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Happy Sunday everyone! Hope the weekend is going well! Yesterday I took my mom downtown to see the Pirate Queen. We walked all the way to water tower to find out the food life cafe had like a 45 minute wait! So after making mom walk that far we turned around, got some cocoa and walked to teh cadillac palace. I stopped at a white hen for a protein bar so i wouldnt be hungry and got mom some cheesecake. She was contented. The musical was beautiful! Highly recommend it! Then i took her to Bennigans. I figured the salmon was a mushie-ish choice since i have 4 more days til soft foods. It was yummy! I barely ate 1/2 of it and boxed up the rest for dad. After a little shopping took her home. Nothing like mom-daughter days to boost your spirits. :nervous As I was getting ready to leave my husbad made me pose for my monthly picture. i didn't want to - half of my hair was in curlers and i looked like a crazy person. but WOW i couldnt believe there actually is a change in how I look in just over a month! Got on the scale this morning 229 pounds! I thought i would faint! OK enough sunday babble. off to walmart. I noticed i havent been in the mood for shopping (since shopping meant ooo cupcake or cookie or icee) and now i am out of EVERYTHING!

I'm not sure. Is that the barium swallow? If so - i did. YUCK.

How was lunch!? Wish I could have been there!

Yippee Friday!! Happy Friday Bandster Friends!!! I am not getting much work done today. Oh well. Still waiting to get a stern talking to about being online. =) yesterday I had a great NSV! A coworker was saying my jeans yesterday looked crappy and were all droopey on my butt. So i told my husband when I got home and started playing with my jeans once i took the belt off. the next thing i knew i was able to pull them down without undoing the button or zipper!!!!! shocked the husband (and probably the folks across the alley!!). I wasn;t expecting it to work!!!! I guess this is working!

Happy Friday! i can't decide what to do for lunch. I could run for something mushie but i also have an emergency tuna pack. I just dont know if tuna is mushie or if i shoudlnt try yet to eat it yet.... hmmmm.....

Good morning friends! I feel better this morning than a few days ago. Except I am a dork who fell asleep with the heating bad over my stomach and burnt myself or something since now i have a sore spot. I swear I am just a mess this week!! I've been so bad with chips the last few days so i have made a protein shake and am just sipping that. I need to get back on track. I also need to figure out how to get my exercise in. I just have been so wiped after work and classes. excuses... excuses.... Hope everyones having a good week! Any fun plans for the weekend? Sonia

i figured it was the hollywood-heroine diet. =)

This is me today Exactly!!! I bought some pringles and am sucking all the salt off til its mushie! I know not healthy but I am such a raging lunatic today! I never thought weight loss could affect my TOM so much. Usually its no issue whatsoever - the last couple of days I'm bloated and crampy. I could care less about mushie foods and staying in my guidelines! I just want salt.

Hi everyone. So I'm not sure where my port is - i think by my waist a few inches to the left of my bellybutton. All day i've been feeling funky! not pain pain but definitely discomfort. Could last nights cookie have broken something! Or I think I actually slept on my left side for the first time last night and I wonder if my body is telling me I'm not ready for that. Wish I hadn't just used all my sick time becuz i'd rather just go home!

Morning everyone! Count me in on the Christmas challenge as well! Monday nights I have a very slow class so I packed some hommus and crackers. by 8 i was ready to have my head hit the desk. I bought those soft grandmas cookies and ate one of them. It felt soo good to have chocolate after 4 weeks!! I don't know if its related to the cookie or not but my stomach just feels off today. Maybe its guilt and all in my head. =) guess i better get back to work!

