OH Juli

Printing mapquest directions as I type. Grayhounder, Cool about doing a tri. That's amazing. Yeah, a road bike will do you better in that event, well nearly anywhere where you are riding on pavement, not soil. Keep us posted on your progress!

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i see BG Saturday............I'm stoked!!!

Egg beater and egg whites are essentially the same thing. Beaters has added food coloring and some other stuff. I used to eat both of them or two whites and one whole egg back before banding. But I was also trying to get in toast, fat free meat (canadian bacon), fat free cheese, maybe a bit of potato too... I was only eating them for fewer calories. Now I just cook two eggs. The whole thing as God intended, and eat them with nothing else or maybe a half a piece of bread.

Yeah, I've got to reconsider what I'm buying because that much peanut butter is pretty expensive. I mean I want to be helpful with food donations, but I can't afford $250 worth of peanut butter...I might be doing sugar too...we will see.

Wow, Nair is some potent stuff. Good luck in the competition! We'll be cheering for you!

When the conversation goes like this: Coworker, "OMG! You look so great!!!" Lapbander, "Yeah, yeah, I'm actually wearing clothes that fit. So how are you?"

When you have to give away your SHOE collection because they fall off your feet.

When the owner of the little restaurant says, "What you couldn't eat just one portion? You didn't like?"

Get another doctor. Advocate for yourself.

A real help for scrambled eggs is to salt them before you cook them. It allows the Proteins to soften up instead of tighten up while being cooked. I do okay with fried (in cooking spray) eggs that don't get any brown on them....

I eat nuts regularly. No problems. Just chew, chew, chew like everything else.

Look at you with that ONLY business. That's fantastic!!!

Hia Nacho, I know what you mean! Riding is so great at decompressing from the day's stress. So where you from and where are you in the banding process? Juli

That sounds like a plan! Niki and I have wanting to get the kids together. Fantasic! Crisco is so expensive...I think, I'll have to see what I can find. 120 pounds of Pasta? I have to haul 120! That just amazes me that I use to walk around with that on my body. Wow.

Special K, I love, love, love the idea of donating sugar or something that weighs what I have lost and taking pictures. You are so clever to think of that. If they could use butter or margarine I'd love to pile that high, because I think of it as straight up fat that I've lost. Is there refrigeration at your location? Or I could take it to the open shelter or something. The 28th absolutely works for me. Very good! Juli

I'd buy every "makes you go" thing out there I could find. Just cuz...walk in the door with a arm load of laxitives. Could be funny

Looks like BG is back and as bad as ever!

I was wondering the same thing about Stef. I hope all is well with her. You know when her hubby comes home she gives him all of her attention. Perhaps he's home right now? Stefanie, where are you????

Way to go HP!!! danj, welcome.

dude, drunk email. nice......... I love it.

The overall feeling is that if you are buying for one the food bills go down. But if you've converted a household the bills go up. Rock on though! Eating well in America is costly. We do create plenty of cheap processed food for the masses...I wonder if that has some impact on this obesity epidemic????

That's some stuff you're going through. Seems like you've got good perspective though. and yeah, I second the growth of the emotional IQ. Can't think the same ol' way and expect different results. One needs to think differently as well. Here's to getting back in the game when you're ready.

Edd, I love you NSV. It's fantastic. I hope to be a copy cat and make it mine too. I've made plans to do something similar. My banded friend and I are going to an amusement park the 4th of July weekend. No kids, no partners. Just us former fatties, enjoying the ride which we haven't ridden on since high school. I'm super excited.

Taa freaking Dah!!!! What else does a girl have to do on a Friday night when her accounting homework just isn't any fun? 2900!!! Back to the books, kids.