This is a great idea....Turkey Day goal....hmmmmm... I think my goal for then is to be exercising 3x a week and to be below 300 lbs. I don't think that is asking too much Debbie 411/170/336

Barb, What a great idea! I've been being a slug lately. I fell down the stairs and used that as an excuse to quite excersising. I will however use this idea to jumpstart myself. H June 11, 04-216/Today-162/Turkey Day? 130/110=GOAL!

I have read where some are so large it's difficult to wipe their bums...and they use the spoon to help wipe after they've had surgery.... I just made my hubby help me....and he was very nice about it....but I seriously couldn't reach there for the incision pain those first 3 days..... So I THINK that's what it's referring to.....but I can be corrected if I'm wrong...

Patti!! Wow!! I know I can't beleive how different I am now!! More self confident, and I feel "normal"!! I went sliding at the park yesterday with my grand daughter!! and ran and Laughed with her!!I find myself some times getting scared that the weight will come back! Lord help me!! Compliments are nice, but knowing there is weight loss there is better!! I looked at a 5 sugar bags the other day; and thought "that is what I had to carry extra in life!" There is no way I could lift 50# of sugar and carry it all at one time!! I sure wish that I would loose faster too.... I still look best in 2xl & can fit into all my old pants. They are baggy around the legs, but my belly is still fluff!! Phylli 292/240 RNY 6-9-04

Hi!! I had my surgery 6-9-04; and am down 50#. The way I have been loosing is I stay the same, stay the same, and then after a week or so.. the scale goes down 3 or 4# all at once!! At first I worried, but now I decided my body is fighting back... and hangs on to those fat cells!!! I have a heel of a foot that gives me fits...as well as a knee that fights me too! I was walking 3 miles a day... but now I have returned to work; and I am on my feet at work; so I joined a health club. I excercise 3 times a week with weights and find that riding a stationery bike builds up my knees, as do the weights, I think!! Anyway, the knee feels great now, but the heel is still fighting back!! Anyway!! Isn't it a wonderful thing?? To have had this surgery?? Phylli RNY 6-09-04 292/240