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Five Holes here. One is big, the other not so bad. Unfortunately I am so pale that I am almost translucent so my incisions after three months look like angry red slashes on my belly. I don't mind. If anyone asked and I feel like messing with them I will say I was in a knife fight. :thumbup:

I am so glad to hear that, I was worried.

I love fantasy novels. Do you like Anne Rice, Crystal? I agree about the autobiographal, esp. famous people. Has anyone every read the autobiographal "Child Called It" series? Oh they are so intense. Be careful if you read them.

Nope it looks like your waist is too tiny for the shirt.

Romance Novels are not for me either. I used to read a lot of Steven King though. I like to gobble books like I used to gobble food.:thumbup:

Ohhh Hugs, Lynn. Don't worry after that fill I think you will feel like a new bandster. I will keep trucking if you will.

Hi Ericka! *waves* Welcome to our tight litte group, the Victorious Valentines! Your progress seems very average to me. Glad to have you here.

Oh your butt looks so good. And your belly looks flatter. Your doing so great. You rock.

I had horrible bruising after the surgery, and small bruising after my first fill

Ahhh Shoes, hurry back. We miss you already. :thumbup:

Good luck to both of you.

I found this on another thread and I wanted to share it here with my vv's. 20: Worst Fast-Food chicken Meal - Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips from McDonald's (5 pieces) with cream ranch sauce. 830 Calories, 55 grams fat (4.5 trans fat), 48 carbs. Add a large fries and regular soda and this seemingly innocuous chicken meal tops out at 1,710 calories. 19: Worst drink - Jamba juice chocolate Moo'd Power smoothie (30 fl oz). 900 calories, 10 g fat, 183 carbs, 166 g sugar. Jamba Juice calls it a smoothie, MSNBC calls it a milk shake. The beverage contains as much sugar as 8 pints of Ben & Jerry's butter pecan ice cream. 18: Worst supermarket meal - Pepperidge Farm Roasted Chicken Pot Pie (whole pie). 1,020 calories, 64 g fat, 86 g carbs. Label may say this pie serves two, but, who ever divided a small pot pie in half? Once you crack th e crust, there will be no stopping. 17: Worst 'healthy' burger - Ruby Tuesday Bella Turkey Burger. 1,145 calories, 71 g fat, 56 g carbs. 16: Worst Mexican entree - Chipotle Mexican Grill Chicken Burrito. 1,179 calories, 47 g fat, 125 g carbs, 2,656 mg sodium. 15: Worst kids' meal - macaroni Grill Double Macaroni 'n' cheese. 1,210 calories, 62 g fat, 3,450 mg sodium. It's like feeding your kid 1-1/2 boxes of Kraft mac 'n' cheese. 14: Worst sandwich - Quiznos Classic Italian (large). 1,528 calories, 92 g fat, 4,604 mg sodium, 110 g carbs. A large homemade sandwich would more likely provided about 500 calories. 13: Worst salad - On the Border Grande Taco Salad with Taco Beef. 1,450 calories, 102 g fat, 78 g carbs, 2,410 mg sodium. This isn't an anomaly: Five different On the Border salads on the menu contain more than 1, 100 calories each. 12: Worst burger - Carl's Jr. (Hardee's on East Coast) Double Six Dollar Burger. 1,520 calories , 111g fat. Carl's Jr. brags it's home to this enormous sandwich, but the restaurant chain also provides convenient nutrition info on its Web site -- so ignorance is no excuse for eating it. 11: Worst steak - Lonestar 20 oz T-bone. 1,540 calories, 124g fat. Add a baked potato and Lonestar's Signature Lettuce Wedge, and this is a 2,700 calorie blowout. 10: Worst Breakfast - Bob Evans Caramel banana Pecan Cream Stacked and Stuffed hotcakes. 1,540 calories, 77 g fat (9 g trans fat), 198g carbs, 109 g sugar. Five Egg McMuffins yield the same caloric cost as this stack of sugar-stuffed flapjacks, which is truly a heavy breakfast, weighing in at a hefty pound and a half. 9: Worst dessert - Chili's Chocolate Chip Paradise Pie with Vanilla Ice Cream. 1,600 calories, 78 g fat, 215 g carbs. Would you eat a Big Mac for dessert? How about three? That's the calorie equivalent of this decadent dish. Clearly, Chili's customers get their money's worth. 8: Worst Chinese entree - P.F. Chang's Pork Lo Mein. 1,820 calories, 127 g fat, 95 g carbs. The fat content in this dish alone provides more than 1,100 calories. And you'd have to eat almost five servings of Pasta to match the number of carbs it contains. Now, do you really need five servings of pasta? 7: Worst chicken entree - Chili's Honey Chipotle Crispers with Chipotle Sauce. 2,040 calories, 99 g fat, 240 g carbs. 'Crispers' refers to an extra thick layer of break crumbs that soak up oil and adds unnecessary calories and carbs to these glorified chicken strips. 6: Worst fish entree - On the Border Dos XX Fish Tacos with Rice and Beans. 2,100 calories, 130 g fat, 169 g carbs, 4,700 mg sodium. Perhaps the most misleadingly named dish in America : A dozen crunchy tacos from Taco Bell will saddle you with fewer calories. 5: Worst pizza - Uno Chicago Grill Chicago Classic Deep Dish Pizza. 2,310 calories, 162 g fat, 123 g carbs, 4,470 mg sodium. Downing this 'personal' pizza is equivalent to eating 18 slices of Domino's Crunchy Thin Crust cheese pizza. 4: Worst pasta - Macaroni Grill Spaghetti and Meatballs with Meat Sauce. 2,430 calories, 128 g fat, 207 g carbs, 5,290 mg sodium. This meal satisfied your calorie requirements for an entire day. 3: Worst nachos - On the Border Stacked Border Nachos. 2,740 calories, 166 g fat, 191 g carbs, 5,280 sodium. 2: Worst starter - Chili's Awesome Blossom. 2,710 calories, 203 g fat, 194 g carbs, 6,360 mg sodium. 1: The worst food in America - Outback Steakhouse Aussie Cheese Fries with Ranch Dressing. 2,900 calories, 182g fat, 240g carbs. Even if you split these 'starters' with three friends, you'll have downed a dinner's worth of calories before you entree arrives.

