I am now down 60 pounds!  In ten more pounds I will have lost more weight than I ever have in one time in my life!!! Wow. Quite a few years ago I lost about 70 pounds with weight watchers - I think I was around 28 at the time. And then maybe back when phen fen was the rage I dropped about 50 pounds.   And then finally I lost about 66 pounds with atkins in 1998.  And all of those times were pretty excruciating. This has seemed like a dream - I am dieting - at least watching my food and being careful with what I eat - but the band makes it possible!! Before I would fall off the wagon and go back to the old way. This time I can't I have had a few "bad" days where I wanted to just binge away since I have had the band... but I can't i can only maybe nibble a bit and then I have to stop.  What used to be a diet destroying event i.e. a binge lasting for days - now I have some yogurt or an extra string cheese. It is almost funny.  i am now actually getting too small for my size 24's - which were basically the last size in my closet.  i am between a 22 and 24.  I will probably be a solid 22 in a couple of weeks. A month ago I bought a pair of pants - that I thought I would be able to wear for several months and when I went to put them on - they were way to big! I was shocked. Its thrilling and odd at the same time.  I am also having some trouble wrapping my head around my smaller size. Sometimes I feel positively skinny! And then at other times when I look in the mirror I see my old fat self.  My skin is also not snapping back all that fast - but everything takes time. My face still looks ok. My arms are losing more slowly than I would like. And I NEED TO EXCERCISE. I did walk some this week and I have as one of my goals to excercise regularly 3 times a week for a continuous month.  I did take a walk earlier this week for a half an hour. And I felt great.  So that is still something I need to do more of. I am more active - and feel so much better - I love my band!!!

Its been nearly three weeks since my last post - things are going well - I am down 55 pounds and feel so much better! I am down from a size 32 to a 24 and I am nearly out of my last fat size in my closet - I have 24's from 5 -6 years ago - I really haven't been down below that size since ....probably 2000. Yikes 7 years ago. I gave my other clothes to my daughter Anna - who was in need of some new things to wear.  (She is still waiting to see if she can have the surgery as well) . Anyway today we took pictures of what I look like down 55 pounds - I can see the difference - and that feels great - but better than that I can FEEL the difference. I am not fighting to get into booths in restaurants anymore. I caught myself CROSSING MY LEGS the other day - not perfectly mind you - but i haven't even tried to cross my legs in years!  I have to move my car seat up closer to the steering wheel! Yea!   I have a pair of favorite jeans that hang on me. I just bought size 11 underwear!  I have energy. I am standing up more, moving around more,  My chirorpracter said my spine was doing much better. I have on rings that have been too small. I can wear an 18 inch necklace and it looks fine.  There are some bracelets that I couldn't get over my hand - that I now can wear.  I can lean over to my own pedicure with out passing out.  These may seem like small or even absurd victorires to some people - but to me they are major. They are illustrations of how much I COULDN'T do before the surgery.l. How much I was missing. 

My last fill seems to be working perfectly for me, I can eat - but not too much but at the same time, as long as I am careful I wont't pb either.  And I seem to be losing about 2 pounds a week. 
I  am thrilled with my progress thus far!