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:omg:I had a little NSV this morning, I woke up and reach for my bodybugg which I do every morning and slide it up my arm and it rolled back down I have to change the size of the strap its to big my arms lost weight OMG that's awesome

Good morning violets! Terri-once again a beautiful necklace! Laura-sorry to hear you were blue yesterday. Men have a way of doing that to us from time to time Hope everything is better today. Jane-good job not giving into the sweet monster!! Jen-any news about the houston job? Tracy-glad you had a good time last night! I have not had any alcohol in so long that I can not quite remember what it tastes like. Judy-sorry your boys lost last night! Great NSV though!!! Kat-I wish I could win a 42" plasma TV!! When you said Rick could retire in 5-7 years I grew green with envy :eek: Cindy-sorry about your back!! I know how painful that can be. Take good care of yourself. Michelle-Like Tracy, I have never had a pedicure either. I have had a facial before and OMG I sure would like to get another one. Talk about pampering! OK ladies, this is not bragging by any means, kind of freakish to me actually. I always knew I had tiny legs and always wondered how they held up all this weight over the years BUT yesterday i had on a pair of shorts and was sitting down and it hit me how little they are now. I mean scarey little. I can take my thumb tips and connect them with my middle finger tips to make a circle around my ankle, drag all the way up to my knees and never touch my leg...can you get the visual? I mean never even touch skin at all, even over my calfs. I feel like I look goofy. Is it weird for me to wish I had more meat/muscle in my legs? The skinny legs are genetic from my dads side. I guess I will just have to work with what I have:straight Have a great day ladies!!

Judy great nsv!!! Laura I wish I had a happy pill for you!! Pamela I didn't get the pics either! Terry, I never get tired of seeing jewelry!! Especially yours it is sooo pretty!!! Going to bed and not going to church in am, they are having some kind of installation of new officers that takes forever and a day! So I am going to sleep late!!!!! Wanted something sweet today soooooo bad!!!!! But, I was a good girl and didn't give in!! Jane

OK... WOW! My wife today told me that my jeans were falling off! "No they aren't!" These are my 2 week old jeans size 48 that I posted an NSV about on the main NSV thread. So i said to myself, "I will try on some 46 jeans at wally world... I know they won't fit... grumble, grumble, grumble." I pulled the things up and straightened out the pockets and they buttoned and zipped right up! SIZE 46 BABY!!! Down from size 54!!! I can't believe this. I only have 4 more pant sizes to go to get to my goal size of 36.

Hey littlelove NSV stands for Non scale Victory. I hear ya on the DD's, I hate it too. lol Congratulations on making it to Onederland!!! You're doing great, you'll be at goal before ya know it.

What does NSV stand for? My happy moments have been that the roll above my waist is decreasing. My face does actually look thinner. I went from size 18 to size 16, thats walmart sizes, not designer sizes. I wish my breast size would significantly decrease, I hate being DD, miss C. I have gone from 208 on my surgery date to about 194. I can only bring myself to weigh once a month. I hate disappointment. My goal is 175.

Darn... my boys didn't win. they lost by 5 points. They had a fantastic first quarter, but couldn't sustain it through all 4 quarters. sighhhhhhh Oh well, at least it's not the playoffs. I had a NSV tonight. I found one of my daughter's bathing suits she had left here a couple of years ago when she used our pool. I thought I'd try it on just for kicks. Well.. it's not real attractive, but it fits!!! I can't tell her though cause she is not able to fit in it anymore. I know I weigh less than she does and that's the first time in my life that has happened, but I'd never tell her that either. All in all, it's been a good day in spite of no fish and no win! Everyone sleep well!!

I am so happy the holiday's are over ! I am finally getting back on track and following my protein intake. I was finally able to get in for a fill. My surgeon moved closer to my hometown and I transferred there to stay under his care. If I can cut 1 1/2 hours off my 4 hour drive time I'll do anything. I've waited almost 2 1/2 months to see him and was in terrible need of a fill. He was aggressive with this one since I was having NO restriction. I am now at 2.75 cc's in my 4cc band. For the first time in 6 months I actually can feel fullness. It has made a huge difference already. I've even dropped 4 pounds since Wednesday. I'm so proud of everyone on this site. You are amazing! I have a NSV I'd like to share. A few years back I loaned a nice dressy black suit to my younger sister (5 years younger). This Christmas I asked her to bring it back for me. Her response ~ "It's a size 14 - you won't be able to wear it." After getting it home I tried it on and "BITE ME! It fits and it may be snug, but it fits!" The topper is ~ I only weigh about 15 pounds more than she does. Ooh I can't wait until I get past her. I won't rub it in her face, but there was a day I was skinner than her. THEN MY TAPEWORM DIED! Have I mentioned ~ I LOVE MY BAND TOO! :whoo: Just to update - I'm now down to 195. I started my journey on June 19th, 2007 and weighed in at 260 prior to surgery. OH HAPPY DAYS!

