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Riley your family is beautiful! Tell your daughter i said congratulations!

Go Candra!!! YAY how exciting! I am so happy for you:D AND JEss, and everyone. Tamra girl that can all be gone in 4 weeks. If you look back at the first 6 pages you will see from orientation i was 264 then at my psych appt 4 weeks later i was 232.. yes that is right in 1 month i lost 32 lbs, AND dont ask me how.. not a freakin clue:) ALL i can say is i wanted it sooo bad. I personally agree that it was easier pre band, i think now, its harder cause we have to get just enough cals etc.. BUT, i would probably have gained it all back by now.. like always. I am so happy from everyone and we are all going to be at goal SOO soon!:juggle: Sorry id respond more but im dead tired.. good nite!

Hi Rosie!!! Welcome to the group!

Wow we are all getting to be the same size, how AWESOME! Maybe ill get to inherit clothes soon!!!! GO GIRLS!!! So, today im havin no eating issues.. im not a starvin im eating cause well its kinda past lunch time.. but i had a bite of auds pband j and it went down fine! What the heck! I like being able to eat bread.. but.. you know:D

Anyone gotten surgery with Champ VA? My friend here in cali is wanting to do it, but we have to find surgeons that take it. Any experience would be helpful! Thanks!

Wow! He fell asleep! I could imagine how upset that made her.. That would upset m e also..

Yeah i think ill let her sleep in it. Poor thing. I know right now has to be hard for her also. But i miss her big girl bed:( She did so well in it for soo long, then me being stupid.. lol. Oh well i guess she will go back when she is ready. How is everyone doin today

Tamra don't be worried. And it could take a few months you never know it all depends on your weight loss and their schedules. The psych one is the only appt you can really progress to before you are at goal weight. Go in there and tell him you only want the band, you dont want RNY if he fights you over it ( i doubt he will) then tell him you are swapping surgeons. You have the right to call and ask for a different surgeons im sure people do it all the time. After all this is the person who will be doing all your aftercare also. They dont only cut us open:D Fisher is known to be harder on weight loss.. so you never know. We will help you loose the 30.. it can be done you will be suprised. Believe me I am... I never lost more then 20.. and i lost almost 50 pre surgery.. so i believe you can do it!:biggrin:

Ive created a monster.. we put her in her pack n play last night to sleep and well she slept in.. well for nap i put her in her toddler bed and she threw a cry fit over it.. i put her in her pack n play and she happily went to sleep. What the heck? I think maybe its the security? Maybe?? any ideas?

You go girl im sooo excited for you guys:D SO my band is loooosey goooosey today.. I had bfast just fine andnow im snacking on watermelon, oh goodness. lol.

LOL too funny gotta love drs:D Candra did you ever call the girls for your Case Manager appt??? Liz is the one to schedule your surgery.... I dont want you to have to redo your labs.. cause they have to be done like 4 weeks or something before surgery......

Oh no Riley i hope you feel better very soon!

Yea pam that is exactly what it does! What i think is crazy, is most overweight people dont eat like that just to eat.. i dont get it. I once dated a guy that thought my fat belly was sexy lol, we didnt make it more then a month cause he wanted me to eat and eat and i was like wanting to loose weight not put it on...

Tina its just like the bachelor and bachelorette, just heavy set women. And instead of all the girls talkin about how hot they are, you have all the girls talkin about how its their last chance. It does show that he finds love, so thats exciting.. OH PAM did you notice at the get together they do there was FOOD THERE! I have never seen teh regular romance shows have food during the "get to know" time... Also how many times did you hear them mention "what do you like to eat" "what do you want me to cook for you" its like, they found the people in the worst state of mind for the show...

Pam i totally agree! They shoulda gotten a hot skinny guy that likes us voluptuous ladies! The show kinda portrays over weight girls, as emotional, dieing for attn, women... when most of us were never that way... Tina: funny you say reno we are looking at going there for the night since to apply you have to go in person to most of the places... so we will see. Iwish i could get sleep in lately that isa joke.. auds sleeps in longer then mommy:(

thereitgoes, don't be worried. Her story is a rare one. My surgeon does my fills, and he does the poke for the numbing and that does sting a lil but no worse then a shot... Then he circles my port with a pin and goes in with the fluid to do the fill, he hits it on his first try.. and i dont ever have any bruising or anything. You just feel some pressure. Don't be worried.. it should be ok:)

