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C 243 (-122 lbs total, -1 this week)

Thanks Emilee! WELCOME HOME P'NUT!!!

I think you are on the right track dawg... from your before and after pics... you look absolutely thin to me. I go back and forth with my goal weight daily... Deep down I want to be that 175, but I know that 200 is completely realistic for me .... Guess I am just seeing where I get, but that number for me is always something to strive for.

I watched Oprah yesterday (rare occasion for me) and it was really neat. She has some of her staff members doing a 12 week boot camp... I think this might have been an older show.... Anyways... she had them working out 8 times a week!!! Now that makes my time look shabby. So today I decided that I will be better about my working out. Yes, I do some every day... TONS on M-W- and Fridays... but I am going to push it hard this week. Oh, on a nasty note... I have a HORRIBLE boil on my tummy right above my belly button. Went to Dr. yesterday and he put me on liquid Bactrim... EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW, it is gross and makes my stomach hurt... If you have ever had a boil, you know they are the worst things to have on the face of the earth!!! HATE THOSE BASTARDS! :0) OK, enough of me running my mouth.... Thanks so much for all the compliments. I felt like a star that night Telly!

Here is mine! I can't wait to get to goal!

Thanks everybody!

New T-shirt from Wal-Mart looks pretty dang good if I may say so myself!! I SURE DO MISS YOU P'NUT!!!!

I say you have a bad scale. My digital is accurate.

CONGRATULATIONS KRISTIN!!! That is SO exciting!!! You WILL be a size 10 by then!

Wow!! Tricia, you are looking great! I noticed the collar bones right off the bat too!

SHIT! Sorry! Who was your Dr.? I pray that you will have nothing but sunny skies from here on out!

C 244 (-121 total, -4 this week) Did anyone volunteer to do the updates for P'Nut? Let me know if you did...

I have been banded for a little over 7 months. I have not wanted to take a vacation from my band for a week. Like someone else said, those feelings differ from person to person. I just love my band and what it has done for me. I would be devastated to lose my band for even one day. It keeps me in check. I tell EVERYONE this... The only things I can not have with the band are the things that made me get up to 365 lbs in the first place. Why in the world would I want to get back to that weight. Bread, and cake and pastas are not something I need to eat ever again to be a healthy person. Yes, every once in a blue moon I get a whiff of Subway's bread and my mouth waters for about a second and then I look in the mirror and see the person I am not... and I could care less about some bread.

I would LUV to fit into the 14... I am kicking ass at the gym. LOVE IT!!!

Hope you had something on underneath those pants...

Thanks for the kind words gals! CUTE dress Kristin!

Can life get any better??? Girls, I am on cloud 9!!! I weighed this morning... (thought it was Wednesday when I woke up.) Well that beautiful scale that I LOVE so much told me I was 244!!! Only 5 pounds from the 230's and only 15 pounds from 100lbs lost since my surgery!!! I thought I posted this.. but I can't remember... Went and tried on bridesmaid dresses Saturday... well last year at this time I had to get a size 26 from David's Bridal... drum roll puhlease... the size 18 fit beautifully... but I ordered a 16 since the wedding is 3 months away and I have no doubts that I will fit into it by Sept. 30th. I am posting a pic of it for you guys to see! When it comes in and I can fit into it... I will post a picture later also, of ME in it! If you can't tell, I am SO in love with my band!

I knew all the risks... read all of the posts... and I decided that the smaller percentage chance of erosion, slippage, infections.. outweighed the 100% chance that if I didn't do something I would die young and have a miserable rest of my life... I don't know your story, don't know anything about you... but it for me what up to the question of what was more important to me? Trying to fight this battle with all I could, hell, if I fail, at least I tried. It is and will have to be a personal decision for everyone.

I really need to start keeping up with these threads! Emilee~ your post coud have been written by me. I felt those same things when I was over 300, and I am now feeling the joys you are. You have done so great and you truly are a WONDERFUL person. GFG rocks, doesn't it? Keep it up, you are going to be at goal in NO time!!!

Roni! You look great girl!!! Need to get some tighter jeans on that butt!

LOVE all the pictures!!! Emilee.... yummy!!! He is HOT!!!!!

Hi Reeneea! Are you drinking cold water? Try sipping on some warm tea or something warmer. I hope that you can get some liquids down... If you can't get any down I would call Spivak tomorrow so you don't get dehydrated. Good LUCK!

My DH didn't want to do this pic, but I had 2 Maids of Honor, and I thought it would be cute... they were all red!!! :cool:

Too bad I didn't have the band before the wedding!

I need to take a pic of my sexy hubby this weekend. WE are going on Saturday night... so I feel a shopping trip coming on!