Nancy , Focus on the positive things. WOW YOU WENT FROM A 4x TO A LARGE AND A 28 TO A 16/18 That is fantastic!!!! I too get frustrated.THIS week has been the week from HELL and my old way's I would have had quite a few glasses of wine . to drown out the crappy week. AND a bag of chips and dip!! I now have pretzels and crackers and cheese..ect... I'm NO angel and I do think I sometimes snack too much. I haven't gained yet, but, I really haven't lost too much more either. I think your doing great. and try to perhaps get back on track to keep up the great work you've already done. Just my 2 cents. Mary 268/260/153/145??? someday??

Here's my stats: Start weight -- 226 Current weight -- 160 Anniversary Goal -- 140 Mine is just coming off so slow now. I guess the closer I get to my goal the slower it will come off. I need to be revived. It seems as though I've lost my motivation.

I did lower carb, ( Not No Carb) make most of your meals be protein based 1 cardio workouts every other day A lot of water And no eating after 8pm. I have broken my plataue!!!!!!!! Mr. Jae

Well as of today I am down -122 lbs. I started at 287 and my 11 month weigh in is today...May 18th. I officially weigh 165! I too have found some bones that I didn't know I had....actually I thought they had messed something up when my sternam (sp) showed up under my chest. I went to my PCP and he just laughed at me....Oh well. I now have hip bones too and its funny to have a hard time sitting on a boney hind end. I have gone from a size 26/28 pants to a loose 14s ...nervous about trying the 12's...but I will try them soon, and I was a 3X in tops and am down to Mediums.YEAH!!!! The other day I bought shorts for exercising and thought the Large looked like they were big enough ( not trying things on is a hard habit to break from my heavier days ) and ended up taking them back because ....get this......THEY WERE TOOOOOOO BIG! I haven't had that happen in a VERY VERY long time. So I now have the mediums and they are pretty roomy too. I also have the jiggly legs, and arms, but its so much better than the filled out way I was before, that I don't care. (Well sorta....lol) Good luck to everyone else....and Congratulations! Cindy in OHIO 287/165/140

When the scale read 203 pounds a couple of weeks ago, I was happy and scared at the same time. So close to being under 200 pounds I could taste it. I haven't been under 200 since 1973 when my youngest was an infant. Then I began to worry. Will I get to goal? Will the weight stay off? What will I do without the shield of fat to hide behind? Stress gave way to snacking on salty chips which lead to a five pound gain. Cutting back on the salt got rid of the water weight I gained. I had been weighing at work but they took the scales out of the nurse's office to paint and rearrange the office and sick room. Checked tonight but the scale still has not been put back yet. I bought a scale at WalMart which weighs me at 201.4 pounds in the nude. My next appointment at the surgeon's office is not until the first week in July, so I guess I'll just have to wait until then to see how my home scale compares to his. On the up side, I can now fit into a large lab coat at work instead of the 4-X I was wearing before surgery. My first visit to the surgeon's office, I was wearing size 28 slacks and a 3X top. I just bought a new summer outfit in a size 16/18. It feels great to finally be able to shop in the regular sizes. It's just that I've hid from the world and myself for so long. Now I'm going to have to face my fears and memories without the buffer. I can no longer use food to stuff my feelings because I get full too quickly now to do that. Long gone are the days I could consume a pound of potato chips and a tub of dip along with a 2-liter bottle of soda at one sitting. Also as the fat dimminishes, expectations rise. I hope this makes sense to you all and I appoligize for rambling. Prayers are requested to keep me on track. LAP RNY 6-21-04 310/201/122