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Today's weight = 213.4 lbs!!! WHOO!!!
I haven't been in onderland since 2006.  13 more lbs!! 

It will be a month on Feb. 28th.  I will be sure to take some pictures and post and compare it to January 27th the night before surgery.  I asked my therapist to take pixs of me which she did.  I just had to see my therapist the night before my surgery! 

My therapy session was last Friday and it went really well.  She said she can see a big difference in me since being banded, feeling happy, etc.  I told her my take on the lap band.  Before being banded, I was always struggling, always telling myself that I will start over tomorrow, I will eat this for last time, whenever I see new food product, I have to try this.  UGH!  Sometimes food can be like crack!  No kidding!  I am a former crack addict, will be 8 years crack-free in May!  Now that I am banded, I feel like my struggles is much easier now because I know I have the band, knowing my limits, etc.  I feel like this just fell into place, ya know?  Now, I wonder why I didn't get banded sooner! But oh yeah, Group Health did not do lap bands until late 2007. 

My co worker/cube mate asked me about lap band today because she was considering it herself.  I felt good about that because I feel like I inspired her more altho she had been thinking about it for a while.  I am always happy to share my experiences, my knowledge, etc with people who wants to know more about the lap band. 
I am just very amazed at my very fast recovery from the surgery.  I saw my rheumy yesterday because I was having signs of impending flare ups of Rheum. arthritis, which is Ankylosing Spondylitis, since I had been off enbrel for a while and surgery may have triggered it.  But luckily it happened 10 days later, so I was able to re-start enbrel to "nip it in the bud" and the flare up has quieted down, so he said to start enbrel weekly for a month or two and let him know the progress and then if the progress is good, can do enbrel every other week again.  I took enbrel this morning.  My rheumy was so happy that my surgery was a success.  He said he had been in touch with my surgeon via telephone and emails about my neck and the tubing thing. 

Today I had my appt. with my NUT.  She said now I can eat anything but not whites, etc and to keep calories at 500, and protein at 50g. 

This last weekend I moved from my condo (I still own it and trying to sell it) into a cute mother in law unit above the garage.  It is very small, but it is really cozy.  I like small and uniqueness.  I am just overwhelmed with all the boxes waiting to be unpacked.  My eating was awful over that weekend, by that I mean I did not eat much, but when I did I made good choices, such as turkey breast from Albertson's, muscle milk, taco bell pinto n cheese, cheese stick, just not very much because I was busy having friends helping me move.  This guy a friend recruited for me was VERY VERY STRONG.  He could carry 3 boxes upstairs.  He doesn't know his strength.  He took apart my shelves and accidently broke one part, but that was ok.  I didn't really need it anyway so I just let it go.  He profusely apologized.  I said no worries! LOL  He is so strong, 6'3" and 185 lbs.  I dared him to lift me and he did!!! LOL 

I can't wait to get everything unpacked and put away.  I am having wii-fit withdrawls!!! Need to get back to that soon!!  Hey at least I have stairs leading to my home so that is a work out too! LOL 

Goodnight!