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I hope you get fixed up ASAP, Neenagh.

I hardly ever wear dresses or get dressed up. I would rather have elective surgery than get dressed up and this is why I rarely agree to go to weddings. I end up feeling like a cowboy in drag.

Both coats are lined with sheepskin, black sheepskin. One coat is black and the other is paprika coloured. Both are suede. They are both great looking coats. Too bad they never get to see the light of day anymore.:cry I also have a beautiful black leather winter coat that I inherited from my mother a couple of years back. It has a black fur collar that reminded me of one of my cats, Norton, and so we used to refer to the coat as Norton.

Oh BJean, your coat does sound wonderfully luxurious! I've got polar boots and a couple of sheepskin coats, myself. None of this stuff is of any use up here where I live. Why don't we agree to spend a week together in Colorado? Could be fun for us and for our winter clothes,.......eh. Green is really missing the snow.:cry She is, afterall, a Canadian.

There is much weather weirdness going on. It has been noted that Canada's capital is the second coldest capital city in the world, right after that of Ulaan Bator, the capital of one of the Mongolias - either inner or outer, Green can't remember. Through this fine capital city snakes the Rideau Canal which always freezes up during the winter months. Indeed, many government workers, including elected parliamentarians, have traditionally skated to work during the cold months. This year the only option available is travelling by boat.

I like tzatziki so much that I will eat it straight up with a spoon. Of course it is also good as a dip or eaten with roast/bar-b-queued meat or with crackers. I buy these crackers that are very high in fibre; they are called Finn Crisp and I think that they are delicious. Summer Fresh makes very good tzatziki that is not high in calories. Summer Fresh also makes an Asiago and Artichoke Dip that is to die for but it is kinda high in calories. I sometimes eat it with Finn Crisps since they are so low in calories and so high in fibre.

Clothing for fat people are, of themselves, a warning against obesity; they don't need no stinkin' labels. I never realised before I got fat that I would be entering into the Land of Ugly Clothes. I think that one of the reasons that I got banded was so that I could wear natural fibres again. (Green is the president of the Let's Kill Poly and Ester Movement.)

I get my protein from eating those little cans of prepared tuna. They have snap-off lids. I love the Thai and the tuna with lemon and pepper the best. I also eat a lot of tzatziki - yogurt with cucumber and garlic. These are foods that taste good and all you require is a spoon and a recycle box for the tubs they come in. So very, very easy for a lazy grrl!

I have heard that if you don't eat enough you will be working against the band. The body will go into starvation mode if it doesn't get enough calories and then you still won't lose weight. This is not a good or healthy state to be in, kiddo.

I am with you, Missy. I am always hot and sweaty. My internal temperature is haywire and this is why I absolutely loathe the summer. I spend it inside with the A/C running and fans running, too. And I am one of those blondies with a redhead's skin; I don't tan. I dread global warming. Our summers up here in central Canada can get pretty nasty. Very, very hot and humid and with lots of toxic air advisories. Ugh!:help:

I, too, have been growing increasingly irritated by the smug and less than compassionate tone of this writer. Her advice may be solid enough but her delivery leaves a lot to be desired. It strikes me that the strength of this website is that the membership is free to post on all sorts of issues, those directly concerning the lapband, weight, and those that have to do with other aspects of life in the 21st century. Wonderkidsmom has come to us with a very serious problem, and why shouldn't she? In presenting her issues to us she is able to draw upon the expert advice and emotional support of a lot of women who have already worn the divorce T-shirt. All she is seeking is advice and emotional support.... Here she is able to do this in a safe environment, away local gossips or anyone else who might have an agenda. It seems to me that the above quoted writer has not been reading this thread very carefully or else she has been projecting something of herself, something of her own situation, something which does not belong here. She ends her post by screaming at Wonder to "get HELP, LEGAL help!!!!!!!!" In fact Wonder has often stated that she does have an attorney. I for one would like to see this thread continue. I wish to hear how life unfolds for Wonderkidsmom.

And up here in Toronto, Canada, we haven't seen snow yet this year. Our daytime temperatures have been in the 40s and 50s. I've been wearing shoes and light jackets. I have a couple of gorgeous sheepskin coats that haven't been getting much use over the last few years. I would love to see some snow - just for the novelty of it. In our part of the world the ski resort operators are crying the blues. Perhaps I should visit Colorado - if I can get a flight in that is.

Hahahaha:)

China, eh? I would be inclined to go for it. Sounds like you will have a most interesting 3 days.

Yup, it is a cute euphemism.

I figure I'll give up smoking, see if I can get some Vicodin - 'cause that's what Dr. House likes - and drink a bottle of single malt scotch or some fine, fine claret.... But seriously folks, atheists don't believe in judgement day.

