Loving-It

I was banded by Dr. Robert Pinnar's son, Eric. He left his father's office and let me tell you, because of Sue and Paul, I transferred myself to Dr. Robert's office. After you are banded you don't see the surgeon that much, but the support staff is phenomenal! Paul does the fills and Sue is in the office for your check-ups/weigh in. I love them both more than I can even say! I live in Dale City, VA (about 40 miles each way) and would travel twice as far to Reston to see Paul and Sue. The office is excellent and well worth the drive. NOTE: I am not knocking Dr. Robert Pinnar, he's amazing as well! :-)

I think that "I'm Loving It" is used in the commerical because it sounds better when sung....sang....singed? It sounds better with the jingle.

recipes web site, but the actual recipes don't seem to contain any nutrition info. But just the same, I'm pretty good at being able to tell if the ingredients are any good for me or not. :couch2: Enjoy! :biggrin1:

:pound: Oh the fun you could have. Slide the boxes just ever so much closer to her desk, making her space smaller and smaller. :couch2:

I work with a woman who is really out of her mind. She walks around chirping like a monkey and actually is quite hostile. She has issue with everyone and is not the friendliest of people to talk to. She actually made up a lie (which she told to my boss) that we were in the bathroom, and I came out of a stall looking ill. She said she asked if I was okay and that I went off on her telling her to mind her own business and whatnot. I hadn't even seen her that day. In the years I've been here, everytime she's been nasty I've been nothing but friendly but the one time she's nice to me I go off? My boss thought it was ridiculous and blew her off, not before telling the owner what was going on. She's still here but apparently has a history of being aggressive. :couch2: One place I worked there was a manager who would lock herself in her office. She would not answer the door, she would not answer the phone. You could tell she was in there because cigarette smoke was coming out from under the door. Several times we had to go outside and knock on the window telling her to open the damn door. :help: I quit the office not long after but I heard rumor that she had an affair with another employee, went on vacation and never came back. :heh: In the same office we had one man call in sick on Friday, came in over the weekend to retrieve his personal items and then quit via phone on Monday. When they went into his office he had all kinds of papers that he was supposed to have done things with, purchase orders and expense reports, that he'd just stuck in a drawer. Rather than admit he didn't know what to do with them he just filed them away. I worked with one girl who would register on all these hook up sites. She's meet guys for "lunch" in the middle of the day for nooners, and she always came back with some money. I won't say she was being paid for services but, well, er, uh...okay, she was being paid for her services. Heh-heh! :heh: We had some guys come in from out of town and we had gotten them a rental car which they were to drive from work to their hotel and back again. They were out cruising at like 2 in the morning when they pulled into a gas station so this one guy could use the bathroom. While this guy was in the RR, the other 2 fellows bought some drugs from *cough* an undercover police officer in the gas station parking lot. They were arrested, booked and then released. The next morning they called and said they needed another rental car. We asked them what happened to the one we gave you? That's when they sort of said what happened, but the jist was the rental was in the impound. We sent the two guys home and I do believe they were fired. They were from New York. :biggrin1: I haven't had any issues with hygiene, thankfully. :clap2:

You can already do that. If you go into the persons profile who you want to ignore, it's at the top. :eek:

Good luck! :clap2: My mom joined Weight Watchers and has done very well. :biggrin1:

I had a co-worker who had those rings and she had her teeth whitened in the dentists office. It was a huge difference! She didn't have any idea that they could do it until he offered. Granted her teeth weren't pearly white but compared to what they were, it was amazing! That's great the strips are working. I've always wanted to try something but am a big chicken. :biggrin1:

Congrats to your wife on her band!! :clap2: What my doctor told me, and I've seen the pics, is that you can pop the sutures holding the band in place before scar tissue develops over it and her band could slip, if you eat regular food too soon. She should go back to mushies if that's what her doctor wants her to do. Just tell her it's not forever, just until she's fully healed. :biggrin1: She can do it!! :clap2:

