It's that time again!!! Who had a WOW moment(s) this week? My WOW moment was: my sister gave me some clothes from the Gap a while back. Well, she is the older sister but, has always been the little sister. I'm happy to say that she outgrew the clothes and they are loose on me the now younger and little sister. For once in my life I am actually smaller. My second one was my little brother he's 23 telling me that he told all his friend how good I looked and if I wasn't his sister he would date me. So, what was your WOW or WOW's? We love to hear from you. So, come on out and brag on yourself. Have a great week. Gina

Gina~I love your new pic! You look so cute! amber 296/153/140 -143 (13 more to my goal)

Danielle, Don't beat yourself up. Just those evil monsters away. I think we all seem to stray at one time or another. We are all coming up on our one year soon and I am realizing it does get harder. I will confess, I was craving a Snickers candy bar and I bought one. I took one bite and threw it away. It wasn't as good as I thought it would be but, it satisified me. You have not screwed up your pouch. I was at dinner tonight with a WLS friend and she made a year in Feb. and she was out of town and said the scale jumped up 2-4 lbs but, she came home, went back to basics and said she lost 4 lbs this week. So, our tools still work, we just have to use them. We are not perfect, Danielle. We had this surgery to be healthy and normal and normal people do these things too. Don't beat yourself up. Get back on track and we will cheer you on. Well, we will cheer you on and be by your side no matter what. Gina

Not just freaking me out but hubby too! LOL About a week ago he snuggled up behind me in bed and put his arm over my side which he's always done in our 17 yrs of marriage. I was 1/2 asleep and I hear him mumble "What the he_ _ IS that!?!" and kinda start poking at my hip. I told him " I'm fairly sure it's my hip..." lol Poor guy said " no seriously....you have a really hard kinda boney thing there" Ok at this point I was awake and laughing at the poor man...rolled over and told him thank you!!! Yep...let's confuzzle the poor guy even more then he already is why don't I?!?! I had to explain to him that the " hard kinda boney thing" was in fact a hip bone. Gotta love men! Cathy

Okay I confess too then. Last night was not a good one for me. I ate THREE fruit snack packs and THREE marshmallow rice krispie treats in just a few hours of watching tv. I've been eating not so great things for awhile now, but when it starts creeping up past 2 servings of one thing in a day, that's bad. That's heading back down the old "not so forgotten" path. This past Tuesday (weigh in day) I put 1.2 pounds back on because we had a birthday and I just had to have some cake. I know I need to get back on trac****ep saying tomorrow I'll start fresh and, well, it goes fine until about 5 o'clock. Then it's like a reason or something to start snacking. My goal has been to keep my carbs less than my protein grams, but that almost never happens either. H@#$, I think one day I had like 193 carbs. HELLO???? What are you thinking? Anyway there's my confession. I don't think you've screwed up your pouch at all Danielle. You and I are just not making wise choices in our eating. As far as what you ate, the mac and cheese is not a good choice-carbs. The crackers-carbs. I'm not so sure the fish sticks are even that good. Maybe too high in fats and carbs, probably not much protein either. Those foods will make you feel full for awhile but since they are carb-ladden you will end up feeling hungry in an hour or so. I know it's sounds easy for me to analyze what your eating huh? I can do it to myself to. It's just the part of actually taking control of the situation. Here's to a better day to us both. There were some books menioned on another board that I had written down and wanted to read. I checked my library out here and they will send them when they get them in. I can't remember exactly what and who they were by. One was called "How Much Does Your Soul Weigh?" I'll look it up again and let you know. They sounded like good books for people at our stage in this journey. Take care! amber 296/153/140 -143 (13 more to my goal)