Update!
Sig Ot and I are doing well. I'm still up and down between 149-157 pounds, (am 150 today) over and over-- I retain buckets of water when I exercise and I still do Zumba 2x a week and try to walk most days. I still count every calorie M-F, (I eat 1700 a day) and am looser on weekends but not crazy-go-nuts, and eat like it's going out of style on holidays. No regain to speak of, and I feel good and clothes still fit well over 3 years after I started losing, so all's well inna world, I suppose!
Still love cooking-- the guy who was helping me with my website crapped out but I'll get on it when I can-- I have recipes galore (I just made a chicken alfredo casserole that's mindblowing.) My meals tend to be about 200 cals for breakfast, 300 for lunch, 500 or more for dinner, with plenty of snacks-- I eat an apple every fweakin' day because I love apples, and end most nights with a whole cup of greek yogurt and tbsp of Dark Chocolate Dreams peanut butter, which is about the world's most perfect food. I have ice cream in one form or another about 4 times a week in the summer, and it works for me. So the post RNY lifestyle doesn't have to be a death March: it's about management, not deprivation. Eat smarter, not less.
My most recent pic is quasi-racy because I wanted people to have a sense of what's achievable with work, a plastic surgeon and a little moxie so I done dismembered m'self to show it-- I have 2 more rounds of plastics to endure (my ass is heinous and will be done this summer, and thighs when I win the lotto. I'm about $30k in the hole at this point, and man amd I ever poor.)
You lose 220 pounds, you're gonna have skin-- that's just the name of that game. I've had my face, chest (no implants, now a 34D from a 48H), gut and arms reconstructed already. Well, and my hair, which came back inexplicably curly after my last 13 hour surgery!
Thanks for asking after me, to those who have-- I still exist and am doing really well, flu notwithstanding!
"Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--
Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U. Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08
Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09 -Dr. Pontell, Media PA Mastopexy/Massive
Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
Total Cost: $33,500 Start wt: 368 RNY wt: 300 Goal wt: 150 Current wt: 148.2 BMI: 24.7
BTW, you look great!!!
Michelle 
(OH member since 2004 - new user name)
HW 285 / SW 270 / GW 140 / LW 135 / CW 185
RNY 6/8/2009 
Starting size 26/28, now size 12/14
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." -Hebrews 13:8
I remember you and have been wondering how you are doing. It is great to see you are fine. I am in the process of starting my plastic surgery. I have to admit I am more nervous about this than I was the rny. It has been a long process, a learning journey and I have to say thank you to you for your words of wisdom. I especially use " I can do hard" lots of time. I am more of a quiet reader who sometimes puts my small two cents worth in.
