Time has flown. I celebrated my 2 year surgiversary on 06/22/08. I was almost 9 months pregnant at the time but it was still a day that I celebrate because I know my life would not be the same had I not had surgery 2 years ago. My baby, Aliyah, was born on 08/05/08. She is now 6 weeks old. Time flies by seeing how much she changes every day. I gained 30 pounds through 9 months of pregnancy but I swelled up a LOT the last 2 weeks of pregnancy and gained 20 pounds in 2 weeks and had to stay off my feet. So technically I guess I gained 50 pounds for the pregnancy although the last 20 was all fluid that I lost the day after giving birth. I actually lost 40 of the 50 pounds in one week and am now down 45 pounds in week 6. So, I have only 5 pounds left from my pregnancy until I get back to where I was when I found out I was pregnant (which was 155 pounds). I would still like to lose 20 pounds and get to about 140 pounds but if not, I am still happy with the outcome. The excess skin I had before I got pregnant is 10 times worse after having a baby though. I really will have to have plastic surgery to have it all removed and plan eventually. I have started to "train" myself to getting back to healthy eating since I ate any and everything when I was pregnant. I am having to re learn good habits but I am getting there. I am also working on getting back to jogging. Right now I am just walking and doing 2-2.5 miles at a time. I have confidence in myself that I will be back jogging a 5k very shortly. It was something I really enjoyed and I want to go back to that. Life is very hectic with a baby now and trying to work out a schedule and routine everyday. Overall, I couldn't be happier with how things are going 2 years and now a baby later. I want to wish everyone on the journey much success and just stay with it  through the good and the bad. It will all be worth it in the end.

I am in my 3rd trimester of my pregnancy, I have 11 weeks left until my due date and counting. So far, I have gained 24 pounds. A little more than I wanted to at this point. I wanted to stay at a 30 pound gain for the entire pregnancy but now I am looking at 35-40 pounds. I will just have to work that much harder afterwards to get it off. Everything is going great. Me and the baby are both healthy. All of my tests are coming back great including my sugar tests which I thought I would have problems with since I had diabetes pre WL surgery. My labs did show that my B12 is low. It was always normal before I got pregnant so they believe it will go back to that after I have the baby (hopefully). Until then, I am getting monthly B12 shots and I am staying on top of my vitamins. I do think this pregnancy has been fairly complication free so far because of my weight loss and I am very thankful for that. I didn't have morning sickness and not having sugar problems and blood pressure problems so far is a blessing. I know if I had gotten pregnant at the weight I was before, I think this would be a much more difficult pregnancy. 
By the way, we are having a GIRL! Her name is Aliyah Renee. We can't wait to hold her in our arms. The countdown begins!

I am finally normal - by doctors standards anyways.  I weigh 155 pounds and I have lost 155 pounds. I have lost half of myself. I now have a BMI in the "normal" range. It is amazing to think about where I was and how far I have come. This past weekend I completed my first marathon. I finished the Susan G Komen "Race for the Cure" 5K marathon in 37:12 minutes. I have worked really hard over the past 4 weeks to get up to jogging that without stopping and I was able to accomplish my goal. I also found that I really like to jog so I plan to continue to do that. Although I have not been losing much weight anymore. I am happy where I am but I just can not believe with all of the jogging that I have been doing 5 days a week and really watching what I eat that I would not still be losing weight regularly. I guess it is my body's way of telling me I am where I need to be. Although I am not losing much weight, I know that I have lost inches because I went down in my clothes size.  I went shopping this past week and I was able to wear  a size 8 now - single digits. I used to wear a tight size 26 so that is crazy that  I can wear a size 8. I do have a lot of extra skin. I am going to go to a consult in a week with a plastic surgeon to see what options I have. I am not sure if I will go through with it but I am going to check into it. I have worked really hard to get to where I am and I would like to look like someone my size. I also still have problems realizing that I am not overweight and I think that is because of the extra skin. For some reason, I still feel big. I guess it is a mental thing and I hope that will eventually go away.  When I was clothes shopping ,the sales lady said the shirt I tried on was to cover up people "bad spots" in the stomach region but that I didn't need that. I was like OK. Thanks for saying that but you have no idea!! It is just still really hard for me realize I am that person. I am someone that can wear a size 8 and jog 3 miles and go to places and fit into the seats and I can cut my toe nails and tie my shoes without any problems. I am just me. And I have to say, I am very happy with who I am. And most importantly - I feel great.