wow- so many new faces! Introduce yourselves!

Hi Teresa,

I am so sorry your first post was a bad experience.  We will try and do better this time.  To answer your question, unfortunately no, but if you post what sizes and such, a specific person might reply that they would want them.  Other than that, most of us bring our clothes to Goodwill or Salvation Army. 

You should be extremely proud of your accomplishment.  Exercise will come, as you feel better and more confident.  You will also find that it speeds up the process, and helps with the muscle and skin issues for the most part!

So welcome, and don't be afraid.  We don't bite (hard that is ). 

 Hi There - Thanks so much for the email.  Sorry I didn't respond sooner, but I haven't been online.  Been too tired at night...lol

I look forward to meeting you and everyone else at the PRH meetings.

Take Care - Teresa

I'm Kathy. I''m 52 years young.  I have a great job working as a judicial assistant to a federal judge, which I've been doing for the last 15 years.  I've been married to a wonderful guy for 30 years.  He always said that my size never mattered.  That was hard to believe, and I think I just recently realized that he really meant it.  I mean, how could I be lovable at 260 pounds?!?!?!  I guess my head was pretty screwed up before.  I also have two wonderful adult daughters and a naughty little beagle.  My comorbidities were sleep apnea, prediabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, bad back, bad knee, plantar fasciatis, low self-esteem, and I had a heart attack at the age of 42.  I had RNY on 9/17/07 and have lost 130 pounds total, which is exactly half of myself.  I have never felt better, both health-wise and confidence-wise.  I'm done losing weight (I think).  At least, I know that I don't have to lose anymore weight.  I've gone from a size 22-24 to size 6.  Even my shoes are a half size smaller!  (I've been overweight since the age of 5 and made dieting a career, but the most weight I had ever lost at one time before having the surgery was 35 pounds.)  I can now eat just about anything, which scares me a bit, because I never, ever want to go back to where I was.  Everyday I work my tool as best as I can.  I exercise at least 30 minutes a day, 6 days a week, doing anything from walking to weight lifting, snowshoeing, pilates, medicine ball, or different machines at the gym.  I used to hate exercising, but now I hate it if I can't get at least something in each day.  I also record everything I eat in Fitday and attend 3 different monthly support groups.  My biggest struggle is still getting in the 64 oz. of water during the day.  It took me a whole year to actually do it once.  My next adventure is plastics.  I'm having a lower body lift  and brachiaplasty on 3/23.  I can't wait, but I'm scared of the pain.  The only other things I would like to have done would be an inner thigh lift and breast augmentation, but I'll have to wait and see how the first surgery goes and what Wall Street leaves me in my 401(k)!

My hobby is knitting, and I'm an avid Red Sox fan.  Each year, my family and I try to go someplace warm.  The family includes the two daughters and their fiance/boyfriend and my husband, so we're six in all.  We always have a blast.  We just returned from Jamaica (which is why I'm posting this so late.)

I'm sick of winter.