OMG MY POST DIDN'T POST!!!! This site must be very busy cuz it sure takes a long time to load.... OK Here i go again Thanks Jackie & Kirjah - I am glad I'm not the only one who has these thoughts... K - I still smoke about 1/2 pack a day - I quit for 10 days before surgery but it was just too hard to give up food and cigs at the same time - heck you gotta have at least one vice in life and cigs are mine... J- Night eating this is my fav time to eat too - This is why I budget my calories to allow for healthy snacks at night.. My whole family are night eaters. I always say "our Mother never weaned us from the bottle" :eek: Great NSV - bought 2 size 12 pants today.... The are a little tight around the waist but the do button & zip with out having to lay on the bed. while changing clothes - i looked at my thighs in the mirror - OMG they look like they belong on an 80 yr old women - between them - my dog ear boobs and bat wings - When did I get so old.... Here is a real kicker - a new walgreens open just around the corner from my house - so when to transfer my prescription - the kid (oriental I can't tell how old he was) is looking at my insurance card and says "IS THIS PART D" OMG I am only 52 (well 53 at the end of the month) but heck I don't look 65 So between the whole saggy baggy body issues - some kid saying I'm 65 I should be depressed - but I'm not - I have 2 size 12 pairs of paints hanging in my closet... This is a tad shorter than my 1st post - but i'm tired :nervous going to go see what i can scrounge up to eat... I will ck back in a few..

I've seen this in some of the other monthly support group threads and thought we should have one too! I guess I'll start: 1. I've went down 2 sizes on clothes 2. I'm finally starting to see my cheek bones 3. I don't have to struggle when standing up from a chair anymore Oh, I had a new one yesterday. I had to buy a new bra because mine was soooo big on me!

Good morning everyone Man o man - the saga of my life continues. dbf forgot to mention that he is going to try to reduce his support because he is not making as much blah blah blah... sell your new bike you just had to get! anyway, other guy who i've mentioned got mad at me a while back and didn't talk to me, well we have been talking as friends and it was his birthday last night. I'm so sick from antibiotics and said I was not drinking... well I did have 2 since on my way out I got the court papers. I was purple from head to toe I was so hurt he didn't tell me. Anyhoo....other guy out of no where tells me that he is madly in love with me and wants to make it work and when I told him I was mental and had lots of issues, he said at least mine were alive (his dd's mother passed away this year, she was young and had a heart attack in her sleep) What a mess! This guy is a great friend, and I met his family last night and they were the nicest bunch of italians and we had so much fun - but how can i do anything when my heart is somewhere else and I am working on my self improvement phase. I want to just enjoy for a short time, feel good about me...and take the compliments.... OK SO last nights NSV ... I wore the new jeans to work, my bff told me I should get the smaller size, but anyway, they are midrise so the tattoo was showing all night... another guy at work who has seen it an liked it kept coming over to see me last night and said how much he enjoyed looking at it and to wear the jeans next week when he works. NICE... now that is what I mean about boosting my self esteem! Well, i'm drinking coffee and going to put the holiday boxes up in the attic and get ready for work, I'm there for the night. Hope everyone is having a great day... Oh, warming up here too, dishwasher is thawed out this morning... YIPEE Love you all

Dave I saw news reports on freezing weather and Florida and thought of you out there walking. I don't like walking outside anyways and where I live it rarely gets above freezing during the winter months, so I REFUSE to do it. Got in another workout with Bob and the folks with the Biggest Loser. I am getting much better with that video. I didn't get in the second workout, but I will tomorrow. My BF is pretty sick right now and I am thinking that I am starting to come down with it myself. I took a nap for the first time in a LONG time. Before surgery I took a nap everyday. Now they are pretty rare. I guess that is a good NSV! Everyone is doing great. Keep up the good work.

