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It was my husband that introduced me to Big Macs and now I love 'em! I have Mac attacks. They are sorta gross but deeply addictive. Part of the reason that it took me so long to experience MacDonalds was that it took them a long time to infiltrate the core of Toronto and because I don't drive I was never in the right places until I met my signif other. Now I have two MacDonalds within walking distance of my house. Yep, it takes me five minutes to walk to a Big Mac, eh! lol Times have really changed. I only had my first Taco Bell experience about five years ago when one opened up within walking distance. Now a friend and I sometimes go there for Sunday brunch! I love the fries supreme. When I was in my twenties fast food meant Harvey's for hamburgers and Mr. Sub. The other option was pizza. All the good fast food franchises were in the suburbs or in the States. LOL

I want the kind that are like leggings. Are the ones at Old Navy like that? You stay in onederland, girl!

Nancy never has any problem finding mine. I never have any problem finding mine. I can feel it. It is right underneath my skin, just below my bra line and right between my boobs. Why is yours so hard to locate, Yoda? As for meeting the docs, I briefly met Dr. Joffe the same day I met Nisrine and I saw Dr. Yau the morning of my surgery for long enough that we shook hands. They were both pleasant.

I think that it's a problem with living in downtown Toronto and having grown up with European parents. I never ate a Big Mac until I was 35. Now I love them!

So Green had to see her shrink today and she hates seeing him because he finds her boring and always yawns in her face and this means that she needs a long walk and some therapeutic shopping afterwards. The shopping and the walk went kinda well. The weather was in the double digits and she got herself a black boiled wool jacket in size 3x at Winners for 60 bucks. It's a big drapey wrap-around garment and Green looks kinda small in it. Now she needs skinny jeans, eh. And yesterday she bought 3 pairs of black over the knee socks for 5 bucks a piece. She's gonna wear these with skirts. She's still too fat to do tights.

Green has never had a Blizzard, either.... Argon, you have got to tell me what they are like! Eh.

Do not get a fill until you come back from this trip!

Congrats on getting through your big day, girl! I am a TLBC graduate, too, and I stuck to their diet requirements. From what I've been reading on the main boards these make sense. You have been operated on and foreign materials have been installed and actually sewn into your body. :rolleyes Your insides need time to recover and you don't want to rip those internal stitches. This is the rationale behind the diet. And yes, I found the diet kinda rough at times, especially during that first week. I used to find myself lying in bed thinking of filet mignon done extra rare and pasta Alfredo for hours at a time.:hungry: Reading, watching TV, drinking broth, and taking demerol helped to distract me. On the bright side, you are gonna lose a lot of weight!:clap2: And that's a good thing.:biggrin1:

Bummer! A friend of mine once had scabies. It means Big Laundry! :help: He moved into a hotel while he had 'em.:rolleyes Good thing you found out that you didn't have 'em before the laundry thing got too nasty!:clap2:

Yah, all the best!

I don't know what to say. I have 6cc and I am nowhere full enough. I think I am going to have to phone for a 4th appt. Why don't you phone TLBC, explain the problem, and see what they say? How are you doing these days?

Hello, Muggle. I am sorry to read about all your problems with the band. Of course your surgeon never should have banded you - you didn't want it! This was a very bad start to a bad relationship with something that was implanted inside you. In order for the band to work you have to want to have the band and then you must be prepared to work with it. Even then, the band seems to work better for some people than for others. Some of us will have problems with it and will be disappointed. I think that you are doing the right thing by starting a website for people who are having problems, are angry, and do want support.

I have never had a McFlurry. What are they like?

Wow! This is bound to be difficult on both you and Mr. Yoda. I hope she makes a good recovery. My thoughts are with you both.

I am so glad that I had gone to the bathroom before I read this. Otherwise I would have peed my knickers! Brilliant!!!

