Posts by stefaniepaglinco

I agree with....EVERYONE

• Individualized packaging will cause the polar ice caps to melt and our great-great-great-grandchildren will have to live underwater (as per the Jonas Bros. song)
• Laziness can be one of the biggest downfalls of weight loss, so sometimes pre-packaged foods can be the difference between sticking to it, and sticking a Mickey D's snack wrap in your maw
• This is a message board to help people answer questions and come up with ideas about losing/maintaining/gaining weight, so we should be trying to help each other
• One of my greatest pleasures, as my husband puts it, is "trolling". I love making fun of people on the internet, because if I did it in person I would get A. beat up or B. fired from my job
• I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.... free to buy a regular apple or a bag 'o slices. In Communist China, you take the apple your given and you like it, mister!

Personally, I would just buy a whole apple and shove it in my bag, because its just as portable and easy to eat as a bag of slices. I think the slices only trump when they come with a little container of caramel.

Now, can we all agree that an apple tastes pretty damn good with caramel? Let the caramel unite us, people!

I was trying to be strong and not buy any, but I had Easter brunch and was too stuffed to eat dessert. We went to CVS pharmacy to buy a soda on the way home and I was like " I need a white chocolate peanut butter filled easter bunny" of course, it was a ghetto CVS and didn't have one, so I settled for a few cadbury eggs, a regular, a caramel, and an orange cream. They were delicious, and its not like you can get them anytime you want, so that was my reasoning.

Original Post by seratuki:

Well I have a thing with giving my cats first and middle names. and I just call them by a nickname 

Right now I have.

Taylor Logan...nicknamed Logeeloo.

Lorelai Victoria...Nicknamed Ms Lore.

Tori Amos...Nicknamed Breadmaker.

Lancelot Marshmallow...Nicknamed Lancey

and

Zachary Binks...nicknamed Cuddlebug.

 Zachary Binks - thats awesome.... I wonder how many other people got that. God, I loved that movie when I was a kid.

Cats - Jersey, Hoggle, & Scooter ( I wanted to call Scooter "Foot Sweaters",  but my husband said no )

Dog - Daisy

Congratulations

Try bringing in a fruit platter to go with the cake. You will look extra nice because you brought something extra, and you will have something healthy to eat!

Ok

An "IV" is an intravenous catheter. It depends on what kind of fluid they decide to give you. It will be some sort of saline solution. Some of them have dextrose in them. As you are having surgery, and will not be eating, you will probably have one with dextrose. Dextrose is a sugar. That means this IV will have calories in it, but it is not for sustenance, its simply to make sure your blood sugar does not drop too drastically while your not eating or drinking.  You will probably not be getting a PICC line, because you are only going to be in the hospital a short period of time for your surgery, and a PICC line is only necessary if you have bad veins and they can't get a regular IV, or if you will be given certain antibiotics.

Any kind of tube feeding they will give you would be for nutrition/sustenance purposes. If you will be allowed to have liquids by mouth soon after your surgery ( most surgeries its the same day or next day ), then you will most likely not need tube feeding, which would most likely be through a tube in your nose.

The hospital will determine your diet after surgery. Usually, you will be given clear liquids first. This is broth, jell-o, apple juice, ice pops. If you tolerate them well, they will either allow you to move on to full liquids ( cream soups, milk, etc. ) or regular food. Its always a good idea for your first regular food meal after fasting to keep it fairly small and bland.

It would be highly unlikely that you would gain weight while in the hospital.

Good Luck!

Paradise by the Dashboard Light - Meatloaf

If your not concerned as much about the price difference, you could try going on a site like craigslist.com and trading your leather goods for non leather goods, or selling yours and buying other stuff. Its not hard to find "pleather" or pvc handbags. I love my croco-embossed bag that I got at Target for $14.95 and its huge! ( not cause I'm vegan, just poor. If I had the money, I would have my dream Dooney & Bourke croco-leather bag that costs $500. Sorry veggie-monkeys! ) Plenty of dress shoes at Payless are made from synthetic leather, and plenty of sneakers are made from canvas. You will probably save money buying non-leather actually. Good Luck!

UPDATE: I read your profile after I posted.

Unless "TAXIDERMY IS AWESOME" is like, an emo band I've never heard of, I would say that's a weird thing for a want-to-be vegan to say. LOL

Original Post by jblarghp:

Well, I think it's easier to be deceiving over the internet (for obvious reasons.)

I personally would find it difficult connecting with someone online...I just feel there's so many aspects of a person that you wouldn't be able to fully get. 

Clearly it has worked for many people though, so what do I know?

I think when people say "oh we met online"  they think you had like, a 3 year online relationship, then met in person. I responded to my husband's online personal ad, he emailed me ONCE a few days later , we talked on AIM for a few hours one night, then moved to the phone the same night, then met the next day for a date ( in very public places - a bowling alley and an Applebee's lol ) Our entire "online encounter" lasted less than a week. After that, it was the same as if we had been set up by friends, or exchanged numbers in a bar or something.

Pickles and Sauerkraut. If I make a boca burger, I have sauerkraut as the side dish, and its only like 25 cals for a third of a can. I usually have some canned chicken with red. fat mayo, 1 or 2 pickles, laughing cow bites, and a 100 cal pack of cheetos for lunch, and its only like, 275 for the whole thing - very tasty too, and its lots of little things so it feels like your eating more.

Original Post by absterry:

CAUTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my mother in law  Dontated blood earlier this year, and the retarded tech hooked her up to some machine and that litterally SUCKS the blood out of you like a vampire.  They took 2 pints in 15 minutes.  (the blood is supposed to flow out naturally. Not sucked out.)  She went back to work and FAINTED, and ended up with a $900 hopistal bill for 2 bags of saline IV.   

A blood transfusion for an average Joe American can cost up to $25,000.  And they use blood they get for free!  WTF?

Unless its for a family member, Im keeping my blood.

You are a selfish idiot.

"Unless its for a family member, Im keeping my blood." - Unless your family member is having a scheduled surgery or is in the hospital for a really long time and needs multiple transfusions, you wouldn't be able to donate for them. If, for example, you or your family member got into a car accident, or became anemic, or had some sort of blood loss, you can't donate and have the person get it the same day. In emergencies you would have to use "volunteer" blood from the blood bank of the hospital.

So you wouldn't donate, but I'm sure if you got into a car accident and needed surgery and a transfusion, you would take it, wouldn't you?

I have donated whole blood, plasma, platelets, and red cells. Now I usually donate a double unit of platelets. The risk of anything happening to me is so so small compared to how many people's LIVES I might have SAVED. Its an amazing feeling to think you might have actually SAVED someone's life!

Sugar- Free Pudding - 45 calories

Doritos 100 calorie pack - very cheesy and the mini-size Doritos are sooo cute!

Yeah, I thank god for the Laughing Cow! It's like, the only cheese I buy now, because I could eat my weight in regular cheese in one sitting!