Nice pix, April! You are looking great. Careful those jeans don't fall down on you! -- T.Rob

That's awesome, Heather! Congrats! I just broke through to regular obese down from morbidly obese and have a ways to go before "normal" but it sure is encouraging to see you made it. Makes me more determined to keep working my own plan. -- T.Rob

I just dropped in to OH to check the boards and see how everyone is doing. Had some extra time so I swung by my other bookmarked boards - NC, the Men's board, my surgeon's board. It struck me that this is the board I call home and consider family. We all went through the process together and even though many of us are now infrequent visitors, I still feel a closer bond to the folks here. I love to read up on how everyone is doing and see the new pictures, even when I don't have time to post. So having come to that realization I wanted to share it with you all. My adopted online family. Oh, and by the way - I'll be home for Thanksgiving. I'd tell you to set a place at the table but I think the feast has been toned down somewhat. So what do we do now? Do we all become the weird relative at Thanksgiving who entertains the kids with the "pull my finger" joke? Do we hand the master of ceremonies a deck of cards and say "carve me out about this much"? Do we make science project volcanoes on our plates with the mashed potatoes and gravy? Oh yeah, this first post-op holiday season promises to be *real*interesting. -- T.Rob

Highest: 271 Surgery: 261 Last week: 181 This week: 179.5 Total: 91.5 lbs. I haven't been to the gym in 3 weeks because of my schedule and HOPE to get going again this week, 'cause right now, thank goodness I'm still losing but slooooowwwwly.

That's incredible Donna - aren't 16's just great! My problem with shopping now is that there are too many choices - I'm used to only buying what fits. I've bought WAY too much! :-0