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ah a massage sounds like a fabulous idea!! i dont know what my problem is today - maybe becuz I'm just stting on the couch trying to catch up on six chapters of homework but I keep feeling like eating! maybe every 2 hours, or less I feel like I'm looking for something to nibble on! I had some cream of wheat for breakfast, some hommus and tuna on wheat crackers for lunch, then all aftgernoon I keep looking in the pantry. I made some SF cocoa and took a little peice of the banana bread that was left over. I must not have chewed as wel as I thought becuz I felt like hell. YUCK. not a fan of that. Better get back to homework

Hi Everyone! I've been taking classes to complete a certificate in Public and Non-Profit Management but haven't been real sure what I wanted to do with that. I am a partipant in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer and keep thinking about how I want my career to matter and make some sort of difference. The class I am in now deals with Policy decisions. So I've been researching that. I found an advocacy training thru the National Breast Cancer Coalition in Va next May that I want to attend and find a way to make a lving advocating for a cure. Now I just have to find a way in.....

Hi jenny! Im only 2 weeks into banding and so far I know i made the right choice. Just lurk thru the different posts and youll be amazed my all the positiveness!

check out coolrunning.com They have a couch-to-3K training schedule and i have always heard good things about the site. I'm not ready to try running yet but I can't wait til I can!

Hi everyone. I did have some of the banana bread and it was heaven. i couldnt not go to lunch with the inlaws ... so we're at applebees looking at the menus and i'mm silenetly praying they have a good soup whn my husband says to me "u should tell them..." I panick that they'll have heard and think i was pregnant so I just say, I had a stomach thing done 2 weeks ago and need to eat something muchie." my DH goes, wow you just threw that out there didn't you. It worked for me, So they asked about what I had done and I explained it. They were very nice and curious. i have great inlaws. i didnt like the soup so i got the potato skins and had the insides of 3 of them. not healthy in the slightest but i couldn't imagine what else to eat. Tonight we went to the resertaunt around the block and I knew I like their chicken noodle soup so i would be safe. The cook must have quit bcuz it was so BLAH. so i picked at it and had a roll. BBRREEAAADDD. kinda hard but i didn't care!! =) I gave the rest of the bananaa bread to the inlaws to eat at their hotel or i'll be tooo tempted to pick at it. Raynie i'm with you on the 64 ounces. which i find weird becuz i was a water guzler before this!! I always got my water in. Now I feel like i'm gulping and not sipping and then i get all worried and I stop drinking my water. well since i am rambling i better go. Nyte!

Oh I'm a dork. Too long away from regular food. =) I made some banana bread for the inlaws - since all we have to offer them is string cheese and suigarfree popsicles! I SSSOOOO want some of the banana bread!!! But i dont think it really qualifies as mushy and sicne peopple have issues bread I dint want to get sick. Hope everyone is enjoying their saturday!

Yippee Weekend!! Le2sha, whats a slush? I think when we drink it goes right thru so its not the same with food. I could be wrong... I need to go flip thru my "manual" again. The inlaws are coming to visit tomorrow. I toldf my husband I didnt want to go with them when they go out to dinner. I;m not ready. I dont think my DH told them what I was having done so that should be interesting.... we'll see, we'll see!! Enjoy the weekend everyone. I'm sure I'll check in - I'm addicted.

i just had the pintos and cheese from taco bell. Only $0.85! And pretty good.

Hi Pam I think we're still healing so we wont feel any restriction yet.

the 18th I'm taking my mom to see the Pirate Queen. If i miss it this time around, I can always do the next one.

How was everyones Thursday? I can't believe its only been 2 weeks since banding! It was a pretty low key day. I'm back at work but not terribly in the work-zone so I've been slacking badly! I'm sure tomorrow I'll be swamped. I had sucha taste tonight for something sweet that wasn't jello! Raynie, did you try the cheesey thing?

I'm in the Aurora/Naperville area and work in Romeoville. I'd love a get together!

Hi Christine - yup only ricotta, mozerella and sauce. micro til bubbly and melted. mmmmmmmmm. i found it in the mushie recipe thread. yummmmm. So i went to walgreens at lunch to get som stuff for the scars and flinstones vitamins. Did i get the scar stuff? Nopers! But i got 2 holiday cookbooks and some sugarfree werthers candy. i'm so easily distracted. speaking of easily distractedi should probably get back to work...

OO I'm off to walgreens now - i'm going to have to try some!!! I bought some CVS chewables and they are slightly funky. I never finish the whole thing.