Mrs Husker

I hate the cold but am looking forward to Thanksgiving. I have always hated that I became a gluttonous slob every Thanksgiving, but this year I will be the only one at my house not falling into a turkey coma after dinner. Thank you my little band buddy.

Way to go!! Don't it feel great!! Topdownbug-there is a glossary, if I find it I will pm you.

I quit before surgery, but started up again about 2-3 weeks later. I have the new pill and want to quit, but it's scary. I started smoking very young, and I have tried to quit more times than I can count. I feel like this pill is my last chance and I don't want to fail again so I am putting if off to make sure that I really want it. That is just an excuse, I know, but I don't think that I can do it right now.

Momlamber-I would stay where you are for now and see what happens. You are doing great. Janine-You are doing great even without the fill. Be proud of the lbs you have lost and keep up the great work. Jmcambra-Way to go with the exercise challenge. What type of exercise are you doing? I am trying to get into it, but so far by the time I get home I am ready for bed. Jeni85-Looking good, keep it up and can't wait to see your 1 year photos. OH Julie-Man you are kicking some butt. 93 lbs since March!!! WOW! You are my hero. Well, now me. I had spaghetti last night for a total of 340 cals. Another cup of grapes for a grand total of 980 cals for the day. I was hungery before bed but I decided to come to grips with it and not snack like I have done in the past. I do think that I will have to up my cal to 1100 per day because I don't want to enter that starvation mode and keep everything I put in. We will see what today brings. Hope to get off my butt and exercise tonight.

Even in Nebraska we have to deal with this crap. I stopped shopping at Wal-mart and Target for my 12 year old DD about 4 years ago when we went there to get her some shorts for the summer and the length of the shorts was shorter then my hand, palm to finger tip. She wanted to try them on and when I asked her to come out of the dressing room to show me (I was standing right by the door) she said "No way, I look like a hoochie", I started young with her. If she and I were out and I saw someone, young or old, dressed like a tramp, I would make a comment about how sorry I was that that person didn’t respect themselves, or how little that person liked/thought of themselves to dress like that. That always got the ball rolling on a discussion about self respect and drawing negative attention to oneself. Now I don’t have a problem with my DD wanting to dress like that. My DH’s sister didn’t think it was wrong to dress my DD in hoochie clothes. For her 7 birthday, she got her a short skirt and a tank top that had something stupid written on it. Her birthday is in October dumb-ass! (The dumb-ass was refering to my SIL). Well, the short skirt got altered to add cloth shorts underneath and about 4 inches of different coordinating fabric on the bottom, and the tank top was accidently ripped in half "oops". And yes, I did explain to my sister-in-law what I thought of her "gift" to my baby girl. Now my 18 year old son likes to see girls dressed like that. He was even dating one for about 6 months. When I teased him about her being the one, he said no. When I why not, he said he wanted one thing in a girlfriend but he was looking for someone who respected themselves for a wife.

I don’t have a problem with someone I am close to, such as my sister, mother, etc., asking me about my weight loss. Well that being said, awhile back I was sitting at my desk B.S.ing with some of the people from other offices that had come out to our office for a meeting when I was asked "So, how’s the weight loss going?". First I will state that I did not tell this person about my surgery or have ever spoke to this person about my desire to lose weight, so someone I did tell, and trust me that is not a great many people, must have. Now I might have handled it differently if I hadn’t been in a room full of people that I work with. So my come back was "Fine, how’s your sex life?" Pause for effect, "What, you can ask me a personal question, but I can’t ask you one?" I thought it was clever. Well, apparently this person said something to my boss about it. He let me know that I embarrassed this person in front of our co-workers. When I explained my side of what happened, beginning with the fact that this person believed it was ok to ask me a personal question in front of co-workers, I felt I had the right to ask them a personal question. My boss, who is pretty cool, just said "Your right, but don’t bring up someone’s sex life" and that’s the end of that. So fellow LBTers (if that’s right), I need your help. I need some new comebacks. I have no problem with crude or rude. Believe me, if someone is going to be rude enough to ask me about my weight, which to me is the same as asking any other personal question, I plan on slamming them into the ground. So please, BRING IT ON!!:heh:

Hope this link works. I didn't know anything about lipodisolve, but now I would not do it even if I didn't have a dun-lap that needed to be removed. Lipo-dissolve Media Alert - Lipo-dissolve, mesotherapy, and PCDC injection news

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I tend to wake up during surgery, not a nice feeling. I talked to my anesthesiologist and they took care of everything. I love the "relaxing" drug that I get before surgery. I don't know what it is called, but after that what I can remember is that I didn't care anymore. Good luck and let us know how you came through.

I want to find something that I can have hot in my coffee in the morning. I don't like "warm" coffee, I want it hot. Any suggestions?

