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hey denise i dont mean to make light of ur problems and im sur ei dont know the difficulties of any of the options.i just know that sometimes this takes alot of patience which is not one of my strong suits believe me! so i understand that part. my sister inlaw struggled to get pregnant after watching me get pregnant twice on birth control!!needless to say she wasnt always my best friend, but we are so close bc of this we are like real sisters we talk and hang out more than our husbands which are brothers do.lol she has crohn's disease which is a terrible gi disease and had to be off her steriods and all the medicine that made her life bearable, just to try to get pregnant. it took 4 years but they did it w/o fertility drugs or anything just lots of prayer. i believe that anything can happen and does. so u are in my prayers and u are a lovely, sweet and beautiful person and im sure u will get ur beautiful little person before u know it. i will be praying for ur patience and grace to get u through this.and feel free to whine to us! love ya crystal

Crystal, It was so nice to meet you last night! (You look GREAT!) As far as the cookbook goes, would you, would you, would you, PLEASE?! I would love to get everybody's "favorite" whatever on the board for now. (the less cooking reqired the better! ) I liked hearing about the beans and cheese from Taco Bell and chili from Wendys. (Any more tips like that would be great!) I've been having a problem the last couple of mornings of being real hungry in the morning (even after I eat). I'm sure part of it is stress, BUT that's NOT going away! Anyway, you've done an awesome job and I'm proud of you! JY

Girl, I wanted to meet you! I'm so sorry you're having a bad time. I know the extra hormones don't help with the emotional roller coaster! I know it's easy for others to say it's in God's time, but we know it is. With our second son, we tried for several months and I know what a disappointment it was each month when it didn't happen (and I didn't have the extra hormones dragging me down), BUT now you've been sufficiently picked up and kicked in the behind by everybody and YOU'RE GOING TO BE HAPPY!!! You seem like such a wonderful person and I know God has a special blessing for you! I hope to meet you soon! I was hoping I was going to be able to come Thursday for lunch, but we've had to change some scheduling and now I won't! Is this a monthly thing too? Please know that you're in my prayers! JY

I had a blast last night. It was great getting to meet Sonya and Joy and Tina and Renee! The purple twinkies, as I will be calling Sonya and Joy from now on , were just too cute! Tina I am sooooo glad your coming back to the meetings ... I know they are along with this site, the saving grace of this surgery. And Renee you look fab! I lovvvvvvvve your hair! I have to say Christine and Melissa did very well not cutting up last night...now I gotta admit that me and Crystal giggled a bit too loudly a few times...guess the cutting up is rubbing off! The purple twinkies will be doing the cutting up next month! Denise my heart goes out to you hon, along with my prayers. I know in God's time we will all be up at the hospital oohing and ahhing over your little one! Now never miss another meeting again! It's just not the same without you! Well I don't know about ya'll but I can't wait till Thursday!!! Seems like the days are going by slower and slower. Well I'll stop with my novel now. See you all Thursday! Keli

Thanks Keli, I missed seeing you to. Actually I cant wait to meet you in person. I know we have seen each other but have not actually talked face to face. I truly truly appreciate your support and prayers and I pray you are right. lol lol See you soon hopefully thrusday huh? Denise

That is too funny. I would have been the same way. Just look at this way ya'll needed a good laugh and when I said good I mean gooooooood. Glad to hear ya'll had a good support group meeting. Please let me know when ya'll talk to the nutrionist I would love to join in if I can. You know I'm stuck up here in the middle of nowhere. Becky

Last night was an absolute blast! I needed that so bad!! (Sorry about being tardy! For those of you who didn't know it, Sonya and I were the ones who were late ) I didn't get a chance to get online last night and I guess the Lord knew I needed this more today. We just finished a "welcome back" luncheon for JCJC (BancorpSouth sponsors this every year) and I'm tired and down. I asked someone to get me a diet coke when she came back by Sonic, BUT I changed my mind and told her to just get me the ice. Another good thing from today is that I didn't eat any bread (they had stuff for sandwiches and I just ate the meat) AND I didn't eat any of the fabulous looking cake with chocolate and PURPLE (I Do love purple) icing! :-0 I'm just tired and I'm having to fight the "habit" of always having something to munch on or drinking my diet coke. BUT everytime I come on this board, you guys just pick me up and help my resolve. It was so WONDERFUL meeting all of you! (Keli, I'm so proud of you and your husband for being there with you! That will make a big difference for you!) It was hilarious meeting Christine and Melissa last night (Man, they look good!)! I recognized Christine from her picture and I knew the other beautiful skinny woman had to be Melissa (w/ all that excersize IF they weren't so nice and I didn't know that once upon a time they did look like me, I would just hate 'em! )! It was so funny that after group Sony and I were standing beside each other talking to Christine and Melissa and I told Sonya "Look, that's what we're going to look like" (God I hope so!). Sonya was standing across from Christine and I was standing across from Melissa and we discovered that our personalities are very similar (Sonya and Christine and me and Melissa). I started thinking about it on the way home that the four of us are a walking "before and after" picture! I'm glad to hear that you guys have disrupted class before, b/c I had a hard time not cutting up last night (We had been cutting up in the car the whole trip (45 min) and I was to the point that everything was funny! Thanks to all of you for sharing different fast foods we can eat on the run (that's where I stay!) I LOVE the idea of the cookbook! I'll take any and all suggestions I can get!!! Struggling, BUT staying in it! JY

