You want to look like me...and I'll want to look like someone else, someone smaller, someone thinner, someone prettier...it's all a cycle Be happy with yourself and improve on it every chance you can. We're almost out 1 year, and I still am not "happy" with myself and still feel like I'm not using my TOOL properly. Most of the time is because i really am not and just diverge so much from what we KNOW is good and right for us. All a vicious cycle...but, again, thank you for wanting to look like me hehehe

You're right, I know... it's hard though, isn't it! I feel like even WITH the surgery, I'm still going to "be on a diet" for the rest of my life. I know I'm better of than I was before, but geez, I want to look like you! LOL

Thank you so much for the compliment. I too sometimes feel like i LOOK the same eventhough i'm -117. You lost 135lbs...don't u dare undermind that !!!!! Like you've heard before, we had surgery on our stomachs, not our heads! If you are seriously jojo'ing, u gotta do something about it asap. I've lost the same 2lbs and gained them back here and there the last few months, thats what happens when we just let things be and let our bodies get too comfortable. Get back to the basics..high protein, lots of water, take all your vitamins, etc. I've steadily been doing that and been seeing results.

I'm coming up on my one year anniversary on Aug. 31. I've lost about 135 so far - I say _about_ because I keep gaining and losing about 3 pounds over and over and over. I started at 365 and am now somewhere between 230 and 235, depending upon the week. I DO feel better, and I guess I look better (although I genuinely feel like I look the same) but I'm discouraged about this yo-yo-ing over the last few months. I had HOPED to be at about 200lbs or even at my goal of 180 at a year out but I'm a LONG way from there. I know I need to change my eating habits (etc.) but this is ME we're talking about here - I didn't get myself into this mess because I had great eating habits and having surgery has not changed what is in my mind (has it?). I keep asking myself if this is "all I'm going to get" out of the surgery and if the rest is entirely up to me "being on a diet" again and for the rest of my life. Does anyone else feel this way? You all look so wonderful - Sunny, Norma, Marianne, Tracey, Barbara... I've forgotten some names but have looked at your profiles and pix. Congratulations! Anyone else approaching a year and still have such a big chunk left to lose? Anyone else in the same boat as I am?

Thanks, Lisa! I feel great, too! Bernice.............