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Maria here's the link. I highly recommend these downloads! https://members.kaiserpermanente.org/redirects/listen/

Hey all, jest checkin in . . . . . this eHarmony is keeping me really busy online! There are some seemingly fabulous single men out there - gives me hope! I am communicating with 11 right now tho so it does get kind of confusing, LOL Pammie you like my litterbox? It's granola and crushed vanilla wafers for the liotter, tootsie rolls, paydays and $100,000 bars for the "turds" - OMG, so much fun! There were 4 kitties (costumes) at the huge Halloween party I went to last night, but I was the only one with my own litterbox! OK so this makes me feel old: I take my son (the 21 year old with diabetes) to the Disney party with me last night - he doesn;t want to go but I guilt him into hanging with his old mom. AND HE MEETS SOMEONE!!! A 23 year old girl who was just recently diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, Dan has had it since he was 7, so he KNOWS - first they just bonded, but then their lips were perma-bonded! Oh my goodness. It just makes me feel so OLD . . . . .

174.2 this morning, so yes I was definately dehydrated last week when I had that big fat loss! It sure was easier to stay motivated when I was losing 3 lbs. a week instead of 3 lbs. a month . . . . Good luck JayTee!!

OH that would be so cool if you guys came up for the Santa Rosa support group meeting on the 14th!!! It is HUGE and OMG just COOL! It's definately open, and we definately need more bandsters there!!! For some reason most north-bayers are getting RNY, and I really can't figure out why!!

Happy Halloween everybody! This is how I'm passing out candy this year - that really is candy in the "litterbox!" Do I have a sick mind, or WHAT?? Let's see if I can do this right. . . . . . .

That would be a good date for me too Jes, maybe I can get scheduled same day . . . .

Tina no more group fills for me either but we can still get our fills on the same day! I am supposed to come back in December too - did they make you an appointment yet? I'm supposed to call for mine . . . .

Hey everyone! Congrats Bea, howdy Monique! It's the port that's sticking out; it burns like a beatch for just about 4-6 weeks. It is swelling; there is a bunch of fluid around it right now in the little muscle-pocket that they created for it. Once the body re-absorbs the fluid, there will be no more swelling and it won't stick out - at least not until you lose all your weight! I complained to Dr. Baggs that he had sewn a baseball in there for weeks; that is how swollen and hard it was - then finally in week 5 is suddenly went down and I never thought about it again until I lost my weight - now it needs its own zip code! It is tiny, but sticks way out of my trim little tummy now - I can wave to people with it! :-) SO worth it - I don't care.

So Jes you just working from home today? Stupid bridge. I have been getting up and going to the gym for some hard cardio every AM, and now I am STARVING again! Jeez it's not even 8 a.m. and I have already had a huge soy lattee and 1/2 cup of cottage cheese. Tina I need the other .25 of your fill!!

Yikes, Bay Bridge closed for at least 24 hours - cable snapped! You commuters may want to turn on the news . . . .

I have had 2 (full) migraines in my whole entire life, and I have NO idea how you guys handle it. Nonne. <y son gets them and all he can do is sleep - no light no noise no movement. His are usually related to unstable blood glucose - he's the one with the Type 1 diabetes. Candra girlfriend you have to get to the bottom of those! I know the Kaiser up here has all kinds of "headache" clinics; does your local one? Clinical studies? You can't live like that . . . . EHarmony is cracking me up! OK I seriously need some better pics, the one I have up is the one that Heather took at Reggie's, no makeup and 14 lbs. heavier - uh . . . OH YEAH its my avatar!! if some guy gets past that he will be pleasantly suprised meeting me in person, LOL I guess that is better than the reverse! Still - they want me to have a body shot up of me doing something I enjoy, I guess that would be hiking? No plaid shorts though! And hard to do a glamour shot in hiking boots. I need help! OK sounds like Pat and I can do the 14th, except our group here goes until noon and then it's going to take an hour at least to get down there from here :-( do you guys really want to wait for us?? We ARE fabulous and well worth waiting for, IF I do say so myself

Good morning all! I signed up for eHarmony . . . if anyone has photos of me, would you please send them? :-) Oh and if they ned to be cropped I don't know how :-(

