OH Juli

It's noon on Tuesday and no one is posting? Where are all the Marchies??? I'm heading out to exercise her in a few minutes but my eating today is off the hook! I need to spend extra time on the elyptical trainer! Tammyj, Yenken, Tia, Sue, many others.....what's going on? OH Juli

I'd pretty much go anywhere but FL. Chicago was my first choice because it is close, but Vegas would be fun and I've never been to Texas, so that'd be a hoot too. Tell me where and when I'll be there. OH Juli

I've done it too. When I've not thought about eating something and stuck it in my mouth only to go, "Oh Sh!t, I don't need to eat that". Also when you take a bite of something that you expect will be good and worth the calories only to taste it and go, "No way am I going to swallow that." Then there is what you discribe. Feeling and tasting and then spitting it out....If Julia Child says it's okay, then it can't be bad! Don't worry!

Louise I can't say that I feel like an amputee but there are times when having the band is a pain in the butt and I wish I could just be "normal". Well, truth of the matter is that I've never been "normal" about food. This is just a different kind of weird, but it's a gonna get me healthy kind of weird. So I guess instead of mourning those old relationships with food that weren't healthy, like mourning bad lovers, instead of being sad we should be saying "good riddence!" OH Juli The journey sometimes in painful but sometimes it's wonderful as well.

That blows. It does. However, you're expecting too much too soon. I dare say you should probably eat a bit more. I know that's counter to someone else's advice. 1100 calories a day is as low as regular dieters should go. With out any restriction, you'd be hard pressed to eat fewer calories with out wanting to stab someone. But keep your meals small, drink more Water than seems reasonable and it will come. OH Juli

"Dieters" who you calling a dieter?!? :teeth: I'd like to think of my self as a "life-changer" OR "healthy eater". :eek: No, really I'm with you, I want the weight off right this very minute! I'm crazy in that I know I've lost weight...every indicator out there is pointing in that direction, but I feel as big as I ever was. I guess that gives me something to talk to the ol' therapist about, huh?

Exude- What did you and the doctor decide? I'm curious as can be! OH Juli

Rosi Sounds like you need a fill and a little kindness for yourself. Don't think one or two plates of food makes a failure. Once you get the restriction you need the weight will move. In the mean time make sure you're drinking water and moving as much as possible. Mary- Sounds like you've found the coveted sweet spot! Congrats on the new size. That's a great feeling! OH Juli

Susannah My father has three daughters, Ilona, Suzanna (we called Zsa-Zsa until she was 16) and Julianna. Seems like you got a different spelling of a good ethnic name. Were you ever a Zsa-Zsa? --It's the Hungarian equavilant to Suzi. And Kudos to you and your family for embracing your ex BIL's new family dynamic. OH Juli

You'll be fine! Trust your doctor and know that this is the safest WLS out there. Expect that you'll feel like you've been hit by a truck, which I mean to say, allow yourself to feel like hell while you slowly feel better. Also, pain meds are a wonderful thing! How long do you plan to be off work? You got all the love and hugs a girl can send from Ohio. Come here often and let us help you deal with your stress. OH Juli

Yenken- I got your PM and for whatever reason lost it or something. But I did read it all and want to respond. I think it's great that you've returned to school. You can't let other people tell you about your relationship with your woman. Folks who can't do a LDR just don't understand how you can stay connected. You have a light at the end of the tunnel too. You know when you will be together. Sorry to know you're stressed about coming out to your folks. Where in West Africa are they from? My father is a Hungarian immagrant and his 2nd wife was from Germany; they raised me. My step mother passed away before I came out and I'd lie if I said I was sad to have missed the opportunity. My GF has been incredibly supportive of my WLS even though she is on the slender side. Actually, with me eating differently and exercising she's taken up the get healthy cause as well. She's tracking her food on fitday and working out too. Sweet, no? get me on email at home. juligirl01@sbcglobal.net Later, J

Hi there Marchies. It's so good to see some new names popping up. Or maybe you are old names resurfacing. I wasn't here from the beginning. Regardless, "Hi!" I want to say, seeing the doctor and his pumping me up about my losing weight earlier this week, I've been super good. My calories are around 1200 daily and I've been exercising some everyday. Even today, my sweetie and I stayed at a hotel yesterday to because we went to a committment ceremony. When I booked the room I made sure it had a fitness center. Well today I took my banded little self in there and got on the bike and treadmill. That would have never happened 6 months ago! I don't mean to sound boastful...but I really am proud of just how much this band has affected how I deal with food and exercise. I'm very happy. OH Juli

I SOOOOOOOOOOO agree that her 15 minutes need to be over! You crack me up!

