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Had my surgery 2 months ago, down 90 pounds (45 since surgery) and feel great! No more cpap, no more hurting hips and feet, and haven't needed to use my inhaler in over a month! All this on top of the fact that I can wear clothes that fit, and have so much more energy!!

Yes! I could never have imagined it, that's for sure!!

I'm 2 months out and still taking it.

Crazy, right?

I've lost a newborn calf and am hoping to add a two-month old horse to it!

5 miles this morning, for a total of 35 for the month.

You both look awesome, congratulations!

I don’t think I’m a food addict, but it’s early yet so maybe I’ll change my mind as time goes on. I do know without a shadow of a doubt that I had/have some VERY disordered eating habits. My father grew up very poor, in a house where wasting food was something that didn’t happen. If it was on your plate, you ate it. My mother grew up as the care giver, food preparer for a super morbidly obese father, who liked everything fried in lard and topped with gravy. These were the eating habits that were passed on to me as a child. Every meal had bread, most had gravy, and lots of it was fried. My mother never did learn how to serve normal sized portions so our plates were heaped full of food and my father insisted that it was finished. Needless to say I was a chubby kid, and once puberty hit and I realized that boys didn’t like fat girls, I purposely tried to get fat. It worked… Fast forward to my early 20’s, had a baby, married a guy who had to have rice at every meal and also insisted if we cooked it we ate it. That relationship ended, and eventually I ended up in a very bad relationship for 8 years with someone who used food to say I’m sorry. There were a lot of fights, so there was a lot of food. I surrounded myself with friends, all of whom were fat, and every get together was about food. Thankfully, three years ago I finally worked up the courage to walk away from that relationship and this summer I decided that I needed to put me first, and do the things I needed to do for myself. It hasn’t been easy, these past two months, changing habits that I built up over a life time. I find that I always have to measure my food out, if I don’t I will eat too much every time. This makes eating at a restaurant very difficult for me so I try to avoid them. I eat too fast and there have been more than a couple of times that I’ve taken a bite or two even after I felt full. Then I get sick and say I won’t do it again, but old habits are hard to break. So I don’t think I’m an addict, I don’t miss not being able to eat (maybe once I feel hunger again that will change) but I need to learn how to kick the very bad habits that I’ve learned over the past 38 years. It’s kind of weird; I’ve lost 90 pounds this year, half before and half after surgery and I’m finding my voice now. I don’t have my shield of fat to hide behind anymore so I’m having to find a way to be comfortable with attention, and learning to tell the toxic people in my life that it’s time to take a hike. Probably way more here than anyone wanted to know about me, and I didn't stay completely on topic, but once I started it all came out! Thanks for starting this thread, very interesting and VERY informative!!

Hmmm, if I did this right I'm at 42% Not too shabby! [84/(380-180)]*100

So, I've rode a total of 25 miles this week which I think brings me up to 30 for the month. I also did the first day of the C25K app yesterday and I lived to tell about it!

Ohh I've been thinking about getting one of those! That or a thigh master!

5 miles this morning and turned up the resistance on the bike so my legs are feeling it!

That's so awesome! Congratulations!

HW 388 DoS 334 CW 299 So far have gone from a size 28 to a size 20/22!

I actually just finished downloading that app! It looks totally doable to me, I might actually give this a shot.

I'm going to go with 150 miles on the bike, AND logging in frequently enough to actually participate in the thread. I think I would like to start running this month as well, if I can get the courage up to actually get outside and do it. Kinda silly, I guess, to be scared of running but I am!

My daughter has actually been really supportive throughout my whole process. She's already figured out what I can and can't eat and encourages me to exercise when I don't really feel like it. She's also chastised me when I've eaten too much and made myself sick. Pitbull/cheerleader, that's my kid. Her biggest concern is me eventually borrowing her clothes (because I'm constantly pointing out which of her clothes I can't wait to wear) but since I'm over 6 inches taller than her she really has nothing to fear lol! We did go window shopping this weekend and I ran into lane Bryant to try clothes on, just to see where I'm at size wise and she got frustrated with me because I kept picking stuff that to her, was clearly too big. I'm really excited to see my son, he's in the Navy and stationed in Guam so I haven't seen him since early summer. I've lost a total of 90 pounds since I last saw him, he's gonna be blown away!

HW 388 SW. 334 CW. 304

I asked about being cold all the time at my last appointment with the surgeon, and he said it's normal. I just try to remember to carry a sweater with me, or dress in some kind of layers if at all possible. My office stays so cold, it's like working in Antarctica so I'm not the only one sitting at my desk with a sweater on even though its 80 degrees outside!

Lots going on for me these last 10 days. I rode the bike but I didn't keep track of it! 5 miles last night and 5 miles this morning bring me to 83 for the month!

I have nothing really constructive to add but your post made me laugh out loud!

I'm in Fresno. Had surgery at the Kaiser here in town.

I honestly don't remember anything. They wheeled me into the operating room, I hopped over onto the table and the nurse was making small talk with me, next thing I know I woke up in the recovery room. It was like walking up in the morning except I was a little sore.