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I have a goal to hit by Halloween, I will do this with you Chris! I want to be what it says on my driver's license, 168!! That's uhm . . . .too much, like 16 lbs. or something OH! BART STRIKE AVERTED! Jes, turn on the news!!

Ha! Tina you were posting when I was, same thing to Tamra but you are SO much nicer than I am! LOL. I have assumed the position on my bed with my laptop, I got in 2 meals today about 500 calories which is REALLY unusual for me on big exercise days!! I understand all the hype about the sweet spot now!! I am happy!!

Tamra! You must remove people like that from your life, and I don't mean maybe! You are giving her way too much power, take it back and get the *&$# away fro her until you have a better handle on what YOU need to do for YOU. Us girls were talking about this is the car on the way back to Vallejo yesterday - we have had to replace a lot of our friends - at least for a while - with our new support friends. Negative people keep us in the place that we are working so hard to get out of. Even if they are not trying to harm us,l they can and do because they don't want things to change. I have WAY less extra skin than I thought I would. It does bother me, and I do want to have it removed if it's still an issue when I am done losing. But that's a long ways off! And who sees my extra skin? Who besides me even gives a crap? It's hidden under my clothes. Hey, if you don't like it, don't look at me! Sorry for the scolding girl, but you need to take care of YOU right now, and let her take care of her own BS. Tina! Yes you can walk 50 in a week - I just did 15 today, LOL too much for 1 day but whatever, I have a 1/2 marathon in 2 weeks so I had to get on it!!

Thanks for the pic Heather, yay new avatar 4 me!! Nicole, too busy racing to write! Ha, ha. Actually our support group leader up here tells me that too :-) Headed out to the coast 4 my hike, it's that or go to a NASCAR party and drink beer and THAT'S not a good choice! TTYL

Tamra we missed you! Next time Not back on track 2morrow, get back on track right now! Make your very next choice a good one. Can you tell I've been reading my head hunger/no excuses book?

Of the 3 I "race" with, 2 have hit 100 and 1 is really close - just a few lbs. away.

Good morning my beauties ~ YES I am still on my 100 lb. high, I calculates while I was doing my 4 mile power-walk this morning that it took me something like 281 days to lose 100 lbs. which is probably too fast! But I am very competitive with my RNY friends and I WORK IT as you all know . . . right now I am already pooped, but have a hike on the coast rail planned for this afternoon - I will deal, I always do! LOL Tina, that is the crazy wild treat I am giving myself today, more exercise . . . pretty sad! GREAT pic! Post more please!! I need to change my avatar :-)

Home safe girls, not until after 9 tho . . WHEW long day, but SO MUCH FUN! Thank you Reggie for hosting, and thanks to ALL of you for my card, so sweet! I have some supportive friends, but no one else would ever have thought of doing that! It means a lot to me, really. So thanks Donna & all of you girls! And Reggie - great to meet your family, LOVE that house! You guys are the BOMB!!

Thanks you guys! I gotta go; it'll take me over an hour to get to vallejo. c u all this afyernoon! :biggrin:

He said he wanted to put in another .5 at the 2nd september "class," but if it's the same as right now I won't need it and won't let him do it! If I lose 10 more lbs though I might need it. That's also the day before I leave for the Lake Tahoe Marathon, and I sure don't want to be in trouble up there from being overfilled! So we will see. I am getting close to goal and losing a lot slower, so I should not need to get fills all the time anymore.

My restriction right now at 5cc's is perfect - I hope it lasts! No getting stuck, no PBing so I actually "feel" it less, but don't get hungry anymore - even after eating carbs, which is a miracle! I can eat 2 cups of stuff like fruit or salad, but only 1/2 cup or a little less of something dense. Really enjoying the Quorn chik'n that Robin recommended, and it fills me good

Yes I will be at Reggie's! Carpooling the Candra & Jes, that'll be fun too :-) Christine, yay! Where you been girl? R U coming today?

