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Post a hello. Let us know how you are doing in/around your 11th month!

Hi Kathy Im still down 97 lbs... danged 3 pounds... am doing well. Feeling good for the most part... im at 163-4 and goal for me is 150.... so Im close.. wont make it by 1 year... but I'll keep trying... How are you.... Karen

Unfortunately up several pounds for no good reason. Got some health issues hanging over my head. Waiting on a colonoscopy and if that is fine (which it should be) then I'm going to be having exploratory lap surgery to figure out where my pain is coming from. Wi**** was over already. Other than that... I'm fine. Glad to see you! Kathy

The past eleven months seem to have flown by. I qualify as a "lightweight", starting at around 211. (My highest weight was probably around 230-235). I now weigh 140, and am hoping to end in the 125-130 range. The weight is only coming off at a rate of 2-3 pounds over the past three months. I'm hoping the warmer weather, additional yard work and activity will help those final pounds leave me. I am feeling great, keeping busy, and enjoying life!

Hi all.... I am down to 141 lbs....keeping loosing and gaining the same 5 lbs the last 2 months. I am pretty happy where I am at weight wise, if I lost 5 lbs great if not oh well. I am wearing between a size 1-5 (yep a size 1...never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that I would EVER wear a size 1)! Over the summer I am going to start the process for a TT and a breast lift....hopefully doing it late spring next year or early summer(2007). Does anyone still feel fat....I am suffering majorly with body dismorph.? I still look in the mirror and still feel like I am huge! Yet....I know that I am in a smaller than normal size....SOUNDS CRAZY I KNOW! Hugs to all! Dawn

Lurker here... Boy do I know what you mean about still feeling larger than life! 113 pounds gone and into a size 3 is more than I ever would have dreamed possible. I see those small pants when I pull them out of the dryer (I actually dry them now instead of hanging them to air dry, you know, so the dryer wouldn't shrink them!) but I still can't "see" my smaller self. I too am struggling with those last 5 pounds, but I am extremely proud of myself for making past my surgeons goal of 130 and have settled at 125 for the time being. Now I am just paranoid that somehow I will start gaining all the weight back now that I don't see the scale moving downward. Congratulations to all the Maysters...we have made wonderful progress! Cheri

hey Kathy, Im here.....doing ok... feeling so much better than a year ago... I am O so struggling with my eating... which is a bit depressing.... Haven't lost anything in months now... kinda go up 3-5 lbs and back down...so I guess I am maintaing my weight...but I am not happy about it! I am down ~ 97 lbs.. I just kinda said to myself last night...Marla...don't you want to be at or below 100 lbs pounds gone by May 17?!?!?!?!?!?! But, I continue to sabatage whatever good days..hours.... I have! I guess it may be time to go speak to a professional?? Not sure what is going to help... and what is behind all of this.... I know I am not alone on this.... but I want it to go away! I guess I want it to go away with no effort too... I have been working out... and trying to work out harder.. and that's all good... cause physically I am doing sooooo much better.... Emotionally, I feel like a bit of a WLS faliure already... Can't seem to understand why I can't get past this! SO.... stuck at 247.... I want to be under 200... badly.. but I guess not bad enough to stick to my eating.... Thanks for listening! Hugs Marla