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Those 2 will come back off shortly. I hope that means you are feeling better and that stomach bug is gone. Good luck on the contest!! My ticker only goes one direction too!

Couldn't get here for about 24 hours for some reason. Rebooted my computer and am back now but now no email notifications again, GRRR!! But wanted to say thanks for the kudos on my 100 lbs yesterday, it meant so much. The whole morning at work I kept thinking I can't wait to get home and post it here as I know you'd all truly understand how it felt. Funny thing, I sent an email to my family announcing my milestone. My sisters have not said a word. They haven't comment since I hit about 75 lbs. and what they said then, was my butt looked small and I was pissing them off. DH thinks they are very afraid now that I am thinner than them. I have always been the fat sister. But no more!! I was going to attach a photo but couldn't figure it out. It wanted the url address of my photo. I don't have any online.

I couldn't get to this site for about 24 hours. GRRRR and now am not getting the email notifications again, double GRRRR Thanks so much for all the congrats and kudos on my loss. And yes I did do a happy dance yesterday morning. I still can't believe it. Today at the hospital in my volunteer work, one of the things I do is set up the classroom for the preop and 2 week post op nutrition classes. They always ask if I've had the surgery and when I told them today and my loss they were all amazed and very hopeful. That felt nice. As for yesterday I have the help of a bad tooth to help in the weight lass department. I went to the dentist yesterday and it's infected and will need a root canal. YUCK!!! I am on antibiotics now and get the root canal in 2 weeks. I hope the antibiotics take away the infection and therefore the pain fast! I'm not eating much, sleeping much, etc. And I feel so run down, DH thinks it's my body fighting the infection. And what I do eat, I have a hard time chewing fine enough and have PB'd more than normal. as for water, immediately after surgery, i was to drink 1 oz every 15 min. Now I get in 60 to 80 oz a day, but still by sipping, I can't gulp a whole glass of water in the morning well. Especially cold water. Melody, congrats on your loss so far!

I'm back, I couldn't get here after I posted about my 100 lb loss yesterday. The page wouldn't load. Allie, congrats on the 104.5!!! See told you that you would blast right past the 100 lb mark.

With your stomach bug, you are probably going to skip right past 100 too and go straight to 101 or something. But seriously I hope you are feelin better soon! No fun being sick.

Thanks, Love, now I am trying to come up with a new goal. I know there's no specific St. patricks day one or something, but would like to lose 6 by then to be in Onederland! So it will be my personal goal until there is a new challenge posted after this one ends.

Hit a major milestone this morning, 100 lbs lost! 36 more to go to reach my ultimate goal! Name___________StartWeight___CurrentWeight______Goal_________ToGo *****<?xml:namespace prefix = v /><v:shapetype id=_x0000_t75 path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f" filled="f" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" coordsize="21600,21600">:cool2:</v:shapetype>***********:wink:*************:tt2:***********:thumbup:********** :thumbup:*** Babe...............308............300.2.......199.......101.2 Brandy.............198............194.........166.......26 Cappy..............240............239.........130.......109 Chocolate_Snaps....244............224.........175.......49 Clarebear08........192............185.........160.......25 Donna113...........183............180.5.......126.......54.5 Ebonie.............307............307.........200.......107 FalloutGirl........282............278.........165.......112 FeliciaLevy75......200............194.........140.......54 FlordiaPete........413............408.........300.......108 GratefulHeart......226............217.........135.......82 health4life........279............239.........150.......89 janesays...........225............224.6.......160.......64.6 kimaly.............194............191.........160.......31 Lindar172..........246............235.4.......150.......85.4 Linksmom...........234............234.........145.......89 LocomotiveEngineer.311............311.........220.......91 Long2BThin.........216............205.........169.......36 lotzasunshine......270............265.5.......180.......85.5 Loveislovely.......216............210.........175.......35 ltgordon...........284.8..........262.8.......185.......77.2 lucyavery..........205............205.........140.......65 Mair...............231............225.........140.......85 Mamanmidwife.......264............260.........200.......60 mdgarcia31665......220............220.........165.......55 MissNilsa..........180............180.........132.......48 Tabithan...........240............240.........200.......40 Under200...........242............199.........155.......44 vzghj3.............202............202.........150.......52 WOWOX7.............173............168.........125.......43

Yep, Katy, hubby celebrated with me this morning. I hit the 100 lbs mark and he got up and hugged me and told me how proud is was of me. Then promptly went back to bed as it was 430am and he doesn't have to get up as early as me. I am just thrilled to have reached that. When I got banded I thought I'd be the one it didn't work for or something. Instead the Lord has blessed me with just the opposite, I've had amazing success and a smooth journey thus far. Now I have visions of actually reaching my goal weight. Only 36 to go!

