Ms Jen

I am so glad you're okay!!!!!!!

They are a little bit larger than an asprin. I don't have any problem taking them at all. If they are too big you can cut them in half or quarters. Make sure you get the one that says "hair, skin & nails" or the highest gram count. Mine are 1500's.

for those of you that are losing hair, are you taking your bioton??? I started taking them months before being banded and I haven't lost any more that ususal (yet) in fact mine has been growing and is thicker. In last group they said it happens for 3-6 months and it will grow back!

Hope all are having a good day! It's hard to play catch-up when you get behind for a week. I'l have to go back and finish reading your post. I had my fill today and I now have 5cc. The doctor's assistant usually does them but today the doctor did in. I wen in complaining that after a fill I could still eat a hamburger on the way home. He bluntly said, "it won't happen today!" and he gave me 2cc's. I could feel my band tighten and when he had me drink some water I could actually feel it. No more guzzeling it. It took me almost 20 min to drink a bottle of water and I can usually down it in less than 3 min. I truely think I have restriction!!!! :clap2: I'm so on full liquids today and mushies tomorrow. I fell like I did when I first got the band. Back to my complaining...I mentioned that almost everyone on my on-line suppport group has lost 50 lbs or more and I haven't. He said that 46 lbs is right on track for me and the fact that I'm doing weights my appear to be slowing down my weightloss but that isn't the fact! Weights build muscle and that end the end I'll be more sucessful in keeping off the fact because muscle burns 4 times more cals than fat so I just need to stop being so negative. ... Then as the nurse is weighing me in the office she proccesed to tell me that I have only lost 11lbs since my last fill and that I'm on the low end of weightloss. On one hand the doctor, who has done thousands of RNY & bands, said I'm doing very good and to enjoy my success and on the other some nurse, who has only been working with the office 2 months says differently, I only hear the negative. I have lots of head work to do! Well I'm off to work. Everyone have a good evening!!!

Is this one of our Violet's that needs a fill quick and is running a muck???:waytogo: A seagull in Scotland has developed the habit of stealing chips from a neighborhood shop. The seagull waits until the shopkeeper isn't looking, and then walks into the store and grabs a snack-size bag of cheese Doritos. Once outside, the bag gets ripped open and shared by other birds. The seagull's shoplifting started early this month when he first swooped into the store in Aberdeen, Scotland, and helped himself to a bag of chips. Since then, he has become a regular. He always takes the same type of chips. Customers have begun paying for the seagull's stolen bags of chips because they think it's so funny. (Do you think they'll pay for our Tummy Tucks?) http://www.noob.us/entertainment/seagull-caught-stealing-chips/

Thanks!!! I'm finally down 2 lbs this week after almost 2 months of nothing. I get a fill next Friday and the doctor is going to do it himself this time. Maybe I can talk him into a little extra to hold me. His assistant is stingy when it comes to fills.

Kat – Happy that your dad is better and on the mend Terry – That EM was funny Laura – Thinking of you! Jenn – Hope you feel better soon! Tracyin KS – Belated congrats!!! Teachlady- You’re such a good Grandma Everyone else, have a great day!!!!!!

Oh I know that, but for some reason I just thought of you. I guess because they were there as a couple, supporting each other, as I know that Susanne supports you. (But they still needed to get a room) I guess I'm just in a very bad mood. My dh and I had our 18 yr aniversary and he didn't acknowledge it. I don't know why I expected him to since he hasn't in over 5 or 6 years. I have no support from him what-so-ever. We just live in the same house. Now that he's sick and we still don't know what is wrong with him I have to do everything including taking care of him, his attitude is worst toward me and we have no communication. I get all my encouragement from others and from all of you, which means a lot!!! So I'm just having a "Big Pity Party" I'll get over it soon and will be back to my old or should I say my new self !?!

Not bored, just stressed and trying not to eat. I can't retreat to the bed as I ususally do because I won't burn calories, I can't eat. I went and worked out to feel better Monday & Tuesday twice and walked a total of 6 miles each day. Went again of Wednesday after work and was tired so only walked for 1/2 hour (1.75 miles) went home cooked dinner for husband and guests then decided to go to group. By the way, they did talk about hair lost.... Hair is going to fall out because of all the trauma to the body from surgery, massive/rapid weight loss, hormonal changes, diet changes. Even pregnant women lose hair from all the changes the body goes through. I can last anywhere from 3 to six months. What helps is Biotin, the over the counter kind for hair nails and skin, making sure you get 60 grams of protein. You must take a good "bariatric" vitimin and take your sublingual B12 ofhave the injection. By the way, Biotin is only found in eggs. They also talked about accountability and we should have three main support resources so that we can discuss/be questioned about our concerns and successes along with our goals. It helps to keep us on track. And when you seem to stop losing make sure that you measure yourself at leas once a month to check on the inches. Even your measurements may change during the day just like our weight does. There was a couple there that made me think of Pamela. Both had RNY I think anyway one was 6 weeks out and had question after question after question and she kept goo-goo eying her partner. I wanted to yell "get a room". I guess was in a bad mood. O well, this too shall pass.

