Okay... so where is everybody? I know... I know... I've been MIA too! I'm kicking my nutritionist to the curb!!! She doesn't realize what a carb addict I am... So here's today's meal... (I'm out of tilapia!) Breakfast: Protein Drink Lunch: Tuna/Cheese/Lettuce/Light Dressing Snack: Protein Drink Dinner: Lunch: Turkey/Lettuce/Light Dressing Snack: Protein Drink Hugs! Denise

Where HAVE we all been???? Here's where I have been. To Hell and back. Who would have thought that trying to have a baby would become an all-out obsession? For the last couple of weeks (since the IUI), I have done NOTHING else but surf message boards dealing with trying to have a baby. It honest-to-God was making me crazy...so much to the point that I thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown! AND my house never got cleaned! I'm doing better today. I have the first 2 weeks of my next cycle all lined out. I have the potential of becoming pregnant at nearly the same time as my mom got pregnant with me (which was Halloween). One of my online WLS friends is also on the same cycle with me this go-around, so I don't feel so alone. I've deleted all the baby websites that were making me nuts and have been cleaning my house. I figure I'm going to do some painting over the next couple of weeks so that the house is ready for Christmas. Oh, and I've been eating bad. Imagine that. With PMS, I saw the scale reach 222 again, and I nearly flipped out. Today it was back down (okay, only to 218), so that made me feel better. My daughter is up to 80 now (at age 8), so she and I agreed that starting tomorrow, we're both going to try and be healthier. I told her it's okay to be 80, just that it's not healthy on her body until she's a little taller. So anyway...that's where I've been and what I've been doing. I can't promise that I'll be online much, as I am trying my darndest to fill my life with other things so that I can be less stressed out. You know the stress is bad when the antidepressants aren't working! I hope that everyone is doing well, and I really wish everyone would post SOMETHING to let us know that they're still alive and well. Everyone's busy, but golly, I miss the "old days!" Pamela

Hi All_ Its been ages since I have posted anything. Since April it has been very very hectic here. I have had three surgeries since April. One to determine what the problem was the other was to fix the problem ( an encarcerated bowel- entangled in an umbical hernia), and the third was to re-open the incision to remove a hematoma. I have walked around with a wound vac machine tethered to my body for the past two months. I am finally free of it, and hopeful that this will be the last of it for me. Oddly enough this had NOTHING to do with my gastric bypass surgery, yet everyone is weighin in the the matter assuming that was the problem. I am not a major success with the GBS- since I haven't lost all of my excess weight. I lost all totalled about 100lbs and give or take a few that is were I sit. Up until now I have been ok with my food, but not involved in any movement. - especially not these past 7 or 8 months of being sick. Lately it seems that I am always hungry, and everything looks good to me. So I am trying to get myself on track because I am terrified that I could blow it at any time. But I am thankful that I had the surgery to begin with, because God only knows with what I have been through how large I would have gotten without it. Anyway, just checking in to say hi...and see how everyone else is doing. Marcy

I'm so sorry. I'll keep my fingers crossed for next month!!! Stay positive!!! Please come back and start posting, you are missed!! Michelle

No baby this time around. Maybe next time.