Yes, Janet, that was me you heard screaming this morning about 430am. I HIT 100 LBS LOST TODAY!!!!!! I can't believe it. When I had this done, I was hopeful but not sure I really believed I could do it. I started at 305 and am at 205 now, so you know my next milestone is to get a 1 in front of my weight. Now I actually have visions of actually reaching goal! Whodda thunk it? Well I know you did, Janet, you have faith and belief in everyone of us and that means so much. I just want to thank you for the support and help you have given me since the day you started this very thread. I think I posted on it that very day. Oh and yes, I would've loved to have been shopping with you at Ann Taylor and Loft outlets! BTW, anything ever come of the plans to try and meet in Vegas in April??

Today, I woke up and stepped on the scale I reached my goaaaaaaal!!! Me too!! Reached my Valentines day goal and more importantly reached 100 lbs lost!! :thumbup: NAME------------------------START----------------CURRENT---------------GOAL--------------TO GO 1000words..........220............210............210...........0 annjones...........277............264............267...........3 AuntieGG...........286............278............270...........8 BandedCG...........273............236.5..........220........16.5 Bandana............165............165............160...........5 Barb12590..........185............180............175...........5 Bea1128............190.5..........189............180...........9 Bonnielass.........168............164............159...........5 Brandy.............198............194............190...........4 Bunkey.............165............165............160...........5 Charlietuna........163............160............150..........10 crzytchr...........250............243............240...........3 CubsGirl...........150............143............140...........3 Cutiew/booty.......224............217............212...........5 Fordgal88..........274............208............198..........10 Imgoingdown........239............199............189..........10 janesays...........230............222.4..........215.........7.4 Jodi_620...........160............154............148...........6 karebare714........283............272............265...........7 kikival315.........219.5..........215............210...........5 LauraP.............170............170............155..........15 lcwils01...........227............225............213..........12 Leslie2lose........229............223............219...........4 LilMissDiva........253............242.4..........239.........3.4 LisaLef............270............238............235...........5 littlefroggy.......211............205............195..........10 Long2BThin.........216............205............205...........0 Loveislovely.......223............208............208...........0 ltgordon...........264............262............250..........12 Mair...............231............225............220...........5 Mamanmidwife.......264............258............250...........8 misskitty84........313............263............243..........20 mominlv13..........270.2..........265.8..........260.........5.8 SanDiegoPhotog.....263............191............179..........12 Sistergrl25........359............289............264..........25 skyjoe.............322.4..........312.2..........289.4......22.8 Tabithan...........246............238............236...........2 Terilynn112........224............224............200..........24 Tuger..............192............192............185...........7 twinmommie.........207............198............193...........9 wowox7.............173............165............163...........2

I hit 100 lbs lost this morning!!!!

Thanks for the congrats!! I just got home from work and this is the first place I came. Allie you will hit it tomorrow I bet if you have a stomach bug. You'll probably be like Teach and blow right past 100 and get 101 or something. Teach, so 100 wasn't good enough huh? Had to go and get 101??? :thumbup: Good job, congrats! Hey maybe you could give that extra pound to Allie?? My day looks like this: Breakfast - used to be every day 1/4 egg beaters, a smidge of cheese, and 2 slices precooked bacon. However, since my, ummm fiber/constipation problems, my breakfast is now kashi go lean cereal (13 gm protein and 10 gm fiber) I do a 1/2 cup those numbers are for 1 cup I think. That's at 5am. When I get home from work I have 2 sl. precooked bacon. Lunch - usually chicken of some sort and once a week that is in the form of chicken mcnuggets, my weakness at McD's. Dinner - meat of some type and some veggie, rarely but if still hungry on occassion I'll have a tad of rice or potato. Snacks - usually one about 100 calories of some snack food. My portions are always about 1/2 cup to 1 cup and get in my water. I have great restriction and need to chew chew chew my small bites. I also workout now 6 days a week but that just recently upped to that was about 3 or 4 days. Hope that helps.

I DID IT!!! I HIT 100 LBS THIS MORNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Am running late for work, but had to pop in and post that!!

