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John you are to funny! I will make sure to give her a big and a kiss for you! Funny how my bp goes up everytime I in Richmond; they referred me to my pcp for follow up and went in today and my bp was fine....it must be the drive all the way to Richmond that stresses me out! lol

Glad to see everyone back on the board! Laurel, I am so sorry about your husband and I will think good thoughts for him. Are you back at work already? Seems like you just had surgery! Be careful and don't lift any heavy cameras! John, so sorry for your job. That is a stresser for sure but your head is in a good place and you wont eat stress like I would! :thumbup: Tomorrow I have a nutrution and preop apt in Vacaville. What are these meetings about? Is it group or one on one?

Hi Rachelle, Welcome, you are close with only 8 lbs to go! The surgery is in Richmond but they do hold some of the pre-op and nutrition classes in vacaville so its a bit closer for some of us Sacto folks. Who is your surgeon and where are you located?

Thanks Pat, I was able to find the binder materials on the website. Hope everyone is well, sure is quiet on here lately. Makes me kind of worried.

Need a favor--can someone fax me section 6 from the binder? I am missing that section and they want me to buy a whole new binder which seems silly. If you have the ability to fax, pm me and I will give you my number... Thanks

Drum Roll Pleeezzz...... April 26th is my date! I didn't expect one so soon so I was going to push it off until June but that date works great for me. Yeah! Hope everyone is on the bright side today!

Hi everyone, I hope that you had a great Easter and were able to enjoy the day with your familly. I am going to say a few prayers tonight for all those that are struggling; I hope that you find peace and strength through this journey...it's not easy but if it were -everyone would do it! You have done some great things towards your health and you will succeed! I see Liz tomorrow....

Hi everyone, This seems like a hard week all around; I started vacation Wednesday and of course its hard to stay on track with leisure time. We are heading to SF today for the weekend, going to a giants game and to do some shopping. Hopefully lots of walking will pay for any poor choices I make. I am really going to try and stay close to program but I am not going to stress over it since it is my vacation time. The bad thing is I see Liz on Monday morning, I hope to not gain anything! I am kind of thinking of postponing my surgery for a while; I just dont want to be all messed up for my son's graduation and the night of graduation I am chaperoning a grad trip to disneyland and we are in disneyland from park opening to park closing and worried I wear out and not enjoy myself. I have been looking forward to this for so long I hate to give it up. I have to decide so I can talk to Liz on Monday. Trying to get these teenagers up and moving so we could take off but they are snoozing---they went to the midnight show last night of Clash of the Titans so they are tired but I want to get going to SF! All enjoy Easter and think positive! Lifes struggles are hard but with positive thoughts and support things will work out! Enjoy!

What a great time I had Saturday; thanks everyone for making me feel welcome. Donna, your presentation was fabulous! I was thinking weird thoughts in my head when I saw the outfit you were wearing and I was thinking about what someone said last month about seeing yourself in the old way and not in the new body...I thought, Wow, Donna can't seem to drop the big clothes...lol jokes on us! Great job Donna. Laurel, you are impressive! You looked fantastic for being less than a week out of surgery and I am glad you came. Thanks so much for the clothes--love them all. John, wow 30 lbs is great. Your head is definately in the right place, I can tell just by talking to you. Keep it up..you are motiviating. It's great to have all of you for support. My life for the past 18 years has been my sons and I feel like finally I am at a point in my life where I can take care of me--and you guys are helping me with that! Thanks so much. Have a great week everyone!

Way to go Ash! That is fantastic! Isn't it a great feeling to know that your hard work is getting you SO close to goal. Looking forward to meeting tomorrow!

Hi everyone, I am so glad tomorrow if Friday; crazy week. Lee, I meet with Liz in 2 weeks and she will give me a date; I am going to request something around May 24th so that will still be a ways out. I just have so much going on that I want to schedule it at the right time. Doing it then will put me off through my son's graduation and my other son's football camp which would be great. Plus I have so much going on the next few weeks that it will help keep me busy and focused. I am excited. Sounds like you make great food choices...grilled shrimp and black beans sound delicious! Candra, I hope you can make it Saturday as it would be great to meet you but I understand that bad four letter word--WORK...lol Laurel, how you doing today? I watched that CNN piece and it was interesting. I thought it was weird that the young girl had the sleeve and the mom had the lap band... Oh, the head doctor was telling me she went to a seminar that talked about a new procedure that is under investigation that is a tube they suck out your stomach and makes a pouch (she explained it better than that). So WLS without any surgery at all. She said it will be a few more years before its used but it was looking very promising. Wouldn't that be great for those young adults? It's so hard to be an obsese kid. good night and happy friday.

Whoo Hoo Laurel, glad your feeling well enough to come on Saturday. If you need a ride or something let me know, I would be glad to drive you.

