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I've just had the one slip up with the icecream. I've been craving salty, which is easier for me to deal with since I can just put molly mcbutter on anything and make it salty. It has a lot of sodium, but I really like it and it taste like salty butter but without the calories and fat. I did snack on corn chips and ranch dressing *cringe* but they have since dissapeared. The corn chips to my lab and the ranch in the trash. Ezma. A culinary scream. I feel that.

How happy are you with your band?

No worries tapshoes, I blew my diet out of the water this weekend...but the weekdays are so much easier to stay in routine. We'll make it up.

Somehow I am still down a lb since yesterday...I don't know how. I added it up and even with all the junk I didn't go over 2000 calories yesterday.

No, it wasn't me. I don't think there is anything wrong with your decision, whether I agree with you or not it is obviously a very important issue for you.

Confessions....:crying: and regrets This weekend I've had icecream, funnel cake, chinese food. It has not been a great diet weekend at all.... Ah.

I really want a wii fit. You could get the yoga DVD just to change things up sometimes. Variety is the spice of life:laugh:

That's kinda how I feel too. I'm know he regrets their deaths, but I feel he was careless with their lives.

I choose my canidate for many issues. Abortion issues, Gay rights issues, Economy, Energy, and how intelligent I think they are, Enviromental. No canidate is perfect for me, so I just have to pick the one that is farthest from awful for me.

Your weight loss = 1 pound = a Guinea Pig 1.5 pounds = a dozen Krispy Kreme glazed donuts 2 pounds = a rack of baby back ribs 3 pounds = an average human brain 4 pounds = an ostrich egg 5 pounds = a Chihuahua 6 pounds = a human skin 7.5 pounds = an average newborn 8 pounds = a human head 10 pounds= chemical additives an American consumes each year 11 pounds = an average housecat 12 pounds = a Bald Eagle 15 pounds = 10 dozen large eggs 16 pounds = a sperm whales brain 20 pounds = an automobile tire 23 pounds = amount of pizza an average American eats in a year 24 pounds = a 3-gallon tub of super premium ice cream 25 pounds = an average 2 year old 30 pounds = amount of cheese an average American eats in a year 33 pounds = a cinder block 36 pounds = a mid-size microwave 40 pounds = a 5-gallon bottle of Water or an average human leg 44 pounds = an elephants heart 50 pounds = a small bale of hay 55 pounds = a 5000 BTU air conditioner 60 pounds = an elephants penis 66 pounds = fats and oils an average American eats in a year 70 pounds = an Irish Setter 77 pounds = a gold brick 80 pounds = the Worlds Largest Ball of Tape 90 pounds = a newborn calf 100 pounds = a 2 month old horse 111 pounds = red meat an average American eats in a year 117 pounds = an average fashion model 118 pounds = the complete Encyclopedia Britannica 120 pounds = amount of trash you throw away in a month 130 pounds = a newborn giraffe 138 pounds = potatoes an average American eats in a year 140 pounds = refined sugar an average American eats in a year 144 pounds = an average adult woman 150 pounds = the complete Oxford English Dictionary 187 pounds = an average adult man 200 pounds = 2 Bloodhounds 235 pounds = Arnold Schwarzenegger I found this on another thread and I wanted to do it here. So what have YOU lost?

I good points. Depression does come in stages, however. Someone who is truely depressed might really feel, believe and want to die, but their bodies are healthy. And they might be put on medication and could improve. They would have days they were not hurting. They could get better. They won't live forever, but they might live for years to come. I wouldn't think suicide is ever the answer, but I would think it to be horrible really not wanting to live with the pain, knowing you are going to die and there is no chance of recovery, and not being able to do anything for yourself, even choose when to end it yourself because you don't have the ability...I just couldn't imagine.

