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Hello beautiful!!!! Uh, you realize I could take your post and cut and paste it back to you, word for word, right? Where the heck have YOU been?!?!? I recently flipped through the Florida pictures from last year and of course came across the ones with you and me, Paul and Doug at the lighthouse and the waterfront bar - brought back some GREAT memories. I can't believe it's already been a year - surely it's time for another get together? Hope life is treating you well - Miss YOU too!! ...hugs, Lei

Hey backatchya......Life is treating me well. Still on the beach and still lovin' it. I took a break from the boards for awhile. I think it was around the time some guy posted to us that the 'old azzes' should get off the boards since they were so 'out of the loop'....made me maddern' a wet hen. I guess someone was listening because they made this old timers board for us. I still comminucate with Lynda M almost every day and she gives me my dose of 'what for'....LOL. I'm going to see her either at Busch Gardens with the group or Fort Lauderdale....can't do both since they come so close together. Why not join in...is Paul out to sea? Come spend a weekend in Tampa....we'll walk off at least 2 pounds. Take care...... Hugs from the beach Charlie

This explains so much .... I am 5 years out (woo-hoo), and I have had to take IV Iron supplements every few months called Ferlecit. I do not absorb iron at all anymore. I could eat a bucket of nails and not absorb iron! The difference since I've been receiving the treatments is astronomical! But, now I'm wondering if some of my other vitamin/mineral levels are out of whack. This is definitely something to check into. I too, like many here, have gained back about 10% of my original loss, but I still consider that a success. I haven't visited these boards in more than a year, and what a wake-up call I'm getting! I see now that while I'm better, I will never be *well*. Once a food addict, always a food addict. I only wish for that easy-to-achieve satiated feeling that I got immediately post-op. Life was so much easier then. I promise to visit the boards more frequently now. That should really help me to stay on track. Take care, everyone.