quote=Frustrated;673235]Hi I haven't been on since before Christmas and thought I'd come back because I; need; this group. You all help keep me in check and I've been lacking lately. Some of it is self pity, some of it not, but I'm tired of finding excuses so I'm here to get back on track again But I got the all clear to exercise again yesterday and I've been able to get my gym fix (albeit a little more slowly) the past two days. I never ever thought I'd miss exercise I guess that's a very unexpected NSV that I'm proud of Anyway ladies, it's good to be back again and be able to get all my frustrations out. Thank you all. You're the best. Ruby - Glad to hear that you are on the mend and it wasn't worse. 4 lbs fluctuation during the holidays and this medical problem that's not that bad - just think in the past you would have just fallen off the wagon all together and would have gained 10 lbs by now. Plus your body may be retaining water while it's healing What a great NSV Exercise - Now that you can exercise again - those pounds will come off, plus your body is healing so don't over do it too much. Do you know when they will be able replace the implant?? I have a niece who's leaked and she had to get replaced - woke up one morning and one boob was smaller than the other - she replaced both with silicone - she had saline... Which are yours?? What are you doing in the meantime?? Does the doc give you a falsie to put in your bra? Glad to have you back - We are always here for you no matter what the issue is

Hi 7s :wave: I haven't been on since before Christmas and thought I'd come back because I "need" this group. You all help keep me in check and I've been lacking lately. Some of it is self pity, some of it not, but I'm tired of finding excuses so I'm here to get back on track again. Just before Christmas I was having some pain problems with my left breast. As you know I had a lift and implants in November. Well in early December one of the incisions under the breast opened a little. My surgeon stitched it up and put me on a week worth of antibiotics. Two days after that script ran out I was feeling some pain in my breast again. When I went to clean the area, I noticed there was a milky white discharge. The stitches were still in place but it was oozing from behind them. I didn't want to do anything wrong so I called my surgeon spoke with him about it. He asked if I was running a fever or if there was swelling or redness in my breasts, to which I said "no". So he told me to meet him at his office the following morning and not to eat anything after midnight just in case he needed to go in and take a look around to see what was happening. So Christmas Eve at 8am I'm in my surgeons office and he has his emergency team with him. He tells me he'll need to go in and take a look around and if he finds anything out of the ordinary, he'll have to remove the implant. This news upset me as I'd waited such a long time for them. Not only that, my mind was already tallying up how much this surgery was going to cost and how much it would cost me in the future to have it replaced. He told me if he did have to remove it, he'd only be removing the one and leaving the other there. The implant would still be under warranty so I wouldn't have to worry about the cost of that. At that point I was almost in tears because I was still worried about the addition costs; bringing him and his team out on a public holiday, the anesthesia, the post-op drugs, the follow-up surgery; everything was mounting up in my head. Then he told me the best news ever. It would all be done at no extra cost to me. I could have kissed him right then and there. After all the drama I've had to go through with the insurance company for my lap band surgery, (oh and I'm still having drama with that, but that's another story for another day) I couldn't believe what he was telling me. But I digress..... So he went in to see what was going on and it turns out I'd developed an infection. There was good news and bad news. The good news was he caught it early and there was minimal damage to my natural breast tissue. The bad news was he had to remove the implant and clean out a protein build-up that was causing the infection. So now I have 2 different sized breasts. It's been emotionally draining and if I'm honest, a lot harder to deal with physically than my lap band surgery. I've been very moody. I've had to keep in constant contact with my surgeon and visit him sometimes twice a week. He's been very protective, and while I certainly appreciate that, it's tiring have to visit him so often on top of trying to heal, trying to enjoy the holidays, trying to keep my eating in check, trying not to be a total biatch!!!! It's been a battle I've lost more often than I've won. My weight has been up and down. Thankfully it's not gone back into the 200's yet *touch wood*. I've been down to 194 and up to 198 and it's hard trying to keep out of the fridge and pantry when I haven't been able to head off to the gym and walk those thoughts off on the treadmill. But I got the all clear to exercise again yesterday and I've been able to get my gym fix (albeit a little more slowly) the past two days. I never ever thought I'd miss exercise! :confused: I guess that's a very unexpected NSV that I'm proud of. Anyway ladies, it's good to be back again and be able to get all my frustrations out. Thank you all. You're the best. :kiss2:

