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What you mean? A pound is fantastic! Hurray, hurray for you. This is a marathon and a pound lost is a pound conquered. Stake that flag, you just earned it.

@Beni, I know, that is how i feel, any pound lost is a great success for me, as I am getting closer and closer to my final goal and the pounds are coming off less and less, this week friday is my 6 month mark, and I am only 39 lbs from my goal? I am good with that!!! VERY GOOD!!! lol

Amen!!!!

@Bandista, that is great that your down to a 12 and ready to go into a 10, I fit into GAP jeans for the first time in my life, not that I am superficial and need only expensive store cloths, I got them from a cousin and so when they fit, I was amazed!!! I love it!!! I am still in a 14, which fits good right now but I know another 20 lbs or so I will be out of those and into a 12 too and then I will have no cloths? I have been hitting the 2nd hand stores when I have a couple extra bucks, and I think I am going to just start buying smaller sizes just to have cause I have enough 14's for now, and then when I am able to fit the lower ones atleast I will have something to wear that will fit? @proudgrammy thanks I think readjusting my goal was the best thing for me right now, and it just makes me realize that I don't have to look at the # in lbs, but I can look at it like whats best for me to be healthy!!!

Pupichupi that's great I'm 5'11 and my hola is 170 but if I get to thin I will reevaluated my goal I have 80 more pounds to go and I'm almost 4 months post opt keep up the great work.

Awesome cupcake!!! Thanks!!!

I am right there with ya!! It's been brutal all weekend!! The only thing working for me right now is Tylenol Severe Sinus (daytime of course.) Hope you feel better soon!!

Thanks you too Zoey!!!

@BladeFox, Yeah that is what I am still looking at my "0's" too. I am still debating what my final goal is going to be, cause originally it was to get the 150, but I don't know if that will be too small for my height? I am 5'8" and I don't want to look sick when I get down to that point, so when I get down closer to that point I will see how the final is going to be. Most people tell me I am wasting away now, lol but I know I can't stay at the point I am at now cause I am still in the obese column of the BMI Graph, I am 15lbs away from the overweight part of the graph, and for my height anywhere between 120-160 is the healthy range, so we shall see, 150 will be half of my original weight though that is why I picked that number when I started?

Getting into that overweight category is wonderful!!! I didn't have as much to lose so I hit it pretty quickly but it still felt great. I set my initial goal on the high end of a BMI of 25 but I'll see when I get there if I want to go lower or not. Now that I'm at 49 lost (can't seem to knock off that next pound to say 50) I'm FINALLY starting to get comments about how much weight I've lost. Seems it took everyone a LONG time to start commenting! lol

You're doing great!

@Ginger Snaps, it does feel good to get those comments doesn't it. I think I didn't start getting them till I was around 50lbs down, so don't worry it's just peoples perception of you isn't due to your weight, or they see you everyday, which is good, but wait till you see people that you haven't seen in a while, I have a birthday party for my brother on the 20th and I haven't seen anyone that will be there for probably close to 8+ months, so the last time they saw me I was pre surgery, lol so they aren't going to recognize me now??? lol no they will cause my face still looks the same just I am 1/3 the person I was??? LOL Just keep positive amp up your exercise or change it up a little and you will get that 50!!!

AMEN to that!! Happy Friday!

Hey blade thought I lost you? Yeah I agree, it did take me a bit to heal from the surgery to start with and so waiting till I have the skin surgery is definitely my best option!!! Thanks hun!!!

Just needed a break for a bit with everything that's going on on the job front! Still working on smoothing that out. Cheers~

Ugh well I hope it all works out ok!!! I haven't had a great month at work and its been very stressful but keeping hopes that it will be all over soon.

@hopeliveshere I am down to between a size 14 - 16 and I started at a 24 and so being down 10 sizes already in 5 months just seems insane to me, but also I think the same thing I am not going to fit in this specially when I hold these jeans up and loos at how small the waste is compared to what it used to be, it's just crazy to me that when I get them on and they fit some snug a little I still can get them on and zip them up and button them without fail and I am just like wow, how did this happen??? Then with tops I am still very conservative, and still buy XL to make sure I am covered I have never been very flashy, but I always like to be covered and don't want to show rolls or anything like that, so it's weird seeing that I can wear these things? Last night my son got his new football jersey, and so I tried it on with no fail it fit, and I was like holy moly my son is 9??? Then we got home and I tried on his jersey from last year, and OMG that was a youth large and it freaking fit me???? I almost fainted!!!

thats awesome. i just got into a size 14 as well for pants coming from size 22 and i have one dress that is a 12! i agree with you on the tops right away i pick up an XL still just to be modest. i wasnt brave enough to buy a bathing suit this year, hopefully next year.

Yeah I didn't buy a bathing suit either I just used the one I had last year which wasn't too bad as it was a two piece skirt bottom with a top that was just like a tank top so it still fit good enough!!!

thats great

Congrats Pupichupi keep up the great work i am during aqua-aerobis five days a week for an hour and it is working and I am feeling good. I just had my 3 month check up yesterday and my surgeon said I was doing awsume and he is so proud of me, who knew how great we would feel after this surgery.

We're all coming to your party ! Congratulations !

You will make your '0's' I have not doubt about it. I have one more pound to hit my next one and then it's on.

Thanks pink your more than welcome!!! @BladeFox I have no doubt you will hit yours too I know you can do this!!! I love hitting "0's"!!! Its so great!!!

Do you have to see them monthly? I had to miss my 2nd visit and they only rescheduled me for the 6-month visit with labs. Interesting.

Nope not every month, this is my first Appt after the 2 week visit and the next one is in 6 months!!!

Great job ! Keep it up , you can do it !

Yay! Great work!

Congratulations! You are doing great.

pupichupi thats great time flys when your having fun congrats on your weight loss and continued progress. Keep us posted on your progress I will be three months out on the 19 of this month , cant wait to meet with my doctor as well as the end of this month.

Right? I just realized that my closet needs a trend overhaul!!! Time to step it up.

LOL, I know what you mean!!! Today I put on one of the pairs of pants that I love to wear cause they are the skinny jeans, and I like the way I feel or felt in them till today, I feel them sagging everywhere I even have to wear a belt with them and they still feel like they are falling off? I am like what the heck???? lol

Amen Sistah!!!

LOL, the guy that noticed is a good guy, he and I get along really good at work, and they all know that I had the surgery, but they see me everyday??? So it's nice when they say it cause they do see me everyday so the changes aren't as drastic to them? lol

Isn't it nice to have people compliment all your hard work? I love it.

@MissME, I do love it, I am actually going today to see a old friend of mine to get my hair cut and I can't wait to see her cause she hasn't seen me since like a few years ago she moved away and now she is back, and she had the surgery like years ago, and I can't wait to show her my progress. lol