Well, today makes one year! Yay! I remember just getting out of surgery thinking you just gotta make it through the hard part - like a year from now, everything will be good. Just keep thinking about a year from now!

Well here we are - one year later. Let's chat about what has transpired over the last year.

Well as of a few minutes ago I've lost 69 lbs! Yay! Now had you asked me how much i would have lost a year ago - I would have said at least 100 lbs or more. I must say - though I am very happy with my weight loss - I am a little dissapointed. I had hoped to lose a lot more - a lot faster. I remember being 2 months out - having lost 20 lbs and well on my way to that 100 lb year end goal - reading blogs of people who had lost 100 lbs in 10 months thinking that's gonna be me soon! It has not been me.

I feel like I'm just in the transition from feeling circus freak obese (I'm sure I'm not circus freak obese), but I am quite large and on top of that I'm 5'11 - which just makes me an unusually large woman. So, I've transitioned from feeling circus freak huge to just normal fat. Which has been great. I still weigh just over 300 lbs - 303 to be exact. It would be nice on my bandiversary to say that I'm under 300 - that would be a nice benchmark.

Anyhoo, some other changes. Am going to the gym regularly a minimum of 3x a week. Minimum - often 4 x and sometimes 5x. Its become a total habit.

My clothes have changed - though there are no clothes that I just absoultely positively CAN'T wear anymore - they are definitely way too loose on me. I have clothes that I started out a year ago and could not squeeze in to at all - that are now too big for me. That's awesome. I've raided the too small for me clothes box in the garage and many of those are now too big as well.

I feel better, have more energy etc., etc. I'm currently awaiting an appt to consult with my Plastic Surgeon for a tummy tuck - that's awesome. Things are well. Things are good! Things are very good.

I must say this is, thus far, the best decision I've ever made. Just imagine how I'll feel in another year! :frown:

Happy anniversary! Slow and steady wins the race! Your body is doing what's best for it, you're doing great!

celebrate!! i know how you feel about loosing slow...but i remind myself that ''it took me over 10 years to gain the 100 lbs, why should i expect to loose it in 1 year.''' We are doing something good for our body and that is heading to the right direction.

I also raided my "small size box" and half of it fits now. Feels good.

Enjoy the moment and good luck!

Awesome job! You know it's not a race...we'll all get there in our own time and sometimes slow is better in keeping it off. Happy Bandiversary!