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My guess, he was flirting. Men aren't very good at flirting sometimes.

Most of the facilities in the Des Moines area push for the full gastric bypass. Just a fact. Finding the port is only a problem for someone who doesn't use a flouroscope to do the fill. If you want the lapband then you should definitely go over and check them out. The actual surgery would be done in Kansas City, while all of the aftercare is done in any of the 5 locations they have for aftercare.

I use the weight loss surgical center in Des Moines. I love the staff, and I have had good success. I am still just a relative newbie though. PM me if you have any other questions. They do all fills under fluoro, so they can see exactly where the port is relative to the needle.

Your right, but this person wants to differentiate from that, and I will let them, since I really don't give a damn.

I exercise more now because I get to enter the amount of calories for the day I burned and see instantly the amount of defecit for the day I produced.

oh god your right, I was thinking of scabbies....LOL But, being exposed to someone who has chicken pox can cause shingles to appear.

More likely you had chicken pox when you were a kid and were recently exposed again. Or you were exposed to someone else you had shingles.

Your first instinct when a stuck episode happens is to drink water and force it down. For most people this is the worst thing you can do, because the water will fill up your pouch instantly and you will barf....you want to try and avoid that as it can cause slips.

Yesterday, I was able to burn 3900 calories and only eat about 1300....a 2600 defecit!!!! That is a new one day record for me. Today, I am eating out twice, first the Long John Silvers grilled salmon and baked potato, and tonight I'm having Papa Murphy's Med. delite pizza.....so I can eat out, if I just make the right choices and the band helps me not eat too much!!! I'm going to get another day of 3 hours of light walking and biking and then 45 minutes of moderate swimming, so it should be another big defecit day!!!! I'm down to 213.....I would really like to make it to 205 at the end of this month....that will put me half way to goal in 4 months and keep me right on schedule. Yesterday was the first time I had to drink a little hot water before I could eat my chicken for lunch, but that was pretty ideal really, it kept me full much longer, and made dinner so much easier to control myself.

Yesterday, I was able to burn 3900 calories and only eat about 1300....a 2600 defecit!!!! That is a new one day record for me. Today, I am eating out twice, first the Long John Silvers grilled salmon and baked potato, and tonight I'm having Papa Murphy's Med. delite pizza.....so I can eat out, if I just make the right choices and the band helps me not eat too much!!! I'm going to get another day of 3 hours of light walking and biking and then 45 minutes of moderate swimming, so it should be another big defecit day!!!! I'm down to 213.....I would really like to make it to 205 at the end of this month....that will put me half way to goal in 4 months and keep me right on schedule. Yesterday was the first time I had to drink a little hot water before I could eat my chicken for lunch, but that was pretty ideal really, it kept me full much longer, and made dinner so much easier to control myself.

Ahhhh, I misunderstood the question. You didn't want to know what it "is" you wanted to know "what the initials stood for". I have seen this same exact question, not less then 10 times in 10 weeks now....obviously we need a better frequently asked questions section to help people figure some of this out. PB is a classic, I don't think anyone could figure out what it stood for without asking.

I wear two pair of socks all of the time. I have noticed that increasing my Water intake seems to make a big difference.

Dailyplate is what I use. Mainly because of the ease of use and the vast database of stuff in there already. You can see what it look like for me, by going to the bottom of this post and clicking on the link that say's "What I eat daily" I only use the free parts of it, as that is all I need. I use the bodybugg for the and manually enter the amount of calories I have burned each day.

I saw Oprah the other day start with her story. It was classic Oprah WLS bashing with a little bit of successful people to make it look like she was being balanced and fair.

You can click on the link below in my signature that say's....What I eat daily..... This will take you to my food log of everything I have been eating. Just so you know, the net calories at the very bottom are after I put in the amount of calories I have burned for the day, according to my bodybugg. Today, was a great day!!!!! Good restriction, low calories, and 4 hours of light exercise.

It is the same as regurgitation. Your bringing something back up that hasn't been digest or even started the process of digestion....therfore you don't have any acid with it, if you had acid with it and it had started being digested you would just call it puking/vomitting.

Ok, call me a bit of a skeptic, but I think I would want a copy of where the doctor say's now that it will eventually have to be fixed at their cost. Just in case down the road he leaves the company he is working for and you need to prove that it was a known problem from the time when it was covered. Cover thy own ass, especially when the almighty dollar is concerned.

pumpkin pie filling in a can....add a little pumpkin pie spice and 1/8 cup of splenda, and whip cream...

Well a fill is adding positive pressure, just like turning on a Water hose that is kinked, the pressure will open it up enough to get Fluid through. Now if you pull fluid out, it is going to create suction which will not push the kink open, but might even make it worse. EVENTUALLY, almost everyone needs an unfill. And what if you needed an emergency unfill? I think if this is a fresh band that they should be fixing it for free with another surgery. This situation would not be acceptable to me.

Can you go out of country with just a birth certificate? I thought you had to have a passport now?

It is always ok to ask a man out. With a man, many times if he say's he can't because of this or that, he isn't making an excuse, but more likely really doing this or that. Men and Women tend to be very different this way.

I have long heard the myth that eating Breakfast jump starts your metabolism. I say myth, because, if you don't do any physical activity after taking in the calories, there is NO increase in metabolism. It only gives you energy to encourage you to get moving. In fact all of the theory's about eating too little and it making you less likely to lose weight need to be clarified. The reason you may not lose as much weight by eating too little is because you are making yourself feel tired and less likely to do calorie burning activities. Or you simply don't have enough energy to put in the same intensity of calorie burning into your routine. Anyone with a calorie burning monitor will tell you these things.

The bullets are about the worst tasting stuff ever.....just my opinion. Use the unjury chicken Soup or order a variety pack of Isopure to try them and figure out what you like.

It is my opinion, that all self-pay people should seriously consider the gastric sleeve. Less chance of complications down the road that aren't covered, and less maintenance expense. A lot of people think it is the real future of WLS. I'm one of them. People with insurance coverage don't consider it because it usually isn't covered like the band or the full GB.

What seems to work for me, is to keep my calorie intake at about half of what I'm burning, but I have trouble right now doing that because I eat too much. Right now I'm burning about 2800=3400 calories a day. So I eat about 1200-1600 a day. Those are just averages. My goal is to lose another 55lbs in the next 6 months. That comes out to about 1300 calories a day defecit. Only time will tell if I can make it or not? I don't believe in the starvation mode theory either. Except if you don't get enough Protein in. Then I believe it will hurt you. Starvation mode theory goes back to the genetic evolution of man theory.....well man evolved eating much less carbs then we eat.