OK enough. I told the boy "just friends." I cannot handle dating a guy who I find embarrasingly 'dumb.' Is that elitist? I don't care; I don't know what I was thinking going out with him in the first place. Nice body I guess. But dumb as a rock, too sensitive and he SMOKES. Who needs it? I want better for myself. Anybody doing eHarmony? I did it a few years back, nothing ever really came from it - I never posted any pics cause I was too scared of the camera(!) - but I liked their process, and it seemed really safe. If I do it, will you guys help me with pics? I'm sorta LAME like that :-)

Hey all, can ya give me a hand - I have a banded friend up here, Joy Marie is her name (beautiful isn't it??) she is a doll, was banded 3 months ago and has recently had her 3rd fill. She lost weight right after surgery, but not one bit since. She is very frustrated! She is in a wheelchair so is real limited as to what she can do for excercise . . . she does not have Kaiser so does not have the benefit of all of our education and support. So a couple weeks ago she was telling me what she was eating, and it was a lot of liquids and sliders! uh-oh. Riley to the rescue . . . I told her I would ask you guys for your opinions - what are the best band foods? Fill you & keep you full for at least 3-4 hours. . . . being vegetarian my "best" is probably too weird for her, so what do you guys think? I know it's different for everyone, but thought we could give her some ideas. Peanut butter? Tuna fish? I also told her to come on here and meet us, I hope she did! HI JOY MARIE!!!

My Friday weigh-in got pushed back until Sunday! 171.4 for me, but I had been working out HARD Saturday and I think I was really dehydrated - I was SO thirsty yesterday, I hardly ate just drank drank drank! So may see a gain next week, but bit by bit it's moving in the right direction. Happy Monday all!

Woo-hoo, go Tina! You are a permanent resident of onederland!!! Re: to fill or not to fill . . . girlfriend, 2 days ago you were thinking about asking for an unfill!! You are still not eating more than half the time . . . . I would make him a deal, that if you take no fill this week he will make you an appointment RIGHT THEN for a fill in 2 or 3 weeks. he always tells me that I can just let him know if I need a fill sooner and he'll get me in, but it is always over a month by the time I'm feeling like I need a fill until there is an opening to see him! Oh and you know he can do little increments too, right? Not a whole .5? My last one was .25, and he can go lower. . . .

Pammie I am so glad you are feeling better!! Happy Monday :-)

Hi all! Checkin in before I get too busy here at work. It is a bit depressing to log on today and have this thing point out to the world that I am 48! Durn it all . . . . Having full caffeine this morning, I am bad. A big americano, black. YUM. But I am actually feeling physically hungry this morning, and that has not been happening for the last few days. Maybe it'll go away . . . or maybe I should eat, LOL! Pat hunny thanks so much for searching high & low for those 10s! I am starting to give away 12s so they won't help much. Hey it sounds like our girls here are planning a walk in Vallejo on the 14th, that's a Saturday do you want to go? I can drive to your house & we can go from there? I really need to see everyone again! Who needs jeans?? I have over 20 pairs of jeans, from 12s down to 5s - ay caramba. I will wear SOME of them but I can't possibly wear them all - 2 or 3 pairs in circulation at any one time is enough since I don't even wear them on workdays. Mostly blue denim, also a white pair, tan, black and bright red.

Hey gang! Haven't gone back and read all the posts - that's the treat I am promising myself for AFTER my house is clean :-) Pammie you are bummed quite a bit lately - get in to see someone please before it gets worse. I have suffered through severe depressions twice and I don't want that to happen to you :-( Exercise will help, I promise! It takes 4 days to feel the effects (for me) you just have to keep at it until it works. Get outside and walk walk walk - or better yet get to curves and sweat sweat sweat! I don't think this boy is going to work out. He is already annoying me & I swear he is getting dumber by the day - by this morning he was right up there with a rock on the ol' IQ scale. And SO hypersensitive . . . every other sentence out of his mouth is "why do you have to be so mean to me"? Whiney sissy la-la baby. It's not sounding too hopeful is it?? Losing again! Exercising like mad again is why :-) Gym with treadmill up at 12 incline then 8.5 miles alfter yesterday - crazy but I broke through!:thumbup:

TINA WOO-HOO! I am SO proud of you!!

