OH MY GO**** is scary!!!

You know how I feel about you and your success -- PROUD!!!  You're looking fantastic -- I'm glad you can finally see it !  I, too, am not savvy enough to post pictures and I haven't taken any since early summer, so, I'll take a little of my own medicine and get some on my profile soon !!

You are doing great! The great part about pictures is that it helps you to see what you can't see in the mirror.
I would post my before and after collage to date if I could figure out how to do it!

Outstanding!!! Congratulations!!!!

I am so amazed.  What a difference!  Congratulations.  You look great.  Michael

OMG, you look awesome. You have done so well and I am very proud of you. (((((HUGS))))) Love the new avatar as well as the new you.

Rita

Thank you all so much for the kind words.  This has been such an awesome journey and I have each one of you to thank for holding my hand and helping me along the way.  We all have our struggles from day to day but I can count on you to either encourage or give me a swift kick in the old rear end!!!  With each of us working together with our new tools we are indeed fighting this battle of obesity and are becoming successful!!!   I know that one of these days I'll get to the prize.  We just have to keep our eye on the prize of better health and more energy!!!

Debbie,
You have changed so much!! My goodness. I would like to ask you a question and I wanted to ask Ruth the other night when she was showing me her pictures.Really to everyone who has lost so much......What do you think when you actually see the "Old You" ?  I mean when I saw Ruth's pic. it is not like looking at her at all. There has been so much change.....It is the same thing looking at you, but what do you feel? I hope that is not to personal...If it is...it's ok..just ignore it....But I wondered about it.

I don't mind answering you at all.  Sometimes I can't believe that it's real.  I still feel like the girl in the old picture.  I know I look different but my head and brain are the same???  The pictures do help and I feel so much better physically and about myself.  I feel like I have a life that I haven't had in many many years.  It's had to explain but you'll understand totally pretty soon.  I DO like the new me and really don't miss that "old me" especially the person who had so many health issues going on, no energy and couldn't do so many things....I still have a way to go but I KNOW I'll get there this time.  It's been since before kids...30 years since I've even been where I'm at now!!  Even if I didn't loose another pound I can handle that because of my resolved health issues and my new found energy.  I can say I still don't like to exercise but I do it because I know I have to.  After I WROTE THAT CHECK I told myself I was going to do what I needed to do to make this successful.  Dr. Walton did his part and now I'm doing mine.  It was by no means the "easy way out" that some tend to think.  Thanks for asking Sherrie.

Debbie, you look awesome now! You are really rocking your tool! I'm so happy for you. I know what you mean about the pics, I still get physically sick when I see it. Here's mine:



That's me on our daughter's senior night in Feb. 2005. I'm 354 pounds in that picture and miserable.



That's us last week at our group dinner.