heart of flesh, and then the wonderful thing is that He said He would cause men to move on those precepts. I have faith that He is hearing our prayers, He even searches to and fro trying to find someone who would put thier faith in Him. He is eager to hellp us. Its awsome that you asked for the prayers of your christian family, there is so much power in corporate prayer. I hope you are able to praise Him in the middle of all this, I believe that praise when offered by a heavy heart becomes even more powerful, it helps our spirit, removing the spirit of heaviness, and putting the joy of the Lord back into our heart. I know that the joy of the Lord is our stregnth, right? I had some very serious problems in my marraige, that was about 12 yrs ago, and counseling and prayer saved my marraige, health and finances. Take good care of yourself, I hope you can find peace soon.

Hello my brothers and sisters! I have been away for several weeks as I needed to travel for family business, and I have missed you all. It is sure interesting to read everything and catch up. I have had trouble posting here for a while because the new forum was not letting me stay logged in, I dont know if it was trouble on my end or not! Oh well. I must say that God is soo good. I went to a family reunion, and I was getting ready for the great big group portrait. There were family members present that I have not seen for 40 years! Really! I felt that Jesus wanted me to lead the whole bunch in a prayer of salvation. Wow, I just said ok, Lord, you open the opportunity and Ill take it! So just as the portrait shots were done, We had to make one or two announcements about addresses, and e-mail info and photo sharing so my cousin in charge of this let me make my "announcement" after her. I asked everyone to pray with me even if they did not mean it but I wanted everyone to make it more comfortable for those who really needed to ask the Lord to be their Savior. After all God knows our hearts and if we were not sincere in our prayer, He would alone be the judge of that. Well at first when everyone began repeating what I was saying, it sounded so pathetic, almost mocking, but part way through there was a distinct change in attitudes. The prayer took on a very serious tone. At the end, there was a moment of complete silence, almost like, wow, what just happened here, and I could hardly speak, tears all over the place, and now we are ready for the eternal family reunion, come whenever it may, as Jesus in comming so very soon. (I know He is already here, but you know about the global revelation.) I am so blessed, I cant wait to see the end results on that one. I just could not disobey what the Holy Spirit had laid upon my heart and I didnt care if I offended anyone. I only knew that even if only one recieved their salvation, that was worth any alienation from the crowd. You know that I did not get any flack from anyone? The sweetest thing is that one of my homosexual cousins had his significant other there, and that one fella was the one that came to me afterwards and gave me a hug. I told him I was the happiest that he prayed with all of us, as I wanted him to know that Jesus is his greatest champion. I know that God is the author and finisher of our faith, I know he is working in my family. I am so amazed and blessed. I wonder why I am so surprised again? He is so faithfull. Isnt He wonderful?