Not silly- I totally understand. My best friend wants me to run in this big race in Oct. of 2008- the Army 10 miler. 10 miles?!?!? Is she nuts?? I'm TERRIFIED. I'm always so paranoid about what I will look like running or if I will ever be able to make it even a mile, let alone 10! I'm supposed to start training for it in January. We'll see. GOOD LUCK! Pretty soon you'll be speedy gonzalez!! Kathy

YAY!!!!!! I got on the scale this morning...on my 5 month surgery anniversary and it said 267. I finally lost the 100 lbs I was hoping to lose before my vacation next week! I'm so excited..........117 more lbs to go. Shee****hat seems like a LOT! Anyway, just wanted to share my accomplishment with you guys! Courtney

T.Rob how funny you bring this up! And, btw, I consider you all family too! We cook for an army at Thanksgiving and Christmas some come on down! Mark loves to cook. I do it when necessary. So, yesterday we were talking about the menus. His folks want us to come down for Thanksgiving. Since his mom is a horrible cook, that might be an option. But, since his dad smokes like a chimney, I don't wanna go. Mark is VERY weirded out about my first "real" holiday and how we will cook. I came home the day before my birthday, but since there wasn't cake, the birthday didn't count for much. I make stuffing patties and I'm gonna have one darn it. Okay, I might make a teeny, tiny one, but I'm having one all the same. Turkey is protein! 'Nuff said there. Okay, I might cry over missing a crescent roll. But, other than that, I'm excited! My "HUGE" photo is one Mark's dad took of us the Saturday after Thanksgiving when we did the Christmas thing. So, I saved the sweater and I'm taking a "one year later" pic on that same date. I'm sure I won't after looking at my new one. Oh, yeah. The holidays are gonna be REAL interesting. We can always go to Spencer's and get whoopie cushions. OUR butts won't break them now. Thanks for the early morning laugh! * Cyndi *

Hi Rebecca, I barely feel qualified to respond considering how little I've been around here of late but I just wanted to say the feeling is mutual. Even when I don't post I try to keep up with the other posts and blogs and I draw inspiration from them. You've been there for me even when you didn't know you were and I thank you right back. -- T.Rob

For me it depends on what the food is. With yogurt, I can eat it almost at will. Not quite like a true liquid but almost. Soups without much solids, same thing. More solid foods I can eat a large portion like a full Lean Cuisine, but it takes me a while. Sometimes I've overdone it and it's real uncomfortable. My NUT says the trick is to stop based on measured serving size and not what "feels" full so I've been trying to do that. Unfortunately, nothing seems to make me dump. I admit to trying some of my guilty pleasure foods. I was hoping for some aversion therapy - get sick, vomit or worse. No such luck. I have to stay away from these on principle alone. -- T.Rob