Yeap... you guessed it...
 I hit my goal weight in 9 MONTHS !

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 ** start  @ 286 lbs & size 26 !!! ** 



*** 9 months later ... 145 lbs & a size 6 !!! ******





 

LMBO!  Can you imagine if we said those things about people, especially the Ben and Jerry's thing, you can apply to so many people.  But hey, I try not to put my friends business out there. 

thanks for the advice. I will remember to do that next time. By the way, i noticed my ticker is back, even though i didn't do anything different. It disappeard for a few posts then showed back up. Oh well.

Sounds like you are doing okay after your surgery.  I was in the hospital last weekend with a 7 mm kidney stone.  I had to have surgery to laser the stone and had a stent placed in my right ureter.  They told me that I have other stones in my right kidney.  The pain was horrible.  I go back to the doctor this Tuesday.  We will see what he has to say.  I did manage to run a race today, even through the bladder and kidney spasms from the sent.  Afterwards when I went to the bathroom, there was a lot of bright red blood.  It stopped now but was scary.  I ran 3.1 miles in 31:44.  I am proud of myself.  This am, the scale finally went below 150 pounds at 149.  Only nine more pounds to go. 

Don't get freaked out if you go home with a weight gain.  I went into the hospital at 154 pounds and came home at 165 pounds.  Not from eating, because I was so sick with pain and dry heaves I couldn't eat.  I think it was all the fluid you get.  So be prepared.

Good luck, glad everything went well for you.  At least you won't be in surgical menopause because they left your ovaries. 

Awesome, Joanna!  

I've wavered with a one pound loss for the last two months and finally lost three pounds this week!   I was beginning to think I wasn't going to lose anymore.  Baby steps . . .