Four bandits together........

Today I went into Fremantle to meet three women for lunch I've been talking to for a while on LapBand Australia. We met at Ciccerellos on the waterfront and we all got on like a house on fire. It was fun and even better to finally put faces to names, though I commented to one of them that it was like being on a giant blind date. It occurred to me as I dressed this morning that I had no idea what any of the girls looked like as I hadn't seen pics. We managed to find one another no problem though. All the girls came from the other side of Perth and so we tried to find a half-way point and get together somewhere in the middle. I think it was more my half than theirs though. Thanks girls for making the trip. My Friday Banding Buddy Bec was there, and another lady called Carolyn (and her husband too :) and last but not least - the lady who managed to get us all together, Mandy. We ate fish and chips outside under cover and watched it rain (though you wouldn't know it from the blue skied shots I took earlier).

It's funny watching a bunch of us who are banded eating. Carolyn managed maybe three bites and she was done and out of the other three of us, well not one of us finished our meals. When I ordered I comtemplated getting the kids fish and chip basket. Should have listened to myself there and then. No way could I finish the normal portion.

Band life has been a bit funny lately. I was thinking (actually us girls all discussed this while eating) that while we were really big a while ago and felt uncomfortable, even though you

eventually get down to a size where you feel okay, suddenly THAT weight is still too big. I speak for myself in a big way here. I am sitting around 95 kilos now and though I know thats almost 18 kilos less than I was when I started I still feel quite porky. Not uncomfortable like I did back then but just not satisfied with the weight I now am. I want to go lower.. much lower. I am due for my third fill tomorrow (like that's news? How many times have I mentioned it lol ..sorry) and I really hope things change band wise. I want to eat less again like I did when I first started this whole thing. All of us girls agreed (except Carolyn lol she has plenty of restriction) that these first months are hard going. We all have about the same amount of fill in our bands and we all have the same problem. We can eat pretty much anything like before with no worries about pacing ourselves or chewing the life out of food.

Not much else to report on. MOTH (Man of the House) and I are lagging a bit with the big house fixup. It's hard thinking about it every day. Well, tomorrow is a new one and we shall fix/paint/cleanup/redo another area when we wake up fresh. That's the theory anyway. The practice.. we shall see.

Till next time

Cara