Dont know about yall but I was lookin at all the food today and realized we are almost out of the Honeymoon period!  I had my surgery 2/2/09 so....Im like a lil over a month away from 1 yr post op!!  EEEkk!!  luckily, I am more than satisfied with my journey so far, and feel even though I dont "diet" I make healthier choices now and am holding strong at 190...which is where I feel comfortable.

Update --- Baby is doing great!  we will be 11 weeks Monday and hopefully have another ultrasound or at least hear my puffins heartbeat!!  Since Xmas is over its time to focus on getting things ready for baby....and buying all things baby!

Can never be to prepared!!

Love you all hope you had a great holiday!  God Bless

~Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you as well~

I started at 283 and am at 152 two more to goal. Merry Christmas

387 to 221 is amazing.  I can imagine your frustration.  I'd never thought about how prior wl affects post op results.  I lost 50 pre op but it took years.  Perhaps thats the cause of my slow wl too.   

Its time for you to start doing clothes.  Looking good helps us to feel good about ourselves.  Do the clothes, hair, makup, the works. 

I am feeling you on the body image issues.  At my high of 287 lbs I did not feel fat or even look at myself as obese.  Now I feel huge, some days more so than others.   I am particular about fit so I replace clothing as my size changes.  Although I'm buying clothes in single digit sizes its like its not real, just an optical illusion.  I'm struggling with being "averaged" sized if that makes any sense at all. 

To me it sounds like you're rockin' it.  My highest was 387 and I got down to 315 on surgery date (2/9/09).  Right now I'm at 221 and have only lost 20lbs in the last 5 1/2 months!  The scale is going no where and yes I'm much healthier now than what I was at almost 400 lbs. I guess I just expected more from this surgery.  I'm assuming losing 72 lbs through diet and exercise (mostly diet adjustment though) prior to RNY has something to do with the fact that my body doesn't want to give it up easily now.  I just know that a 5'3" woman at 221 lbs is still really fat and it makes me feel like poop!

I haven't been on this site for a while and it sounds like I need to get back into the mode of having support during this journey.  People tell me how "good" I look but I can't see it.  I think it's because I really didn't know how I looked on the outside to other people before starting down this road.  I'm having mental issues with my appearance.  We went Christmas shopping at a big mall in Portland last week and my girls were having a great time trying on dresses, my husband was looking for some new clothes and I was happy.  That is until my husband asked me, "Aren't you going to get anything?"  I told him I don't do clothes and my mood plumeted!  I'm trying to figure myself out right now and I now I must sound like a basket case but I would love to know if anyone else is dealing with the same types of issues.  If you are, what are you doing or have done that's helped you?
 

Take care everyone, it sounds like you're all doing awesome!