mona-camille

HAHAHAHAHA you're cute!!

WOW! I mean WOW! I bet you are on cloud 9 right now, and rightly so! Good for you! And him. You DO have a keeper there, but I guess you know that now. What a wonderful letter and thank you for sharing it with us. This has made me smile big time! Very very good!!

Yes, it's normal. After all you are only on liquids. Ocne you get on the protein shakes, that will help a lot. Good luck and welcome to bandland!

Welcome to the board and good luck with your surgery!!

Sorry, I live PA so I can't help you. But good luck on your journey.

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations, what a great feeling!!

Good luck with you surgery!!! What a nice Christmas present to yourself! I went over Easter to have mine done.

I think that is the Special K protein water.

GNC 100% whey protein, chocolate caramel, MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM Double the scoops and make with 1% or 2% milk and it will keep you full for hours. And it tastes like Heaven in a glass.

I was lucky, I got to stay home for 3 weeks after surgery. Great disability plan at work so I took full advantage and I was glad I did!

JazzyJude is 100% correct! Gas can cause some real pain in previous injuries. Walking is the best thing for it even if it pains you to do it. Hope you feel better soon!!!

OH YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So so glad for you!!!!! Such great news, you must be so thrilled and relieved.

I think I'd go local too Stormy! I've had fills with and without fluro and haven't had a problem at all. Being local is so much easier for me. I did have my first 2 fills at the OCC under fluro and I was thankful for the ability to see that everything was ok, but it really doesn't matter now. As long as you find a good doctor, you will be ok.

Almost all of the violence is gang related. I was at the OCC 3 times this year, March, May and June. I walked all over the place, to the clinic and back, the mall and back, the movies and back. Never went out at night and all was ok. This Tijuana violence thing comes up all the time, but please try not to let it worry you. There is violence just like that right out your own front door. Just follow the suggestions the hotel people give you and use their taxi driver and you will be fine.

Glad to hear it is over and you are doing fine! I had my last meal at the hotel and they never said a word to me. Although, I don't know that I mentioned what I was there for so they didn't know. Revolution avenue was very different each time I went. I was three 3 times this year and each of those times, it was like a whole new experience. But no, I didn't get an offer of men, boohoo for me! Just kidding, but it would have been funny!

Well, I live about 3000 miles away so I won't be able to join. But thanks anyway!

I flew 4 times after being banded and not once did I set off any alarms. I don't think that would be a problem. My port doesn't stick out either, but I do still have a lot of weight to lose. Good luck with your decision - you won't regret it!

Welcome to the board, and best of luck with your weight loss!

KIMMIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hey girl, missed you here and wondered where you were!! You look great. Did you hear about me? FINALLY got restriction!!!!!! My 6th fill was 6 weeks ago and I go for another checkup and weigh in tomorrow. I've stayed off the scale so I could be surprised at the doctors, so I am really excited about going. It's so cool to finally FEEL restriction! Hope you stay around more often, I've really missed you. As for the drama around here the past 2 weeks, be glad you missed it. It was ridiculous!

Well, I do have a serious sweet tooth that just won't die! It's my biggest problem, but I am working on it.

So far today I had coffee a small orange juice and a scrambled egg. I can't believe how tight I feel these past 3 days. It really has me in a quandry over my tuesday fill appointment. I hate to not get one because I'll have to wait 6 weeks to get back in if I need one. I've already waited long enough. But then I am afraid I'll be too tight. Maybe I'll just get like .2 cc's or something. I'll see what the doctor says.

I've been banded since march and if I wasn't such a pale skinned person, you probably wouldn't see them at all. But they are veyr light pink now but they do show up because my belly has never seen the light of day and is very very pale.

Mine stayed on for about 2 weeks! But, don't scrub them or pick it off. Leave it alone and let them fall off by themselves. Didn't you just LOVE waking up from anesthesia and finding your boobies stuck to your chest? That darn stuff was harder to get off than anything!

Ya know, the rest of my meal did ok, but the next day, leftovers, ugh! I had an awful time with the turkey. It was even the dark meat and it got stuck and MAN it hurt like the dickens! Then, two times later the same day, I got stuck with some liquid! This turned out to be a very weird thanksgiving. I did chew and took tiny bites but had a heck of a time with everything. For some reason, I seem to be much tighter than I was when I got my fill 6 weeks ago. I have another fill scheduled for tuesday but I don't think I'll be getting one. I can only hope that my extra tightness was from paranoia of eating too much. You know, an 'all in my head' kind of thing? But thats ok, ifit works, then thats cool with me.

HAHAHAHA and I LOVED the cookies and cream whey protein!! And the chocolate caramel. Funny how everyone has such different tastes, huh?