POSTED MY NEW PIC

PAM!!! where you been hiding stranger? thanks so much, i am feeling pretty good. and i am just 11 lbs away from being NORMAL! how are you doing? time for your new pic, too! i have a feeling that one month post-op pic is pretty out-dated! hugssssss

I'm doing GREAT! I'm so happy that whooshie Fairy is back in business!! I've been off here for a few days dealing with menstrual migraines. I hate those darn things. I can't even LOOK at a computer screen when I get them. I hadn't had one in June, July, August or September. I thought I was CURED! Bummer. Had one in October and now again in November. Darn it. You are right about the pic....so I had hubby take a new one today....and it's UP! I even added a better (ha-ha) before pic. Check it out and tell me what you think!! Pam

PAM!!!!!!!!! you look HOT! woohooo, you go girl! i am so glad you put up a new pic, that is absolutely fantastic!!! hugssssssss

Thanks Mary Jo!! I feel soooooooo good! It's really happening.....I'm really losing weight!! This picture was the first time that I actually could see it. I saw your posts about plastics. I know I'm going to need my arms done....BIG TIME. Can you believe that costs $7000.?!?!?! The only way I'm gonna get my hubby to pay for that is to agree to the boob job!! (ya know, he's right though...there's not much left in that department!!) I found out that you don't have to have that BIG tummy tuck (where they go all the way around your whole body)....You can get the kind where they just cut you in the front (kind of like a c-section). That's a lot cheaper too. I guess they might still have to move your belly button though. If I do a tummy tuck, I'm doin' the mini one. That all the way around one is too mind boggling for me. A friend of mine just had the BIG tummy tuck. She had the surgery on a Friday and was out at the support group meeting on Wednesday. She was just a walkin around like nothing ever happened. I was really impressed! Pam

OH MARY JO... I am so with you tummy tuck just dont sound like a surgery for me SO FAR..... I guess ill just let people know im a distant relative of the SHAR Pai (i think i spelled that wrong) and just laugh at my new deflated balloon look. MAYBe looseing slower it will firm up some but i doubt it. I do hear that insurance companies cover the tummy tucks if mixed in with HERNIA repair. ALSO if you document with pictures and visits to a dermatoligst and complain of rashes under the folds they approve them .BUT like you scares me the pain, the reconstruction of a belly button...alot... Well i hope to have a better looseing week. I bought my strawberries and i am going to eat them this week some to boost along a big whooshie! I desparately need to whooshie on in to those fabulous 100's lisa 310/205/???

Mary Jo! Your picture is just wonderful!! I can't wait to be that small. You must be so excited. I am very, very happy for you. You go girl! Jo

oh thanks so much jo! even 5 months out, this is all still so hard to believe! we have a great group on this board, i am so appreciative that we have the support that we do here! hugssssss

Mary Jo- Wow, you look amazing!!!! How good is that to be able to fit into a size 12 jeans!!! I hope to be there someday as well. I have a lot more to go, though. Keep up the great work... you're awesome! Take care, Kerri

thanks so much kerri! it is feeling pretty good so far. i am sure you are doing great, too! don't worry, you WILL see a size 12 again! hugssssss

You are lookin good girl. Keep it up. I am sooooo proud of you. I am wearing 14's and XL tops now. Life is good......... Deloris 309/288/199/135