I totally agree, Juli! This is life, sometimes it's more intense than others, but to keep obesity in "remission" (as I've heard it called) we will have to stay on top of it. Some days I just wanna quit, but I've taken a day off here & there and when I'm ready to start again the next day, no crisis has occurred; I haven't suddenly regained 45 lbs! The band totally makes the difference. What feels like a "binge" now is NOTHING like how I ate ordinarily before...not to mention what the old "binges" were! It's a little reminder when I'm feeling a little out of control. There is just no way to eat like I used to anymore, thank god. :clap2: I should probably take a day off a little more often than I do...I've been going after this goal with everything I've got for a year, and sometimes you just have to cool your jets for a day. I'm the worst that way about exercise...I do take 1 or 2 days a week to rest, but I'm terrified to do it, to be honest. It's so crazy, but I'm afraid if I take a day off I'll never go back, even though I actually enjoy exercising (for the first time in my life, maybe). I did have a nice NSV today, though. Despite the fact that I've only lost 2 lbs since the beginning of December, I found that my jeans were getting a little baggy, so I tried on a smaller size....a 10, and it fit! It's a little snug, but of course I got them anyway. :biggrin1: I started out in 16/18s. I haven't worn a 10 since Bill Clinton was elected.

Okay, honestly, how many of us ever worried about spoiling our appetites before the surgery? We'd eat when we got home from work, snacked while making dinner, and then stuffed dinner in on top of it, right? Well it's hitting me now (and I don't know why it's now, but it is) that I don't want to spoil my appetite for "dinner." I planned out some refried Beans with ff sour cream and salsa for my pureed dinner. I am a little hungry now so I wanted to have some yogurt but I realized if I did that I wouldn't want to eat my dinner. I don't think I've ever had that thought before!!!

Hey there Bandsters, hope everyone is good and having a Great New Year!! I know I have been MIA for a while. Took some time off of work and just been enjoying the home life. Back to the grind now. Got on the scale this morning and after two weeks it finally moved 4 lbs. YAY ME!! Got a NSV, my 8's are getting too big...lol...that was funny just to type it. Could I be going into a 6? Just blows my mind. Down 50 pounds in 5 months. WOW!!! Made a new years resolution to start going to the gym at least 3x's a week. I have had a membership just always able to make an excuses of why I cant go. Not this time. Exercise starts now...I have lost 50lbs without exercising, i can only imagine how much would be gone if I had been doing what I was suppose to. Only 14 lbs till my goal of 135...

Laura, Your cracking me up! I guess I understand..it would be like going to a highschool reunion...you have to look great! Guess what?! I just had a NSV. I just did my BMI on the BMI calculator and mine is 29.9! I am no longer Obese! I am just overweight again! Whoo Hoo! Now I'm crackin myself up! To be happy I am overweight sounds so funny! Giggle giggle! Weazer

Great NSV. Totally cool that you can fit the average towel now!

Judy - HUGS So I just had a great NSV... another silly one but I'm thirlled. I am freezing, it is 11 here today so I decided to take a bath. I have not taken one in such a long time because I was not covered in water and it is a deeper tub with jets. (why do i complain about not having a hot tub????) well anyway, had quite a few inches of water covering me in the tub today... I was so excited and now can't wait to get my bathroom painted and put back together next week! Well, off to dry my hair and gead to work, don't want to but i guess i have to. ttfn

Great NSV. I just took mine off the other day until I too can get it sized.

my husband does his own laundry too. he too is a military man, and even folds all his shirts in 6" squares and makes the bed super tight. Congrats on the NSV!

Great NSV! and you do laundry. hahahaha I'm glad for you, can't wait til my rings just fall off! :whoo::clap2::whoo::clap2::whoo::clap2::whoo::clap2::whoo::clap2:

Yesterday was a good day for me also. Used weights, arm curles, lunges and knee bends (thighs are talking to me about it today) Did my sit ups YEA, 100 total. Today is good so far, working on my first round of Water, 33 oz bottle. Almost got it down. That is always my goal before lunch. Having Healthy Choice Soup for lunch and salmon for supper tonight. NSV - I can fit into size 10 pants, and still breath, and no muffin top. I am so excited. OH and bought a Medium size sweather yesterday, and it FITS. OH I also have additional motivation. Found out the my DH's daughter (from previous marriage) is graduation from college in May. I have never met the X-wife, and she will be at the graduation. So, I must look HOT, I mean real HOT. So that is my motivation to drink my water, exercise and to not eat junk food. X-Wife eat your heart out, I will be some kind of arm candy for my DH come May. Take care all, Laura

So, yesterday I was doing my laundry (yes, ladies, some married men do their own) and while I was picking some up out of the basket, my wedding ring fell off my finger. It didn't get pulled off; it just fell off. So, now I have a new errand of getting my ring resized. That is a great errand to have. :woot: