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I was a sneaky lurker long before I was a registered poster, and I think a healthy warning is a good way to remind everyone we are here for help and support. Anger has no place here...regardless of who started it. I don't have any problems with anyone here, but I would like to say if at any time I have said anything inappropriate, improper, or upsetting, I am truly sorry. It was of course not my intention. If I ever do say something which fits in this category, please pm me and I will not only publicly apologize, but I will be more then happy to clarify anything that was intended so that we can go on as friends. We all come here bearing our souls which makes us vulnerable. We tell our secrets and share our skeletons in the closet. If we can't trust and care about the people around us here then we are in for a LONG haul.

OHYMGAWD!!!! I am seriously jealous. I can relate to the wonderful sensation that you have just said completely nothing. I jumped in an elevator while working for a 5 star hotel. I turn to greet the other riders (I was an employee, its sorta mandatory) and i'm staring into the face of Richard Nixon, I was able to remain calm and say,`"Good Evening Mr President" to which he replied (with a laugh) "Ex-President". Similar circumstance with Robert Plant, delivering equipment to a guest suite (which he obviously used a fake name for) and Robert Plant opens the door, I was able to utter the clearly enlightening phrase "HOLY SH*T you're Robert Plant". He calmly replied, well...now that we got that cleared up, c'mon in. I flattened Donald Trump, (remember hotel worker) I'm setting up a room for a Trump function and i'm running like mad (all work in a hotel takes place last second). I go running out the door to grab more gaffers tape and as I fly through the door I slam headlong into some kind of soft suit covered thing. It took about a millisecond to realize I had just slammed The Trump to the floor. I immediately yanked him back to his feet and started cleaning him off and apologizing as I waited to be fired. He laughed it off and said, relax, nothing wrong with showing a little hustle. I actually have a fairly good list of running into bad situations...running past the presidential suite when we "thought" he had left the building. I never saw the guy who grabbed me until he put the dent in my forehead with his gun. I ran into a room full of foreign dignataries and wound up spending a great deal of time at multiple gunpoints until my security clearance was confirmed. Running into Joel Grey and Bernadette Peters as they "changed".

I managed to meet all my goals and act like a sensible human for the day, despite the evil chocolate taunting. As far as ice cream...try the popsicle brand popsicles. 20 calories for the lifesavers style ones...just had two for dessert. I still need to bring up my Protein levels, so that's this weekends goal. I am going to the aquarium with packed measured lunch and I will be walking all day. Congratulations goal makers....keep up the hard work.

OK...I held my own through lunch (I ordered the lunch for everyone) and since it was single desserts just ordered one less. I ate my delicious carefully measured peanut butter on pita and ignored their mexican food. I even sat quietly while they ate THEIR CAKE IN FRONT OF ME...CAKE..I LOVE CAKE. The hardest part was they realized there was one less piece and all started offering me their cake, parts of their cake...it was like some weird torture. I passed on the cake (Delicious brownie cake with chocolate frosting, whipping cream and some kind of hot melted fudgey center) and instead had a nice jello pudding cup.

Just Paul, I just think that he just missed the references in the joke. The "thread killers" is another thread (conversation) taking place on this forum in which the reason for threads which suddenly stop are discussed. For example, Paul just mentioned green ooze from all orifices, since most people won't know how to handle a comment like that, the thread will now die off. This essentially makes Just Paul's comment just a thread killer.

ACK!!!! Birthday in the office. Ok, this is going to be tough...we are a small office and there will be CAKE! I will not eat cake I will not partake in the eating of take out food of any kind (my pre-measured meal is just as good as the pizza or chinese food they will order). I definitely won't eat any of the GIANT BOX OF CANDY that just arrived...people are cruel. I will drink my Water. I will walk, walk, walk and then walk some more. More Protein....less carbs nuff said.

