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Tina update yer blog will ya? I love reading you girls' blogs :-) OK this is just too exciting for an old woman like me, goodnight girls!! 2morrow is my AWS day off but it's going to be even hotter than today so I MUST get up early to get my miles in! And I get a (nail) fill tomorrow, yay yay yay :-) Goodnight all!

OMG Heather, I SO wish there was a skyjump here! I woulod totally take those skyrobics classes, holy crudfish you can burn 1,000 calories and have a BLAST!!!

Yay Tinas here I am not alone! Pasta is a slider, girl! Pasta and ice cream all day, no wonder you had no restriction . . . . but tomorrow is a brand new day! And who knows, I lost mine real suddenly after the last fill

Jeepers it is kind of spooky to have no one here! I am the lone poster today I guess . . . . . twilight zone music . . . . Girls I am SO happy, I hit 800 calories today but it was all in little meals, no all-day eating or snacking, no hunger (except right before lunch), no PBing no problems of any kind! It is BOMB :-)

~sigh, I know I should not worry about this question either, but I do!! Too many years of following south beach, plus my support groups are all about the low-carb thing - but they are mostly RNY also, maybe that makes a difference. I do log everything in caloriecount.about.com and it works for me. I get 70 to 80 grams of carbs a day, but I also aim for at least 30 grams of Fiber so make that 40 to 50 net grams of carbs. That's low enough for me to lose at a good healthy pace but still feed my essential body functions, which you must have carbs for your body to use or it will use lean muscle and we don't want that! I can't do gluten so bread products are out for me, and rice is out per my lap-band program, and milk is out due to lactose & whey intolerence SO I get all of my carbs from fresh fruit (I mostly eat berries for the high fiber) in the a.m., vegies, unsweetened soy milk and an occasional few bites of potato or sweet potato (potatoes are a trigger food for me so I avoid them most of the time). Sometimes quinoa, maybe once a week or so. I very rarely eat processed foods and feel lousy when I do (listen to Jachut!) I am also vegetarian so I get a few carbs from the soy meat analogs and tofu products that I consume every day (I usually get 80 grams or more of Protein, don't need meat to do that!). My nutritionist always says protein first, followed by fruit or veggie, starches last and if you never do get to the starches that's just fine with her! I follow her advice and it works for me :cool:

OK well the salad and everything went down just fine! I sure got down a lot more than I did at lunchtime, but only 1/2 of what I was eating last week, so it took more to fill me up but salad is SO not "dense" like meat or cheese or eggs. So good! I will see how long this full lasts. I have already planned to walk to starbucks with daniel at 7:30 to get my skinny soy decaf latte, hopefully I will be able to drink it by then but if not I'll save it for in the morning!!

Thats sweet Nicole, we are always here for you! Mike seems supportive at least some of the time . . . . Hey gang, that few spoonfulls at lunch (11:30, I ate too early) has lasted me until now!!! 4 and a half hours! PRETTY HAPPY about that! Going to get a salad at round table with the boys now, we'll see how that works out :-)

OK putting some real clothes on and going to the mall! Type 2 yall later :cool:

Jamba light?! Oh Jes thanks for that, I had no idea! I can get that down for sure! I get Jamba cards from work, they give them out as employee incentives or rewards ir something there is o ly $5 on them, but I have always given them away because I can't have all that sugar & carbs. Now I want one! Probably will disconinue the program, so I guess I'll just have to break out the $4 at the mall today! YAY Heather, leave those notes in library books! That's SO cool :cool: I love that you are doing it!!!

What I was going to say about my kids not getting enough attention because it's all about ME is, they are used to it! LOL. The middle one (Daniel) has been my main support person and spends a lot more time with me than he did before, so he's not feeling gypped at all. The younger one though (Austin) is pretty butt-hurt. The thing is though, he just wants me to be around, he does not want to talk or do anything with me, he just wants to play his computer games and have me available to cater to him if he gets a whim and wants fast food or something. He seriously stays in his room until 5 minutes before he has to be at work then he runs through the house looking for clean clothes and wanting a ride! And yet he makes all kinds of butt-hurt comments about how I am never around and always out "walking" (he does quotes, like he does not believe that's really what I am doing when I go out every day), he has even said that his brother is more of a mother to him than I am but I think he just said that to hurt my feelings! Teenagers, gotta love them. So yes I have that with one of my boys, but the other one I think we have gotten closer through this because he is so involved. He walks with me several times a day, goes out with me to friends, he is kind of a food police nag but I need that! We talk a LOT and I feel like I have gotten to know him better in the last 6 months. Part of that is just him growing up and being interested in something besides himself!

Oh Jes I am so excited for you!! Tomorrow you will have a surgery date!! Don't freak when you get it like I did, LOL :cool: Tina I just found that if I wait 1/2 hour I can eat again, and my pouch gets full again! Yikes, I could totally eat around this thing. And already I am just wanting to drink my diet soy milk instead of eating, so much easier! It seems such a waste to cook food and then only get to eat 4 bites of it!! I am going to get more of those little 1/2 cup containers and when I cook for the week today I will just put the food in those again, like I did after surgery. SO - who needs a fancy black dress?? It says size 16 but is more like a 14, it is 2 pieces kind of a lined crepe with a subtle but sequined scroll pattern on the bodice and the lower front of the skirt, really really cute cap sleeves and a low-cut cowl back. It has been hanging in my closet because I did not think I could EVER get it on, suddenly it's a little too big! Actually the top still pretty much fits but the skirt is just plain too big. Who's gonna be a 14/16 at Christmas-party season, or have another formal affair to go to?? I want someone I know to have it not some stranger!! Oh and the skirt is long (lower calf or ankle) but can be rolled up to be shorter or better accommodate hips!

Oh Tina no I am only at 5.0 ccs, he said after he did my fill that he had pulled it all out first and I have 5 in there now. I guess everybody is different! I am glad he only gives me .5 at a time, but I wish he would do it every 4 weeks instead of 6 because I lose it all in the first few weeks then start gaining it back or at least stop losing it. But I guess this far out I should not be losing any faster than I am, I am still at almost 2 lbs. a week average and I only have 30 left to lose . . . . unless I change my goal! I will talk to him about that when I go in September I guess . . . he does not seem to be in any hurry for me to slow down, in fact he says it's good that I am trying to keep up with my RNY friends - and I am still losing faster than 1 of them, the same as 1 of them, and slower than 1 of them - so on average I have the same rate of loss that they do :-)

OMG Tina, the restriction is starting to settle in already! I was downstairs making spaghetti sauce - actually just soy crumbles with some jarred pomodoro sauce, really really thick - and was tasting it as I heated it up on the stove, "tasted" about 4 bites and - I felt it before I even got it heated up! Not stuck, just full in my pouch (not my stomach). So like it's only going to hold like 2 tablespoons? really? I can't survive on that! I think I'm starting to feel your pain!!! You and Nicole's - nicole if I ate shrimp, I would not be able to eat a whole one now! It took me a week after the last fill to really feel it, let's hope that this one is just settling in more quickly and I won't actually get tighter than this! This came on suddenly . . . . :cool:

Oh girls do you know what else I have never done walk-wise that I've always wanted to do? Walk across the Golden Gate! Anybody up for doing that one weekend? OH do you know what else would be fun, taking the ferry over to Angel Island to hike!! Make a whole day out of it, picnic out there - the kids would love it!

I am very happy that I like cottage cheese AND eggs! But I rarely eat breakfast food for breakfast, Robin was like, "you had ginger and peanut tofu for BREAKFAST??" And I'm like, yeah so? I also love chili with cheese for breakfast, lentils with veggie sausage, tacos, pizza (my favorite but can't do the crust anymore), basically any lunch or dinner food except salad - I just cannot abide salad for breakfast!!

Congratulations Heather! Woot! You totally rock girl, I am proud of you like crazy!!! Petaluma walk we can do anytime, I wanted to do it this month but Reggie's party is Saturday and I will be in Oregon with my dad the following weekend . . so I guess we could do next Sunday the 16th? Maybe at noon, so folks have a chance to go to church in the AM? I am moved to tears by this, and it is SO TRUE!!! No matter how much weight we lose, if we do not see ourselves as beautiful it is all for nothing! Operation Beautiful It is too hot to walk outside today, I did a mile and a half and came back home! But I have no air conditioning so its too hot to lay around too, LOL so I am going to go to the mall, but some really cute post-its at the Hallmark store, and do Operation Beautiful!!!

Yow, no eggs that must be hard to eat breakfast out much at all . . . . jeez what do you DO? Oh but you eat meat so you got some choices . . you could get ham I guess but I would SO want to drown that in syrup!! No pancakes tho, I never ever liked them. Waffles yes :-) Weird huh? So is there a better choice for breakfast with the 'laws? We have this place here called KCs downtown grill, on the Windsor Town Green it is a BLAST and a big group of us go almost every Saturday for breakfast, the portions are SO big I can split a plate with someone, let them take all the potatoes and toast, and STILL not be able to finish my half of a half - and thats before the band! Wildly huge but the boys love it. They have 7 kinds of potato pancakes, OMG OMG OMG it is HEAVEN. But I digress . . . . when I was on my pre-op diet and eating meat I would seriously order a side of ham and a side of gravy and EAT it UP . . . and be full all afternoon from the fat!! I tried being good and just having a burger patty and tomatoes, but everyone felt sorry for me if I didn;t have gravy! It's a weakness, ~sigh~

I'm having a weird sensation . . . I ate 1/2 cup of eggbeaters for breakfast, and now almost an hour later I am slowly feeling more full than when I finished eating the eggs! Weird. You girls with restriction, do you get this?

Dudette Tamra, I TOTALLY go to iHop! There is one a mile away from me and my boys love to go. You can get eggs (or eggbeaters) or an omlette, ask for the potatoes on a separate plate and give them away at your table! I never did like pancakes so iHop goodies don't really tempt me - except the crepes, those tempt me! But the good feeling of sitting there smiling, after I have eaten only what's on my diet, drinking my decaf and watching my hoover boys polish off everything is SO much better than eating syrup :-)

I lost 15% of my body weight prior to surgery by following Kaiser's 1200 cal per day pre-op diet. No liquid diet whatsoever, and protein shakes are not allowed - even post-op. I have photos of my liver during surgery; it was as flat as a pancake! I did cut the carbs out of the 1200 calorie diet pre-op, which is what really shrunk my liver along with the weight loss.

Good morning girls, Well I finally got to start eating again! 4:30 yesterday on the DOT I was not waiting a second longer! I was at a party and ate party food ans had zero problems. No issues at all, I am still not feeling ANY restriction. Bot being on clear liquids for 2 days sure does drop a couple of pounds tho! I am so close to 100 lbs. I can just taste it . . . . Tine if you are not sure you need a fill, you probably don't need one! I think you are at your sweet spot! You can always email him if you suddenly lose restriction again and he'll get you in @ Richmond. I bet you are good until the September Pinole appt.

OK here's my day: B- SF soy latte & 6 girl scout cookies - I know I know! They are gone now! L - diet cranberry pomegranate juice (5 cals) D - vegetable soup broth, SF jello S - vegetable soup broth, diet juice I don't think I'm going to worry too much about the GS cookies! I already weigh less tonight than I did this morning, how often does THAT happen? Nicole he gave me the numby stuff like he always does, you know he says "pinch," but I never felt a pinch, then I REALLY felt it when he put the fill needle in! It wasn't really painful or anything, more like it feels EEEWWWWW Oh and I had a SUPER good visit with Robin, I had faxed her my food log the day before and she thought that was SO COOL we had a really good talk! She was not impressed with the snack pack pudding the or with the 250 calories worth of pine nuts, we talked a lot about how food manufaxturers put fat & salt or fat & sugar togethernin specific ratios that, when eaten, set off synapsis in the brain and you really CAN'T stop eating until you are stuffed, and the only way to avoid it is to prepare you own food . . .it was very interesting! I really like Robin. Missed Liz today though, she's not there Fridays I guess!

Hi ladies!!! Got my fill, yay . . . . I was down 11 lbs. since my last fill 6 weeks ago, Dr. Baggs was pretty darned happy about that! So he gave me another .5cc today (he saysnit's 5 total now) and says he will give me .5 again at our next group fill which is September 24 @ 9:30 in Pinole - I told him I would only do Pinole if my girls were there, he said OK let's get you back on schedule with them!! I know it takes a week for me to really feel restriction froma fill, but I don't have water funneling or ANYthing. And I am STARVING!!! OMG I am hungry. It's hard to get a fill at 4:30 cause you have to do 6 hours before with o nly clearns and then 24 after with only clears - its a long draned time!! I am really hoping this one gives me the same kind of restriction that the last one did a week after. We shall see! They are pretty happy with my weight loss so far . . . and I am THRILLED with it! Awk, I am too weak to type from lack of food, LOL! I am going to go strain more soup, my son eats the noodles & vegies and he will NOT let me have anything. He came in to my fill with me and Dr. Baggs was showing him how huge the fill needle is (boys!), Dan is NOT impressed with that but when he watched him fill me he said he is really talented . . really knows exactly what he is doing. Well duh! Oh and I did not get numb, and I really REALLY felt that sucker! I am like, "oh boy, I am really really feeling that," and he is like (as he is continuing to find my port with the needle), "ok remind me next time to give you a lot of numby stuff" and then he wa done already, so what the heck? It didn't hurt THAT bad. More soup! I guess I should not have finished off those girls scout cookies this morning, huh? MAJOR sugar/carb withdrawel here, I'm doin' it cold turkey! And I have a 6 mile walk @ 8 in the morning, and our monthly support group meeting 10-12 . . . . . and a pedicure @ 1, then shopping for SIZE 12s!!

I got my 4 miles in before work this morning, happy about that! But I gained a pound overnight - my eat-more-weigh-less theory didn't work out so good this time, LOL! Right now I am purging files from one of my offices for a couple of hours so I'll be off the board - back on about 10:30. Have a happy Friday morning meantime!!

Hi Chica, yes it will! The test will definately be positive for nicotine if you are stilly relying on the patch or gum when you take it. Minimum of 3 days for nicotine to clear the body. But they don't do the nic test until right before your surgery, so you will be long done with all forms of nic by then!