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Two possible reasons: either they love talking about themselves, people do, you know, or they are lying. :heh: When people are lying they tend to present way too much information in order to support their lies. Because they are young I suspect that they are lying. Young people don't normally like to dwell on bowel movements and crap like that. They have probably been off having fun somewhere. :confused:

And they get elected! :omg:

Jack has given you solid advice for it does seem to me like you are currently caught up in a self-destructive cycle of over-eating and then despising yourself. Forcing yourself to PB is likely part of the punishment which you force upon yourself for your so-called bad behaviour. Do as Jack has said: focus on your achievements to date. You have been successful in losing a lot of weight. And remember that we are all bandsters because we all have problems with food choices and with portion control. We all feel your pain and we have all worn the same T-shirt. Do try to avoid PBing because this can be bad for your band and your esophagus. If you do feel that you are in a period of your life where you will be prone to overeating for emotional reasons, get a defill; by doing this you will avoid stretching your pouch or causing your band to slip. You can always return to your journey later. And by the way, eating 8-10 ounces of roast beef is a much healthier choice than finishing an entire pizza. You might want to print out Jack's inspirational post and keep it where you can reread it from time to time. You have hit a rocky patch but I believe that you will do just fine. You have already lost an impressive amount of weight.

But you are eating fewer of 'em now that you have been banded, eh? I heard that they are rich in saturated fats.... This is not good for you, Derick.

Hurray for you! This is great news indeed!! Congratulations from Green.

Yah! I miss you all as well. Now I got no more reason to live.

I eat a lot more eggs now than I used to. You can make a really healthy and delicious fritatta/omelet with eggs and fresh vegetables. An egg has approximately 70 cals and yet is loaded with vita Bs and as well as containing other vitamins and several minerals.

Crispy, it is normal to second guess yourself prior to surgery, especially expensive elective surgery. I had the lapband installed last Sept when I was 57 years old. My recovery time was 3 days in bed and then I was good to go. As for those three days, well, they were kinda relaxing thanks to the meds and having a lot of reading material on hand. I read, I napped, and the cat kept me company. I am now at goal. At my last weigh-in I weighed 147.5 lbs and had a BMI of 23.8. It is true that I was one of the ones with a lower BMI to start with but we are the ones who usually lose more slowly, and older women lose more slowly than younger women do. I found that losing weight with the band to be easy to do. My problem was portion control and the band simply will not allow you to eat a lot of food: it is a physical barrier. At the same time it seems to press against the I'm hungry nerve and so you will not feel hungry after eating your tiny snack. Your only role in this process is to make a point of eating wisely - protein first, then vegies/fruit, followed by your healthy kind of carbs (whole wheat) - and chew, chew, chewing every bite before you swallow. Speaking personally, I am very, very happy with my band. It really has changed my life.

How about 2 tables of 12? We can still get up and mingle with each other.

The band is often at its very tightest first thing in the morning. Slowly sipping a warm drink - tea or coffee - will loosen it up and by dinner time it should be relatively easy to eat your small meal provided that you take small bites and chew, chew, chew. The fill folks often recommend that during the first 24 hours following a fill you go easy on the band by only having soups and other liquids. I note that you, like me, are a TLBC graduate. Congratulations on your fabulous weight loss.

She sounds like a real bitch to me. What an unpleasant experience for you that must have been! You have my sympathy.

With a coffee maker, a small fridge, an armload of books, and a portapotty, you could hide out in your bedroom for days...or hours at a time. :heh: Just a small suggestion from Green who does have a bookcase in her bedroom and a reading lamp over her bed. :eyebrows: The toilet is down the hall....:straight

Oh, I so agree! :confused: And Jessica and Ashlee Simpson and Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton and all the other self-absorbed, meaningless, banal bimbos.... :help:

:faint: :heh:

This does rather odd to me. I think that you should phone your bariatric surgeon's office and ask about this. Once you find out what is going on, please post the info here. I am very curious. Good luck to you, grrl.

Yah! The same old double standard!!!

It is a great idea. You could write a letter to the local malls and newspapers recommending this. If you belong to a local organisation - a church, PTA, or political group - you could ask them to back you on this.

It sure is nice hearing from you, Edie. It is always great hearing from the oldtimers and successful maintainers. This is why it is great hearing from you, too, Chickie. And where are those other voices of reason - Carlene and Wheets???? :confused::confused:

Congratulations on your fabulous weight loss! Where is your port situated?

I have never had kids but I am cool with this concept. I believe that the handicapped and pregnant women or parents with a clutch of small children do need handicapped-style parking. The truth is that small kids and the paraphenalia needed to handle their physical needs will place the adult in pretty much the same category as the handicapped individual. I am healthy and child free; I have no problems with the notion of walking. I think that this is a gift.