Are these pictures posted here? Will these pictures be with the dancing pictures? I left one off...I sang New York New York with my wife and Don Ho on our honeymoon...he called us up on stage to sing a traditional Hawaiian song, thank god he meant NY NY...although i'm not sure the audience enjoyed my "singing". Some nice boys those Baldwins...Danny and Alec were my babysitters, I went to school with Steven and Billy. Ignore what you read about them in the papers, these are some nice guys who love their family, but most of all love their mom. Some impresses lists so far. Dody you are rapidly becoming my hero.

Have seen 49 of the 50 states (Alaska I see you hiding up there) Have meet every president who was in office while I was alive. Got a speeding ticket in most of the states of the union, paid more then a few of them in cash on the side of the road. Talked my way out of a 110 in a 55 in Minnesota. I can say I have a pencil, I have a large pencil and my large pencil is yellow in three languages (hell English is the easiest one). I asked out Marissa Tomei...and she didn't say no...she said she had to leave for LA that night...her loss. I've been to Graceland I convinced a wonderful beautiful smart girl to marry me...despite that ME part of that sentence. In a drunken stupor I walked outside in the snow, urinated in front of a large bay window filled with laughing college girls who took many polaroids and then walked half way back and decided to sleep in the snow. I've drank enough Jack Daniels to get most of this forum blackout drunk. I lived on a bus with a bunch of long haired freaks. Drove from NY to Orlando in 19 hrs. Drove from NY to Decatur in 26...then six days later made it back in 28. Shook hands with John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Pete Townshend, Jeff Beck, Neil Young, Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennet, Paul Anka and on and on.... Worked 6 of the Rock and Roll hall of fame induction ceremonies Was at the Rock and Roll hall of fame opening...and the concert the night before. Barrel rolled a mustang fastback and climbed out without a scratch. Gonna lose 150 lbs and buy my first Harley to help me lose a hundred more.

oh...and Shandi does he's a dream, and Irene Cara does Maniac. I figured out what else is missing on that list, George Clinton and the p-funk, and James Brown.

Diva, the only thing you're missing in that list is Joe Tex, "I Gotcha" take a listen here and tell me if this doesn't fit in your list. [ame=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000DCXO/102-6154814-7688913?v=glance&n=5174]Amazon.com: Joe Tex - I Gotcha: Greatest Hits: Joe Tex: Music[/ame] Is the Boney M version of Born To Be Alive the same as the Patrick Hernandez version?

Well, Thursday is over officially now... I made my Water intake, with some to spare...5 liters (165oz), but went over on calories when I had 12 chicken wings for dinner. I logged everything, but I can't seem to come up with a definitive way to log the wings, I estimated each wing to have one ounce of meat for now. I will try and figure something out for those later (if anyone wants to help, these were small wings and drums broiled only and salted to taste). I will post my goal for tomorrow in the morning.

I was banded 12/6/06

Thursday I go in again for another fill...still no restriction, no foaming, no sliming, no dancing no weight loss no hair loss...you name it I dont have it. I started increasing my eating habits when I had no restriction and went recently for a fill...well I gained weight and felt like an ass. I didn't have surgry to gain weight, I could have done that without the extra holes. So I went back on strict weighed food calorie counting logging all the food I stick in my yap and see where that gets me.

Bring comfy easy to walk around in slippers...nothing slippery on the bottom hospital floors are slippery enough. This way when you get out of surgery you will be all set to run around the halls mooning everyone in your backless gown....anyway,...that's what I did. I brought these great slip on loafer style lined slippers...easy to slip on and off, rubber soles for grip...excellent for mooning and running. They would never have caught me if it weren't for that telltale mole on the left cheek. Best wishes, use your breathing toy thing alot (they give you this cool ball game that you blow in to float a ball) and walk to get rid of shoulder pain that some people get. While you're at it, keep it fun for the nurses, ring the bell every few minutes and ask if your pizza arrived yet.