Pam, I agree.. the girls i think lied. I think what they use are the Drivers License weights.. i know mine used to be 30 below my actual... now its 50 higher:D lol but do you know what i mean. They had girls my height that looked like they were wearing 22/24 and saying they weighed 200.. i was like uh huh ya right. I agree it is sooo sad how they were fawning over him like he was their last chance. I don't get it, I was never that way even when heavy... so maybe they wanted the most depressed girls for the show??? Oh and i didn't think he was so dreamy like they said.. interesting show. I wonder if any of the girls were NOT into him.....? I am up for a lunch next Thursday..:biggrin: Let me know when and where i have to bring our waitress her pizza dough:) And reggie her stuff... Oh tina! Your stuff is being shipped directly to you:) Just so you know:D Let me know when you get it. Tamra: everyone did the Preop Diet the way they wanted to, so you are doing great:D Good Luck today, i am very excited for you! Let us know how it goes! Tina, this is inscane! I am shocked how they are 1. letting a lot of inmates out this year to lower cost for the state, but then at the same time, putting our kids in more danger. Everyone is worried of CPS takin their children... parents arent going to be scared anymore. Its quite frustrating.

I feel really bad for those of you that are always dealing with sliming etc. I know none of us signed up for that.. so i hope you get better. :thumbup:

Tina i hope you arent on the list at all, you are such a great person, and we need someone out there we can trust to take care of some of the kids.:thumbup: I am gonna try my hardest not to slime tomorrow when it happened that one time today i kinda freaked and changed my pace etc....also today i was kinda not at home every time i ate and i was helping my friend.. But tina i dont know how you have put up with it. To me it doesnt feel normal, and noooooway will i live this way im to stubborn:) So is anyone watching the More To Love show??

LOL riley id rather an unfill then to do that again. Im gonna pay more attn. I have a lot going on right now, and think maybe my stress is causing the band to tighten? Who knows i just want it to stop. If i throw up again tomorrow im calling. IM sorry that is not how we are meant to live.....

LOL riley do you remember the chick she made throw away her gum? lol i told mike he was like wow...

So tina ill take some of that soup....... I might be too tight. Goodness, im living in your foot steps. im loosing again.. but its not gonna keep up if i cant eat. I missed bfast due to a lot of stress, but yea i went to grass valley with auds and had a piece of chicken outa her chow mein, guess what i felt that piece of crap chicken! Didnt come up.. ok good im done but im done eating lol. 4 hrs later i try some shrimp with my shrimp salad.. ok guess what.. yeah you guessed it i felt it. I had to wait 5 min for it to go down then i could eat some salad and stuff again but nothing more then 1/4 a cup if that. a total of 2 shrimp and 5 pieces of salad cut lettuce.. so yeah not much.. Ok dinner time... we went to sizzler.. i had a lile clump of salad and some taco meat.. welllll ate the taco meat just fine, go to my salad, i get the stuck feeling but worse then ever before.. and i decide ok i gotta get this out. So i go to the bathroom, and jeez, i slimmed.. it was SOO GROOSE. Slimmy balls of clear liquid. Finally after i felt like i was choking on slime, my salad came right back up.. NOW this is new for me, I NEVER vomit, i hate vomiting. I reject it.. i couldnt this time:( I will take an unfill and be loose rather then deal with this! I come out of the ladies room and i had a crab leg and i decided i was gonna eat it.. cause i need to eat SOMETHING today.. it went down PERFECTLY! No pain, not a darn thing! then i had a sizzler bowl of chowder lol. You know those lil bowels... im happy now. Do you guys find that maybe our pouch makes up a bunch of slime thru the day and thats why we get stuck?? cause once i emptied it i could eat fine.. i dont get it. But i need to pay more attn to chewing and stop eating.. crazy!

What is wrong with this state omg! Girls i am so sorry! But i can tell you what im scared out of Cali seriously this is OUT OF CONTROL. I have a baby she is gonna have shitty school, and out of control school mates.. What more can we take!

Tamra think of it this way.. Me and Riley had an orientation together nither of us (i believe) had coffees.. now look at everyone in your orientation they say one or two people will actually finish the process..... So be glad that you took step number one to start your new life. Whats funny is when we bring up the people who brought coffees to orientation robin gets irritated that they are still at that point. Because by orientation you should be ready... So girl, you go girl! AND remember you will surpass everyone and loose the weight:D I had to wait a month for my appt and by then i was down 31 lbs.. so the pscych sent me over to baggs the next week then bags put me in for liz, but she was on a stupid vacation lol. It does go VERY FAST once you hit goal:)

Pam im so glad he liked it more! I remember i took a healthy ways class with kaiser they had us eat a raisin mindfully, smell it, touch it, taste it.. ya a raisin! Id much rather eat a hershey kiss mindfully lol