Hi Rita well did you loose another pound or 2 by Saturday guess what you will be there don't put so much stress on your self and u will see it will just fall off and I am not so down on the pounds but the clothes size's we are going down some times I think about the inches I have gone down and just in 14 short weeks of my life! Don't be so hard on you self how often did you ever loose what you have already lost in this short of time (ME NEVER ) I had lost before but never this fast and not forever I know this time it is forever!!!!!! bye for now and keep your head up high and keep smiling God loves us and has given us a new life, love it! bye for now Shirley

Just realzed my ticker didn't show up so I that I have lost 77 lbs since 1st going to my Doc in Feb and 62 lbs post op 03/28/07. Ain't God good??

Hey Sherry, I also went from a size 28 to a 20. I totally can't wait to break from from the 20's - it'll be a real milestone for me. Exercise has been a challenge for me as well. The condo I bought has a small gym real close to my unit so I'm looking forward to some free air-conditioned exercise accommodations lol The thing I never liked about treadmills would be boredom. When you walk around outside or in a mall there's stuff to look at. If you can situate the treadmill in front of a television, perhaps you could walk during an hour-long program and not feel the time go by. I went to Ross the other day looking for some cheap clothes but didn't find anything I liked. I'll have to revisit. I did, however, find plenty of housewares for my new digs - THAT was fun Nicole

I have lost 80 pounds since surgery, 130 including the 50 I lost the three months before surgery. I, myself, notice everything I've lost. I no longer see the person I was in the mirror. I never had a problem seeing the new me. The best outside notice of my weight loss happened just a couple of weeks ago. My mother works with someone who had the surgery a couple of years ago. She gave me a lot of good information about what to expect. I hadn't seen her since February or so, but my mother said she really wanted to see me again (she works in a vision store on the nearby Redstone Arsenal.) On this particular day, I saw her working in the store and tried to get her attention. She didn't notice me, so I thought that she just couldn't see me. So I walked into the store. I stood there fore a second smiling at her. She said, "May I help you, sir?" I just kept smiling at her. She had a bewildered look on her face, like, "Who is this weirdo?" Then she asked if she could help me again. Then, her eyes opened wide and she gasped. "Oh, my God!" she said. She didn't even know who I was. We hugged and she congratulated me. This wasn't the first time that I wasn't recognized by someone who I hadn't seen in a while, but it was the most dramatic. It's kind of fun, like an exciting adventure. Who knows what the future holds? Congratulations to everybody on their successes! Chris

Im so glad everything turned out OK ....well minus a gallbag. I was thinking about you on monday when I was there.