106 pounds in 5 -1/2 months!

I am feeling so very blessed that God has granted me the opportunity to have a surgery that has enhanced my quality of life, in so many ways. God gave me the strength nad courage to actually do it, and touched the hands of my surgeon as he operated on me, and pulled me through. As of today, I have lost 106 pounds and went from a size 24 to a size 10. I can walk without pain, get on rides at the amusement park with my teenagers, sit on the floor and get up, and go down the slide with my 2 year old at the park. This is living life for me...just being able to enjoy my family, and the fact that I look better is just an added bonus. This has been amazing and very serious at the same time. I don't take anything for granted including my health and I continue to thank God and do the best that I can. But...I am one happy camper right now. I'm just 14 pounds from goal..hooray! One question though....how do you get a century club card? Start- 270/164/goal-150

That is so great! And you are so close to goal -- Good luck on reaching it soon!

Hope, you need to have somebody on the board design a profile page for you (check out any that have been customized--at the bottom you'll find a link to the designer.) When you set up your design, be sure to ask them to include the card on your profile. Greg (342/209/178)

Hi Hope, you have lost a lot of wieght good for you. My surgery is scheduled for next week, and I am so scared. Like you a big reason for doing this is so that i can enjoy doing things with my children without having to stop every 5 min because i'm tired. I want to be able to take them and go on rides with them at the amusment parks. I really am scared though I keep thinking that if something happens and i die then it was my own selfishness of choosing to have this surgery that will leave my children without a mother. I trust in god and hope that he's with my surgeon the day of surgery, besides praying that is about the only thing that i can do. I just wish that i could shake of this stress so that i coul'd begin focusing on the future with wls. Thanks for listening.Once again congrats on bieng so close to your goal!!! Paula )

Hello Paula, I know exactly how you feel. At one point I almost cancelled my surgery as a result of pure fear. Prior to my surgery I "what if'd myself into a frenzy". I got comfortable when I decided that I had put my fate in God's hands, did plenty of research, and got the best darn surgeon I could find. My sister -in-law gave me a card, and on the cover of that card it had a doctor operating on someone in an operating room with nurses etc. surrounding him, and like a watermark reaching over the surgeon from behind it was God guiding the sureons hands. Talking about touched by a card, "I framed it". Stay positive, think positive and positive things will happen. I will keep you in my prayers.