I am new to this blog thing, but here goes...my story starts last year, I fell and broke my ankle, it actually snapped under my weight! I am in cronic pain from the fall, and if the weight comes off, maybe it would be better....My surgery is set for October 6th. I couldn't be more excited...I have been watching what I am eating and replacing two meals a day with protein shakes. So far I am down about 12 lbs...although I am tempted, I try to make it through the day with as little food as possible.( I will be taking a well needed trip to Atlantic City next week where I will hit upthe buffet one last time!) My husband is not supportive, when I say i am hungry, he tells me to eat, and I wanna kill him!!! I am hoping that after the surgery the hunger will subside! Today I got on my scale, by the way, is there really an accurate scale out there??? and it reads 221.6....I guess that isn't too bad. Could be and has been worse. I think that I havebecome obsessed with the scale. Even though I am losing weight, I am not seeing any difference in the way my body looks. Hopefully the first 3 weeks after surgery I can lose like 15 lbs...I wanna be super hot next spring!!!!:thumbup: