B: 1 slice whole wheat toast with PB. 1 snack pack of SF chocolate pudding and 1 snack pack of SF cherry Jello 2 SF One-a-day vitamins Snack: I have an apple and a nectarine. . .one of these should be eaten as fruit is luscious fiber. Also 2 viactives L: will be a Lean Cuisine Spa Meal - pork with cherry sauce and wild rice. and more pudding and jello Snack: something will be essential. . .as I have support group tonight which delays dinner until after 8pm. Perhaps some nuts, another fruit and a home made SF Peanut Butter cookie. also 2 viactives D: unknown - probably something cheesy, or a Boca patty and some edamame. Night time snack: will be my patented Dill-Cayane Popcorn (FIBER, how I love thee!!!!) Liquids: working on 32 oz of Cherry-Berry SF Kool-aid. Will need to have some tea or milk or other beverage to kick that up to the right number of ozs. Activity: Morning walkies of about 7 minutes so far. . . .will be doing shopping walkies this evening. . . .hmmm. . .will have to come up with an excuse to get more walking in this morning. Was SO active this weekend. . .need a break from intensive activity. That's the plan ~Lara PS - reading my posts from last week was a bit of a "come to jesus" for me. . .got the snack monster back in the defensive mode. . .as I was being a bit UNRULY even for a girl who's running.

Okay ladies post 'em! B- 1 c. dannon light and lively vanilla yogurt 1/2 c. Kashi Go Lean Crunch (Thanks Pat for letting me in on this yummy combination!) L - small salad with 2 oz. chicken, 1 oz. lf cheddar cheese, 1-2T. lf dressing S1 - 1/4 c. hummus, cucumber slices And of course water water water..... Dinner - not sure yet. Probably fish or shrimp.

Hi Donna. Sorry to hear about your infection, but I'm glad they figured out what was going on so that they could get you fixed up. Take care of yourself, and I'm glad you got to enjoy the graduation. Congrats on the terrific weight loss! I go see the doctor tomorrow morning to find out what the next step is with my stomach. I'm hoping she says the polyps are only an annoyance and won't ever turn cancerous. I'd like NOT to have to go in every three months for more tests, but if I need to, then I can accept that. I'm praying for a speedy recovery for you. Peg

Tina YOU LOOK GREAT!!! if you go to the before and after gallery you will see krickets email addy to email your before and after photos to go on the gallery pics. Its a diffrent email then the regular profile pics. Stephanie 235/125 3/23/05 mammoplasty 7/6/05 abdominoplasty

hope you all are enjoying your long weekend. I had hernia surgery just after my one year anniversary and everythings seemed to be going well, but about 4 weeks later i went to my doctor because I noticed the drain color had changed and a yucky smell, my doctor did a culture and said to come back in two days.. well I did and he sent me directly to the hospital...seemed I had a MRSA staph infection. the weird thing was I felt fine and had not fever or any aches or pain. My doctor was going do surgery that night, he wanted to open the wound and rinse the mesh area with saline, after an IV dose of anti-biotics he came in and said he was going to do the surgery first thing in the morning and he wanted one more IV anti-biotic done. I still felt fine at this time and somewhat upset, my son was graduating high school in just over a week and I had a lot to do and I did not want to miss it either. well after the doctor opened the hernia site back up he found the infection was pretty bad, he had to remove the mesh and remove some tissue, then he placed a different type of mesh, one that is not as strong but this one is absorbed after a while. Because of the infection, he placed a PORT in my upper chest so I could get anti-biotic infusions at home! felt horrible when I woke up from surgery and spent a total of 4 days cooped up in the hospital. I got out the day before my 38th birthday and was sent home with orders to take it really easy and no lifting anything over 10 pounds... so I got out of all the house work that needed to be done before 15 relitives came from out of state to see my son graduate. Graduation went great, everyone was soooo impressed with the 117 pounds I lost in just over a year. some even said I had lost too much.....lol! I was taking two infusions a day in my port, 12 hours apart plus an oral anti-biotic in between, I am now down to just one infusion in the morning, for this I have to hook up a little bottle that slowly drips into the PORT, it takes 90 minutes! but I can put the bottle in my pocked and do just about anything while I wait unitl its done. I still take the oral anti-biotic. each monday a home health care nurse comes out to change the needle in the port and do blood work to see how the infection is doing. this will last a total of 6 weeks!! anyone else have to deal with a MRSA infection? I am feeling great today, sometimes I forget I even have he port hooked up. Donna 277/156/150