It has been a few weeks since I have posted. My life has been turned upside down. I found out on July 5th that my husband of ten years has been addicted to prescription drugs for the past two year. Well, that explained a lot of the problems that we had been having. He went into an inpatient rehabilitation facility and stayed for over two weeks. He just came home and begins his outpatient treatment today. I have been so stressed. I have lost close to 17 pounds in these two weeks. I weighed 183 when he went in and I now weigh 166. I don't know what the future holds. I just have faith that God will see me through as He always does. Sherry 276/166/140

Me, too, Debbie. I have not lost much since about March, but I have noticed that the way my body looks has changed. I am 230-235 and I am cool with that. I have never been this thin, and I am comfortable with the way I look and feel at a size 16 (I am 6' tall). And, I can ride in any roller coaster I want, and isn't that what is really important?

Thank you all so much! I've kept in touch with Pop, he's doing well. Me and DH have begun to drop big hints that maybe it's time for him to come be with us, to move up here where he has family nearby to help when he needs it and be close enough to see his grandchildren anytime he wants. Keeping my fingers crossed! He and Bill took care of each other, and without Bill I'm not sure how long Pop can manage on his own. I love you all! Thank you for your prayers and for being here when I need you. Connie

I can't believe it, I have finally lost 100 pounds! The "official" date was July 17th but I wanted to make sure the scale STAYED at 189! Now it's at 187 and I am tickled to death! I was starting to get very frustrated, just like everyone else at this point because I lost 8 pounds in May and then only 1 1/2 in June, but this last month has literally been one of the worst of my life! I found out that my children had been "abused" at their daycare. Not physically but my 3 year old son was put on the playground by himself in the middle of a hot Texas afternoon because the teacher wanted to "make him listen to her". My 5 year old daughter told me about it on the way home and then my 8 year old told me he was threatened with the same thing if he didn't sto wrestling with another little boy! Needless to say, my BF (their dad) and I pulled the kids out of there immediately and made other arrangements and filed a complaing with CPS. SO, my BF's mom said she wanted the kids to stay with her for 2 weeks in Chicago, so I took them up there (The first time the kids have been anywhere w/o me!) and came back to Texas, only to find that my BF said he is "not happy" and although he loves me, he needs to get his head on straight. He left that night (Friday). I was able to use the time to paint and redecorate my daughter's room and I painted my 8 year old's room but by Sunday, I realized I had not eaten since Friday. NOT a good thing. I was able to eat a little and then the BF came home Sunday afternoon for a short while, still depressed about financial issues that come along with having three small kids and a new house. And still nnot knowing where things stood with us, meaning I dind't know if he was planning on moving out or what and he did not want to talk, he went on to work. So Monday, I went to my doctor and got some "happy pills" to help me stop crying, then Monday night I call my babies to talk to them and my 5 year old gets on the phone and tells me Poppa Bill smacked her in the head! Long story short, this is my BF's stepfather and he used to hit my BF when he was growing up, but it was NOT going to happen to MY kids! I got his mom on the phone and she tried to play it off but I told her to keep my kids away from him and I would be there Thursday to get them. When my BF called Mon night, I didn't tellhm because I knew he would come UNGLUED and I didn;t want to get things started at 1130pm! My kids did NOT need that on top of everything else! Anyway, Tuesday I came to work and thought about it more and more and I called my kids and when my little girl asked me to come get her, it broke my heart so I told their Grandma to keep the kids away from him again and that I would be there Wed am. When I got home from work, I was surprised to see my BF home and that he had made dinner for me! I was stunned and thought that this was a great thing and maybe we could be getting back on track but then I also knew I had to tell him about the kids. SO I just blurted it out that Bill had hit Shea. I was right, he came unglued. He called his family until he got someone on the phone and went off. He made his sister go get the kids out of the house until I could get there and he threated to go up there himself. Then he went to work and I was left to pack and get to the airport! I got there Wed at lunch and within 30 minutes of getting to his mother's house, my mom called and told me that my best friend since I was 16 had hung himself the night before. I swear to you all this is true!! At this point I am still just numb. I got into it with one of my BF's sisters about the kids but I don't care. The kids and I came home Saturday morning and my BF was not home and did not call until SUndat night on his way to work. He promised our kids he would be home Monday, which he was and he has been home since, but pretty much just to sleep because he is working a lot of overtime and he works the graveyard shift. I still don't know where our relationship stands but I am taking it day by day. As you can see, I REALLY REALLY needed my weight to start moving down to give me SOMETHING to be positive about! And now I am in the Century Club so YAY ME!!! I'm sorry this is so long, but I have been holding this all in because I didn't want to bore anyone with my problems and it's just time for me to explode!!! Thanks to you ALL for "listening"!! Debbi 289/187/180 surgeons goal/160 my goal

I can eat more, but still nothing near what I was able to eat before surgery. I can eat a small chicken breast or almost all of a Lean Cuisine. If I start snacking, that's when I really eat too much. Spread over time, nothing is safe. Torrey (281/187/160)