Oh my!  You guys are just starting out!

Wow, to have lost 70 pounds in less than 2 months!

My weight loss was slow the whole time through... but you will definitely keep losing during the first year.  I lost slowly for the first two years, but have a thyroid problem... so was happy with any loss.

Anyways, don't fret... you'll hit lots of little "stalls"... but they should be nothing to worry about during your first year!

V.

So after not losing any weight for just over a week, my stall finally broke! How is everyone else doing?

edited to add..... there are comparison pics on my blog......

http://stephanie-myrnyjourney.blogspot.com/

That's great, Steph.  I've never done consignment.  I'll have to think about that.

Lara

I am losing though (except for that stall that nearly all the early Feb folks seem to have gone through together).

I'll ask my nut when I'm in next and post the answer - for now I'm going to go with the theory that if I'm losing weight and feeling good, everything's fine.

I had a Wow moment yesterday - my Wii Sports (love it!) has a fitness test that scores your relative fitness based on speed, balance and stamina in terms of age.  Yesterday it said that I had the fitness level of a 26 year old (I'm 49) which is down 15 years from my last pre-surgery test.  Wheeee!

I've spent the last week bringing summer clothes up from the basement, trying them on, sorting them by "consign", "donate", "toss", "give to friend" and "take to tailor" then ironing and mending as necessary.  Yesterday I took a big bundle to the consignment store and today I got through the last of the clothes and have an even larger pile ready to consign. 

I’m writing to share how emotionally satisfying this process was!  I’ve always like periodic purging of possessions; but this was especially satisfying for several reasons:

1)       I got rid of everything that didn’t fit perfectly (a few favorites will be tailored). I’d never even worn some of these garments. I bought them because they were “close enough" for a very large woman who did not have a lot of clothing options. 

2)       My willingness to get rid of this carefully accumulated hoard of plus size clothing was a great affirmation that I am indeed making profound changes in my life.

3)       I’m building up a big balance at the my favorite consignment store which will help finance my evolving wardrobe needs :)

Steph