doodleallday

Good lordy, you're quite gorgeous! I can't remember if I ever stopped by to say that or not. I'm finally on track with my band. I got banded 12/30/08 but I picked up my fast food habit with my last semester of college and only lost about 30 lbs over the spring semester. I finally gave up fast food two weeks ago, now that I have time to prepare meals at home, without the stress of senior year, (YAY graduation!). I'm still looking for breakfast ideas, though. Eggs don't really sit that well with me anymore. And I have yet to find a perfect protein shake recipe I love. Suggestions?!

Thanks for the reminder to update my profile, lol! I actually took some photos last night. I don't have any "before and after" since I'm down 50 lbs and am only a little over 1/3rd of the way done with my weight loss, but I'm gonna play around with different before pics and progress pics to make the side-by-side ones I love to see.

It's going well now. It reminds me of that cliche motto for rehab, "It works if you work it." (Haven't been through rehab, but a friend has and we spent a good while mocking the obvious statement.) I lost about 30 lbs before I started eating fast food again. The portions were smaller, of course, but it's still high-fat food, so the weight loss was less and less. I got banded 12/30/08 and finally hit my -50lbs mark this week. But I'm pretty excited, because I lost 5 lbs (total, not each) these past 2 weeks just from not eating fast food junk anymore! LOL! I've also buckled down and gotten serious about working out. I can handle two days in a row, but have to take a break the third day and then start over again, lol. I did three days this week, but am gonna work up to five days for a while.

How bout you?

That's awesome! Biomechanics always look awesome. It's kinda like the robotic version of those tattoos like the chest pieces where it looks like someone's flesh is being torn away to reveal a Spiderman uniform underneath, lol. (If I'm making any sense.) Dunno if you've seen that before. It's probably one of my favourites I've come across in the tattoo industry. Always cracks me up when people get the mutilated flesh to reveal their "true nature" underneath, be it biomechanics, Spiderman, Batman, etc. LOL! You, sir, have a lot of patience. I only have one tattoo at this point and I cannot imagine sitting still for hours on end, getting something shaded.

I finally hit my -50lbs solid! I've also made a wager with myself that, if I work out a minimum of three days for the next four weeks (including this past week), then I will treat myself to an hour-long massage @ Zen on East Blvd. I think theirs are $39.95. I'm SO excited!

This is gonna sound ridiculous, but I almost cried just now when I saw your before/after pics in the twenties forum. Perhaps because our figures are very similar (only I was definitely much larger than you) so it was really cool to see how (I hope) my body will progress so long as I keep truckin'. Thanks for sharing them!

Just had to stop by and say that I saw your before picture over on the twenties board and I couldn't help but gush about how adorable you were! I mean, you were so cute then! But now you've transcended cute! Excellent job with the band!

Your username caught my eye, and when I clicked over to your profile to find out more, I was blown away by your success. Hope you don't mind my adding ya. All of your ink (or what appears in photographs) is quite lovely! And now I must jump on the bandwagon with all the other ladies and say you sure are a looker, before and after the band!

I fail at life and haven't been on LBT in forever. I srsly need to get back on track. Ugh! FML!

So have you set a date yet?

I've had three fills thus far and am due for my fourth @ 2:15pm on April 27th. The restriction borders on ridiculous, though. For example, I can only finish a "Cheesy Double Beef Burrito" from Taco Bell if I'm super-hungry, otherwise I can only eat about 3/4ths before I feel like I might explode. And then about 10 minutes ago, I tried to take my vitamins after one bite of said burrito and wound up seeing them again, floating in the toilet bowl. :/

I'm alright. We're up in Ashevegas today. I present at senior seminar next Wednesday and although my paper was 19 pages and not yet finished, I have to go back and rework a good half of that. Guh!

I ordered a chicken quesadilla from room service last night because I knew I couldn't handle the bread from a sandwich. I ate a quarter of it last night without a problem. About 10 minutes ago, however, I ate a whopping three bites of a quarter and I'm hurting! Oowww.