Dear Joan, still losing, good for you. I remember Twiggy, too. I think some people say things without thinking, either they don't know what to say that is appropriate or they might even be a little envious of anothers success. It sounds like you are doing everything right and that your weight will adjust for itself. I hope you feel better and that everything with your home and moving goes the way you have planned. Take care Sher

Hi Joan and Ethel! I have been reading but not posting. Also outside in the nice weather planting more flowers etc. I even stretched and pruned a tree today. All things I couldn't have done last year!! I don't get tired, out of breath or have to stop and rest for half the time either and I can bend over. Now that is a big deal in my book. Hope everyone else is out having fun too. Julia W.

Thanks Sue..I never watched that show but remember Twiggy from long ago.... You are doing so great and happy for the wow moments you have had with your brother. Joan

so happy for you love hearing about stories like that, my family has not saw me yet either when I move back home I know they are going to die .

It's been a busy time for me the past week or so. I had a college fair for my younger son, work, side work on a website and a yearbook, and I went to my first visit with a chiropracter yesterday. This is another step in the documentation for a TT, but I also have lower back pain alot so it's legit. I did the MS walk on 4/22 and the Walkamerica one on the 29th with my son. I will post when I get the pictures developed. My brother came up from Florida last week and he hadn't seen me since last June. He has admitted to me in the past that he's horrible about noticing weight loss, so I didn't expect much from him. My mother, however, has been telling him all along how well I've been doing and so when my son and I got my mother's place, they were waiting for us at the stairs to her floor. My brother was astounded! He said to me, I know my sister is in there, I can tell you by your eyes, but you don't look like yourself any more!! Your face is so angular! Then he took pictures and sent them to my sister in law and niece and they were shocked, too. Needless to say it was a nice feeling! I will upload those pictures later today. Today is my older son's 19th birthday and it's the first year we are not spending it with him since he's at his dorm. (He dorms in Manhattan so I actually see him several times a week!) He used to be very standoffish, went through a gothy-kind of don't touch me phase, but now when we walk, he puts his arms around my shoulders! And he's constantly telling me how tiny I am. I am fitting into size 10 pants and small/med shirts and even though it took place over the past year, it feels like I just got here and it's still new and exciting for me. I think it will always be that way. Did anyone watch Oprah this week with the lady who had WLS surgery and has a book out called, Winning After Losing? She had a really good piece of advice - she said the difference between heavy people and thin people, is that when a thin person binges, they get up the next day and continue on normally where I guess heavy people see it as a failure and continue the binge. So I am trying really hard to forgive myself when I give in to a craving and just go right back and continue my program and be successful. I ordered her book from Amazon and another book and I'll let you all know what I think of it. I hope everyone is well and stopping in to report either here or on yahoo. Enjoy the weekend! Sue