Lynn, I eat about 1/2 cup meals, protein first always, about 5 times a day. Sometimes only 3 or 4 times. I exercise to Tony Hortons Power 90 DVD's 6 days a week, they are about 30 min each. Well Teach & Allie, will tomorrow be the day??? How exciting to be at this milestone at the same time. My surgeon told me the same thing about a bypass patient's loss vs my loss at my last appt. and he does both surgeries. I was thrilled. But I do also have that intense fear of failing. It's getting better as I have now lost more weight than I have ever in the past, but it's almost that 'too good to be true' feeling. I don't have an accurate picture in my head of what I look like either. Sometimes I see myself still at 305 but then others I start to believe I really do look thinner and then I see my reflection in the mirror and think who am I kidding? doesn't help that the room I do my workout at the rec center is lined with a wall of mirrors. Here's to tomorrow!!!! Will it be the day????? I am back to weighing daily as I want to see that 100 lb mark so bad.

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Thanks for all the kudos and well wishes on hitting my 100 lb mark. Alas, today was not the day, I got 99 1/2!! GRRRR Hubby tells me to round up! But I want to see it on the scale official. It will hit anyday. I'm on the scale every day right now anxious to hit it. Funny, hubby even got up with me at 4am to see if I made it. He's been my biggest supporter. He even goes to my support group meetings with me. And he did my Power 90 workout with me on Sat. and I think he was shocked at how tough it really was and was proud of how much I could do.

99 1/2 today, will it be tomorrow???? Yikes, it's driving me crazy. DH even got up with me this morning to see if I hit it. I have some cruise shopping to do. He promised me a few years ago if I ever lost 100 lbs (one of the times I was crying to him about my weight) he'd go on a Medditerranean cruise or somewhere else in Europe I wanted to go. And from what I read in the paper on Sunday, cruise prices are way down, so I hope I find a bargain! My workouts are going great, I am really liking this video series and the fact my friend is as committed to it as I am helps. It's more fun to go with someone. This same friend has another friend who just had lap band surgery by my surgeon. She asked if I would go to dinner with her and her friend one night as her friend wanted to meet me and hear about my experience. Heck yes! I'll go! So she is setting that up. Big snowstorm here today and while I was out and about my windshield wipers broke. It's almost white out conditions and I couldnt' see a thing. I tried calling DH but knew he'd be a long ways away and/or Triple A but didn't want to sit on the side of the icy roads either like a lame duck. So I slowly made it home. Scariest situation I have driven in a long time. I do wnat to get out to go to the rec center for my workout this afternoon so hopefully it lets up and I don't need wipers. It's less than a mile from my house on side roads so should be okay. My windshield is defrosting in the garage.

Congrats Allie on the 4 lbs!! Maybe you, I and Teach will all hit 100 on the same day. Alas, I did not hit it today, I hit 99.5 instead. So I lost 3.5 this week. But the previous 2 weeks I only lost 1.

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99 lbs this morning!!!!!! Will I hit 100 tomorrow?? Yes I am weighing daily right now so anxious to hit it.

Tried that but when I go to edit signature there are no spaces there, if I delete a line anyway it totally erases my weights. And I measured my signature and your's and mine is way smaller than your's so I don't get it. I've seen many bigger than mine. Oh well I guess I will have to live with what I got!

On a related note I tried to add another ticker for this challenge or just another line of text for it and it won't let me, it says my signature is too big or too many lines, yet I see many bigger than mine. What's up with that???

Hey Teach I hit 99 this morning too, maybe we will hit 100 tomorrow! Wouldnt' that be great? I'm back to weighing daily as I want to hit it so bad. I don't have the patience to wait a week to see if I hit it. It's kindda like when I hit it I don't want to miss it. LOL How strange is that. Next major goal is Onderland too! I wasn't thinking surgery last year at this time either. It wasn't until April that I started researching it. Wintery snow mix here too, just flurries so far, but cold! We were 72 only 2 days ago!

I am at 99 lbs lost now!! Come on 100!!!! It was actually 99.2, so less than a pound to go. You'll hear me shout from here when I reach it! This place has been quiet this weekend. Hope everyone is just out and enjoying their new banded lifestyles. Wonder if Janet is a big winner in Vegas yet? Lucky, sorry to hear about the port flipping. I have no experience or knowledge about it though. Sounds like you have a good attitude about it though. Will it mean another surgery?