Yay, Wendy!!!! That is so !! And it's still pretty darn soon after your ps - so I bet it drops more! I'm so happy for you!!! Pam

As of this morning I weighed in at exactly 184! This is an absolutely normal BMI for me! I am still losing from the ps and I don't know where I will end up, but after almost 2 long years it is amazing to me to be at goal. I know this is old for some of you *****ached goal a year ago, but to me, I NEVER thought I would be where I am now! No matter how well I followed my diet, the pounds had just stopped coming off and I thought I would be 195-200 lbs FOREVER! Although alot of this was extra skin, it is still a major achievement for me and I wanted to share it with my junebugs! Thank you all for the support and encouragement you have given me over the past two years. Our lives are so much different now and I don't know if I could have taken the craziness of all the changes without knowing I wasn't the only one going through this. Wendy

OOOOPS~ forgot the link to the pics in case anyone wants to see... http://s37.photobucket.com/albums/e76/scrappingal/catalina%202007/?action=view&slideshow=t rue Kerri

Hi, Kerri; I'm training for the Wharf-2-Wharf, which goes from the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz to the Boardwalk in Capitola. It's only open to 15,000 entrants (!!) because it's one of the best traveling parties going! There are about 40 different bands along the way, with people sitting on their lawns spraying the runners/walkers as they go by. Lotsa fun! I did it last year for the first time, and there's something I still can't figure out: why is it that the mile markers for the first two miles are so much closer together than the last two miles??? Go, girls!! In the meantime, we'll have all that applause when we step out of the shower and towel our hair dry, even when we're the only ones in the room.

Good for you Lynn! All the health benefits are definitely what we signed up for! Let me tell you, I realized just today as I looked in the mirror that I will NEVER be happy with the way I look unless I choose to be happy with it. That means that I just had major surgery and went through tons of pain and realized that I don't look like a Victorias Secret model. I wanted to, and I bought all the cute panties and that is NOT what I am! I am in the process of making up my mind that I am happy and healthy and I don't have the body of a 20 year old petite pinup and that is OK! I am gonna review this more with myself as time passes and work on my esteem issues. I hope you can be happy with yourself as you are. I decided not to do more plastics after this. I could, but I am not going to. I don't want go through more and find out that I am looking for something I am not. Some day you may find that the time is right for plastics for you and I hope you can do what truly makes you happy, but I sure hope you can be happy with every thing now and your new life sounds wonderful! Congratulations! Wendy