11 month update and BIG Hello

Hi Everyone: I just can't believe it has been almost a year! I am down 135 pounds. I am at 141 now. My docs goal was 147, but mine is 135. I am so close I can taste it, but it just doesn't want to let me get these last few pounds off. I guess if I exercised more it would help alot. LOL I am sure that I will get there though. We have some time left on our window and I think it is possible. I am in size 8 pants/jeans and small and medium tops. I never thought I would ever see this size again. Still trying to deal with the self image thing. At times I feel so big, like I think I am gaining my weight back, but the scale tells me different. I feel like my stomach is big and my legs, but most of that is hanging skin. YUK! Still trying to decide if I want to go the PS route, but I am not sure. I mean, in clothes I look good. I looked at my drivers license the other day and OMG, I could not believe it was me in that picture. I am so glad that my license runs out next month as that is not only my re-birthday from WLS, but also my real birthday is November also. This year I really have something to celebrate! I want to do so many things now. I am actually living my life again, instead of hiding in the house all the time. Please let me know how you all are doing. I love hearing about my fellow November babies! LOL Congrats to all. Carol From VA [email protected]

Carol, congratulations on your success! You are such a loser I know exactly what you mean when you talk about body image. I have lost 90 pounds and look great, people tell me daily how wonderful I look, but sometimes I can not see it myself. I look at my body and sometimes cannot see how small I am, how much I have lost. I will go to put on my jeans and think, there is no way that I can get into those--they are much too small. I am also very paranoid that this is temporary--whenever I have lost weight in the past, I always gained it back. I find myself waiting for the scale to start tipping in the other direction--even though I am eating well and exercizing 3-4 times per week. The bottom line is that I hope with time we will settle into our new bodies and new lives. It has been both a terrifying and wonderful year with many, many changes. I think year two will find us all in different places (probably trying to figure out what to do with saggy skin . Good luck.