You've done great Joe - as you say, not a recomended way to lose the last bit, but its a great silver lining

ok. here's the secret. get really sick. lose your appetite completely. have incredible pain and go to the emergency twice in a week and get admitted to the hospital. undergo a battery of tests and finally get it figured out that you have an internal hernia and a non functioning gall bladder. have exploratory laparoscopic surgery to have the hernia fixed and gall bladder removed. it's been a tough journey, but the silver lining was the weight loss. I was pretty much plateaued at about 190-195, and my surgeon's office was fine with me at that weight. Now i need to talk to my nutritionist to see how to maintain this weight. so in the end, perhaps my weight loss secret is not the best way to go!

We have been going back and forth on keeping and getting rid of the third kitten. I vote for keep it and my foul, nasty husband says it's got to go.....truth be told I don't think it's the cat that needs to leave, but never mind that! Friday i spent teh night shepherding everyone to and from school, middle kid pick up at 5:00 oldest boy to school at 6:30 then pick up at 9:00, he was starving so we did a McD's run and then home. Saturday i had kid drop off at 7:!5am for football practice, did the food shopping, picked said child up, put away groceries, went to a dance clas**** the mall for new sneakers and hair cuts (boy my hairs short, NOT lovign it yet) then to blockbuster, then to uhhhhhh somewhere else that i can't remember where ye****ched a movie, fell asleep during it, burned popcorn so bad we all almost choked to death. Sunday was laundry and foldng day, rest of the groceries that no one bothered to tell me we didn't have, hebrew school, meeting with a dj for the party in April and then down to a birthday party and bakc to the house. My allergies are butt whoopin me and I feel like heck in a handbasket. Hugs, ANDI

Hi all, I have been avoiding the scales as well but the day before my Plastic Surgery on 9/17 I was 170, yesterday I was 159!!! Pre-op RNY: 263 yesterday: 159 Total: 104lbs!!! I broke the century mark!!!! Amy

I'm ususally up by a pound or two but right before my plastic surgery I went up about 4 pounds. I was soooo mad. I really have to stop weighing myself so often, it is mentally damaging, to me. Amy