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Topic: RE: excellent news about wls and the nhs
Hi, Amy, probably varies as usual - theUK postcode health lottery!
How are things going with you? I see you are just post-op. Hope you are feeling strong and over the op!
Kate
Hi, Amy, probably varies as usual - theUK postcode health lottery!
How are things going with you? I see you are just post-op. Hope you are feeling strong and over the op!
Kate
Highest 290, Banded - 248 Lowest 139 (too thin!). Comfort zone 155-165.
Happily banded since May 2006. Regain of 28lbs 2013-14. ALL GONE!
But some has returned! Up to 175, argh! Off we go again,
Topic: RE: excellent news about wls and the nhs
Thats fabulous Kate, I'm amazed they are willing to do that, they seem to want to keep away as much as they can - you must be chuffed.
I self funded, and am dreading any future treatment needed - not sure how much there is with an RNY - still guess I'll find out soon enough
Amy
I self funded, and am dreading any future treatment needed - not sure how much there is with an RNY - still guess I'll find out soon enough
Amy
Topic: RE: Totally Offtopic; please enlighten me!
Your DH is right--the play is done and then they mill around and regroup (scratch themselves, etc.,) and then line back up on the line of scrimmage. The game is only supposed to last one hour (60 min) but the wandering around which allows for commercial breaks, etc., makes most games last for 3 HOURS!!!
I think your rugby guys are in a lot better shape than our NFL guys! At least, they sure look like they could take out an entire formation all by themselves!
My son watches rugby on BBC America and he says it's really interesting!
Thanks to you both for the kind information!
I think your rugby guys are in a lot better shape than our NFL guys! At least, they sure look like they could take out an entire formation all by themselves!
My son watches rugby on BBC America and he says it's really interesting!
Thanks to you both for the kind information!
Topic: RE: Totally Offtopic; please enlighten me!
Just seen that my last post (done in a hurry) was virtually unreadable!! I tried to edit typos but the board wouldn't let me!! So re-posting below so it makes sense!!
edited for typos
You should try to watch a top game like a New Zealand All Blacks against someone. The NZ ABs are generally considered the top team in the world although somehow they never win the world cup!
Sending a player off for 10 minutes (called sending to the sin bin!) is a very effective punishment. In last weeks Six Nations (England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France and Italy) Wales lost because on of their players was sinn binned and while they were a man down, the English team scored massively. So you can imagine just how poprular he was after the match!
It's very much a "man's" game in - in soccer, players are famous for taking dives ( that is hamming up injuries to psych out opponents). In rugby, they just carry on unless they are sent off by the ref for bleeding too much for safety. In the last world cup, an English player broke his finger. He ran to the side, the medics pulled it back into postition and he ran back on and kept on playing! Only a minor injury - but OUCH!.
Great game to watch - all those big men with real muscles (not body building fakes!). Oops, that slipped out. Meant to say, great game to watch, full of skill and strength.
Kate
Just seen that my last post (done in a hurry) was virtually unreadable!! I tried to edit typos but the board wouldn't let me!! So re-posting below so it makes sense!!
edited for typos
You should try to watch a top game like a New Zealand All Blacks against someone. The NZ ABs are generally considered the top team in the world although somehow they never win the world cup!
Sending a player off for 10 minutes (called sending to the sin bin!) is a very effective punishment. In last weeks Six Nations (England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France and Italy) Wales lost because on of their players was sinn binned and while they were a man down, the English team scored massively. So you can imagine just how poprular he was after the match!
It's very much a "man's" game in - in soccer, players are famous for taking dives ( that is hamming up injuries to psych out opponents). In rugby, they just carry on unless they are sent off by the ref for bleeding too much for safety. In the last world cup, an English player broke his finger. He ran to the side, the medics pulled it back into postition and he ran back on and kept on playing! Only a minor injury - but OUCH!.
Great game to watch - all those big men with real muscles (not body building fakes!). Oops, that slipped out. Meant to say, great game to watch, full of skill and strength.
