THIS IS A BIG.......

You know, this is the ONLY place I have shared my stats with beside my support group.  I know that my husband didn't even know the numbers until he went with me to my surgical consult last year.  I thought well....now he knows.  He knew I was heaping big (my title not his) and miserable.  He has been so much support for me along with you awesome people.   I've even began to get weird when people ask me how much I've lost...I get to thinking that they're adding it up and can figure out about how huge I was!!  I shouldn't care but I do...thats' part of the "demon" that I fight with!  I have began to say when folks ask me how much I've lost, unless they are a part of my support group here, just a lot and feel so much better! 

Thats how I was. So now I just say this is where I started from and this is where I am.....I like to see the wheels in their  minds turning trying to figure out how much I have lost.
Last night at a meeting this man asked me how much total have I lost..I loooked at him and said are we talking weight or something else..His face went red... and I just had to say..its the same size as it was just easier to find.... nough said....right? Yep I am ornery

OK - it's just how I am... I had to scroll back through that thread and put my adding machine to work... among just those of us who have posted up to now we have lost an absolutely

AMAZING


3286.5 POUNDS

on this journey!  And gained new friends and new attitudes!

We ROCK!  Keep up the great work, you losers!

John

John thank you for doing the math.I was going to do that. Between answering my phone cutting out quilt pieces I forgot what I was going to do.
We are absolutely fantastic

I'm so glad to know that I wasn't the only one who freaked out for a minute posting that info!

It wasn't just starting weight for me, but the fact that I lose so much slower than some of you with a different surgery......and even some with the lap band. 

But, I"M SO FREAKING glad that I posted and ya'll are great!
Lori

Lori, I talk to lap banders, sleevers, ds alot. The one thing to remember is in each of these different surgeries we all lose weight at different rates. As for you I think that you are doing fantastic. So don't think you are slower than an rnyer or sleever...cause you are not.
Just look back at where you started from and ask yourself this. Without the band could you have lost that much weight in the same amount of time?