Hi Everyone,

I wanted to check in and see how everyone is doing. I am down 55 lbs now! Yeah! But, I did hit a 4 month weight loss plateau I did not lose any weight for 4 whole months and did have two fills during that time. My last fill was on 9/14/09 and I believe that this fill I may finally be at the "sweet spot" I was starting to think that was just a myth the sweet spot but I do believe I am there now. I am closer to being under 200 lbs than I have been in 4 years! I just pray that I can keep it up. I am also walking/running I have never been a runner but I am competing next Satuday in a 5k for a dear fried that lost her sister to cancer. My goal is to run 80% of the race - I think I can do it!

I have to be honest I thought at 9 months out from the date of my surgery that I would be further along with my weight loss but I have learned to accept it as it comes. My body seems to be a "chunker" meaning I lose weight in chunks. I wanted everyone else to update with their celebrations and challenges because we are all in this together!

Angie:lol:

Hi Angie,

I haven't checked the thread in quite sometime, but I see that your post is fairly recent. I am glad there are other December 2008 bandsters are still active. Your weight loss is great! Right on track according to everything I have been told. Keep up the good work.

Like you I also had about a 4 month period when I wasn't losing any weight, but when I started walking then running my weight loss started up again. I am down 51 pounds as of this morning. Yipee! I hope to lose about 15 more before one year anniversary, December 10th. Though I have been noticing my decreasing weight for sometime now, my body is finally showing the loss, I have a bit more to lose than you and people are noticing who didn't know that I had surgery.

I hope others will login and leave some encouraging results since their surgeries.

Best wishes.

Fran

I also had a 4 month plateau and it wasn't until my last fill on 9/7 that the scale finally started moving again and I think I've reached my sweet spot, too. I'm down 46 lbs, but now I'm believing again I can actually reach goal someday... after such a long plateau I started to think this wasn't going to work. I'm glad you're doing well and God bless you on your journeys!

Angie,

You've done well, good job! It took me a long time to reach my "sweet spot", too, and now I am just slowly losing weight. The good things for me:

(1) I'm no longer focused on eating or dieting;

(2) I'm no longer dieting!

(3) I am not gaining weight!

I couldn't be happier! I know I can lose my extra weight if I really put my mind to it, on the other hand, at this point I'm just overjoyed that I don't have to focus on food (or try to not focus on being hungry all the time) so I consider it a great success. At my current weight I am so much happier with myself and can move so much easier.

I'm doing great--I hit Onederland today! It seemed like I had a slow start to all of this, and only hit my sweet spot in June. But things have been pretty smooth sailing since then! 39 pounds till goal! Well, my first goal; I'd like to lose more than that, but we'll see.

Glad to see other December people on here! Keep up the good work!

everyone is doing so well! I had surgery on 12/12/08 and I can't believe it but on 10/13/09 I hit goal! It's not an easy road but it was well worth it. It's so nice not having to worry about all those little things like fitting into chairs or always thinking about food.

i'm doing pretty good too :thumbup:

Still need to lose 10 more lbs to reach goal of 80lbs

hoping to get it off before my bandiversary 12-19-09