So I made it to the goal posts. Any more lost will be nice but I've achieved what I set out to do (and maybe more). Here are the stats:

Weight at start of journey: 420

Total loss: 240

Total days since I made the decision and started surgery: 689

Weight loss before surgery: 51

Weight loss since surgery on 10/10/11: 189

Average lbs per week: 2.4

%body weight lost: 57%

Pics later everyone. I'm going to take a horseback riding lesson and celebrate today!!! I made it!

Now the work starts: Next chapter.. Maintenance: The Pizza Strikes Back

Flippin' amazing! Be very proud of yourself ! Enjoy your new life!! And please come around more often guys like you are important to the rest of us, we feed off each others success and knowledge.

Wow, what an accomplishment!! So happy for you, you must feel phenomenal on so many levels! Great job

That's Amazeballs congrats to you.. Now ride that pony.. I always thought that being 300 lb rider was animal cruelty lol

Congrats!

WOW~ Good for YOU!!! Great Job!!

Inspiring and Totally Amazing!

CONGRATS! Good job and so happy for you. When I reach my goal I'm getting back on the horse, too! Yippeekiyay!

Thank you for sharing your success with us! Amazing job. what an inspiration!

Or YEE HAW!

Great job!!! Enjoy riding!!!!

Well horse riding was soooo cool. It was English and I never thought I'd do that. Wow... will I be sore tomorrow. But the horse won't and that's kind of a victory.

Congratulations!! What a journey you have had. Enjoy doing all those fun things now. My son wants me to go jump out of an airplane with him.

Welcome to the goalies bench! I love it here, and so many of us fit because we are all smaller! I haven't ridden a horse since I lost weight, but I gotta tell you, the amusement park rides are so much more fun now that I'm not stuffed in the seat like a sausage. And I don't have the fear that I can't fit at all!

Lynda

Congratulations!! What a journey you have had. Enjoy doing all those fun things now. My son wants me to go jump out of an airplane with him.

Yikes, jumping out of a perfectly good airplane,,,,and it isn't on fire... I dunno

Welcome to the goalies bench! I love it here, and so many of us fit because we are all smaller! I haven't ridden a horse since I lost weight, but I gotta tell you, the amusement park rides are so much more fun now that I'm not stuffed in the seat like a sausage. And I don't have the fear that I can't fit at all!

Lynda

Thanks Lynda. I like the Goalie's Bench... That's fun. I was making amusement park plans for my nephew's annual visit this summer...can't wait.