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I see scheduled for 3/5, right? Who's gonna be there? I have to work, but am gonna try to leave early. Looking forward to meeting you all. ~April

Sorry. Skinny grow'en up. Wore long or 3/4 length sleeves ..even in the summer..cause my arms were sooo skinny. Now I wear long or 3/4 length sleeves cause my arms are too big. Golly I guess we're never satisfied. Ha !! I didn't get big until my 1st child & then all heck broke lose.  With each child I grew more layers. My biggest regret is not taking measurements before the band. I'm down 93lbs. since the band ( 06/12/07 ). I plan to be down 100lbs. by t/time my port is reinstalled ( 02/26/08 ). I was suppose to have it put back t/19th of Feb.,but Doc will be gone that week. I've been having trouble keeping t/port in ( this will be port # 3 ) You know what they say.."Third times the charm."  Best thing that happen to me is you. I found April shortly after I joined OH & read her post..( which she does often ). And I decided if this person can do this with all she's been through..then so can I . Thanks , April.  

Well, I think the only person I know here is Jill, so I thought maybe we should do introductions. I'm April from WV, but living in NY, Buffalo area for nearly 18 years, soon to be 41. I was always the smart fat one and my sister was the skinny pretty one. At age 4 my grandmother, who raised me sent me to dance classes 'cause I was pudgy. Several years later I was bribed into walking each morning. The bribe was I could stop at the local greasy spoon for the brekfast special on the way home. Around age 10, it was Richard Simmon's Live It program from TV. As a teenager I tried about ever passing diet fad from the grapefruit diet to Slim Fast to Weigh****chers. This continued into my twenties on and off. Everything helped temporarily, but nothing kept the weight off. The smallest I ever remember being was 178 lbs. in 10th grade, my prom dress was a size 13. By my 30's, I had pretty much given up. I was married in 2001 to my high school sweetheart, Hottie Man. I weighed about 240 lbs. Five years later I weighed in at 259 pounds with a BMI of 44.5 (severley obese), high cholesterol (214), arthritis, back pain, asthma, & infertility. My boss had success with open RNY about 3 years prior so, I started looking into it for myself. I recruited a friend, comet1976 to go through the process with me. We both had Lap RNY the end of May '07. Within 2 mos. I had lost weight and my cholesterol went down to 161!! Another month passed...the arthritis pain and swellin in my ankle lessened considerably, no more back pain, & no more inhaler. The one thing WLS could not help me with was my infertility, as I waited too long to do anything about it. I am now 7 mos. out and down 80 pounds, wearing a size 12 jeans and a large top, which I prefer to call "No X". My BMI is 30.7 obese, but really close to being plain old overweight.  Finding OH has been a blessing. I find the utmost support and encouragement here and all from total strangers. Jill finding me on here has also been a blessing. She never ceases to amaze me with her caring and commitment to making this work for us...all of us!  Well, that's it about me. How about the rest of ya's?

Hi Jill, Great job in setting up your OH Group.  I appreciate all of the time and dedication you gave to the testing of this special addition to OH. Through your assistance, you will make a difference for OH support group leaders and members in OH Groups. I am so excited about being able to be connected with other leaders and members through our own groups. Thanks for all you and the other testing leaders have done! Cathy

I'm sooo glad someone finally visited the site. Lots of people excepted but you're the only one that left a message. I wish I had been on at the time..We could have had a CHAt (another nice feature Of this site .) I'm really excited about this . I think it's going to be great ! Thanks for excepting !!