Kate
Highest 290, Banded - 248 Lowest 139 (too thin!). Comfort zone 155-165.
Happily banded since May 2006. Regain of 28lbs 2013-14. ALL GONE!
But some has returned! Up to 175, argh! Off we go again,
Topic: RE: Totally Offtopic; please enlighten me!
Lynn, DH has just pointed something else out to me. He has watched a game of American Football (I haven't) and tells me it goes in spurts! They make a play of some sort and then play stops for a short period and then they start again.
In rugby, there are breaks when they move into new positions for a line up or scrum or whatever but basically the play in a good running game can be fast and furious for the whole 40 mins of each half. So it may be that the sheer power of the tackle is, especially by the end of the game, less. And I don't know about Am Fl but in rugby, there is a very limited number of changes permitted in the players. So they get very tired!!
Kate
Lynn, DH has just pointed something else out to me. He has watched a game of American Football (I haven't) and tells me it goes in spurts! They make a play of some sort and then play stops for a short period and then they start again.
In rugby, there are breaks when they move into new positions for a line up or scrum or whatever but basically the play in a good running game can be fast and furious for the whole 40 mins of each half. So it may be that the sheer power of the tackle is, especially by the end of the game, less. And I don't know about Am Fl but in rugby, there is a very limited number of changes permitted in the players. So they get very tired!!
Kate
Highest 290, Banded - 248 Lowest 139 (too thin!). Comfort zone 155-165.
Happily banded since May 2006. Regain of 28lbs 2013-14. ALL GONE!
But some has returned! Up to 175, argh! Off we go again,
Topic: RE: Totally Offtopic; please enlighten me!
I'm with you--muscles work for me!!! Umm, I mean yeah, skill and strength!
Topic: RE: Totally Offtopic; please enlighten me!
edited for typos
You should try to watch a top game like a New Zealand All Blacks against someone. The NZ ABs are generally considered the top team in the world although somehow they never win the world cup!
Sending a player off for 10 minutes (called sending to the sin bin!) is a very effective punishment. In last weeks Six Nations (England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France and Italy) Wales lost because on of their players was sinn binned and while they were a man down, the English team scored massively. So you can imagine just how poprular he was after the match!
It's very much a "man's" game in - in soccer, players are famous for taking dives ( that is hamming up injuries to psych out opponents). In rugby, they just carry on unless they are sent off by the ref for bleeding too much for safety. In the last world cup, an English player broke his finger. He ran to the side, the medics pulled it back into postition and he ran back on and kept on playing! Only a minor injury - but OUCH!.
Great game to watch - all those big men with real muscles (not body building fakes!). Oops, that slipped out. Meant to say, great game to watch, full of skill and strength.
Kate
You should try to watch a top game like a New Zealand All Blacks against someone. The NZ ABs are generally considered the top team in the world although somehow they never win the world cup!
Sending a player off for 10 minutes (called sending to the sin bin!) is a very effective punishment. In last weeks Six Nations (England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France and Italy) Wales lost because on of their players was sinn binned and while they were a man down, the English team scored massively. So you can imagine just how poprular he was after the match!
It's very much a "man's" game in - in soccer, players are famous for taking dives ( that is hamming up injuries to psych out opponents). In rugby, they just carry on unless they are sent off by the ref for bleeding too much for safety. In the last world cup, an English player broke his finger. He ran to the side, the medics pulled it back into postition and he ran back on and kept on playing! Only a minor injury - but OUCH!.
Great game to watch - all those big men with real muscles (not body building fakes!). Oops, that slipped out. Meant to say, great game to watch, full of skill and strength.
Kate
Highest 290, Banded - 248 Lowest 139 (too thin!). Comfort zone 155-165.
Happily banded since May 2006. Regain of 28lbs 2013-14. ALL GONE!