Yoda - at the TLBC they have this fill tech who is very pleasant and very competent but who is very business-like and who gets you in, fills you up with yer 1 cc, gets you out, and moves on to her next fill job. There is no room for discussion. She is certainly not prepared to fool around with your band. I've got to say she always hits the right spot, you never have to wait, and I never feel any pain when she is giving me a fill. And I have an extremely low pain tolerance!!! Worse than a man!:bolt: Maybe she is new at TLBC since when you last had a fill? At our graduating class's final group fill - the 3rd fill - the paper said that we were also supposed to have a group meeting with Kathy. We didn't see Kathy. She never made an appearance.:omg: Our fill tech is, by the way, our chief/only contact person at TLBC now that we have been banded. Though she is terrific she will not engage in any hand-holding or drag one of the staff who might be better at hand-holding out of hiding. Maybe that's not within her jurisdiction. Maybe it's up to me to make a phone call. I dunno.

We get off lightly at Christmas. Both my husband's family and mine are small, and are mostly comprised of adults who have long ago decided that gift giving no longer made any sense. We are all too old and have everything we want and need. My husband and I never formally exchange Christmas or birthday presents, either. Surprising each other has sometimes ended up in disasters in the past. Still, we do buy stuff for each other, just not for special occasions, but only when we see the right thing. Buying gifts for people who are close to me is difficult. I find it almost impossible to keep them secret. I want to give them right away. This is why I have to buy my presents at the last minute. There are a few friends with whom I exchange presents and kids get presents of course. As for Christmas cooking, well, I get off lightly here as well. Christmas Eve we go to my mother-in-law's house. She is German and the Eve is more important to her than Christmas Day. Christmas Eve is also more important than Christmas Day in France. The day itself is kinda like Boxing Day is here - a day of recovery. Christmas Day we will spend at a friend's house now that both my mother and my brother are dead (they were the family that lived in Toronto). This friend loves to cook and Christmas Day is important to him. He's a bachelor, his sibs and their families live far away, and so his friends are his family. As it happens he and I exchanged Christmas gifts in October! Christmas is kind of a melancholy season for me. My kid brother and my mum both died in 2005 and this wasn't good but even before this, Christmas was kinda sad. You see, not only are there are very few children in either my husband's family or mine but many of my generation have moved away from Toronto to live outside Canada. The Christmas gatherings are thinly populated these days. The death of my mother and my brother (who, like me, is childless) just adds to the devastation. (My poor widowed sister-in-law prefers to spend Christmas with her own family.) My Husband's parents are missing two of their children and both of their grandchildren at Christmas time because they live abroad. Their daughter and her 2 children live in France and their other son lives in Costa Rica. My surviving brother lives in the States, one niece lives in Australia and the other lives with her daughter in Windsor, Ontario. My nephew lives with his wife and her family in Halifax. I have a cousin who lives in B.C. and one who lives in Ottawa. The Green family is very small!

Actually I am scheduled for another colonoscopy in February. She promised me that it wouldn't hurt this time around. She is going to use a pediatric scope and she is going to give me better dope than she did the last time. And I have an appt to have my great big fat liver looked at in January. Fun stuff in the new year, eh!:phanvan

Today I went out for lunch again. I ordered a lunch combo plate at the local Chinese restaurant. I couldn't eat it all. In the old days I would have wolfed it all down.

I think I might have some restriction. I ate at a Japanese restaurant yesterday. I ordered the small (and cheap lunch) plate. :bolt: Towards the end of the meal the food was feeling a little golfball-y. It was hard to stop eating, though. :cry The food was pretty good.:hungry: One good thing about the band - I would have ordered much more food pre-banding - and I would have eaten it all!:clap2:

Avocado is nice eaten with a vinaigrette. You can make one by mixing together Dijon mustard, wine vinaigar and extra virgin olive oil.

bump, bump

Yep, I missed you. By the way, I've heard that kidney stones hurt like hell!!!! My ex-husband's wife has just had one removed. She almost died from the infection it caused. On a lighter note, it sounds like a sure fire way to lose weight.

I don't think she removes the saline. But I do think that I now have some restriction...finally! Just not quite enough, perhaps.

I just had it done this September with no problems. I didn't have an endoscopy, either. I am 57.