Maybe you can put trash bags down on top of the rocks before you put the rest of the layers of rock back on top. Doesn't that stop weeds?

I cannot do Tae bo, I do like pilates and yoga, though I don't do them like I should. Right now I am doing the gym thing half way regularly. What about Water aerobics. I am really interested in that. I know that a class would be mostly elderly, but I love older people. It's children I can't seem to cope with. How horrible is that. A woman who can't get along with children. :cry_smile:

Well it's 10 am and i'm already off plan. So I guess I'm staying on plan TONIGHT because I need too.

:thumbup:Oh Pix I am so proud of you. The liquid stage is the hardest so if you can get through I know that everything else will be a snap for you. You go girl. *clapping for pix*

Before my surgery Paula Dean was my FAV. She reminds me of my Granny. Yes thats what I call her, I'm from Louisiana. She cooks like my Granny too. Now I like to watch Turning up the heat with Gavin. I've been really into cooking shows lately. Oh and Nukechick thank you soooo much for posting this. I called my mom and we compared favorites that we swore never to try again. My parents and little sister LOVE Outback's cheesefries, and I liked the blooming onion. I love Chili's chicken crispers. I didn't usually order them bc I try to stay away from fried things but now I have renewed my "baked only" commitments. Thank you. I copied and pasted this in my Feb 08 support group, I hope you don't mind. I wanted more people to read it.:cry_smile:

Did anyone try the mayo clinic diet? I hate bacon. If their is a worse diet for me I don't know what it...but I did it anyway. And the grapefruit diet, and jenny craig, and weight watchers, and the worse one to me- LA weight loss- what a money pit THAT was. The slim fast diet, nutrisystems, south beach, atkins. I have to say my favorite one was weight watchers. I actually lost weight on that one and kept it off for a while. I lost 30lbs on nutrisystems once.

Yep. People in general are stark raving insane.

Me too I can usually be annoyingly perky, but why frown unless you mean it? Since that first fill I alternate between in your face perky or raving lunatic. But I am sure that after a while I will settle on my generally perky self personality.

Love you too girl.

Hes in his earlier thirties I think.... Isn't he. I know he's older than me.

I'm always late to the cool threads 1. 100 calorie packs of oreo's, cheesits, or what not 2. laughing cow cheese like blessedwice suggested on carrots, melba toast or celery. 3. I like to get those imitation crab packages and eat a little of that with a slice of provolone. Protein makes me feel good. 4. Sometimes I like to get the skinny cow icecream bars...but I don't really watch carbs, so if you are don't do it. 5. My personal favorite sweet snack- a tangerine 6. Personal favorite salty- vlasic original dill pickle. mmmm. When I was younger I would drink big glasses of straight pickle juice.

Oh tapshoes I carved ReadySteadygo *N* Tapshoes BFF On the bottom of my shoes AGES ago :cry_smile:

Maybe so...but I am in the 75 percentile that thinks your awesome:tt1: