Jill, You look awesome... Great job... Happy 1 year. You're doing great... Kepp up the good work. Tammy

Happy Monday to All... Hope you all had a great weekend. Ours was good. Took the 3 hr trip up North on Friday & stayed with friends until Sunday. We had a great weekend. Tomorrow is my sisters surgery in Maryland. Everyone please say a prayer for her that God will guide her surgeons hands through an uneventful, successful surgery. My girls & I will be leaving this Saturday to go spend the week with her. I'll let everyone know how it turns out. Anyway, I did get a one mile bike ride in this morning. I rode my daughters bike...wow that seat sucks... At least I got a mile in.... Todays weight was teetering between 181 & 181.5 Have a great day everyone..... tomorrow will be 1 year since my surgery Tammy

You go Girl!! Last week you were so upset and now that darn scale (how happy we get when it moves in the right direction!!) has good news for you. I'm truly am happy for you Donna! Just 5 pounds to onderland!!!!!! Lori 293/195/135

Hi Deb, Welcome to the August 2005 messageboard. Most of us have been talking with each other for the past year. It has been great to see that my progress matches up with others on the board. Not so much the weight I've lost (I'm a ssslllooowww looser), but the times when stall**** and other frustrating moments that others have been through. It has helped more then I can say. I am still about 60 pounds from goal, but determined to make it. I have loved this journey and meeting the many people on this site who have helped along the way. I am still too far to think about PS, but I do it anyway. I, like Torrey, will wait until I am 18 months out before seeing anyone, although I'd like to start my search today. It just doesn't make sense to start too early. Well, I hope to see you often posting and answering our post with your experience. Congrats on making it to goal and if you are doing what is right, don't worry about gaining the weight back. I believe you have been and will continue to be a success on your journey. Lori 293/195 (2 pounds from century club)/135

Welcome to the board. I'm also watching Celebrity Fit Club. However, I was afraid of gaining the weight back before I that. I know it's about eating right. Sometimes I wish I still threw up as often as I did in the beginning. Seems like I can eat anything now, just not that much of it. I decided to see a therapist for a while, about this and other issues. It's amazing the havoc massive weight loss can play on your mind. My DH is having a crisis that I will leave him now I've lost the weight or that he doesn't turn me on. Do people really treat me differently, or do I act differently, so they treat me differently? Will I ever stop feeling like an imposter? ( a fat chick passing for a thin one ). Is it OK to wear my 15 year old daughters clothes? Sorry, I digress. Deborah, I too am looking at plastics. I'm determined to wait until 18 months, but I think my body looks like a shar pei. Torrey (281/185/160)