Wow! It doesn't seem possible.  I have lost about 150 pounds and had a little bounce back weight, but I think I am pretty steady where I am and I feel great.  My blood pressure is normal, my cholesterol is down to 140 from 299 and I haven't had one high blood sugar since the day of surgery.  So I feel like it was all worth it, I have so much more fun in my life now and no longer struggle with all the things I did before WLS.  I can run, walk, jump, and play.  I can wipe my ass without doing contortions to reach all the necessary parts and best of all, I can do things with my kids and my husband that before I stayed on the bench and watched from the sidelines.

I got down to a low of 202 pounds, but only stayed there a few days and it started to go the other way. Is this when my bounce begins? I sure hope I am not done losing, granted I am not trying real hard right now but I plan to get back on the band wagon after the holidays. I really had hoped to get under 200, and thought I might actually get to my goal of 180 leaving me some bounce room. Now, I am just not sure and a little angry with myself for not making the most of my honeymmon period. I started some bad habits back that I thought I would never do.  We shall see from here.

Well, I can eat pretty much what  a "normal" person can eat. I am happy with how much I can eat and don't want/need to eat anymore. I still exercise pretty regularly, but the scale has not budged for months. I think I am here.  I also think I am okay with that.  Today I put on a shirt that I used to wear fifteen years ago when I was dating my DH.  I waited until I was the same weight to wear it, but I definately missed my window of opportunity....  the shirt is way too big. 

That doesn't sound like something I would ever say!  But it's true. I had surgery on December 9th and have to wait to exercise again until cleared on January 25th!  Yikes! I cannot lose any weight without exercising, I don't sleep as well, and I just don't have the same energy or pride in myself.  I go to Las Vegas on February 26th, so I have one month from the time I can start to exercise again and when I leave and I plan to take off twenty pounds during that time. Some how, some way I'm gonna do it!

Well, in the beginning before I went back to work I liked to exercise.  But then slowly but surely I stopped. Well consequently, so has my weight loss.  So I have started to exercise again, I don't mind it.  It's just taking the time to actually do it.  For the last four days I have done 30 minutes of step aerobics on the Wii.  It is kind of fun, but yesterday I did it barefoot and now my left heel is killing me.  No more exercising without sneakers! 

I really want to get under 200 pounds, and would like to before I go to California/Vegas the end of February, that seems unlikely but I'm sure gonna try.  That's about 17 weeks from now so that would be 3 pounds a week.  I better ramp up the exercise if I'm gonna do that!!!