thanks joy u are so sweet....we cut up all the time we are a pretty laid back bunch that likes to talk alot so we dont mind it. and u wont get in trouble on ur first tardy!!lol i was late too so thats normal part of my life. u aand sonya both are just beautiful ladies and sweet too. i am very proud of u for staying away from the cake....im not sure i couldnt been that strong, but i try.i can eat some sweets which is bad and i know it so i try to stay away. and remember that the choclate and how much i love it is what made me have this surgery and i dont want to ever go back!i had some carb smart fudge bars for my choclate fix today they are good but they fdo have 7 fat grams and 100 cal but only9 carbs and3g of sugar so they are much better than choclate cake! i try not to do it alot but i keep them for when i NEED a chocolate fix. we need to start posting our fav recipes and i can print them and type them up that would be cool. anyway it was great meeting u last night i look forward to more meetings. crystal 229/147/125

Thank you, Joy for such kind words. I am very envious of your beautiful hair. Your hair is my dream! I was a red head for a long time but started coloring it at about 14 years old. After that it just never grew back out red. But it wasnt your color red, it was a yucky red. As far as the cutting up goes... we are bad bad. There is a normal person (well shes not normal) --when she starts talking the whole room zones out. Not just Melissa and I but if we glance at each other its over. The giggles come and then the all out bursts of laughter - I dont know what it is but if I see Melissa laughing I cannot control myself because she is usually so maintained and sophisticated.. very professional - so if she is laughing or trying really hard not to, I cave and laugh at her trying not to laugh and then she cant help it.... She was not there last night... although we have one quickly trying to fill her shoes. I know its not right to laugh at someone elses expense but sometimes its just too fun. At the last meeting I had Denise on one side and Melissa on the other and between the 2 of them I couldnt get myself under control. Denise says what she wants when she wants and sometimes I cant believe the things she said and I get tickled at her. We all need a good belly laugh from time to time. I snorted and spit on Melissa at one meeting cause she made me laugh so hard. I had so much fun meeting yall. I hope yall will be able to come to the bash in October. We are renting the motel units up there and staying Friday and Saturday night. Its a little mini vacation for us. I am proud of you for today and only getting ice and staying away from the soda. I do not drink near as much soda as I used to and lately I have had a couple of sprite zeros. I do try to stay away from the darker sodas. I do drink alot of the Lite Hawaiian punches. Didnt like them preop but I do now. I am still addicted to Red Bulls though. Hearing you say we are inspirations to yall really helps keep me motivated. I do not want to be a failure and I need all of yall really bad all the time.. So dont ever leave this board.

You girls are so awesome! Sonya and I are planning to go in October Christine (and bring our 4 children-combined !) I guess it's going to be a mini-vacation for my husband ! I don't plan to leave this board!!! You guys don't know how much it helps me to get on here! (I need a "fix" everyday!) I did drink some diet coke today, BUT (don't fuss at me Sonya! ) while we were giving out candy to the JCJC students and sitting outside the lunch room, I DIDN'T eat any candy, I had brought tyson pre-cooked chicken to nibble on, and I ate 1/3 of a grill chicken salad from Sonic AFTER we were through at 2:00pm. (ya'll don't know what a victory that is for me! In the past I just ate on the candy all day long!) I'm still a little scared that I'm going to fall head first off the wagon (I guess that's healthy to have that fear?). We're still walking though and I just got my "Curves" excersize short from Avon (which makes you sweat MUCH more than normal) My 4 year old saw me after we got through excersizing last night and said "ooh, Mama, you peed in your pants!!" I'm hoping that's going to help me lose some fat off my legs (the rolls are cute on babies, but not on me! ) and burn more calories when I excersize. If anyone else is interested in the shorts, I sell them through Avon and when you buy it you get a free week (maybe 2 I can't remember) to Curves. I'm not trying to use this board to sell Avon, but I really like them (after one use) and I wanted to tell you guys about it. They're coming out in the next Avon book and I can get them at cost for ya'll(plus tax & shipping). Anyway, (sorry to be so long winded) Sonya and I won't be walking together for the rest of the week (church tonight and then she's off on a church retreat), BUT we promised each other we would excersize and hold each other accountable, so I'll be posting. JY