Hello my beautiful ladies (and John of course!), Donna I am so glad that you are home at last! Now the girls have to behave, yes yes yes. I am feeling much better now that I am exercising again, jeepers you guys! I think I am having hormonal issues, to get so depressed and much on SO much junk and gain a bunch of weight for 2-3 weeks, then suddenly get better & slowly lose it again? Its weird. But hey! I stopped re-gaining! I am glad I didn;t change my ticker cause its gonna be right again a a couple of days. Believe it or not I am going to bed! Been up since 4:30 and can hardly keep my eyes open. Doing it again tomorrow! I walked 8 miles today too. I need balance but first I have to get my mood on an even keel! Goodnight you all

Tina, me too - we got word yesterday. Could be as few as 5 people, could be as many as 30 people. I am number 5. Supposed to happen in Jan - Feb. We do have 1 lady who is retiring in March - but not from my division - and 1 guy from my division who is retiring in June, so if either one of them will move their damned retirement dates up, my position might be saved! I mean, for the guy who NEEDS to retire out of my division, staying until June when he plans to retire makes a whopping $12 a month difference in his retirement income, while laying me off! - single mom with 3 kids (OK only 2 are at home), 1 of which has chronic medical conditions??? I will pay him the damned $12 a month for the rest of his $&**& life if he would just f-ing leave and save my job! He just laughs at me, yeah like it's so F-ing funny. I started a new Kaiser class last night, Overcoming Emotional Eating. Taugh by the same MFC that taught my stop smoking class in 2005 (successfully!) and my 14-week pre-surgery class. She is wonderful! The class is already helping - just sitting in that chair every week and being accountable to a new set of people is very motivating. I have already lost back 4 of the 7 that I had gained, so am motivated again. I made myself get up at 4:30 this morning and get the the gym for a very sweaty workout, because not exercising sends me into a depression and then it's just a viscous cycle. Oh and there were like 6 people in this class that have had surgery (all RNY but me) and are starting to re-gain, we all get that it's our HEADS doing the eating! I mean, I am not physically hungry 80% of the time that I start eating. So why am I doing it? I have to keep logs all day for the next 3 days - not doing it on Saturday cause we are going bowling for my birthday and I am NOT writing down what I eat from the cafe there, OR what I drink from the bar!!! Anyhow, congrats Monique everybody take care of yourselves - no internet at home right now and too busy at work, so I don't get on here much but I miss you all!!

Saturday meeting the 24th is not going to work for me, sorry! My birthday party's that day :-)

Dudettes! No skiing yet; not enough snow. No, I have been local, just kind of busy . . . with, well, OK if you have to know - with a BOY! Yeah yeah yeah, it's all about me and I'm not going to let a boy into my life - oh well, I guess I lied. I gave myself a year, started Nov. 4th of 2008 and I did not see anyone until October 2009 so uhm . . . . yeah I lasted my year, esp. since I had not dated for a few months before my Nov. 4th orientation. So yeah, I been busy :confused::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup: The bad news is, I an not on plan, not doing my morning exercise, I was an excercise addict and now the pendulum is swinging too far back the other way, but it will even out and I will find balance! Meantime, I weight the same now as I did at my last fill . . .yikes. But I have been eating SO MANY CARBS that I'm pretty sure I will drop the 5 again in a week when I stop the carbs again (which I mean to do every day - it just never seems to work out!) so I am NOT going to change that ticker!! STEP AWAY from the ticker. Going out for another 2 miles now - got to do it while I am feeling even a LITTLE bit motivated :-)

Tina - we sterted the same day! November 7, 2008 I am keeping that calendar with all of my appointments, weights, measurements in it. I am AMAZED at that the last year has brought! So glad to hear from you; you really do sound better! I am very proud of you girlfriend :-) Jes, OK talked me into it! I seem to have a self-twisting arm again, thus "drink" always wins over "walk," LOL! Who wants to go? OK I'm fresh out of melatonin, but sleepy anyways - that always happens when I drink a huge mug of herbal tea before bed, just so I can get up & pee 3 times during the night! I'm hoping this goes away with the last 20 lbs. Night all!