Hi there everyone; took me a while to read through the posts! I love all the chatter. Great pics of everyone from the weekend, looks a great day. Tamra your little one is adorable. John, thanks for the heads up on the show...I am gonna watch it but I have my dvr set in case I fall asleep. I saw the shrink today and since I saw only 2 people in the room she passed me to move on...lol I didn't tell her you guys gave me the answer to that question. hahahaha I was bummed because I didn't get to see Liz today, they told me they would try but come to find out she's only there on mon/wed so I don't know why they said I would see her anyway but oh well. I have an apt with her on april 12th. Laurel, how you doing? hope your feeling good and the broth is helping your hunger. oh ya, lost another 5 lbs so down 25 since 1/26/10! Yippe.

eww, the visions I have in my head about slimming are not pretty! I am going to start working harder on getting used to chewing more and smaller bites so I will be ready as that sounds disgusting! lol

Does the 64 oz include the decaf coffee? I have trouble with that much water too but if I use the propel packets or some other sugar free low calorie flavoring to the water I have a much better time.

Laurel, you're going to do great! I will thinking about you and sending good thoughts your way. Let us know how your doing once you feel up to logging on. Looking forward to Saturday's group and hearing some great things from everyone. I left feeling very motivated after the last group. I am in need of the clothing exchange as I am moved down to a 22 and hopefully will be a 20 in the next couple weeks. I need some help with food; getting burned out on turkey patty and cottage cheese. I am not much a cook and have teenagers so if you have some receipes that will work for the family send them my way. If regular email is easier alibermudez@comcast.net Today I am going to make the yummy chili (and easy too) recipe that nicole gave me.

Chrissy, I was totally set on the band for a couple reasons, I thought losing the weight slower was heathlier, the surgery was less invasive, and there wasn't the nutrianal loss as in by-pass. Then when I found out Kaiser recently approved the sleeve I started looking into that and reading the difficulty people were having with fills/unfills I now have chosen the sleeve and do not want the band for the reasons I originally wanted it...it's felt weird to switch my mind as I was so set on the band but I feel grateful for the options that Kaiser gives us and I think I have made the right decision.

Hi everyone, Sounds like a great day was had by all! Next week is wls group in Sacto right? Congrats Chrissy on your decision. I am also going for the sleeve and Lee and John have been a resource. I am hoping that I can schedule my surgery for May as I have a couple committments that I need to work around. I will find out Tuesday--cross my fingers that Liz sees me while I am there on my phsyc consulant. I want to see pics too!

Great job on the food tamara! I noticed no starbucks today...that is awesome! You can do it and this is a great start. John, sorry about the episode; keep writing about it as I am learning through you and Lee. Nighty Nite:wink2:

Good morning everyone! Tamara I feel your struggles; start today and throw out the bad food and keep focused. I had to stop buying the junk food otherwise I eat it....my kids are not happy think they are starving becuase there are no chips and cookies around but the eating healthier is good for them and they are not starving! In my conversation with Dr Park last week I was telling her how a couple of people I know that had bypass have gained weight back that I thought probably was because they drink alot. She said that many times the food addition gets transferred to some other additon after wls. I have been thinking about that and its helped me try to get a handle on eating as I realize its all an addiction and trying to break that addiction is hard but a key. I am not a drinker but I could see myself hanging out at the casino getting my addiction fix....lol jk! My big thought for the day. I see physc on Tuesday and hopefully Liz will see me the same day. I am going to push my surgery out a until middle of May as I am taking the 4 weeks off and that would put me out during my son's graduation in early June. Might as well time it so I can take advantage of the time off and save my vacation time. Laurel how you doing? getting nervous?

Most of here are addicts...we've been food addicts and when you take away the food we use another addiction, in your case cigerattes! You are doing the right thing by admitting it and making yourself accountalbe. Keep using this board as a way to work through the addiction; once the nicotine is out of your system it will be better! Good luck!

John, That's awesome that you and your wife are renewing your vows...that is very special! How long have you been married? Are you done with the purree's? I got my lab results and they were good so probably will do the ekg Wednesday! Laurel, I am so excited for you! Your gonna do great. Did you attend cooking school in Paris? I know you said you love to cook but that is awesome. I don't really like to cook so I admire everyone that cooks and is good at it. I am hoping as some have said on here that they really enjoyed cooking after they were banded....I hope that happens to me! :thumbup: Great day everyone!

Nicole, you look just beautiful! And your new hubby looks very happy. Looks like a wonderful day! Reggie, you pulled all that together?! Absolutely beautiful! That cake is just beautiful...you definately have a talent and a creative eye! Sounds like some of the other girls helped you and looks like everything was a success. Awesome!

Thanks John, that's good no apt necessary. I need to get over there this week and have that done. I have never had one before... Pam, did you have to have a pbing episode to know you couldn't eat all those foods?

oh, ya...what's pbing? I think I can guess but I cant figure out what it offically stands for. John, so sorry that happened. I hope tonights try is better. Are you still on purreed food?