Oooh! That's an evil, evil comment but it is kinda witty. Nevertheless, I sure do hope that he blows up into a state of chubby. :heh: Bodies sure are interesting. Until I was banded I was a fatty grrl and many of my middle-aged pals are suffering from the same severe and tragic post-menopausal weight gain. I was never a curvy grrl when I was thin and I sure was not a curvy fattie. One of my friends was ultra curvy and although she was undeniably fat she could wear clothes which looked lousy on me. This was because she had big tits, a smallish waist and big hips and belly. She looked like a fertility figure and I looked like a Hummer with spider legs and arms. The best clothes for me were those which constructed like boxes. She looked fab in clothes which showed off her shape. Now that I have lost a bunch of weight I still wear cloth boxes, smaller ones is all. hah hah :faint:

Hello DianaSC from Green. I am really pleased that you have discovered this site and have found this thread. LBT is a very valuable resource for all of us because we can share practical info and provide each other with emotional support as well. (LBT has become my hobby and my life support system over this past year since I was banded and I don't know whether I would have fared anywhere near as well without it.) As you obviously know, the lapband is the least invasive WLS which you can undertake to have. This is one of the reasons why we bandsters tend to think that it is the best. It is a reversible, not permanent surgery, for many of us it is so uncomplicated as to be only day surgery, and the band itself is adjustible. The fact that the band is adjustible is a wonderful thing; as we lose weight our interior organs lose weight, too, and the band can be tweaked to accomodate this loss. This is very, very cool technology, I think. I also like your attitude towards weight loss. I believe that the healthiest way to lose weight is to lose it slowly. This allows your body, your internal organs and your skin, to adjust and this is very important to your health. I also suspect that a slower weight loss permits your metabolism to reset itself. From all that I have read about fast weight loss, yo-yo dieting and that kind of thing, it seems that this sort of extreme messing around with your body can be far more risky that simply being overweight. You are undoubtedly aware that the band blocks you from eating large portions of food. It also seems to press upon the I'm hungry nerve and thus you will feel full after eating your tiny snack. Your own role in this weight loss procedure is to follow the bandster rules. Because you will be unable to eat very much it will be up to you to learn how to eat healthily in order that you don't rob yourself of your daily nutritional needs. You will need to learn that you must eat protein first and then follow this up with vegies/fruits. You are going to have to cut out sodas and other forms of empty calories and you will have to get into the habit of chew, chew, chewing before swallowing a mouthful of food. Speed eating is no longer an option for the banded one. Pukage/PB will follow ASAP. This is because the band constricts the amount of food which can pass through the G.I. tract. All of this is part of the learning curve of course. You will quickly pick up this info. I know that I did. As for the slow weight loss...those of us who start with a higher BMI usually do experience much faster weight loss results than the lower BMI gang. Welcome aboard and all the best from Green. :kiss2: And don't even worry about the exercise thing at the moment. You can get into that later on. I was low BMI and had a torn rotator cuff when I started my weight loss journey. Now I have a BMI of 23.8. :eyebrows:

I am reminded of my very good friend who was also my boss. When she wanted two pastries she would always buy herself two coffees; she didn't want the donut clerk to know that she intended to eat them both, you see. She felt ashamed of herself, and this seemed awfully sad to me at the time. (I was very young then and didn't yet have my own weight problem and my own sense of shame.)

From what I heard on the news last night about the state of permanent ice in the Arctic waters it looks like Canada will be plenty warm soon enough. It seems that the mass of permanent polar ice is disappearing far more rapidly than was projected in the early years of this century. A chunk which is twice the size of England vanished last week and a third of the total size of the pack has gone since the year 2000. The disappearance of this ice will further speed up global warming; the heat of the sun's rays had traditionally been bounced off the Arctic ice. Now the sun is able to easily heat up the open waters. The Northwest Passage is becoming a reality and Russia has already put in her bid for this polar real estate by sinking a flag at the bottom of the continental shelf. The other three concerned parties are Canada, Denmark (who owns Greenland), and the U.S. via Alaska. As for where I live, Toronto, it sure is much, much warmer here than when I was a kid. The housing prices are crazy, though, and I have heard that this is true of Calgary (still a coldish city but one with a booming oil economy), Halifax, Vancouver, Victoria, and Montreal. Condos are more affordable and many retirees choose to live in smaller towns. I myself don't have this option; I was raised big city and am used to big city life and I never did learn how to drive. I never had to. I am also one of the lucky ones; I bought into the local housing market with old money and rode the inflation train. But you are right, Bitter, for a new-comer to enter the local housing market he or she would have to have kind of deepish pockets. This is why the condo market is booming. It does permit more folks at all financial levels to live within the city.

Congratulations on your new mattress. There is nothing like the pleasure of a really fine mattress. We need one. My mate complains of a sore back and he has now taken to sleeping with his head at the foot of the bed and his feet up near my face. This has got the nasty orange cat flustered. She's a creature of habit and the foot is her territory. She like to lie there, bite his feet, and pull the fur out of the deerskin which we have hung over the foot of the bed with her teeth. She's very oral. Just like her owner, Green, who is having troubles giving up cigarettes. Congratulations on your thunder storm, too. We have had an extraordinarily dry summer here in southern Ontario, the driest on record since one in the 1930s. They say that the health of a lot of our city trees will be seriously compromised by this, that tree limbs are dying and that many trees may be dead by next spring. The ground is so dry and hard that watering doesn't help at this point. The water is wicked away from the trees and in the case of a sudden tropical rain much of the water would simply bounce off the now concrete-like soil. This city will be much uglier, dirtier, and hotter without its pavillion of trees, that is for sure. :think