That's the problem, logic. That is what can be argued until people are blue in the face. I am not a scientist so I don't and can't argue about when life begins. My partner is a scientist, however, and she does not believe life begins at conception and says that any scientist would agree. I don't have a specified time in my mind that life begins, and noone can prove when it does begin. So I can see why at conception might be an obvious choice for you, totally, but I just don't feel that way. It's such a sad thing either way, and I commend you for standing up for your beliefs, because not wanting any child to be killed is very understandable, and I agree with you.

I see what you are saying, but I have to disagree. In your last paragraph everything you mentioned (castration, spousal abuse) is not a choice for thier own bodies, it is a choice for someone else's body. If someone wants to castrate themselves, then I say go for it, if someone wants to castrate someone other than themselves and doees so forcefully, well that is taking the choice away from them. So I would be prochoice again. What someone decides to do with thier own bodies , not someone else's would be the issue. That's my thing. I respect pro-lifers, if by pro life they mean they would never have an abortion. But then pro choice is prochoice not pro-abortion- I believe in choice, just life I wouldn't call anyone who is against abortion in anyform a pro-taking my choices away and telling me what to do with my body..er. I am not proabortion. I am not progun. I am prochoice. The distinction is that I haven't had an abortion, and that I am sad that sometimes it comes to that. I would not legally force anyone to carry a child inside themselves for nine months. I understand why you feel the way you do, but the difference between us, and something that will always be different, is when we think life begins. I do not believe life begins at conception...I'm guessing you do. I respect that but don't feel the same way.

You go Girl. They deserve a lot more, dear. Good luck in your lapband journey. You can do this.

A small portion of icecream won't undo all your hard work, just be careful with the cake, it is awfully bready, so eat it slow to make sure it goes down right. But at the same time, if you feel you can't say no to them, it might be hard to stop eating once you start. That is how I am. I can't have icecream anywhere around me because I can't stop till it's all gone.

Hi, Nice to have you. Good luck on your surgery Monday

Don't worry it will come. I just came off a TWO month plateau, but I went down a pants size and Lost NOTHING. Then today after two months, the scale is down 6 lbs in two days. Plus with all your working out your gaining muscle, which weighs more than fat. Our bodies play tricks on us, especially with the help of the scale. You are doing fantastic.

Ezma, could you imagine carrying around a Horse with you? Isn't that amazing. I was thinking about lugging around a kid on one hip and a tire on the other and how TIRED I would be. No wonder it was so hard to walk up stairs, you know. Or walk to my car... Wow. Way to go, by the way.

I've been working on getting one. The wii is so hard to come by right now. I walk, swim, and do my yoga video, right now. I cancelled my gym membership, but have been doing more at home, and this could be a fun way to go. I WANT.

I bought Just my Size Yoga on Amazon.com, and it is a really good DVD for anyone trying to get into a routine if you are larger and have trouble doing normal yoga. I do. My body just is too round to put myself in some of the positions the regular yoga videos do. Anyway just wanted to share. It isn't the kind of exercise that leaves you breathless (just a caution) and I probably wouldn't make it my only exercise, but it is enjoyable and you can feel it in your muscles when your done.

Yeah it is, isn't she awesome?

Unfortunately the stupid city I live in has nothing but restuarants, bars, churchs, banks, and clothing stores, and the gyms we do have are pretty much for buff bodies, or skinny minnies. I do go work out, but they don't offer anything special And I'm stuck here for another year, but soon I will move somewhere with more options....for EVERYTHING

Oh I'm so sorry Ezma. Insurance companies can be such ASSHOLES! Like know more than your doctors, nurses, etc. Who are they to decide what is best for your husband? That is the Doctors job, the nurses job, and the therapist job to know what would help him. They are pencil pushing money grubbing bad people. Stay strong, calm, and ready. I wish I could help in some way.

Um...I almost hate to say it in case it's another scale trick buuuuut 6 pounds in two days!!!!!!!!!

I think we should revive this to compare I have now lost an average two year old and an automobile tire. What have you stopped carrying around now?