Thanks Nan.... And WoW!!!!!  Amazing that you and your kiddos lost that much weight collectively.... I wish I could get my dad on board with the surgery, but he will have nothing to do with it... Matter of fact he tried so hard to talk me out of it, and I am glad he never succeeded....

I remember seeing your story on the news I think.  You are a beautiful woman with a beautiful family.  You should all be very proud....

Oh and my weight keeps dropping now since I made that original post.  I just gave up my late night munching and it is just dripping off again!!!!  Wooooo Hooooo!!!!!  I was so glad to get the encouragement and support that I did here.... I am so glad I came to this board years ago.  It has helped me in soooo many ways.  

Now if I could just get my plastics done, but we have to get outta debt first then maybe in a few years we can use our tax return money and save some money too, so that I can get it done.  Right now we just owe too many people (and credit cards) too much money to justify paying out of pocket and the insurance denied me right away.  There was no even doing an appeal after reading the denial letter because it is plain out not a covered benefit.  Neither is the gastric bypass, but fortunately I had different insurance back then that covered my surgery 100%....

Well, I am rambling now.... Have a good night and thanks again and congrats on all your success!!!!

HUGS,

Sounds legit to me.  Was it from Tammy Colter?  I was contacted by her thru email to be possibly featured in the OH magazine with my three kids.

Back in March, we did a media event with Hurley Bariatric Center and it was on the local news stations and newspapers of how myself and my three kids have lost almost 500 lbs.  Then, I was contacted to do a commercial for Hurley with the kids.  We just filmed that last Friday and also took a bunch of still shots.

When we did the media event, Tammy from OH contacted me and at that time I told her I'd like to wait to submit our photos until we did this commercial becasue at the time, the boys were only 3 months out of surgery, even though they had lost 100 lbs each at that time.  We agreed that we would wait until the commercial shoot to get some high resolution pictures so she can use those.  And also, so the boys would be near goal.  I'm glad we waited because the boys are now at goal and as a group, we have collectively lost 610 lbs!!

That is neat for you too!! I say submit the pictures and be proud of what you have accomplished!!

BTW - I read your other post too about struggling and I can totally relate!!!  Not with the smoking, but with the regain.  I am up about 15 lbs since last summer and I always said I was never going to get that 'bounceback' but I did!  So I have to do the same as you....get back to basics!  Easier said than done sometimes, but after reading your post and the encouraging responses I know I can do it....and so can you!

Take care!
Nan