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I realized last night at the Y that I'm now at a point where I feel "normal" fat as opposed to "feel like I have to apologize for taking up space and offending people's eyes" fat. I'm still obese, but I notice that I don't immediately race from the pool to wrap a towel around me to cover myself up now. NSV, I guess?

I lost 6 pounds this week!!! 30 since surgery 7 weeks ago. :-)

Checking in to say I am feeling wonderful and beginning to really look good. Look forward to my 6 month checkup. Still losing fairly rapidly and sooooo pleased.

some may disagree and im sorry in advance, but I wouldn't recommend this site to anyone. I've stopped using it because I read posts that don't get answered, and I post some of my own and no one responds. I haven't been on here in weeks because of it.

Officially down 80 pounds this morning! Now for 90...lol

Never thought I'd be excited to say 'none of my pants fit'!!! I spent all night trying them on and checking out how loose they were, lol. Guess I need to go shopping...

So the in 24 hours I will be having surgery...kinda terified since I have a terrible time with anesthesia but both excited and nervous

Week 1 done, down 13 pounds I will never see again!

Saturday was my 11 month surgeversary. I'm now 3.8 pounds from goal and I've officially lost over 100 pounds from my all-time highest weight of 270.

WEEK 8 POST-OP: reached 50 pound wieght loss goal! exercising 2 days a week, participating in labor day challenge and doing well with eating...no complaints this week!

This weekend on Saturday I hit my goal!! I actually went right past it! :-) I am so happy

Had a really emotional night. Haven't slept in a while. This makes me realize there are a lot more issues going on than basic overeating.

I'm finally done being stuck. Scale number changed after two agonizing weeks. Onward!

a week into the dreaded week 3 stall... I'm so over this!

25 days post op and 28 lbs down! Thank you God!

Haven't been at this weight since the '90's!!!

I finally did it !! Thursday 23/07/15 at 5pm, I headed down to surgery, nervous and anxious but the staff were fantastic and kept me laughing by cracking jokes and chatting about holidays etc. I can't thank them enough for that as I had told the anesthetist how nervous I would be in the pre op room and she'd obviously told the team. "Have a couple of deep breaths and", next thing I know, I wake up in recovery. Well I say wake up, I tried hard but was very sleepy so stayed in there a while and couldn't have morphine for 24 hours because of it I felt really dreadful for the first few hours but managed 2 walks and some fluids, a trip to the loo and finally some sleep. I came home yesterday, so stayed in hospital 3 nights and could have stayed longer if I had wanted but I missed the family and my animals and wanted to be in my own bed. I had two visitors in hospital (previously I had asked the few who knew not to visit apart from the two who did), other than my husband and was so glad of that, as I even found chatting tiring. I am still really tired, I know it's my body healing and I am glad for it but last night a good friend visited and after an hour I had to go back to bed lol. So today is the start of day 4, the sun is shining, I can hear my 17 year old son snoring in bed in the next bedroom and the dog is snoring right by my bed on a rug (he's very happy as he is never usually let upstairs in the house but he won't leave my side without crying). Life is good, Might have been a tough first 48 hours but it gets easier every hour and I am soooooooooo looking forward to the future. Keep smiling folks and apologies to those who wanted me to contact them earlier... I was sleeping Hugs Kate view.jpg View from my hospital room... So lovely!

At 5'10", and 198 pounds, it seems I have officially joined the ranks of the Cute Not one, but three handsome guys have told me I am looking great in the last 48 hours! This is rather exciting for this single lady who had all but given up on guys....best of all is I am feeling attractive again~ for the first time in 25 years :-)

Anxious about upcoming surgery