OK, since I am still up and it is now officially Sunday for most of us for sure I will go ahead and start this now.......that and I am so excited that even at night I can report losing all the extra surgery fluid weight and then some..... Highest 325lbs Surgery 318lbs Last Weight on 12/30 of 218lbs (teetering then to 220lb) But I am happy to report now at 213lbs!!!!!!! So that is all that fluid weight as I saw it go up to 230lbs and now down at least another 5lbs "My name is Donna and I am a Scale-oholic! " Next big goal for me is that I was 208lbs when I got married. Our 11th Wedding Anniversary is Feb 1st and it looks like I will be able to officially for the first time say I weigh less than when I married. Took me 11 years but hey! And also tonight I needed to get past dh and he only moved a little bit.....I was thinking I could not squeeze past gave him a look and heavy sigh.....he said "what you can make it skinny" Well I amazed myself and did.....just do not see that my behind doesn't stick out as much anymore LOL......but had to stop.....he called me "skinny". Awwwwww big wow moment for me cause he was not just saying it......he meant it! So Cyndi guess what the "d" means for him tonight LOL! Add to that I am racing toward Onderland.....that I want sooooo badly!!!!! anyway happy dancing my myself tonight So keep in down in here in the am......I will be sleeping in!!!! LOL! Donna

Well, I'm not busy! lol My "boss" (dh....make the "d" whichever word you'd like) just said "how many hours do you spend on that website (OH) a day?". lol I said "my browser is always on OH!". So, needless to say, I'm always around. No one would want to see what I eat each day. Many would say "Are you serious????". lol But, I do miss all the posts here. I have no plans to leave this forum any time soon. I will still be here when the last person says "I REACHED GOAL!!!!!". Not getting rid of me too soon. I just wish our signatures showed up here. I love the tickers and pictures! * Cyndi *

Oh I know I will survive and as I start to feel better small little projects (like the junk drawer) and things will be getting done so that is good. i just have to remind myself NO LIFTING as I don't want to undo the benefits of the added bladder surgery! My mom called to say she had been up throwing up all night. She spent the evening here with me. I hope since she did not start until she got home I do not get it.....boy do I not need that! Still I am very happy for you and a bit jealous that you had less to lose than me so you are close to goal. But that is ok, I will get there and should be pretty close to goal by a year out. Considering I had more than half of myself to lose.......not bat at all! ...................now for my plastics appt. LOL! Donna

ok, maybe it is these wacky hormones shifts (the ones that make me not able to sleep anymore LOL or that made me want to go around ripping heads off all the kids stuffed animals tonight) but it is late and I decided to check for posts just one time before going to bed and awwwwww your post has me crying....happy tears but crying. ok I really need to go take those estrogen samples I got today. But still you see I have a little brother (2 years younger). I was not going to tell him about the surgery - my mom did. I do not see him much but I guess she told him how much bigger I had gotten - he got the skinny gene.....use to use weigh gain powder with no luck. Long story short he lives in WA and so form here in TX I do not see him much.....but he called me early december and told me how proud he was of me. How he was following my profile- how beautiful I had become and that meant more to me than anything. But then actaully seeing in person I think means the world of differnce. I am hoping my mom and I can go out and see him soon but I know he is coming to see my dad in July and i need to make sure that even if just at the airport I get to see him. You are beautiful- an have come so far- and with such little support at that beginning. You deserve to stand up and be very proud! Wow so close to your surgeons goal....that seems like ages away to me! Tonight it dawned on me I am not sure why (dang hormone shift LOL) that the entire hospital stay I was in the regular size gowns not the big ones that they have to send to housekeeping for and there was room in it!!!! and I borrowed a robe from my mom.....realized today it was a large....not even an extra large. So hard to comprehend. and now to confess.....I did weigh sunday (ok not for the weigh in but I could nto make it without weighing. The fluids and stuff had me so bloated. I got back from he 218 to 230! Ack I wanted to scream! I mean not htat long ago I woudl have been content with that number but once I got lighter there is no way I was going back. But now a week post op I have gotten below the 218 and was 216 today! whoo hoo! Not able to excercise andstill losing....have I mentioned I love my RNY! Sorry this is about you....not for me to take off in a rant! can you tell I am going stir crazy already. How am I going to make it 6 weeks! I am very happy for you btw!!!!!!! And same size as your mom.....very cool! My mom will refuse to except that and so I will have to always let her think she is smaller even when I finally catch up! LOL! And if I pass her up she may start sabotaging my scale so I do not realize it LOL! Donna

Thanks Betsy. I hate that I don't get to see my brother too much. His reaction was priceless. He'd ask mom over the phone how I was doing. She'd just keep saying "you wouldn't believe it if I told you". My husband is FINALLY starting to come around. He's not being as difficult about my eating. He knows I'm stubborn and I'll never get back to those old sizes. And, the most priceless? I joked to my mom and asked what size her jeans were. My always tiny mom and I wear the same size!!! That was when I realized I must be a LOT smaller than I think. LOL * Cyndi *