Pantera broke up because of in-fighting in the band itself, Darrell and Vinnie always got along fine (brothers) but I think that Phil really found himself to be an outsider. When he chose to go solo, he didn't tell anyone in the band until it was already public. I think that just made a bad situation worse. Phil claims that he never had any bad feelings towards the rest of the band, but there are a ton of reporters who jumped in and fueled this fire with either real or fictional content, but once a fire is going, does it matter how it started? Sadly it's believed the fan who shot Darrell on stage during a show in front of his fans and his brother was of course deranged, but was despondent based on an article in which Anselmo told the press Pantera broke up because of Darrell, and he deserves to be beaten or beaten to death...or some other jackass type comment. A fan, a club employee and the head of Damageplan's security force were also killed that night. Luckily for their drum tech (I believe) who was already shot in the leg, the first police officer to arrive was able to shoot and kill the armed assailant who was holding the drum tech hostage.

Dawg, tell them you intend to lead by example. You will open the door, jump out, and yell back "FOLLOW ME". Any sane person won't be waiting for instructions.

Wake up, chew through leather straps.... Start day with Crystal Light Fruit Punch 8:30 am Breakfast...yummy delicious Slim Fast Meal On the Go bar...Milk chocolate Peanut Butter. Wait one hour...begin flooding system with Crystal Light (fruit punch # 2 and Iced tea). So far 3 1/2 liter bottles. Stare at clock and think about delicious peanut butter sandwich waiting for lunch time....trying to wait until at least 1pm...or i'm hungry...since I only want the peanut butter cos I love peanut butter. 12:45 pm ate peanut butter on pita for lunch...mmm Peanut butter Waiting until 1:30 or so to resume building "Lake Crystal Light". 6:00 pm so far im on 1/2 liter bottles of crystal light #7, I can officially tell you that the plumbing in my office works perfectly, i'm checking it every hour or so....LOL. Almost time to head home for dinner...chicken wings tonight...salad with olives tomatoes and cucumber...and my favorite zero calorie dressing. If I don't update tonight I will come back and add it in tomorrow. 7:30 pm was starving at dinner, had a huge salad with tomatoes, olives and cucumber and this great zero calorie salad dressing, then I had like 12 chicken wings. I checked in with fitday...I'm at 1400 calories for the day. (I included the bomb pop I had for dessert at like 10:00pm. Total calories for the day = 1426, and total Water for the day = 5 liters or 165oz.

The first post is lyrics from a Pantera song called (Respect) Walk.

RIP Darrell... The odd part is I think Phil was more of the angry violent type, Darrell was more of the laid back why cause trouble when I can have fun type. I've always preferred Slipknot for these types of moments: I push my fingers into my eyes It's the only thing that slowly stops the ache But it's made of all the thing I am today Jesus, it never ends, it works it's way inside If the pain goes on, I'm not gonna make it! All I've got...all I've got is insane...

You know you ladies here are used to big guys, but these poor hopeless women in Dr Geiss' office are all so skinny, with their skinny husbands...they stand no chance when they see me strutting about half nekkid. My wife gets really jealous when she notices i'm putting on special Big Dog boxers for my appointments...she scolds me and says she hopes Dr Dan likes my boxers choice.

cripes...Peanut M&M's are like crack...if I make a list of things I won't eat like that we'll need a bigger database for this forum. Lessee...Today I will continue on my path of logging all my food intake (thank you fitday.com) drink my 4 liters of Water, eat my pre-planned meal (yummy pita bread with Peanut Butter the wife bought me special ....had to have it after last nights peanut butter conversation) and WALK WALK WALK. Measure my food is another HUGE one...I just bought a food scale and special measuring cup that works like a push up pop....mmmm push up pop.

I'm sure the restriction will help, the 467 is back up from 463...so 4 lbs gained and broke back through my first nice sized goal of 40 lbs...so now I have to do it again.

Banded 12-6-06 started at 503 currently at 467...not happy. No restriction and very hungry all the time. Hopefully thursday will bring change, i'm at 80% filled now...and I could eat a horse covered in peanut butter. Great...now I mentioned peanut butter.

yeah...simple code...start weight-goal weight.

curses, heaps of curses on all of you who mentioned peanut butter at 1am.