A few new photos

Posted a few new photos in my profile today ... went yesterday and got my hair cut even shorter, I really am loving it, so darn easy. Hubby even liked it, told me how cute I was! Finally got up the nerve to post my "Before" photo too!

You look GREAT!! Thanks for sharing the pictures!!!

Felicia =0)

Wow you look great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Lorraine

Jan, I've often glanced at your picture when you post and thought "Why did she have surgery? She doesn't need to lose weight." But I just went through your photos and when I got to the one with your new haircut, the close up of your face, my eyes got all teary and I kept thinking, "How is this possible? Can this really be the same person who was hiding behind her husband in Hawaii?" I just don't comprehend how bodies can change so much.  And when I got to the last one, the tears let loose. Posting these pictures is making this all so much more real for me. Having read posts from all of you, even though I never meet you, you are more real than any other before and after picture I could see. Putting the two and two together, then thinking that my body might actually be able to change is still somewhat surreal, but thanks to your bravery in posting the pics, I am getting strength and faith. Thanks so much, Jan. - Julie

Wow Julie,  Now you've got me crying!  It has been such a struggle for me to post that before picture, and I don't understand why?  I carry it with me all the time, I show it to total strangers at the DR office, but to post it here for some reason was really hard.   In this last month I've had so many people I've never met send me emails, thanking me for posting in my blog, that I decided it was time to come out of the closet. If I could help one person to understand that this surgery saved my life, then I feel I've done a great thing. I'm ashamed I ever let myself look like that and get to that size, but I'm also very proud of the fact that with the help of wonderful DR's I've been given a tool to help take control of my life and eating habits. Just last week I was doing some soul searching, and I asked my husband to answer a few questions honestly, and I promised never to get mad at the answers... I asked him if he'd ever been embarrassed to be seen with me, and he hesitated, but then said yes, on a few occasions. This man has stuck with me through my very worst, is my best friend, and I embarrassed him ... so what have other friends or anyone else for that matter thought about me? It was a very deep moment for me. Again I feel blessed to have been given the opportunity to turn my life around! Thank you so much for your comments, you'll never know what they have meant to me.

HEY JANDELL,          OMG...... LOOK AT YOU!!! YOU LOOK SO MUCH YOUNGER NOW ... I HAD MY HAIR CUT JUST THAT SHORT TO RECENTLY AND I LOVE IT.... THIS SUMMER HEAT HERE WILL KILL YA.... YOU HAVE DONE SO AMAZING AND ARE AN INSPIRATION TO EVERYONE..... WHEN I FIND OUT HOW TO POST BEFORE AND AFTERS ON MINE I WILL DO SO.... IM A COMPUTER BOOK FOR DUMMIES KINDA GIRL LOL... KEEP IT UP!!! HUGS MARGE

Jandell You look like a totally different person. You look great!

You are such an inspiration. I cannot wait until I am also realizing the results of WLS!

You look great, so pretty! Now ya gotta change your avatar....grin!