I got on the scale this morning and I'm 193.5. Damn!!! So my goal is still 180 by x-mas, but now I have 13.5 lbs to lose. This morning I had a yogurt, lunch was a sald with lean ham and turken, 1 tbs of dressing, raisins, 1 tbs of cheese and 1 tbs of croutons. Thats 315 cals. The yogurt was 80 cals. So thats 395 cals so far today. I plan on having some cheese for a snack, 80 cal, and 1/2 cup of grapes, 55 cals. That leaves me with 470 cals for supper. My plan is to eat like this all week and see where I am at weight wise on Monday. I want to keep to 1000 cals per day (I am not adding my coffee with 2 tbs of hot cocoa, this is another 80 cals, but I decided that this will be my "cheat" for the day because I don't count it) I know I need to keep my protein up but this week I want to be all about the calories. If I need to adjust to get either more or less, I will know by next monday. Does this plan sound stupid? If so, what should I change?

Thank you for your words of encouragement. I plan to start adding more exercise to my routine (more that just walking). I plan on adding weights and hope to add more aerobics to my week. I have all the Sweating to the Oldies and love them, just need to find room to in my house to do it. I have an elliptical trainer (man that thing is hard) that I haven’t been on in months, but will start it again tonight. If I can get 1 mile before my legs fall off, I will be happy.

Hell, I havn't lost any since July. Sitting at 190 and for the longest time didn't give a crap I was just happy being under 200 and off my diabetic meds and my knees not killing me. Now I WANT IT BAD!!!! My goal is 180 by Christmas.

If we go out to eat and they don't allow me to order from the kids menu, and if my DD is with us, she will order a kids meal I want and I will order what she wants off the adult menu and we switch. I still don't understand why they can't come up with menu items that are half the protion size of what is on the regular menu. Or why can't I order off the kids menu?

Why not call you insurance company and ask them if it is covered and what they require. They might aske that you do a 6 month to a year of medically managed weight loss. If that is the case, then adding weight or weights will not help. As to adding weights to make up the extra pounds you would need to get your BMI at or over 40, that is something you will have to decided for yourself. Good luck and I am rooting for you.

I got all 4 books also. I have them here at work and one of the guys this weekend got through 2 of them. He is 17 and a very good kid (he better be, his dad is a conservation officer or as we like to call them, fish police). While he was reading one of them he asked me "What's LSD?". To be young and clueless again. But I find that reading them made me think of my secrets, I think I might have to send in a post card.

Well, I woke up this morning praising Aloe Juice. I was feeling just fine. Went and took my meds, BAM!! I hurt. I take two pills every morning, Chlorathaladone (SP) for my kidneys, very small pill, and Lipitor (SP). I think its the Lipitor that got me. DAMN! I have the aloe juice with me here at work and plan on sipping it all day. So this is day 3 (not counting friday night) of liquids.

Make sure you are getting your protein. And starving yourself will hinder your weight loss. You body goes into starvation mode and keep everything you put into it. It’s something left over in our makeup for the days when we were hunter/gatherers. The fill will help you stay full longer and not feel as if you are starving thus making it easier to eat smaller amounts and be satisfied.

Way to go Janine!! I hope after my next fill, 11/5, to get on the lossing wagon again. I still hurt today so decided to keep to liquids/soft foods. I am going to run out and get some aloe juice after work today and see if that helps.

There were 4 things that helped me during recovery. Gas-X strips, My heating pad (on my stomach), walking and hot tea. Well, and very supportive husband, he was my rock and who I leaned on while walking.

I'm just like Danielle, I don't think I look too bad in the mirror. But any photo of myself and I want to cry at how large I am.

I hate to say, but been there, done that. I finally called my insurance company and asked what they wanted, got copies and faxed it myself.

Today sucks!! I am sitting at work, my stomach hurts, but I don't know if its from being stuck yesterday, hungery because I am on liquids, or cramps fom TOM. Will this day ever end?

Surgery on March 20 at 8:30am, out March 21 at 9am.

OMG!! I thought I knew what stuck was, but I found out for sure last night. MAN did that hurt. It was on some smoked pork. I had it two days ago and was fine with it. I have it cut into very small bites (I always cut everything up, even finger food, because if I don’t I take too big of a bite.)When I was done pbing, I thought my whole throat swelled shut. I haven’t had any problems with food so long as I chew, chew, chew, but I guess I am going to be one of the lucky ones that become tight with TOM. I am still sore today. Today, liquids only. Dems-My port is way on my right side and it sticks out since my hernia surgery. I love to knit and I lean on my right side while doing it. I have to make sure that the pillow is a little behind me or it rubs it raw. Am I the only one that loves the fact that I CAN feel my port? I think of it as my Little Buddy. When I feel like doing something I shouldn’t (like eating a brick of ice cream), I put my hand on my Little Buddy (I should name it Gilligan, you know from Gilligan Island) and remember why I have the little guy. I don’t want to fail at this, and it’s a reminder.