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After only losing 1 lb. for 3 consecutive weeks, I have finally dropped 4 lbs. over the past week!  Down 106 lbs. 65 lbs. to go!  Only 29 more pounds and I will be overweight instead of obese!  21 lbs. to onederland!  I was beginning to think the honeymoon was over.  Wonder what would happen if I exercised!  May have to find out.

I took my 7  month post-op pictures today, two days early.  Take a look.  I have been looking at all the pictures I have uploaded from the past 7 months and it is amazing.  I can really see the difference now.  One one hand, 100 lbs. seems like an amazing accomplishment.  On the other hand, losing my last 70-75lbs. seems like an impossible dream.  I notice the weight loss process and following the pouch rules does not seem to totally occupy my thougths anymore.  It is seeming more routine now.  Still occupying maybe 50% of my thoughts (as long as you don't count the time I spend on OH in the evenings).  The best is feeling so good.  

If you read my profile, you know that I have elected not to tell most family members.  My brother and his wife have been dropping hints that it seems like I have lost a lot of weight really fast.  She keeps asking me each time she sees me, "so you are doing this just by watching your portions and eating mostly proteins?"  It is like she thinks one of these times my guard will be down and I will admit that I "cheated" by having weight loss surgery.  They have even planted doubts in my father's head now.  He has been slow to even notice my loss but this weekend he asked my son if he didn't wonder just what I had really done to lose so much.  He would never have thought of that on his own.  My son and his wife gave all the right answers.  This just reinforces my decision as they are looking for any way to discredit or lessen my achievement instead of just being happy for me that I am finally getting my weight off and improving my health.  I knew that would be their reaction.  I suppose someone will eventually slip and tell one of them but if not, they will not learn the truth from me.

I am not sharing my excitement with my progress as much with my husband as he seems more and more threatened by the changes in my body and health.  For the first time in 32 years of marriage, when we have a disagreement, he asks if I am going to leave him!  The disagreements are no more severe or serious than any of our disagreements so it is weird that he would mention that possibility.  Feeling threatened is the only thing I can attribute the comment to so I am just backing off on announcing my pounds lost or sizes down.  He has even been annoyed when I have had to buy new clothes even though I am very thrifty and have an empty closet.  Guess I will tiptoe until he gets more comfortable with the new me and realizes it isn't any more of a threat than than it was in the last 32 years!  Check out my pictures.  Over the next week I am going to try and label them all and resize them.  I love this new profile and the ease of customizing it!
My clothes I bought about 6 weeks ago are now getting loose.  They feel great and I feel great in them!  No one is going to make me feel bad about this life-saving decision that I have made or the blessings it has brought to me!

I am just starting to build this new profile and it is so much fun!  Today I made the Century Club!  I won't write and ask for my card until I stay at this weight for at least a week - or drop further.  It is unbelievable that just 6 months ago I weighed 100 lbs. more than today.  From reading others' profiles, I anticipated reaching this goal by my six month anniversary and so six and a half isn't far off.  My next goal is to make it to onederland.  I have 27 lbs. to go to get there.  I was hoping to make that goal  by Thanksgiving but Christmas may be more realistic.  It seems like the weight loss is slowing so but then when you add up the pounds it isn't as slow as it seems.  Well, better get back to transferring the old profile to this new site.  It may take me the rest of the week if I don't start catching on faster!