Ho, hummmmm:violin:

I’m here lurking in the shadows. I’m tired, discouraged and stressed. I’m tired because I have two houseguest for 2 months, my DH is sick and I have to do everything. At first we were told he had vertigo, then an infection in the mastoid, now they don’t know what it is but think the problem is the part of the brain that controls the balance. He was suppose to have a special balance test tomorrow and to prepare for the test he wasn’t suppose to have caffeine, antihistamines… 24 hours before and he had both this morning so the test is rescheduled for Oct.3rd so I have to rearrange my work schedule again. I’m tired because I’m doing everything. Discouraged because I didn’t loose not 1 pound in 6 weeks. At least I didn’t gain! I upped my exercise yesterday to walking 6 miles a day and cutting my calorie intake to below 800 and the scale finally showed a 1 pound lost this morning. So on to day two. Six miles completed for the day. 64oz of water out of the way and working on the protein. I guess I’ll have some Isopure. I get stressed if I can’t get my “to do list” done, which I haven’t been able to do since DH got sick last month. I just need a hug and a drink (but the calories are too high).

Girls---have a good day....Haydee, try not to work too hard!!!! Ms. Jen.....where are ya???? TTYL!!! Kat I'm still here, just REAL BUSY!

Chris I think it's wonderful that the two of you are doing this together and will be a great support for each other. I'll be thinking of you both on the 12 & 19. I just know that all will go well. ...And don't forget to walk, walk, walk as soon as they let you get up!

[quote name=TracyK - I'll take a brow lift and an eye job! Seriously... I am gonna do that next summer. Ya'll wait and see! Hey, maybe we can all get our surgeries done at the same hospital! We've been wanting a get-together! [/quote] There isn't a hospital in the world that could handle the all the 'Violet's charming wit'.

Tie them in a knot and you won't trip but will still have the weight to pull the wrinkles out.

Just checking in. I haven’t been feeling chatty lately. My DH has been home ill for almost a month now. He had been feeling dizzy and our doctor treated him for a sinus infection but it continually got worse. Then he went to a specialist and had a CT scan and hearing test. Nothing showed up there. Doctor said that he had a hardening of the arteries in his head (that accounts for his hard headedness:heh:) but that happens with age (he’s 10 yrs older than me). Last week we went back to the specialist and he ordered an MRI and that showed that he has a condition called mastoidits. And the saga continues… Now on to me. I had been waiting to wear a pair of jeans I hadn’t been able to wear for about 4 years and every two weeks or so I’d pull them out and try to get in them. So on Saturday I put them on, they were comfortable and out the door I went. Our congregation is doing some renovations and we fixed lunch for about 100 workers, and while we girls were preparing the food one of my friends came up and hugged me and commented on how thin my arms were looking. I proudly thanked her and told her the story about my jeans. She looked down and loudly said ‘you waited to long to wear them, they are too big, and they’re going to fall off!’ When I looked down she was pulling at the leg, and I have to admit when I looked in the mirror I looked like a homeless person in a pair of hand me downs. So another item in the too big pile. On a sad note, an older friend off mine who has been like a father died last night, he was on hospice so it wasn’t a shock, in fact, it was kind of a relief and is no longer suffering. So I did what I always do when something like this happens…apple fritter. But my calories were still under 1200 and I got all my protein in. Also went to the endocrinologist today. I had canceled my appointment earlier this year because I had gained so much weight and I did want to hear him scream at me. He congratulated me on the weight-loss and when I confessed that I had canceled my appt. because I had gain instead of lost weight since the last visit and was ashamed. He admitted that he would have yelled. Now he says I have taken all the fun out of the visit because he can’t complain nor make any money off me because I’m doing so well. I really made me feel good! Reached my exercise goal for the month!:clap2: Hope you all have a good evening.