But some has returned! Up to 175, argh! Off we go again,
Topic: RE: Totally Offtopic; please enlighten me!
Yes, in American football just about anyone can tackle anyone, while a play is running. (From the time the teams line up on the line of scrimmage facing one another and then the ball is snapped to the quarterback--the guy that is getting really friendly with the guy right in front of him--once the ball is in motion then everyone tries their best to stop the opposing team from opening or closing a hole or opposing a movement across the line of scrimmage. )
I'm probably not explaining very clearly, sorry!
Everyone on the team is "protected" with helmets, shoulder, knee, and kidney pads, and mouthpieces to keep their teeth from being knocked out. The padding just turns a linebacker into a 350# missile, which is going as fast as humanly possible, into another padded player who is running as fast as HE can, which results in some serious neck, head, and back injuries. There are men in our society today that injured themselves as children in little boys games and still deal with the injuries. I think it would be a good thing if there were personal penalties for on-the-field injuries and violations, but all that happens when a foul occurs is that the team responsible is penalized a few yards back on the playing field (which just ****** everyone off) and then it all starts again.
The penalty box is used in Hockey, I know, but I've never been able to stand watching grown men fight on skates, so I really don't know how it's applied!
Thanks for your explanation--it sounds as if it would be an exciting game to watch!
I'm probably not explaining very clearly, sorry!
Everyone on the team is "protected" with helmets, shoulder, knee, and kidney pads, and mouthpieces to keep their teeth from being knocked out. The padding just turns a linebacker into a 350# missile, which is going as fast as humanly possible, into another padded player who is running as fast as HE can, which results in some serious neck, head, and back injuries. There are men in our society today that injured themselves as children in little boys games and still deal with the injuries. I think it would be a good thing if there were personal penalties for on-the-field injuries and violations, but all that happens when a foul occurs is that the team responsible is penalized a few yards back on the playing field (which just ****** everyone off) and then it all starts again.
The penalty box is used in Hockey, I know, but I've never been able to stand watching grown men fight on skates, so I really don't know how it's applied!
Thanks for your explanation--it sounds as if it would be an exciting game to watch!
Topic: RE: Where do you get protein drinks from and which do you guys find best
UK docs seem to be a bit anti-protein shakes, which suits me down to the ground! In the post-op phase I made my own version with chick peas blended into a soup base. I don't actually find any problem in getting enough in but I am banded and so probably eat more than you do.
So not really answering your Q. Just nice to see someone coming on here!
Kate
UK docs seem to be a bit anti-protein shakes, which suits me down to the ground! In the post-op phase I made my own version with chick peas blended into a soup base. I don't actually find any problem in getting enough in but I am banded and so probably eat more than you do.
So not really answering your Q. Just nice to see someone coming on here!
Kate
Highest 290, Banded - 248 Lowest 139 (too thin!). Comfort zone 155-165.
Happily banded since May 2006. Regain of 28lbs 2013-14. ALL GONE!
But some has returned! Up to 175, argh! Off we go again,
Topic: excellent news about wls and the nhs
Not that anyone seems to come here any more - but in case they do!
I had my band put in privately as I had no co-morbidities and so the nhs wouldn't pay. But I have now been taken on by the nhs as I count as having a pre-existing condition ( the band) and so my annual check ups and any fills I might need are done by the nhs. My surgeon told me this would be the case - I am pleased to find he was right!
Kate
Not that anyone seems to come here any more - but in case they do!
I had my band put in privately as I had no co-morbidities and so the nhs wouldn't pay. But I have now been taken on by the nhs as I count as having a pre-existing condition ( the band) and so my annual check ups and any fills I might need are done by the nhs. My surgeon told me this would be the case - I am pleased to find he was right!
Kate
Highest 290, Banded - 248 Lowest 139 (too thin!). Comfort zone 155-165.
Happily banded since May 2006. Regain of 28lbs 2013-14. ALL GONE!
But some has returned! Up to 175, argh! Off we go again,
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