You go GIRL! My thoughts and prayers are with you! Everything will go FINE! And you will be feeling better in no time! I will be going for an abdominoplasty and a breast lift on August 22! I am nervous, scared, and excited at the same time! I can relate to your feelings! I know having the support here means a lot! Keep in touch! Hugs! Jenna

Glad to hear that all is going as well as can be expected given a car wreck just before vacation The vitamins and supplements are a definite downside - especially since I have never been a vitamin/supplement type person....now I take so many my PCP says I could probably sell my urine because of its high mineral content!

Hi Tammy, Glad to hear you're having a good summer....seems like I remember you having a car wreck before you left on vacation. How did your 2 year check up go? I know you weren't taking vitamins and was worried about you. I am a faithful taker and still ended up with severe iron anemia (good news is that the B-12 levels were way high - doc said to keep them that way because once they get low they are HARD to get back up). I'm now taking extra iron (and stool softeners to counter the iron "effect") but the doc said if it's not up by Nov, that he'll send me to a hematologist. Please let us know how you're doing. Maria

we also bought a pop up trailer this summer- went camping 3 times so far.. tomorrow is my breast reduction surgery.. go back to teaching (workshop week anyway) on the 27th- I've been so bad this summer with snacking- i've regained about 15 pounds.. so once i'm healed- I decided to join the new YMCA in lino lakes- and start up water aerobics again... and start toning up- and really treating myself right.... next summer will be the tummy tuck without muscle tightening... just remove the excess skin- really excited for that- just couldn't do it during school year... so i june i will have that done.... we are still saving money to adopt our second child - girl h opefully... that's about it from me.. jennifer

What's everyone doing, enjoying the nice weather and our new bodies? I'm guilty I'm doing so many things now that I wouldn't/couldn't do before. We bought a camper this summer and we are gone almost very weekend (plus side to that is the house isn't getting messy). I'm still working on losing the last 10 pounds but I regret to say I think I might be stuck with them. I'm wearing size 8-10 pants and 10-14 shirts just depends on the style. Starting to really think about surgery to get rid of all this skin, even though I know that it won't happen anytime soon but I still can start the process and dream, right? My boys are now 4 ½ and our daughter is 18 and off to collage so now it's time to think a little more about me. The boys won't start kindergarten until next year and that is when I'm thinking of the surgery so I won't have to deal with them all day. DH is supportive but realistic that we don't have the money right now and we both really want a new house in 2 years (we want to build). Working full time and playing the boys is my life even though I would like to quite working I know that I can't I want to many things in life. I'm really working on taking better care of myself, I'm exercising at working 3-4 times a weeks for 45 min. Drinking more water and yes I'm trying to take my vitamins (still not everyday or every other day) but I'm working on it. So come on people what have you been doing? This board was hopping 2 years ago where did you all go? We still need to keep talking and being supportive for each other.