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so glad this is the past. what a trauma you and your child have suffered through. wishing you happiness!

Great post! I'm glad I stopped by... I, too, needed to see this!

Today was better...sort of. Had my am shake blended with 1/2 banana. Lunch shake plain blended with Ice. Drank couple glasses of water and an ice tea. Then lean cuisine at dinner. Was still hungry so ate a cup of steamed broccoli. Then a couple bites of plain yogurt. I'm still hungry, but heading to bed. It's hard to go from 2000-3500 calories a day to 900....

Huge congrats on all your hard work clearly paying off. But I wanted to add that you look smoken' hot with the short hair from your before picture Not sure if you want to go short again, but you really pull it off.

You standing tall makes me look up to you, with pride and admiration.

Today at work I had to give a presentation to over 100 staff members, the majority being managers & directors. Before I was banded I would get so nervous fearing all they would see was this talking whale…. Today, I felt confident in myself. I knew the subject matter, I was dressed professionally and I was ready. The presentation went off without any hicks and after it was over my coworker said to me, “Wow, you were so confident up there. How do you do that?” It made me think. I am confident, I am in control, I like myself…. No I love myself. I stand tall! All because in February 2012 I decided to put myself first, to change my lifestyle, to eat right & exercise. I got a tool to help me accomplish this, my band, and together we have done incredible stuff. I have changed and improved myself and today I do stand tall. I thank the band for that!

Thanks for sharing the pictures! You have made lots of progress and should be proud!!!

I love this post and I'm so proud of you!

Wow, that's such an inspirational story. Good job to you.

So very true. You have a wonderful way with words. Thanks for the blog.