sweethot143

nathalie- so sorry you had a crappy Day! I'm sure it is so tough to be a single mom and having to work full time. i feel for you. You seem to have so many changes in your life right now. I'm sure you can feel overwhelmed sometimes. hang in there. This too shall pass. what is the yahoo group? i didn't know about that? can i be in on it? ok dr. weiner said if i'm hungry call and schedule a fill!! i figured if i bugged him enough he would ok it. i think i schedule it for the week after next which is 5 weeks out. not too soon.

oh happy Bday Bevers!!

mistique-sorry about the drivers test. I also failed mine the first time, I couldn't back up straight if my life depended on it! still can't, just the other day i backed up into the brick wall across the street. lol. didn't damage the van, so hubby doesn't know. Thanks for the advice about the fill. I'm not officially 4 weeks out until monday. we are going to amsterdam until monday night so I could wait another week for one which would put me at 5 weeks. heck i would even wait 2 more weeks. I just don't want to wait 6-8 more. I emailed him and told him i lost all of the weight the first week when i was on liquids. he hasn't emailed me back yet, hopefully he will agree. I am such a bugger to him i bet. i bet he's like stupid American quit bugging me!!! i have a feeling he will let me get the fill, just to shut me up. it will only take him like 5 minutes to do it.

ok, because i'm pissed now. I emailed my real dr. dr. weiner about having a fill. He writes back, "it is better to lose weight with no fill, when weightloss stops, come in for fill, better for long term results" makes a little sense to me, but i did not spend 5k to starve!!! since they don't weigh me, i guess i could just write back and say wieghtloss has stopped?

I have had the Mirena IUD for 18 months now. I had it placed right after my second child. I started working out hard for a year whilemy husband was deployed, thinking i could be hot stuff by the time he came home. I ate good 95% of the time and felt great so much energy. But I put on 65lbs! I've had so many tests to figure out why i'm huge now! nothing, i'm perfectly healthy. other than being obese. I look up weight gain with an iud online and tons and tons of people share my experience. It's insane. so my question is, doesn anyone else have an IUD and have gained weight since having it placed? i'm thinking of getting it removed, but i love having no period!! my friend has one for 4 years now and went from an 8 to an 18, and hasn't been able to drop 1 lb. and she works out religiously.

I read somewhere that it was 6-800 until goal then 1000-1200 after that.

thanks for the kind words dawnae- just to clarify so i'm not getting any extra pity here. Hubby went to korea from august 05-august 06 and not going to iraq until September 07. So he is here now, and we are enjoying every (most) minute of it together. I think the deployments seem worse to people who are not a military family. to us it's just his job, we deal. Korea was hard , i put on 65 lbs! maybe due to my iud though, but i was completely stressed. yeaah for your fill. i emailed my dr about it. the journaling sounds good , i'm going to try that.

skinnymom, i'm glad you are unstuck. sorry i didn't offer any advice, but i didn't have anything better than the great advice you already received. haha, yeah, if i want to squeeze into my 16's i have to tuck in my fat suck in till i can't breath get a spatual to hold down the fat while i jump up and down and pull and pull. then the zipper pops open. bk- we'll say a prayer for your DAD

i used to like rosie, but lately she just gets on my nerves. she has taken over the show! in a bad way.

oh one more thing, next april out of Italy we can take a Med cruise for 8days 7 nights for 699 a person!!! kids under 18 are free! wow, what a deal i'm so excited, we are going to start saving for that now. anyone want to come? you would just have to get plane tickets to italy.

oh Kaydot, my husband is in the Airforce. He's not like infantry or anything. he wouldn't be fighting on the front lines. The only thing i am scared about is road side bombs on his way to the base or bombing of his base. he doesn't seem too worried. but i don't think he would let me know if he was. I was scared when he was in korea for a year last year, he was on the border of north and south and they were testing their nukes then. he said he was scared. poor guy. Thank you for the thank you. I know he's a hero, but I am truley thankful the the army and marines who actually have to handle ground battle ect. Those guys are the real heros. i know everyone is important, but i do think they have it so much harder than my husband does. i'm just glad he chose the airforce, it's been pretty good to us.

ok guys, i was done with the evil scale but this morning before my shower, i looked at the ugly thing and thought, well i'll step on it really quick and see. if it's up then i won't count. well it was down! about 6 lbs! and i put on jeans straight from the dryer expecting to suck in and didn't have to! after about 3 hours in them i can pull them off without unbuttoning them. so maybe my snug 18's will be coming out of the closet. i'll wait another week and see what happens then. i was cleared for regular food at my appointment and all of the sudden i have uncontrolable hunger! i went to lunch with some friends and had a german pizza wich is like a really thin crust personal pizza about the size of a dinner plate with mushrooms, basil, spinach and tomato. it was delicious. i could have eaten the whole thing but i only ate about a quarter of it. then had a bananna when i got home. i'm starving now and will make a piece of fish for dinner with a sweet potato. i was dying for pizza, not the best choice but i know a whole one of those pizza's is about 700 calories so i ate about 250 calories and two banannas today, so 450 at the most right? so i can eat 300 more. i know the fish is hardly any and i ll have about half a sweet potato with no butter. i did not work out today, =( i wake up so late now. i go to bed about 3 am then wake up around 10! my oldest, she's 4 goes to german kindergarten and i don't take her until almost noon! she stays till 5. i really wnat to wake up earlier and get my hiney to the gym.