Tia- Great pics. You can really see the difference! OH J

Yenken Send me an email- juligirl01@sbcglobal.net I wrote you this giant PM and it didn't go through.... I don't want to take over the board talking about gay girls making babies and the LDR stuff. I'm so happy you're on here too!!!!

OMG...have you seen Kinsey the movie???? Super hot Liam Nelson kissing the boys.. And I love the ladies.

Oh my goodness, I found my other message board. Hey Yenken, how you doing? And girl, we've got lots in common. Just tell my your LDR is interracial and I'll scream! I'm the white part of lesbian LDR, she's in MI I'm in OH. We met when she was working here shortly before she was transferred back to MI three years ago. I'm also the girlier one! Talk to me about doner insemination too. My five year old was conceived that way. And I'm not the bio mom. My very butch ex is. We split when Zoe was 1, but we co-parent very well together. To illustrate: Z wants to go to Disney and neither of us want to miss it. So we've decided all of us will go. Momma, Mommy, kid and our respective girl friends. That's some crazy lesbian "can't we all get along" stuff. Makes me proud. Eddie- You rock for starting this tread! I'll take a flower arrangement too, if you're passing them out. I'll scrapbook for you in return! OH Juli

Denise It's called adjustable so you can take the fluid out as well. Don't let it get you down if you need to remove some. Above all else you need to get some nutrition in you. How's that going? OH Juli

Create a photobucket.com account. You'll download your pictures there. Compress them for web pages (there's an option for that.) Then you'll get an http address for the pics. Copy it. Then come back here start up a response windo and hit the insert image icon. (The mountains) paste it in there. Presto. OH (it took all day because my computer at work wouldn't let me) Juli

The top picture is me before back in September 06. The bottom one, with the dorky expression was taken May 7th. OH Juli

OMG, ThickChick You are cracking me up! Full as a blood thirsty tick! I can only imagine that in Texas drawl. Oh, and the boob thing too! You've got me rolling. I'm glad today is going better for you. I hope today is going well for everyone! I love the exercise part of my day. It's insane! I'm starting the hunt for someone at work to exercise with me come July. I want to move to free weights and I'll need a spotter. It's hard because there are very few users of the fitness center and even fewer during the summer. (I work at a school.) Loving you guys.

Tia I'm SO sorry! You did well to sit and think it through. I know a light turkey sub would have been a fantastic choice on another diet, but this is different. The rules have changed. I too PBed with lunch meat and a tortilla. Sandwiches and other things we bite, bananas, fruit etc are hard because we tend to bite big. Then add to it, the squishy bread factor or the apple peels that don't break down enough and BAM. So think it through, get a piece of paper out and plan your meals with no bread, breading, starches etc. There's plenty of food out there you can eat and enjoy. You'll be blessed with a huge loss for all your efforts. I promise.

I'm still rather new. I was banded 3-8-07, when I went in for my first fill I was told I was doing it right and didn't need a fill. I was really distraught. Reading the above posts, particularly Lisa99's I feel more like a super star. We banded folk do love the fill and all the talk that comes with it. Don't get a fill unless you are not losing weight. Save the restriction for when you need it. At least that's what my doc told me. And Dude, congratulations on the loss. OH Juli

LoriPA- Your berp story is pretty funny. At least you were alone! Kyethra-What are you in school for? I'm also in school full-time, working on a BS/MBA program. I work full-time too. Busy busy. I'm glad you're able to rest up a bit right now. Are you going to take summer classes? Momlambert-A loss is a loss, and you'd not ruin the average. We're a team here and everyone's progress is important. Sophie-Babe, you dug a little deeper and got a pay off. That's how it works. You go! "Supah Stah!" Rosi-The foaming thing is freaky, no? As for exercise teeny tiny steps in the right direction will get you there too. Adding time to the garden is absolutely a positive step. (If I could I'd exercise for you if you did my yard work for me. I loathe with every fiber of my being working in the yard. If there was such a thing as an ANTI Gardener, that would be me.) Peace everyone, OH Juli

TCTX In an attempt to figure out the picture thing I headed back to my very dusty blog. I was able to get a pic posted there, and I will add more...Still not able to figure it out here. Looks like you need to have the pics hosted on the web, not on your PC. I've signed up for Picasa...I'll get it figured out. Unless someone more savvy than me can help out, then by all means, please do. Thick Chick- Has got a new hair do and she's smokin'. The blog by the way is http://lapbandaid.blogspot.com/ There you'll find my picture from September 2006. And some back story to this journey. And I hadn't touched it since fall, so there is some misinformation on it too. But I feel the itch to pick it up again....I've joked blogging is so 2001. (When I first started. Looks like I'll be eating my words. At least they are calorie free!) OH Juli