MUSINGS ON MARCHERS' LONGEVITY

I'm sure not going anywhere. You guys are family! My physical family (husband and 2 daughters are all I have left) is stuck with me. The people on this board are family by choice. Love you all, Joy

I am here for the long haul too.

I too am a lurker, over the past year and half have read a lot and posted little. Not sure why I haven't posted more but have found the messages and advice here to be useful and helpful. Everytime I had questions or concerns I would come here and sure enough they would be answered. So though I may have been silent, my journey was helped along by all of you. Thanks and I plan to come back often for the support and advice I find here.

hello guys, i am a rare presense on this board but for some reason i looked it up tonite and low and behold i come across this post!! the last few weeks I have felt like i am loosing control of eating habits i picked up since i had a baby 6 months ago and am now breast feeding (which leaves me with a voracious appetite everytime i feed her). to get the 411 on that "shocker" last year, please read my journal. ive been spending all my time on the pregnancy board since a year ago october when i found out I was 17 weeks along and didnt even know it. anyhoo, it bothers me that the weight had come off without even blinking and now it doesnt. and im not even eating that much. the problem is for me is facing my eating demons such as sweets, etc... when i started this journal on march 9th of last year, i was 242 and today i am 145. im stuck at 145. id say overall it is successful but i feel the evil of weight gain upon me when i dont have the will power to stay away of calorie packed sweets. perhaps i am too paranoid of slow weightgain. it may be imagined or it may be real. thats why i decided to find the board of fellow wls patients who had the surgey around the same time i did. i wanted to find out who is still loosing weight and who isnt. Kimberly ME 34, DH 36 Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS dx 6/96) Our Kids & Fertility ****tails Used: 1) ALEX born 4/12/00 success! 7 cycles clomid 150mg /glucophage 1000mg 2) ANGEL BABY ANDREW loss @ 20weeks // severe neural tube defects / 3mo clomid 3) COLE born 8/4/03 success! 1st cycle repronex/iui after 8 mo failed clomid 4) ISABELLA born 3/21/05 surprise pregnancy conceived naturally 4 mo post-op Gastric Bypass surgery: WLS on 3/9/04 60lbs down at 4mo post op when Isabella was conceived (accidentally) Total lost 95lbs as of 09/10/05 242/147/125