I'm actually so excited about today that I'm starting this thread!!! I've gone shopping and bought some things (thanks to your suggestions). I'm looking forward to a NO TUNA week!!!! I REFUSE to eat it this week at all!!! B - oatmeal S - protein drink L - chicken quesadilla (I've got the chicken all cooked so it'll be fast and easy) S - ww english muffin w/ peanut butter; orange juice D - pork loin, green beans, salad S - some fruit probably I went to my surgeon's annual picnic last weekend and was able to talk to the new NUT there. She suggested that I add in high cal drinks to up my calories instead of trying to "eat more" ...... good idea!! So, I'm doing a gladd of OJ per day (I still have to dilute it though) I'll work on loggin this in and counting up my cals and stuff today, to see where I fall. Laurie

I just wanted to thank you sweet May ladies for the kind thoughts and prayers. Especially Candy, Kathy, Debra, Michelle and Wanda for your posts and kind encouraging words. I wish I could say I am feeling better but I would be lying. Every joint and muscle aches still. I plan to see my doc this week and it's time for blood work and actually I am thinking of asking him to do another test for Lymes disease which I had a bad case of a few yrs ago and had to be on antibiotics for 2 yrs. because we discovered it a long time after it's onset. It had gotten into most joints. The way 'everything' is hurting seems a little bit more than just the fibro ( but fibro is a tricky rascal and can effect the whole body also.) * Our area is a high Lymes /tick incident area and I've been working in the yard alot and we live right next to the deep woods. I made myself go outside and put the mulch around one garden yesterday morning. It was remarkably cool in contrast to Sunday. Then I set a border for my cottage garden with some stones we got from a local park escavation site we visited Sun. eve. (with permission). With that done tried to get to the pool to find out that our other local indoor pool is now closed till the 6th.( that makes both of my old reliables closed ) So boo hoo, there went my plan to work out gently in the water to ease the aches. I took an 800 mg Motrin ( not best choice for wls ) and began to feel human again after 30-40 min. I plan to get some advice about pain management from the doc. Later when the pain came back full force took 2 generic tylenol pm. didn't really get sleepy BUT it was a huge help w/the pain. * Struggling for several years with chronic pain I have 2 motto's/mantra's: 1.) I REFUSE TO LET PAIN BEAT ME. 2.) EVERY DAY DO A LITTLE MORE THAN YOU 'THINK' YOU CAN DO. I sincerely appreciate each one of you, Thankyou for caring, Mary

Candy, I haven't figured out how to add pics to my profile myself, but I did save this note that was posted awhile back. Hopefully it will help you! Can't wait to see your beautiful face! Wanda I just wanted to let everyone know that the ability to change message board photos is now live. Please note you can ONLY change your photo through the main message board right now go here: http://obesityhelp.com/forums/amos/ , HOWEVER the photo WILL change on any of the other boards on the site! To access this feature on the main message board go to "user settings" on the top blue box. You can upload the photo from your computer by clicking on browse or add the photo by placing a URL link. And then click on "process". Keep in mind that photos that are too large are going to crunch down to 100 by 100 and cannot exceed 20k in size. We don't currently have a resizing tool, but we hope to add that in the future. You would need to size your photo down if it shows up distorted. We have plans later on down the road to add photo uploading from your profile page or an album feature. Also the updated blog system, which is not set to come out still until sometime this summer. Those wanting photos on the before and after section will still have to email those into [email protected] and the same for now if you want to add them to your profile page in the bottom 2 areas provided. You can host the photos on your profile by using a service like www.photobucket.com As a side note, while on the main message board if you haven't please get familar with its lay out eventually (very soon) ALL boards will be changed over to this design. Please note the signature feature only will work on boards with the new design. We plan on moving over the other boards within the upcoming few weeks. We have many more exciting things coming up.

Congrats Jenny, that's fantastic! Wanda

For about the past month I get "attacks" after eating, where I have pain right below my ribcage and I feel like it's going into my chest. I get nauseous and wretch but nothing comes up. I've started to get these pretty regularly now and am thinking it might be gall bladder. At first I thought I was having a heart attack!!! I'm seeing my surgeon next week and will ask then of course. Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this. Sue McD 306/191/150