Wow moments & surgversary

It's been three months now. I have lost 67 lbs now; but 27 I lost before surgery! I am greatful for every pound; but I am stuck on a plateau now. I feel I am a much slow loser; I am trying to do everything right. I exercise like crazy; today I did the treadmill at incline of 5.5 at 3.2 miles and hour for 40 minutes and burned 364 calories! A year ago I never would have thought that I would be doing all this. I go for walks with my hubby now; and we go about 3 miles! I also do an exercise bike; and stregth training with the bands. I want to tone up all the flabbies that are now showing. Still I look in a mirror and I don't see it myself as much as others seem to! I have a lot of people saying they almost don't recognize me; and how great I look. Sometimes I don't know how to deal with the extra attention.. My hubby says that he has a new wife to do things with now. I have went from a size 24 to a size 16; and non attactive to very attactive! It feels great not to get out of breath doing things; and not being in pain constantly! I have cut out my b.p. meds altogether, cut my diabetes meds. down from 2 whole pill twice a day to only 1/2 pill at night. I am still dealing with an ulcer & a stricture; tomorrow I am going for another EDG. I wish I were losing faster; and I wish I knew some exercises that would help me tone. Well I will keep trudging on. Good luck to everyone. Lets all keep the faith even when we can't see it in ourselves! Thank God I have made it this far. Sincerely, Judy R

Judy, Keep up the good work. You are doing great. It's coming off at a just right pace, not to fast. That way you won't get sickly. Just look at the life you've got back so far. And I'm sure there is more to come. I too know excatly what you are talking about and going through. But thank God it sounds like we both have great husbands to go through it with. Charlotte

Okay that is a great WOW....I'm 3 months out as well and I have only lost 44 lbs. I really feel like a slow looser compaired to others. I try and find the time to do some walking but I work full time at a school and then my son has soccer from 6-8pm. The time for the gym is hard for me but I really need to get there and do some leg weights along with arm weights. Everyone at my work says I look great but I really don't see it just looking in the mirror, I only see it from my clothes. I wear an XLG shirt now and between a 16 and 14 pants. I was wearing a 2X shirt and 20 or 22 pants before my surgery Feb. 13th. I like to see how everyone is doing so feel free to keep in touch with me okay. I live in Germany right now with my husband who is Military, we have lived here for 7yrs and have one left. Support groups are a little hard here, they meet only once a month and sometimes not even then. Marie