Gina, Who ever would have thought you'd understand your loss is your gain. This is truely an amazing journey, I am WOWED everyday as I put on clothes I could not fit into for years and years. I think most of all is when other men comment how much better I look, just because most men are not comfortable saying that. Thanks for your wow list, I can surely relate to them all. Congrats on your awesome wl achievement, sounds like you are handling it well. Dan

You go, girl!! You stop when you feel like you reached a halthy weight that you're comfortable with. I started out at 255, am now 185 and my goal is 150. I actually had someone tell me yesterday that at 150, I'd be TOO skinny. I simply responded, let's wait and see. We've all gone through this procedure to lose weight and to become more healthy. But what I'm beginning to understand about others is that some people are more comfortable with us being fat. We made "them" look good for so long that, yes, they are a bit jealous. They think we took the easy way out. Well, I'm getting sidetracked. Darling, be proud to be "overweight", because we are so proud of you and happy for you too!! And I had a "Wow" moment last night...I was falling asleep on my side and my husband whispered, "You're getting your curves back." I cried and responded, "That's the sweetest thing you've said to me in the longest time." Have a fabulous day, folks, Laura*

I wasn't the one embarrassed, but I was the one laughing my you know what off!! My daughter had surgery in January and sometime later, maybe 6 weeks, we were coming in late one evening from a scrapbooking event. I let her out of the car before I pulled into the garage. She went on ahead of the car and as she stepped up the one step to the door, her jeans fell to the ground. She had her hands full, so had to just step out of them and on into the house. I was watching my mirrors as I pulled in, so didn't see them fall, but looked up just in time to see the scantily clad bottom in the headlights. We laughed ourselves silly and it is still our favorite wls moment. Hugs, Vicki -112 incl pre op loss

Oh my! Those are hilarious! My semi-embarassing moment....I frantically scheduled an appt at my dr (gyno) to examine the HUGE "lump" that had appeared all of a sudden. He squeezed me in knowing how concerned I was. Turns out (thankfully) that it wasn't a lump. It's called a breast bone. Mine was just slowly making an appearance as I lost the padding there too.

I was like that for a while. It took 3 months before I changed sizes, but now I have lost from a tight 28 to a size 18. I had surgery on April 15, and have now lost 104 pounds. Good luck Kelly