Just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Celeste Had Lap RNY on 06/18/07 I am about 14lbs outsdie of my goal weight. I am very excited abut my new life and look. My body now matches my insides (as far as I am concerned). My kids and husband are very happy for me. I am more energized and just have a more positive outlook on life.

So far I have lost about 103lbs. I am very thankful for the support sites have found and the WLS community is awesome. I love you all for that. We need each other for support and understanding because the ones on the outside of WLS cannot truely understand our struggle no matter how hard they try.

Welcome to the neighborhood!
Keep posting! Give us your widom and Journey notes.
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Your Beautiful, your insides must be also!

Hugs,

Nancy

Hi Celeste and welcome!

You are doing so well with your weight loss, I'm happy for you!!!!

You are a beautiful young woman and I'm anxious to get to know you.

And you are right, no one understands exactly what we go through except other WLS peeps!!

You'll find a lot of wisdom, friendship and support here in the neighborhood.

Celeste,

Welcome to the neighborhood. Glad you've moved in!

Wow you are doing great! I got my band on 12/19/08 and I've lost about 22 pounds and that means 78 to go. I feel like it is taking forever. I know that slower is better, but I'm still in the "will this actually work" phase. On good days, I know it will work, on bad days, I think "has my last resort has failed?" Loosely translating to " Have I failed, again?" I do try not to go to the dark side, but sometimes it just creeps in.

How did you make it through? Any tips will help, I think my "thinking" just gets in the way. Most days I am confident that I will succeed and this weight will come off, but I'm still at the weight loss point I've been so many times, before I gained it all back. I just worry that I'll never get past the 25-30 pounds I've lost over and over again in the past. Even though I know I'm off the roller coasters of my past, I still fear that I'm just on a new roller coaster.

Right now I am doing a fair amount of toning work and I take a belly dance class two times a week, plus I try to get at least one other cardio workout in for the week. My eating is not as consistent as I would like it to be. It's hard to get into a good routine with the back and forth of liquid/soft after each fill. I'm getting fills every 3 weeks and at this last fill I remained the same, no loss, but no gain. (So sad) I thought that with all the belly dancing I would have lost. I've been thinking maybe I should start using a measuring tape to see if there are any changes there.

Thanks for letting me ramble.

Hey Celeste! You gorgeous thing you! Welcome to the Neighborhood!
SO glad you found us. You are gonna LOVE it here!
Post often and ask bunches of questions! to the Neighborhood!

Welcome Celeste!

You look fantastic and it sounds like you feel great. You've found a great place for support right here.

Keep up the good work!


Barb

Hi Celeste and welcome to the neighborhood! What a lovely woman you are! I am about 11 pounds from goal myself so I can certainly understand how energized and reborn you feel! I hope that you will be around more and get to know the neighborhood!

Welcome to the neighborhood!

and congrats on your new beautiful outside!