WOW thats great!!! Keep up the great work. and yes it is work. Lisa

hello everyone i am new to this site im 24 years old and had surgery three years ago however im really down i dont feel like i have lost as much as i should and i have been at the same weight for about a year i have tried everything to lose more but nothing seems to be working im so scared of gaining weight back that its taking over my life if anyone has any advice it would be super i need help thank you

It's good to hear from you Dave, I'm glad to hear you are doing well. I've been lurking on the board never really posted but sure do miss our July board no one seems to stop by anymore. So just wanted to stop by and say HI!!

Hello July'ers I haven't posted in a long time, I usually just lurk. Well life has been very busy I have 3 kids and they are 19, 16, 14 I've been extremely busy with the 14 because she is having her Quicenera this year and I have about 2 wks left to get everything togethor. I never got to my goal weight but do feel great and have been trying to cut out carbs to see if that will get my weight moving again... Nothing major has changed for me, still working like usually and still married..

Hi everyone, I forgot my password for my former username- MicheleG-- so I had to create a new one. It's been a loooooong time since I've been here. I apologize for abandoning ship, but life happened- I separated from my husband and got a full time 50+ hour week job (as a customer service manager, which I loved) and that took all the extra out of me! My old profile is here http://www.obesityhelp.com/morbidobesity/members/profile.php?N=G1100365247 with only one picture, but my journey is there. Anyway, how's everybody doing? Living life I'm sure! I'll give you an update as to what's been happening with me and hopefully everyone else will join in! So I had my job for 2 years and I loved it. The job, but not my boss. Finally I got sick of him and quit. A whole lotta stuff happened in between too. My husband and I got back together and are going to marriage counseling to try to make it work. I had my Roux-en-y on July 18, 2005. Highest weight 268, and I got down to 137 in 10 months. Had a lot of issues getting sick. At 10 months out had to have my gall bladder removed, at 1.5 years out had an ulcer that perforated that required immediate surgery to repair. I'm still here. But coping with all this illness and the separation and being a single mother was very difficult for me. I started drinking to cope. Well- excessive drinking and WLS do not mix. I became a chronic alcoholic. Been in and out of treatment programs but I can say today that I finally "got it". I have 37 days sober today and I am grateful for my life. On the weight loss front, I stayed at 155-160 pounds for a long time. That is a good weight for me (I'm 5'7"). But then in October 2007 I quit smoking and got addicted to pretzels. Bad, bad, BAD! I have since gained 30 pounds from the dang things- so my weight is 185 now. The weight charts say that is about normal for a 50 year old chick- but I would like to be back at 160. I hardly eat anything, still dump (thankfully) it's these dang pretzels (which I am eating right now at 6:23 in the morning!!! BAD CARBS!!) My back problems have flared up again. So after this weekend I am going to do the 5 day pouch test and quit the pretzels and get back down to size. I have too many size 8-10 pants in my closet to NOT do it! Been going to the gym a couple of times a week. I'm not working (thankfully I don't have to if I don't want but I'm a better person if I do so I am casually looking) but my days are still pretty full with AA meetings and such. So- that's about enough from me! I want to hear from our former July'ers. Come on everybody, let's see how many lurkers we can get to come out of the closet! I want to know what is going on with everyone!!! Love, Michele