Meet the family-LOL

Anyone who is interested in "meeting" my sister, refer back to my original "New here" post from 1-16-06. We talked on the phone the other night and I was talking about this board. Lo and behold, when I checked my email the next day it said I had a new response on that old post from someone very familier... : ) Check out her profile and pics, she is 13 months post op and doing great. Her screen name is, I believe, Whozat Sg. (She used to be Beth S. but we were discussing the fact that when you google her it takes you here and she decided to go ahead and change it.)

Here I am! You can click my name above to see my profile, if you care to. I need to take some new photos, though, as I've now lost 175 lbs Hmm, I may just go do that in a few minutes here. That would be worth putting clothes back on for. . . (no, I'm not taking photos in my jammies!) Interesting about the Google thing. . . If I'd realized that when I first joined here, pre-op (and I should've - I am freakin' web developer, not like I don't know "internet stuff!") there's no way I would've used my real name, because I certainly wouldn't have wanted someone I knew to see my weight. As time went on - by the time I found out that Google picks up our profiles here - I was far enough along that it wasn't a big deal. Heck, if I was standing there is size 20 pants, saying "I've lost 100 lbs" (or whatever it was at the time) folks aren't stupid, they could do the math. At this point, though, I realized, what bothers me more is that someone I've met recently (and I meet a lot of new people through my political activities, and maybe some of them want to Google me and see what I'm about?) would find out that I "used to be fat." "Used to be. . . " I have to keep reminding myself of that. That someone who just met me probably doesn't see me as "a fat person" even though I still very much think of myself that way. lol . . . probably. . . Well, unless they consider someone wearing size 10 pants (of which I bought 6 pairs today) and size small shirts (of which I have a few) to be "fat." In which case, they just need to die.

While messing around in my profile to add my new photos, I decided that a totally pseudonymous screen name was just silly, so I went back to my real first name / last initial(s). Sorry for any confusion! Beth

Yep, that's my sis. Check out her photos and watch her shrink!

You need to start doing the photo thing, yourself. I'm sure you could talk Daddy into taking some Beth

WELCOME Beth and can I just say that is freakin' unreal with the photos. That was the coolest thing I've ever seen!! You look fantastic!! Thank you for sharing your story and your pictures. WAY TO GO... I'm still pre-op and going in for pre-op tests next week so hopefully I'll be on the losing side soon. CONGRATULATIONS on your weigh loss!! Jamie

Thanks, Jamie - Good luck w/your tests and your surgery. Beth