Paula Bee

(The lyrics change depending on who tells you what they are..

LOL.. It is an old kids song I had to learn for a voice recital when I was little..

Hungry, hungry I am hungry

Table, table here I come

I could eat a goose-moose burger

Fifteen pickles and a purple plum

I could eat three bowls of goulash

Half a pound of wuzzled wheat

I could eat a peck of poobers

Then I'd really get to work and eat

Oysters, noodles, strawberry stroodles

French fries, fish hash, one red beet

Lamb chops, wham chops

Huckleberry mish mash

Oh, the things that I could eat

Doughnuts, dump-a-lings

Blueberry bump-a-lings

Chocolate mush-mash, super sweet

Clam stew, ham stew,

Water

melon wush wush

Oh, the stuff that I could eat

Deep dish rhubarb, upside-down cake

I could eat a frittered flum

Hungry, hungry, I am starving

Table, table, here I come

feeling great for me ALWAYS includes pain, (if it involves exercise.)

Also, good for you and Kyle! It helps to have someone walking the walk with you.

Thank you both for your encouragement! When you are tired, and guilty, and discouraged as a daughter, it helps to have someone point and say, "there is the next step! You can do it!"

I am so excited for you! I don´t think we will actually get to meet each other, but I can´t wait to hear how you are doing!

I am doing great! My only physical issue is from being too fat... hip pain.. which I hope will be aleviated by weight loss. You have me so curious now about the cosmetic procedures. I really am not interested in botox, because most of my ¨creases¨ are too deep for that... the ones around my mouth and the ones in my forehead. I have surprisingly few wrinkles other than those. I have a 40th class reunion in October, and I need to think of what tweaks might work for that.

You have certainly made this journey more comfortable!

I enjoy watching you a week ahead of me. I am glad you are feeling well and I know you are beautiful. Happy anniversary, btw.

I am a scrapbooker.. I would have put it in my scrapbook! seriously... lol

Glad to hear you are doing so well.. I will be following right behind you on Monday!

Wow.. as I get closer to surgery, I am finding that the protein shakes are not agreeing with me. I am going to throw some lactaid in with them, and I ordered some soy protein shakes....

Doing the happy dance for you! (Don't try to picture that... an obese woman doing the happy dance will burn your brain.) Thanks for the EAS information. I think I am having some issues, too, as I am having wayyy more gas than I did before going to the liquid phase. Will be thinking of you and praying for you all day Monday.. Angels will guide Dr. Ortiz's hands, as they always have.

Oh, wow.. I am using the patient number from my lapband, and it has all my old pictures on it. Look at the first two pictures and add 50 pounds, and that is what I look like. The picture with the blue shirt was actually on the balcony of the hotel when I got my lapband.

WOOT!! I am so excited for you! Also, after you try some of the soy shakes, can you post what the tasty ones are? I hate wasting money on nasty shakes!

First of all, we have been where you and your husband are... a number of times. I am glad you see the one thing you can control. That is a turn around from my previous thinking, which was what I EAT and how much of it is the one think I control. You are an encouragement to me.

Just do it! You are, and I will, (although I am still chewing on my knuckles a bit. I wonder if that counts as solids?)

Carol, I would love to meet you. Your surgery is a week after mine. Did you go to the Memorial Hospital meeting? I had them unfill my lapband for the last time, and the doc was just terse. I figured I would never see him again, so I blew it off. I wouldn't want them to do my surgery, however.

I know

I am excited for you! Sast time I lost weight, I lost it in my eyeballs, too.. my contacts kept popping out and my eye doc remeasured my eyes to see what the issue might be.. lol...

OMG... I will be so horrified if they get in there and can't do it because of scar tissue... seriously upset after 4 weeks of slimfast and lean cuisine. Nobody has said anything to me about that... I am flying back and forth from Florida, and at 700 bucks a pop it becomes problematic for me. This just kind of freaks me out.

What kind of things did you do when you were at the hotel the 5 days after surgery? I figure TV and my kindle, but I am not bringing my laptop... I am not bringing anything that isn't essential.

Thank you.. Lord, I am freaked out now.

Lori, your story sounds so much like what has happened to me. I didn't sever a tendon, but I take medications for fibromyalgia, arthritis, bipolar depression, cholesterol, blood pressure... Almost from the get-go I had problems. I couldn't swallow many of my pills, and suggestions to cut them or have the doctor change them were problematic, as many are time released, and changing antidepressants is a no-go once you have found a balance of meds that work. I would get a little fill, then swallowing my pills would irritate my band and we would have to go back for an unfill.. over and over... Here we are 4 years later, weighing the exact same thing as I did when I got the fill, only I have horrible reflux all the time, one bad knee, and one bad hip (which makes exercise miserable.) My gastric sleeve is the week after yours, and although I am afraid to be out there by myself, I cannot wait to get this done. I need this to work.