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I'm down to 130lbs!  I remember weighing myself in 8th grade and seeing 132.  I am smaller than i have been in a looooooong time.  I feel great!  So great, in fact, that I got a skinny girl haircut!  I love what this surgery has done for my health, my self-esteem, and my change of lifestyle.

Well it has been 6 months since my surgery.  I literally cannot believe how much I have changed both physically and emotionally.  I still am having trouble loading pics and don't have the patience to figure it out. 

I am now down 80lbs!  From 225 to now 145!  I am in a size 10, sometimes an 8.  I have not been this small...well ever!  Everyone tells me I look like I did in high school and have my old outgoing fun personality back.  I feel great. 

My surgeon's goal was 150.  My goal is 140, maybe even 135.  But I still want to look healthy so I will see how 140 looks.

I would do this surgery over in a heartbeat.  It is the best decision I have ever made.  I am so thankful that someone was sensitive the day that Aetna made the decision to approve me. 

I think one of the strangest changes is the fact that before I could never have imagined sitting around in a pair of jeans.  They were so uncomfortable.  Now I am sitting around in my size 30 7 for all mankind jeans and loving how I feel.  Oh and I have a belt on with them!  Because I need the belt to keep them up!

Life is good.  Having this energy and feeling so good about myself has made every other aspect of my life better.

I finally got over strep, I literally thought I was going to die.  I don't ever remember being like that when I had strep as a kid.  I was quarantined to the bedroom so Sam wouldn't get sick (and knock on wood, no signs of sickness yet).
Today I feel much better and was actually happy to see my students.  I think that they missed me.
I am just waiting for pre-op testing and the 20th.  I keep thinking all of these things that I am doing in 2008 and each time I think about them I get so excited because I know I will be healthy and thinner.  It's great!