11 months, down 277lbs!
Well my 11 months has come and gone! I've been so busy working that I've lost track of time. I'm now down 277 pounds! I can't hardly believe it. When I think of my next goal of just being under 310 I can't believe how close that is now. I don't know what to think about that. I keep expecting my weight loss to stop. It's kind of like a dream when I step on the scale and continue to see it go down! My actual next goal is to be 319. That's only 18 pounds away! Once I get to that mark I will no longer be "morbidly obese", just severely! I'll take that over being where I started out "super morbidly obese." So many exciting things are happening in my life. I love my job, it keeps me very focused and it's something to do, something I enjoy. I feel honored that I've been asked to be a guest speaker in New Jersey for Obesityhelp. I've never done ANYTHING like this in my life. It's something I want to do because I do want other people to know life is worth living and no matter what your lowest point you can get out of it. I know because I've lived it. I'm only 28 years old and basically 27 of those years were filled with many bouts of unhappiness. I struggled very hard growing up, I wished half the time that I would die, and then to go to school I would make up feeling sick so I wouldn't have to go. It was pure hell. I look back on things now through and I understand. Those people who picked on me made me stronger. I now know that I don't have to please anyone else, it's about pleasing myself. My true happiness comes from knowing that those who put me through that hell will never have the heart that I have. Did those people make me mad? Yes... What it made me realize is I didn't want to be like them, hateful. So that experience defined me. I am who I am because I had wonderful examples in my life, the Lord, my parents and my loving husband. Just knowing I had all those as my supportive rock is what got me through.
Something that's been most uplifting in this journey so far is the compassion from complete strangers. I came in the depths of dispair to support sites for WLS and those people didn't even know me, for those people to take the time to help me, it's something I can never forget or repay. I guess that's why I continue to be active in the WLS community, just giving back is my greatest reward.
Amy
615/338/ Healthy (-277lbs) 
AWESOME!!!!!!!! Thank you for sharing your experience with everyone. I am in the process of getting all my preliminary doctors visits out of the way and I hope to have surgery this year. God has made you strong and you have an awesome testimony. May God bless you and continue to bless you forever.
Ken
I continue to be thrilled for your success. How's Kenneth?? 
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