I must start this out with an apology!  I am so embarrassed that I have not updated my notes in so long.  I thought for sure I updated when I made the last round of pictures.  Please forgive me everyone.  I guess it just goes to show that life has gotten so much more busy for me since I have lost so much weight.  I will cut to the chase here and give you the best news....I have lost 150 pounds now!!!  I have lost the same amount of weight that I weighed on the day we graduated from high school.  I am now 95 pounds from my goal of 150.

It seems like yesterday that I was looking at the daunting number of 250 pounds to lose.  I can hardly believe that I am below 100 pounds left to go.  Amazing!!  I am in awe of what I have accomplished.  I must give credit where credit is due.  Dr. Cirangle and his staff are awesome!!  Without them, I have no idea where I would be today.  Certainly not working again, and maybe very little life at all.  I owe Dr. C and his staff a debt that I will never be able to repay in a way that will ever let them know how truly blessed I am that they took the time to be there for me.  I am looking forward to my trip to San Francisco in March for my 1 year follow up.  I hope I make Dr. C as proud of me as I am of myself.  I hope to be at his goal for me by then.  I am sure that he will lower that goal when I get there, but I am ready for that and have already set one 50 pounds lower than his.  I do have to say, that if I only make it to under 200 pounds, then I have been successful.  I haven't seen that weight since I was a teenager. 

This journey has certainly not been without it's ups and downs.  I have been through a lot of changes ranging from emotionally, physically and mentally.  I think that I can honestly say that I am a better person for having gone through this.  I certainly have found out what the human body can handle as well as what I can handle...and that is a lot more than I would have thought I could handle.