OMG Tina you are right my BMI is under 30! I am not obese anymore!!

I don't understand why they can't figure out the September group fill dates - he called Kelly while I was sitting there and told her to put me in the 2nd "class" in Pinole in September - then gave me the date and said be there at 9:30 no matter what the card says - but that is what the card says, LOL September 24th at 9:30, Pinole Medical Center

100 pounds ladies!!!!!!! I made it!!!!!!!!!!!

Tina I am flying to Portland next weekend, it should be at my max fill "take" by then so I will let you know!!

Reggie maybe we are entertainment enough, LOL! I have no idea what I am bringing yet.

Oh Tamra, you have to go! Nicole, "unusual hair loss" is definately a Mirena side effect! In just under 5% of patients, google it or go to their website and use the "patient support" chat feature, I am a Mirena girl and I have used it - here Safety with Mirena

187.4 this morning, only a pound more than my lowest post-stomach flu (!) weight. I had my 4th fill last Friday, and am really in the green zone! It's GREAT, my band works perfect now if I can just convince me head to follow its lead . . . Happy Friday all!

Tina SO glad they got you in and were good to you! You know after they do a big unfill like that & things readjust, it is supposed to take very little to feel restriction again - so you new sweet spot may be at 4.5 or 5. For SURE it's not at 6!!! OK here is something weird, despite my major munching mania today, my scale right now says the same thing that it did this morning! Looks like I dropped some water today, yay Nicole you must be right!! Yay I get to see Maria & Heather & all my everybody!! Where is my Christine???

Donna I am going to get to actually see you finally!!!

Jes, meeting @/near 37 sounds good, wherever the shopping mall is - or whatever, just get me an address so I can google-map it (no GPS for this girl) and I'm all over it!! Candra where you gonna be? Oh and what time girls?

Pearls, they added the info class because only a little over 10% of folks who went to orientation actually go through with some type of bariatric surgery! They think it's the easy way and then they find out it's SO not, and there are so many rules . . .so they drop out along the way, never lose their 10% or whatever. But we have all made it so far, and if you stick with us you will too! The faster you get to your surgery goal weight, the faster you will have surgery - so the timing is largely up to you! Warning though, do not start losing weight until after orientation! Your orientation weigh-in is your official "start" weight Pam, yucko! No more snackies for you either :-( Tina I had a really good one-on-one with Robin last time, too - so much so that I was going to write her a thank-you :-)

Ha Jes! If I drive I'll have to clean out my stinky car, LOL but sure can do! I need to clean it anyways. As long as someone tells me where to go WAY before I need to turn so I don't trip! Unless Candra wants to drive that is . . . we gonna vanpool, save a tree ya

OK you will love today's log: B- soy milk with 1 scoop soy protein powder, 2 slices reduced fat swiss, 1/2 cup fat-free vegie soup L- 2 cups ceasar salad with 1/2 cup Quorn chik'n S - 4 handfuls of potatoe chips and 2 small slices of chocolate cake!! OOPS D - are you kidding? unsweetened herbal tea! Totally, TOTALLy head hunger. Sometimes I just get SO SICK OF THE RULES! I have to tell you though, I tried to power down 3 bites of that choco cake before I had to go up to the front for a meeting, NO GO I did not PB but had to keep excusing myself to go into the bathroom and spit cause I was afraid if I swallowed my spit it might not go down! Seriously, I sent into the bathroom like 3 times during this 5 minute meeting - different bathrooms, so I could say I was going to check the Code or whatever - and it's real hard to talk when you mouth is full of spit! This is a client I was meeting with so he does NOT know about the surgery. Talk about awkward! Then I went for a walk with my friend who got married last weekend, I spit like 8 more times - it took me like 25 minutes to get over that little episode! My friend is like, well gee Jane, did you really WANT to still be able to gulp down chocolate cake? Uhm . . no, I didn't. Good band! So impressed that I do not PB at ALL anymore with my just-right restriction!!!