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I had a great report. I have lost 88 pds. my goal was 100 but that is ok.  I am happy if I stay where I am but would like to be at goal of 100. My life has changed so much this last year. I have had an infection in my belly button on and off for the last 6 months that will not go away. The Doctor said today that I need to have a simple surgery where they go in and close it up so that you don't have a belly button. I will probally do this next month. I would love to be able to have some excess fat removed from my waist and butt but no that I can't afford to do it. I feel that this past year has been amazing and I never thought I would be where I am today. I can do so many things now that I did not think I would ever be able to do again. Thanks to all my friends out there who have keep me going when I had problems.

Just went for checkup. It's been 8 months and the last 2 months my weight has all but stopped. I have lost 83 pds. The doctor said that was good and I just need to work out more. I feel alot better but my fibermyalgia still keeps me with lots of fatique and my pain has come back and the cold weather has really made it worse. I usually can get site injections and it helps but this time it didn't so my work out has been very limited. The nut said I still need to lose 4 pds. to be out of the obsity chart. She said for my height of 5"3" my weight should be around 125-130. My goal is 145. I am  smaller now than I have been in 31 years. I was 125 pds. 37 years ago and don't care if that never happens again. I know that since I don't have that much more to go that it will be slower than before but I will try and not get to upset with myself. My blood work was good except my vitamin D was low so I am now taking extra vitamin D. My goal was 100 pds. smaller within a year and I still think I can do that. Some of my friends reached that in 8 months but I quess we can't all do that. It feels really good to be able to fly and not have to ask for a seat belt extender or have my butt  going over into my husbands airline seat. I can also go to a bathroom now and not have to worry about how to get in and close the door without getting stuck. I hope all my friends are doing well and wish everyone lots of weight loss in 2009.

It has been a interesting 25 weeks. The pain in my side is still gone but we still don't know what it was but glad it's gone. My weight loss has slowed down. I have lost 74pds. and it's hard to believe. I am so happy!
My fibermyalgia is still acting up. I have terrible back pain almost everyday but I had that before and my fatigue is still there but not as bad as it was.
The weight loss has made me so happy. In my mind I still feel like I am very big and I quess that is because I have been for so long.I think that it.  has been about 23 years since I was this size. Hope all my friends are doing good .

The pain in left side is now gone. Still not sure what it was but it stopped 5 days ago. The weight loss has slowed down. Down 66 pds. I am happy with that but thought it would be about 10 pds more. I have had 2 weeks of the same so I'm sure that it will change soon.I still feel like I am as big as I was even though I know that it's not true. I've heard that you sometime feel this way I quess that when you have been big for so long that it can take a while to realize you are smaller.I feel so much better. My fibermyalgia is better some days than it was before surgery.

Well I have loss 53 pds. I went to the ER of Friday for this pain in my left side. It has been hurting for 5 weeks now. When I saw Dr.Long Wed. 2 weeks ago he ordered and ultrasound but they could not do it till the middle of this week(he left for vacation but thought they would do it with the week he ordered it.) I could not take the pain any longer and was worried what it could be and also I started having pain in my stomach that would bend me over double. It comes and goes. Got to the ER at 12:45 and saw the Dr at 2:00.The did a x-ray , urine, blood and ct scan. They said that I had kidney stones but no blood in urine so it should not be that. They said my pancareas(spelling?) was swollen and that I could have some gall stones but the blood work did not support these symptoms? They decided at 9:00pm to admit me and try and get pain under control and figure out what was wrong. I was taken to a room and they finished admitting me at 2:00am Sat. morning. It was a long day and night. I was released with the same pain on Monday afternoon and never got to see Dr. Long but will see him Thursday since he just got back from vacation. The Dr on call for him said that it could be a nerve blockage or something to do with the nerve in my side but would let Dr. Long make the call. After all of this I was relieved to know that there was nothing major with my surgery that went wrong.Will keep you informed.

I am 7 weeks out and have lost 40 pds. Still have the pain in my rib cage but Dr. said that is normal. I am excited about going from a 24-26 pants to a 20.
I still get fatique often and can't wait till I can have enough strength to excerise. We have added an addition to our house so I have been active moving and redoing 3 rooms so I quess that is some excerise.Will be going to Cherokee NC for 4 days soon and this will be the first time eating out alot so I'm trying to plan the meals in advance and I will take some things with me. There is not alot of variety there. My fibromylagia seems better except for the pain in my back . Hope everyone is doing ok and enjoying the summer!

Hey everybody just wanted to update you. It has been a bad 2 weeks after finding out last Wed. that my incision was infected I did ok till Sat. and then my stomach got upset everything I ate or drank went to dirreha. Sunday I had 1 tsp. of peanut butter and 6oz protein drink and my stomach was so upset and the dirreha was worse. Call the Dr on call and he said to go to ER because it could be several things. Got to er at 5:30 Sunday Pm  and was taken to a room at 9. Dr came in at 10 (what a night it was) he gave me something for nausea and they did blod work, and a  Ct scan on my stomach. I had to drink 2 cups of  terrible tasting stuff and wait for 30 mins. the scan was done at 3:00am and finally at 6am a surgical dr came in and said that it was ok but i had a kidney infection and they were going to admit me to try and find my problem. Well at 10am they took me to a holding room till a room came available. Got in my room at 2:30 (i still had not had any sleep).Tuesday they did that nasty tasting upper g i but it came back no leakage(what a relief).Still not able to eat or drink without dirreha. The doctor came in this morning in a bad mood. He told me he was sending me home because dirreha wasnot going to kill  me and just make sure I drank and I wouldn't get dehydrated. He said eat what you want and if you get sick you will know not to eat it again. I was shocked and told him I was not blowing my diet rules that I hadn"t and didn"t  plan on it. I quess he had had a bad am or something but I didn't want to be sick . I'm home and have been able to eat some mashed pot. and the dirreha is a little better.I quess it's just my body telling me that I did something to it but I'm going to tough it out. Hope all is well  with everybody and pray that my problem will get better and that I can go back to work on Monday.