who started at about 270? Please

I'm feeling like I'm falling behind. I know everyone is different. I just want to know if I'm off the beatten path with weight loss. At surgery I was 272 and now I recently got to 199. I'm still losing but my mind plays awful tricks on me and my stomach. Please email me with how your weight time line went for you. Tammy Lowery Madison, Ny 300/272/199/?

I'll swap with you. I started at 268 and am currently at 222. Sue O.

I started at 338 and I'm at 222, bounces down to 221 at times.

I started at 275 and I'm now at 203. Sounds like you're right on track to me.

Hi Tammy, I started at 271 and now I seem to be stalled at 180. But it'll drop for me and yours will too. Drink and protene.... that's what we have to remember.... ((((hugs)))) Judy

I started at 294 and have been stalled for two weeks at 220. Your weight loss is great. Keep up the good work. Karen G

Tammy, I had surgery a week before you. I started at 266 and I'm now at 188 - so your right with me. Your doing great! Candy 266/188/1?? -78

Tammy, you are a young women and I know that you are doing very fine indeed. I started out at age 57 at 330. I have lost 88 lbs and now weigh 242. I have not been at this weight in over 20 years. We must remember and I know how hard this is cause I live it daily, that we did not get fat overnight. It took us years and years of pounds creeping onward and upward for us to achieve great fatness. So we decided to take back our lives and take a drastic step and have WLS. We needed help, a tool, so we surgically rearranged our inside plumbing to achieve weight loss. This is a tool, not a fix it all. Each day we will struggle to reach our goals of a healthier live, of looking better, of being whatever we want for ourselves. I worry that I will not go below 200 lbs, I worry that I will gain back the weight I loose by returning to bad habits, I worry that "something" will go wrong and I will somehow not be totally freed from my body prison of fattness and bulk, I worry that the scale will not move, stall, show gains, and that I will AGAIN fail at my attempts to be a normal sized person. I try hard each day to put these thoughts in a box in the back of my mind. I am already a success because I chose this surgical path. I am losing weight, it is coming off, I am melting, I am feeling so much better, I am living my life again after being imprisoned and sidelined. The scales do move downward, sometimes it takes weeks for it to move. The inches are melting off. I can get into really smaller sizes in clothes. Today I have on size 1X beautiful chocolate slacks that I ordered 2 years ago and could never fit into. Yesterday I had on a pair of black, straight legged, zippered, sexy, size 22 jeans. I looked fabulous and discovered that I am so vain I had to run to the bathroom all day just to look at ME. So Please take heart and listen to what the other December Crew people are telling you. You are a success. Be patient. You will achieve your goals and you will be healthier, happier, sexier, free. Monica age 57 12/06/04 330/242/1??..........healthier, happier, sexier

Honey, I started at 271 and now I'm at 229. I bow down to you on your weight loss. Cat

Hi Tammy. I started at 270 and currently weigh 176-178. Depending on the time of day lol. My timeline is as follows: 12/6/04-270 12/18/04-267 1/6/05-236 2/5/05-228 2/19-217 2/26-214 3/5-215 (monthly cycle) 3/13-211 3/21-206 3/27-204 4/3-202 4/9-198 5/8-191 5/13-187 5/15-183 5/22-178-(monthly cycle) I try to weigh myself once a week (SUNDAYS) only because the yo-yoin' of weight will drive you Take Care and don't worry. Keep doing what your doing