I too am feeling great! The scale has quit moving but I have lost 139 pounds and have gone from 276 to 138 and now wear size 6/8. I'm sitting here at work in a little summer dress. Every time I put on a dress, it's a wonderful little wow moment. I never wore dresses when my tummy stuck out so far. I'll be heading to a wedding in California this weekend and look forward to seeing quite a few people who haven't seen me in a while. It should be some nice positive attention. I follow the rules pretty tightly with the occasional allowance for lf/sf ice cream or lf/sf cookie. I work out 5 days a week and still have to make myself stay committed to this. I get a little obsessive with calorie tracking and worrying about carbs sometimes. This site sometimes makes me a little crazy with all the talk about how many carbs to eat and how many calories people can consume. I can definitely eat more in one sitting (especially if it is soft food like cottage cheese or yogurt). It feels like a large amount of food but I know it is much less than before surgery. It's just alot compared to the couple of ounces I could eat in the first few months. Overall, I am so happy I did this and only regret I didn't do it sooner. I added a couple of pictures from last month. Feel free to take a look.

I had surgery September 7th, 2007. I have lost 152 lbs and although I have a BMI of 35 and have not reached goal yet, I feel awesome and almost completely normal and fit. I am missing something though. My confidence and esteem have grown leaps and bounds and I have been out there looking to get noticed. Have I become an attention ***** I mean I get some compliments from some people that knew me when I was super-morbidly obese, but most people act like I'm the same person and ignore the fact that I am half the man I used to be. They sure had no problem pointing out my obesity to me before surgery. I have heard it all. The "unitentional" insults, the jokes and all of the other BS that we had to put up with when we were at our heaviest. Now that I have lost so much, it seems that the people that are aware that I had a RNY bypass, just don't want to mention my weight loss or compliment me. Of course I probably cheated in their minds. They probably think I did this for vanity reasons and not for health reasons as I always point out. Maybe I'm not used to being normal weight and I expect a little praise or compliments from the people that knew me before, but it just isn't happening. I get more compliments and get hit on from people that did not know me before. So how do you all deal with this? Am I expecting too much? It took a lot of weight loss before I even started to notice it in the mirror and feel better about myself. But now, I look in the mirror and I'm like "Damn, I look good." Is that conceited? Or is it that I should feel good about my appearance now and I should enjoy it? Anyway, like I said before. Losing weight doesn't solve all of our issues like self esteem. Just looking for some input on how you all are dealing with this aspect of your weight loss.

3798.8lbs + 96.2lbs from me = 3895 for all of us. great job everyone!

I know how you feel. I am so happy about where I am right now, but as I reached goal after goal, each time it just felt kind of anti-climactic. On reflection, I think, for me anyway, that my weight loss is not the answer to total happiness like I thought it was when I was heavy. The happiness really comes from within, from being happy with myself no matter what my size. Don't get me wrong. I am very happy, but the good feelings I had when I hit onederland (or any other weight goal that I had set for myself) were not the ones that I imagined I would feel when I was heavier and had set the goal. Do I make any sense at all?????

I've lost 149lbs. 3649.8+149=3798.8lbs