HAPPY AS A PEA IN A POD!!

Hello all Haven't posted in weeks. I have lost 95 lbs and really hard to lose anymore. I just went bicyling and thought I could go for miles. I think I just made 10 minutes and almost had to walk back after I went half the distance. HA! lol. I can wear a regular size 12 mostly but sometimes have to go 14. Am I done losing? I haven't lost in about a month or so. I keep going up a couple and down a couple. What can I do to change my metabolism? I have been trying to exercise more. Do I need to change my diet? Which by the way I'm getting hungrier. Some days I just want to eat all day and some meals I can eat only a couple of spoonfuls. Weird. Yes I have some loose skin but heck I can live with that. I still can't believe myself in the mirror. I went to a sale at Peoples red dot sale and felt like a kid in a candy shop. I had so many choices! The sales people think I'm daffy. But after wearing a size 28 which was like a 3X and it was tight and getting down this much its like its not me. I have to pinch myself. Only trouble I have is with ice cream. HAd low carb low sugar turkey hill a couple of weeks back and dumped big time; twice. (I didn't think it hurt me the first time so I went back for more! Can you believe that!) I had had it before and it didn't hurt me but I guess I ate too much ( about a cup???!!!) Never will do that again. I was so sick; nausea, dry heaves, stomach cramps. Otherwise I stay within 11 grams fat and 3 grams sugar per meal. But I crave carbs. Popcorn, and crackers. Its strange. I really have to control myself and I think I have to star****ching my intake. Thats weird but anyone else do this? I am so scared of gaining any weight back that I"m really very paranoid about eating. I can eat about a cup now. (more for popcorn or cereal) Am I done losing? I had my operation Nov 19, 2004. I'll be 59 Sep 13 and want to hit 100 but I don't know with the way I'm going. How do you know when you reached your limit. I'm happy with me now but I would like to lose about 10-15 more lbs. Don't we get greedy. Anyway thanks for listening everyone. By the way, benefiber works pretty good with constipation. Walmart has their own brand and you can't even taste it in coffee or tea or anything. I have noticed that problem has gotten worse with time. Let me hear from some of you 9-10 months out. thanks for all the help and you newbies have alot of good stuff to look forward to thanks again

I enjoyed your post and can identify with pretty much all of it! I'm interested in seeing some responses, too. Here's my 2 cents: I think portion control is the key. Even though we are able to eat more now, we need to remember that our bodies don't need that much and monitor every meal. I'm telling myself this, too. Also, I've been lazy about protein supplements and have vowed, just today, to make myself take them. Also I intend to stop telling myself that I don't have to make the time to exercise today and "JUST DO IT". Good luck to both of us, Dianne

Dear Nancy, My surgery date is 6/21/04, which puts me at 14 months out. O basically stopped loosing at about 9 months out, although everyone is different. I just had my year checkup and Dr. Wynn said that she thinks I am done loosing. That I have lost what she thinks is 100% of my excess weight. Now she also said that if I was 20 years younger she would encourage me to loose another 20 pounds or so, but she feels that I am great where I am. That said, sure I would like to keep going. I, too, would like to say that I reached that 100 pound mark, but according to her scale I am 93 pounds down. My primary's scale when I was sick, early in the morning, nothing to eat etc, etc, showed me at exactly 100 gone. But what is the big issue I keep asking myself. I am healthy, strong, and able to do things that I never could have done a year ago. But again, so much is perception in our brains. The renewal of the mind is more of an issue to most of us now than those last few pounds. I, too, am excited that this journey has given me back my health, and even if my BMI is 2 or 3 points off of "perfect", I know that I feel good and even if I must say so myself, "looking pretty good too". I NEVER have seen this size clothing before, or at least not since I was a kid. I even have room in some size 6's. Go figure that out. So be encouraged. You are still in the window phase of 18 months, and most people still loose a little here and there. So keep up the exercise and mix it up some, up your protein suppliments and keep the chin up, because it is a WONDERFUL LIFE. God bless, Mama