Listen to your gut, it's never wrong. Trust me, I've not listened to it and learned hard lessons. VERY hard ones. But I'm learning to listen to it and the lesson from that is to TRUST IT. Your gut knows.

I really think it's the increased exercise that's helping me deal with the pain better, but it's hard to feel greatful for it improving cause it still hurts so much. The better I feel, the less pain pills I take, so the worse I feel. A full circle type of thing. My dream is to one day be thin, pain free, and off all the pills, but I realize that may never happen. We're tough tho kiddo, I think if we can beat fat, we can wipe our tears and beat the pain too. I gotta keep believing that. It gets me out of bed every morning. *hugs*

Read your post and wanted to say that it's great to hear you've had success in reducing pain with weight loss! So good to hear girl!