:girl_hug::girl_hug: I've been there, but with my sister. Tough love is hardest on the person showing the love. But you can't make grown folks do! The last time I did for my sister, took her daughter to my mother, packed up her apartment and she went into a home. Told the workers there to tell here when she was sober that if she comes out this time and doesn't stay clean to forget that she has a sister and that, Yes, even though it would kill me, I'd let here daughter go into the system. She had 3 months to get it together while in rehab and that was it. She came out clean had a few problems but wouldn't come to me because I meant it!! Then a few years later I moved to Missouri and she had to stand on her own two feet as I was the only one in the family who truely knew what her life was like. For some strange reason she could always get a well paying job (types over 100 wpm) and kept her daughter in private school with a little help from family. She is 10 years clean. Makes all AA meetings wherever she is and evens works the crisis hot line. She is also going to school to get her BA. Her daughter graduated for high school as valedictorian, got married, had a baby and is now pre-med and is 20 yrs old now. Things can turn around only if they want to but it has to be them. You have to be tough and cut her loose show her love and perhaps you can go to a few AA meetings without her. It is a real eye opener, at least it was for me, to hear what’s going on in their heads and what their true needs are. I had the opportunity to take an addict to her meetings for several months. Things that we take for granted are hard for some of them. One guy had been clean for a few months and got a job. It was his first paycheck and he couldn’t go to work for fear that if he had the money he might go straight to the drug house or do what ever his addiction of choice was. Something we would look forward to was a demon for him. One woman had been clean and sober for several years and something like her 8-year anniversary being clean came and no one in her family acknowledge it and it sent her immediately into a funk, Her children were being children that day and she was there at the meeting trying hard not to do her addiction of choice. One person state that the high for a crack addict starts the second they seen the dealer. The high starts then, with the anticipation of the drug. (I never knew that). It is a must, to change “people, places and things” because anything can start the downward spiral. It changed the way I looked at things in connection with addicts/alcoholics. In some strange way I can relate with my addition to food. I had to change the exit on the highway so as not to go to my favorite donut shop in the beginning and not go down certain isles at the store or anywhere near certain people where food was an issue be cause the cravings would start. Food, my drug of choice. All that to say show tough love, commend when you see achievements … and…pray not only for her to be strong but also for yourself. Hang in there!!!

It's sad but true---- Ther is nothing thast I can't eat. I just have to make sure that I make good food choices and stop if I'm full or not.

I finally hit 40#'s today!

Sara, You're beautiful!

Just when I think I got this weightloss thing figured out, someone throws a monkey wrench into the mix. My trainer and I were talking, rather I was complaining that I wasn't losing weight like I thought I should and he reminded me that I had started using weights and that I might not see a any weight loss and might even gain a few pounds as muscle weighs more than fat. (We have this conversation every other week.) and he reminds me that 140 lbs of fat is a lot bigger than 140 lbs of muscle and not to worry. Well, today we talked about BMI...Told me that you can't go by the BMI because it doesn't factor in the muscle weight. So he pulls out this scale that uses electric current that tells you exactly what your fat/mass is and I nearly fainted. My body is 51.2 % 'FAT'. That didn't make me feel good at all. But on the other hand a person could be at goal weight and still have a very high fat because there is less muscle and more fat. Then he Andy told me to back away for the scales for 2 months and he will see exactly how much fat Ive loss in October. I'm to only weigh if it's manditory by the dr. Now talk about depressing even though it makes sense. I am allowed to measure myself all day long if I want to, so I will direct my addictive behavior to my tape measure. He said inches really tell the truth!

All the state troopers are coming out of the woodwork, and pulling people over for LITTLE THINGS. They said if we go ONE mile an hour over the speed limit, we will be fined. *I* say kiss my white butt, if you pull me over for going 71 in a 70, I WILL FIGHT IT This must be a national thing, because they were out in full force today here in Missouri too. I was crusing down the highway at about 85 when I saw them pull someone over and in less than a mile I must have passed 5 cars that had been stopped. Needless to say, I slowed way down. Judy - Glad you got your boat.

What has improved with me? Hmmm-m 1. Learned to be selfish, I have to take care of me before I can others. :humble: 2. I’m happy now and don’t have to have acupuncture for stress and no longer have panic and anxiety attacks that leave me curled up on the floor unable to breath. :faint: 3. I no longer go to sleep with the fear of dying because my heart might stop because of the fat. :notagree 4. I know longer have to take 12 different meds and down to 3. 5. I can go to my doctor’s appointment with confidence that I have now lost the 25 lbs he wanted plus more. 6. Ditto for my cardiologist. 7. Men are now looking and flirting with me and I mean young men too! 8. I can bend over and tie my shoes with out losing by breath. 9. I can wear all the clothes that I was going to give away because they were too small and now are getting to big. 10. When I shop I purchase a size or two smaller because I KNOW all be in it in a few weeks or month. 11. Started wearing make-up again. 12. All my necklaces fit again. 13. Surgeon’s assistant told me I’m losing my ‘girls’ last time I got a fill. (It’s ok because I’m DD) 14. I’ve lost over 25 inches 15. All my long skirts are too long because my hips no longer take up all the room. 16. I’m shaped like a coke bottle again even though I have 70 more lbs to loose. 17. I’ve been told by friends I glow. 18. I have more confidence. 19. I have more energy 20. I can now walk on the treadmill 1 ½ hours instead of 15 min without feeling like I’m going to drop dead. 21. I made my husband jealous by losing weight and now he’s in competition with me and I’m winning because I look “GOOD”. 22. I know longer feel worthless or ashamed. I matter to me, if to no one else. 23. And I’m happy!!!! 24. No longer like the little engine that thought he could, I KNOW I CAN! :clap2: 25. I can let them eat cake:cake: because I have sugar free Popsicles and pudding More to come!...