just the getting up off the table will be hard. I couldn't pick myself up for about a week. 2 weeks before there was no pain in doing it.

hubby's home now. baby #1 was Birth Contol Pill baby. got pregant anyway. baby # 2 planned, i did use the ring between the two and condoms. I just loved having no period. I am calling tomorrow to have it removed and see what happens. back to being a real woman with a period, yuck.

nathalie- you're welcome anytime. My hubby is going to iraq in september for 6 months are you coming anytime around then? we could have a girls weekend. does your baby come with? i know ryan air flys into Frankfurt -hahn from london pretty cheapo. bevers-your welcome dawnae-oh my goodness, one of my little girls getting a concussion would scare me to death!! I feel so bad for you. I know exactly what it is like to have no sleep. while my husband was deployed last year for an entire year, my girls were 4 months and 2 i was a walking zombie!! my eyes still have circles from that! Nathalie-i would also love to hear more about that book, looks so interesting. i'm all about self-improvement type books. kimmy- that is a steep goal,i wish you the best with it. steph- i also have a very uncomfortable bed. dh and I are sleeping on a full size cheapo for the moment, and he is 6' 255lbs, so not a tiny guy and me ofcourse i'm not tiny. so it's quite uncomfortable. I find myself on the couch sometimes because the bed is too small. long story how we ended up in that bed, but hopefully we'll be getting a king soon. i went to my appointment today, they didn't weight me, but he said to come back in 6-8 weeks for a fill!!! what????? i was told my my other dr. it would be 4 weeks from surgery, he says 6-8 weeks this guy. that would make it 9 weeks!! he says i have 2ml in my band now. i'm disappointed big time. i'm really hitting the gym tomorrow!

i agree with wheestin, my hubby has to lose 50 lbs every year for his PT test for the military and when he does, it seems to get bigger. since the area around it shrinks.

kaydot-- i also sleep on my tummy, no i lay kind of on my tummy with my port side kind of higher up, so i'm slightly onmy side and i put a pillow under my port side. i sleep good like that. Now i can't wait to lose enough weight where my arms don't go numb!

i have tried salmon it's ok, i mush it up

bman- we so love you here and know you are not mean!! sorry they said that, i would have my feelings hurt.

actually, I would love to host it! coming Europe is expensive, but ofcourse everyone can stay at our house, we have 4 bdrms so we can use two of them and the living room for sleeping. but it's not as if we would be here, we could do some traveling. lots to see here. oh well, we have plenty of time to discuss that. we should wait until we are almost at goal so 1 yr. to 18 months from now would be perffect. j ok, so i did so good today on my meal planning. except 4 fench fries. but i'm still well under 1000 calories, closer to 700. I have an iud, and found out that it causes weight gain and inability to lose weight! i put on 65 lbs last year! so i'm going to get it removed. i'm dreading having a period again. i haven't had one since may of 2004!! maybe if i take it out i'll lose faster. i could always put it back in after getting to goal and trying it again. anyone have one and have problems losing?

hi i have one. www.myspace.com/sweethot143

NG YOU ARE TOTALLY NOT THE BITCH OF THE GROUP! Where did that come into play anyway. I was really confused about that. guess i missed something. I don't think we have any bitches here. I still can't believe how wonderful and supportive everyone is here. Each and everyone of you are so wonderful! seriously. everyone is so positive, lifts one another up when we are down. I don't think we could have found a better group of ladies for support through this. At one point we should have a reunion type thing. like in 18 months or something. meet somewhere or take a cruise.

hey guys, hope all is well with all the new december bandsters! my gas pains took exactly a week to go away. i just woke up on day 7 feeling wonderful. i am 3 weeks out now and feeling good. everyone doing well?

ok everyone, I feel so bad! I just went to check in on the December bandsters thread, and they are a little sour about this thread. I think some feelings got hurt here. I know that was not the intention at all! Should we do something about this? I hate hurting others feelings.

hey guys, the chest pains are gone. I probablly just slept wrong. i feel good today, ate my planned meals. we went out with friends bowling and to play pool we were gone 5 hrs. so ofcourse i got hungry, but i put one of the tuna fish to go things in my purse and ate that while everyone else ate burgers at the bowling alley. so yeahh me! Beversman! congrats on the 18's and the eliptical. I have lots of 18's which i can't wait to fit into comfortably. having babies has really messed up my tummy area, my 20's are super loose in the thighs but still fitting int he middle. my tops are fitting so much better though, like my jacket is too big on top, but still snug around the tummy. gotta work on that big time. I always just had the big thighs problem and a flat tummy. not anymore since baby #1 and #2 BK- we want to adopt a boy, we have 2 girls and want more, but i'm afraid to end up with 4 or 5 girls. not that it would be terrible but we also really want a boy. Have a great weekend everyone! Next weekend we are off to Amsterdam.