Well I suck! LOL! :biggrin1: I didn't take a picture of anything. Me so sorry. :cry The main thing I did over the weekend was clean DD's room. After a whole summer of not paying any attention we battled that hole and got it cleaned out. She had school papers and random notes all shoved under her bed. We found some clothes she thought were missing under the bed and behind her recliner. We also found socks and underwear (clean) in the box that holds her Barbie furniture. So we trashed what we could and then trashed a little bit more. Got rid of a lot of stuff...three garbage bags full! I was so happy! She put all her clothes away. I had bought her school clothes a few weeks ago but haven't let her touch it so it's been in the bag in another room. She's quite organized and I give it a week. LOL! :biggrin1: Nah, my baby is growing up and I think she'll keep it clean. She was quite proud. :clap2: It was a mess though. I had no idea it had gotten that bad. :welldoneclap:

Have you thought of water aerobics? That would be low impact for you since you need to be careful of your knees/ankles. :welldoneclap:

I don't have much to add, I think it's all been said, just wanted to give ya a hug. (((Sue))) :sleep

Don't worry about the weight loss part of it right now. You are healing, and besides you have lost some weight already. Congrats for that!! :clap2: :clap2: When I switched to mushie I ate cream of wheat. On the side of the box they have a recipe for making it for babies. That's what I had. That whole serving I ate and it was more than enough. I got some I Can't Believe It's Not Butter spray, and sprayed each bite. I like my cream of wheat with butter and salt, but after 2 weeks of liquids that stuff was like filet mignon!! LOL! :welldoneclap: I also blended any kind of soup I could get my hands on. Lentil soup, wedding soup, anything. I also blended baked Beans. I didn't suffer any additional gas problems, at least none that I noticed. :rolleyes :biggrin1: Good luck and congrats again! You're doing very well! :clap2:

OH I loved all three of those. I forgot all about the Mandrell Sisters. They were so pretty. :biggrin1:

I've never been but I have heard nothing but good things about Curves. I know several people who go and they all enjoy it very much. I've never heard of the other two. Good luck & much success to you whatever you choose! :clap2:

Happy Birthday! :biggrin1:

It says I'm going to live to 81YO. What a nice way to start the day.

:tired :tired :tired For someone who doesn't understand the point of having a rant and rave board, you sure seem to utilize it more than others. You said you don't believe this is the place for you and I think you are right. Obesity causing someone to be cruel is quite an ignorant statement and the only thing you have said that I agree with is that this is NOT the place for you.

I feel sorry for his family. His death was a freak accident. I appreciate the passion he had for these dangerous animals. Granted what he did was dangerous but I know I enjoyed his show. I probably had a higher chance of dying in my car driving to work than anyone does of being speared through the heart by a sting ray. Consider he didn't die as the result of a croc attack and none of his children have been injured as a result of a croc attack, I don't think his having them around them means anything really. He knew what he was doing. RIP Steve!

Years ago one board I was at was bombarded with flamers. It was horrible. I left the board because of it. But anyway, they used anonymizers that masked their IP's. It was impossible to truly ban them.

YES!! :clap2: Jem is truly outrageous, truly, truly, truly outrageous! :biggrin1: I have seasons 1-3 on DVD. I love that show!! I watched the Sid & Marty Krofft shows, the Bugaloos were my favorite, but I did enjoy all the shows. I don't know if they were kid shows but I loved and watched faithfully, Wonder Woman, Spiderman, The 6 Million Dollar Man, the Bionic Woman, Buck Rogers (Gil Gerrard), and Battlestar Galacticca (sp). I also watched Justice League, which was a cartoon that had all the super heros. I also remember watching The Muppet Show. :clap2:

When I was young we did prank calls too. It was almost a rite of passage. Damn caller id!!! :biggrin1:

I have an 11YO DD, turning 12 in October. I think the sleepover idea is good too. In addition to them decorating cupcakes you could have them do homemade pizzas. DD did that one year. There was her and three other girls, so each girl got half a pizza. We just got Pillsbury poppin can doughs to keep it easy. Rented some movies, got DD a few music CD's which was part of her gifts and let them have the basement. They slept in sleeping bags and had a good time. We also bought a makeup kit so they could do themselves up. A girly good time. :biggrin1:

Post op my surgeon instructed me to not injest anything that could not be sucked through a straw, and I was on that for 2 weeks. Protein shakes, soups and drinks (water, Crystal Light) Definitely different doctors have different recommendations but that was what my doctor told me to do and I was fine.

GO SKINS!! Woot-woot!! :clap2: :clap2: :clap2: :clap2: