Well, it finally happened to me. I've been expecting to plateau for a couple of weeks now, and it happened this week. I know I need to get in some real exercise, so that's what I'm going to do. I have two dogs who desperately need to be walked, so I have two incentives for getting off my duff.

I haven't dropped in clothing sizes like I would have expected either. I guess all those elastic waisted pants have just stretched out to accomodate my growing girth! I seem to have lost...

Janelle

Sitting here tonight, I've thought about the path my life was on two years ago. Then, I was engaged, moving to Birmingham, and planning a future with a man I loved. I had applied to go to graduate school at the University of Alabama and bought a four door car with expectations of putting two car seats in the back. Isn't it funny how life comes along and screws up your plans?

Within a couple of months of making these plans, I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma and chronic...

Janelle

The weather was lovely today. I decided to run an evening errand. I got in my freshly scrubbed car, put on my sunglasses, and proceeded to cruise (as cooly as one can cruise in a 4 door sedan) to Turkey Creek to do a little shopping. I cranked up some music and just drove. On the way home, I was reminded of all those times when I owned the Miata and just cruised around. I was not tiny then, but I was certainly sassy. I was a voluptuous, vampy little thing. Now, I see a middle aged, frumpy...

Janelle

I have never failed to lose weight. I have only failed to keep those pounds from returning. During my last "regain" eight years ago, I purchased the cutest little sheath dress. Of course, it didn't fit at that time, but I estimated that I only needed to lose 10 pounds to get in it. The dress was on sale (imagine that!). It was white with little rosebuds on it. It was precious, and I just had to have it. I wasn't able to fit in it that spring or the one after that. And pretty soon,...

Janelle

I was so excited abou taking these pics. However, when it was all said and done, if it weren't for knowing this surgery was scheduled, I would have cried myself to sleep. I couldn't believe how big I have allowed myself to get. I am always the person who grabs my nephew to be in any picture with me, so that I can hide behind him. And in these pics, there is no camoflaging my weight. It's so bad that I don't want to even post a pre-op pic on this forum until I have a 3 month post-op pic to put...

Janelle