Yah, no longer surprising for Green to hear. One of these dudes was explaining that by publically admitting atheism he was risking social ostracism, loss of job, and maybe having his house burned down...and this is a white dude, a professional, and a pillar of his community! You wouldn't think that he would be this vulnerable, eh? I found his story to be as strange and as foreign as anything I have heard from the Muslim theocracies. I was touched when the dude said that he and his wife might like to retire to Canada, the cold country! Of course, and this is thanks to global warming, Toronto's new winter is kinda like that of Virginia! Our temperatures have been in the 40s and 50s and we haven't seen any snow at all. But that is the topic of another thread. As for me, Green, like the rest of her family, is an atheist all the time. This presents no social problems up here. Over the past 8 years a number of members of my tiny family have died - first dad, then aunt, baby brother, then mum - and all of these members were dispatched without last minute religious intervention.

In a similar vein: why are camels called the ships of the desert? Because they are also full of Arab semen.......

Grrls, we gotta get together and blow up the fat grrl sequin, etc factories! let's take back our self-respect!:heh:

I was banded at TLBC. They were great and I have no complaints. I have heard on this site that Dr. Coburn also gives great lap band.

I grew up and still live in Toronto, Canada. I have heard that this is now the 6th largest city in North America. It is a city that is made up of immigrants. It is also a city that is more like New York or San Francisco - if you want to compare it to American cities - in that the core of the city is the most vibrant part and the most sought after part in which to live. Our areas of dreadful poverty and dysfunction are to be found in certain suburban areas. Although the city is becoming more and more expensive to own property in there are still many areas where our most recent waves of immigrants manage to live. We all live here fairly peacefully; and it is certain that living and working with people who have come here from all over the world makes life here culturally very, very rich. At the foot of my street is a Catholic church which serves the Portuguese community. They hold wonderfully passionate religious parades on this residential street. Nearby is a store front mosque. An imam lives a couple of doors down the street from my house. In the house beside him lives a Hindu family who have always treated me as a family friend. I have worked along side Hindus, Muslims, Catholics, Protestants, atheists, and Jews. Some of my family are Jewish though they are non-believers. Indeed, pretty much all of my immediate family, the Christian side and the Jewish side, can be considered to be atheist. In brief, I live in an interesting and largely tolerant society. Although I have just gone into my story at great and boring length I have done so because I am in touch, through another website, with atheists who live in the Bible Belt. These folks have provided their own stories of how they live in their communities. I find these fascinating. It would appear that there are communities where this issue of religious freedom is not as loosey-goosey as it is up here in the north or in large cities anywhere. The splendid thing about a large city is that it does buy one anonimity.... In truth I do believe that I found myself launching on this long post because I was so surprised to read in an earlier post that there might be Christians out there who had never encountered folks of other faith. These are people who are, by and large, just as enchanting and just as irritating as you and I.

I don't see Clinton's infidelities as being quite so heinous as some of my co-posters do. I see his behaviour as being an issue that properly lies between himself and his family and if they are willing to accomodate that aspect of his personality, then that is their business. JFK was a serious slut, too, but this was not discussed openly by the media in those good old days. FDR had a long-term mistress; his wife, the fine Eleanor, may have been a Lesbian. So what! How do these unconventional arrangements interfere with anyone's ability to govern in a wise, caring and judicious manner? I suspect that had Clinton been a Canadian Prime Minister his stunt with the cigar and Lewinsky would have provoked more ribald amusement than moral outrage. Our satirical public affairs shows - we have a few - would have dined out on this for weeks. The sale of cubans, cigars that is, would skyrocket, and a lot of men would be wearing T-shirts with cigars printed on 'em in the hopes of getting a little bLewinsky. And in the serious media social anthropologists and psychologists would be weighing in. They would of course be discussing infidelity: the whys, the percentages, etc. I see Clinton's offense as being less a moral crime than a crime of appetite. He has much in common with the obese person who is unable to restrain himself. It would be a sad day indeed to hear that an obese person is, only by virtue of their weight, unfit to govern a country.

Watching all of this go on would also make me feel very insecure and vulnerable in my own relationsip with my own mate; in your case it must be particularly so in that your husband's continued friendship with this pair gives the appearance that he condones Mr. P's behaviour. Men can sometimes be less sensitive to these nuances than we are - sorry, Marjon! Have you talked to your husband about this aspect of the situation? As for my earlier assessment of Mr. P's behaviour, I forgot that the dude is only 60. I thought that he was older and more befuddled. My bad.

And that would have got me off the hook with my husband. Haha. And re the reverse BJ, I would hope that that boy could do push-ups with his tongue. Har har.:heh: Of course he does play the sax.......... !

The worst thing is flying into the Big Smoke by plane. Ugh!