X-post OMG I am under 250 pounds!
I am now under 250 pounds I am 248 as of this morning, well actually it's been since Thursday but I wanted to make sure that it wasn't some fluke of the scale. I haven't been this weight in over 16 years. I am so happy that this tool is wrking and that I have changed my lifestyle. I no longer skip meals then gorge myself at one meal cause I've starved all day, I eat anything I want but I amke sure that what I eat is what I need for the day and then if I still have extra calories at the end of the dayI will and do give myself a treat within reason of my calorie limits, I LOVE LOVE LOVE the gym if feel crazy if I can't go, but most of all I really really truly love life again. I am finding that I want to do things that I hadn't thought about doing for the last 16 years. I realize that this surgery may not be what is best for everyone, if you really work hard at changing your eating and exercising habits you can and will be successful at this.
Great job. I know all too well how difficult it is when you have more than 200 lbs to lose. The first 100 is nothing, then it becomes so difficult. Others do not know what we have to endure to get where we are, they don't have to lose as much as we do. It hard for all of us, but I think we just have much more that we go through, I think I just said all that in different words in the previous sentence.
Keep going, we will both be skinny minnies one day soon.
Diane