Hi Joan, Hope your air conditioning is fixed. It must be really hot without it. People say in Oregon, we don't need air conditioning but as a native Oregonian---I disagree! Love the outside heat but want it cool inside. Hope everything else gets fixed and reduces you stress. I wish I had lost your 2 pounds!! At least I did not find your 2 pounds! Julia W.

Thanks Rebecca, You have a fun and safe holiday weekend. Julia

Julia, Good to hear from you and glad to hear you're still doing good. When I reached my goal and kept losing, I added foods to increase my calories to stop the losing. Unfortunately, it worked too well and the past couple weeks I have gained about 10 pounds. I'm still under my doctors goal weight, but I need to get back on track because I don't want to gain anymore. I haven't been running lately because of the heat, but as soon as I get back into it, the pounds will disappear quickly. That's one good thing about this tool. I've gone from size 48 pants to size 30 and some 28s. I can't remember ever being this small. I've been really having a hard time finding pants that fit. The Men's departments usually only go down to 32s so I've been shopping in the Boy's departments, but they just don't wear dress pants. A much better problem than not being able to find pants big enough. It's hard to realize how far I've come. Some exciting news to share, too. Brenda and I have decided to go on the 2nd Annual WLS Cruise to the Bahamas in January 2008. We just applied for our passports and now getting very excited. We were always hoping to go on a cruise for our 5th wedding anniversary and we're getting ready to celebrate our 32nd. Better late than never. It's always good to hear from our April friends. Hope everyone continues to do well. Take care. Floyd

Hi Julia, glad to see someone from the April board is checking in. Sounds like things are going well for you. That's great that you are still losing. I am sure you will get to your goal. I am losing slowwwwwwww. An occasional pound here and there, but I am happy. My size 12's are getting lose. I don't remember when I ever wore a 12, in the 9th grade I wore 14's I think. The most important thing is feeling good and being healthy any other perks like smaller sizes are a bonus. I didn't have any old clothes that I could wear since I had been obese for the last 28 years. But I am sure enjoying going shopping now. We will all need to work at keeping the weight off, I am pretty confident that we can as long as we use our tool to it's advantage. We will not gain back our weight, we will not gain back our weight, we will not gain back our weight. Take care Sher

I've taken a sister drug, Lyrica, with no problems. The Ortho who prescribed it said that it was neurontin with a slightly different configuration. Also the it was better because it had less side effects. It's supposed to be good for diabetic neuropathy and shingles nerve pain. He gave it to me becuse he thought the leg and toe curling foot cramps I was having had a neurological basis. Jeanne