Ezma

He's sure it isn't flipped. In fact, you know that popping sensation when the needle passes thru the rubber on the port, I felt that about 5 or 6 times. I'm trying so hard not to get down about this. I just really didn't need anything else going on right now. My hubby is kind of excited cause he get's to take care of me. It's so sweet. He felt so bad after my surgery that he didn't get to do it. But he was busy having a brain tumor removed. I think he had a good excuse. Silly man. If any of you are interested in that part of my life, I have a blog on the hospital's site about him, what we've gone thru so far and a bit about me and our son. It's at CarePages and his page is JeffreyAllenHale. You have to sign up but they never send you anything, it's just to help with privacy.

Well the future looked so bright until my doctor stuck the fill needle in my belly. After 6 attempts to draw Fluid or inject fluid in my port he determined that I need to go in and have the port or tubing replaced. He could get in the port, no problem. He just couldn't get any saline in or out of it. He said that they've been seeing a bit more port malfunctions lately. So it's surgery for me. Suck, suck, suck! Only possible plus is that he thinks he can do it without anesthesia and as outpatient. Lots of good sedation for me. He did say I was doing great with the weight loss and to keep doing what I'm doing. I lost 11 pounds in 4 weeks. Not enough for me. But on the high side of their expectations. Gonna have to search through the site and see if anyone else has had this happen and what to expect. Though I know everyone's experience is different.

I definately burp more now and louder. And I get the hiccups a lot too. At least we look better now when we burp. LOL

Lil you're such an inspiration for me when it comes to exercise. Right now I'm proud of what I've worked myself up to but my eye is on you for a look into the future. Keep it up and thanks.

I was about 20 minutes short this last week. But I'm ready to try again. Guess I'll aim for 2 1/2 hours again. I should get it this week.

Lookin' great Jaime. And I'm reading your blog and totally enjoying it. Had lots of fun with the Prevention Weight Loss Simulator. Interesting to see how hot I'll be when I reach my goal. :tongue2:

Love em too. To me they are a longer than comma pause. Kinda like joke punchline pause. And I really love em at the end of a partial thought. Can't think of an example now just know it looks like this. So....... Anyway.......

Come on down. Plenty of room here. You can even pass me and I'll try not to be too jealous. :tongue2: Though I intend to keep on going if my body will just let go of the dang fat. Sheesh.

Lookin' great! You really can see the difference. Love your outfit too.

Thank you Tskelli. You helped me to focus on some NSVs instead of the 2 pounds I gained. Pretty sure it's water since I made really salty carnitas and drank a ton last night. Anyway, I too have been heartburn free since my surgery. Really nice to live without that. And I can no longer use my stomach to steer while I open a straw or whatever. It just won't reach the steering wheel no matter how hard I push it out. Yay!

I'm closer to you Lil. Which I think is pretty darn good and I'm happy with what I've lost. It's just never fast enough or enough weight off. LOL I don't know my surgery weight for sure, I either lost 16 or 18 pounds on the two week pre-op diet. So I'm down 42 or 44 pounds since surgery. Fill for me, I hope, on Tuesday. And it can't come soon enough. I'm feeling some restriction but I can still get an Advil Liquicap down. So.....fill me! Fill me! (Hehe - I feel like Audrey II)

LMAO - Yeppers, dry like an oven.

Think you're safe 'cause so far it's just been me. It's probably because it's 100+ degrees here. And my body is getting used to it for the summer.

Wow! Sounds like you've really been through the ringer with the band. I'm sending you all kinds of good healing thoughts and hope things work out for you soon. I do agree it was a good thing to post in case anyone else runs into this kind of problem.

I went out and bought the Hungry Girl Cookbook today too. I love the website and with your glowing endorsement of the book, it was a must have. And what did I spy on the end cap at Target? Hungry Girl!

Wow! You're doing fantastic. Good to have you back with us. 60 pounds since surgery. And you had surgery the day after I did. I had the same plateau issue you did and I'm getting my third fill on Tuesday. So I'm crossing my fingers that I'll catch up to you soon.

Wonderful pieces Ready! Thank you so much for sharing them.

Hehe- Lady Ezma. Was funny to hear you say that hear. Ezma is the name of my character on my online games. One of them is based on Camelot so I was called Lady Ezma a lot there. :biggrin2:

Well, I'm really torn here. It looks like that worked for me. I'm down three pounds from the plateau weight. I'm very happy that it worked but also ticked that I seem to require much, much fewer calories to lose weight. Oh well, who needs food. I'll eat when I'm thin. At least I found a way to break the plateau.

How's everyone doing so far this week? I'm about half way there and not sure I'll make my goal but I should come close to it. I switched from walking to cardio and strength/flexibility training so even though I'm burning about 3 times as many calories, my time has cut in half. Oh, and did I tell you? My muscles are killing me! Think that's a good thing though since I forgot I had most of those muscles.

I didn't make it on liquids but I did reduce the calories by about 25% and upped the exercise almost double. It seemed to help. I was going to wait until tomorrow to make sure but this morning I was down 1.5 pounds from the dreaded plateau weight. With any luck, I'll drop into the 70s tomorrow. Cross your fingers everyone. I'm definately open to the liquid thing another time. One thing that happened over the last 2 days was my band seemed to tighten up. Had that stuck feeling on some moist chicken tonight. Possibly I shrunk my pouch down? No idea really. Lil- You could have something with that theory. I'm very near the weight I was at for quite a while before my hysterectomy. About 4 pounds from it now. And I do think I was at that weight for several years. Sad part is the clothes that fit then, don't fit now. :wink2:

Yay!!!! I'm happy for you. I noticed a big difference on my second one. I get my third, if I'm lucky, next week. What size band do you have Ready? Can you tell a difference yet?

I love the Hungry Girl. I had her website on that list of sites I sent. Lots and lots and lots of great info there - www.hungry-girl.com. Now I'm craving a margarita and just might have one this weekend. Thanks.

I hear ya. It's so hard to remember what it was like before my hysterectomy. I don't miss it at all. I did gain a lot of weight after it and I'm almost back to the weight I was at when I had it. Another weird thing has been happening to me. Wonder if anyone else here has any ideas on it. Lately I've been having a lot of hot flashes. Now this could be due to the temperature rising above 100 degrees. But I also thought it might be due to a change in my metabolism or even menopause type hot flashes since I've lost fat that could have been producing the hormones that stave off the hot flashes. What do you guys think? Anyone else have any new hot flash incidents?

Whataburgers here in Arizona too. :cursing: