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sounds like you've been through a medical hell. My numbers are all good too but that doesn't keep my back from hurting or getting winded while walking. I'm gearing up to be cliche and starting fresh tomorrow. 16 pounds is a great start!!! I like to exercise in the morning just to get it out of the way and my lame excuses are less likey to win. By the end of the day I really don't want to workout. Luckily my daughter is 19 and I don't have to fix her breakfast though I do have to poke her to get her butt up for school or work LOL. Live, Love, Laugh

----- Forwarded Message ----From: derfsvic <derfsvic@...>100-plus Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 1:15:01 AMSubject: OK I am here and I am new

Well here I am. To be a perfect weight I should lose 150 pounds but I will be happy if I can lose 100 pounds. That is my goal to lose it by Fall of 2007. I will try to keep this short. I grew up skinny. Then I had four kids in four years. Then realized that their Dad was a jerk and a womanizer. So I set off to raise the kids by myself. I got myself through college and everyone potty trained at the same time. But I knew the only way I could raise them by myself was to have a really good job. So I got that job. So life should have been good, but I was lonely and too tired to do anything about it but eat. Then the job did not help, as a social worker for a program for kids with disablities I never had time for lunch, so going through fast food drive throughs became a way of life. Needless to say after 17 years of Mc's

etc the weight has been put on heavy duty. About 4 years ago I got real motivated because a cause that I really believed in needed me to be a spokesperson and I realized that I could not go on TV and in front of people looking like this, so I lost about 70 pounds in about 3 months. So life was good, and then it got better because I met a wonderful man and we got married. About a year after that I found out I had brain tumors called mengiomas, which are benign but had to come out. My brain swelled and I was losing the use of my right side, the drugs that they gave me to control that then perforated a hole in my colon, so 21 days after brain surgery I had an emergency colostomy. Then about 2 weeks after that I got blood clots in my legs and lungs. So I was life flighted and told I would probably die. But I fooled everyone and did not. Needless to say between all the medication including heavy doses of steriods, the weight

is back and then some. A few months ago I hit 306. Some day when I get up the nerve I would like to have the colostomy reversed but the doc would like me to be under 200 which would make things go much smoother. I have given up Mountain Dew, fast food, and bear clow pastries. I have lost about 16 pounds so far. I know I need to get out and exercise more, I am a champion at finding excuses for not doing it. I know I am very lucky right now because despite the weight I am fairly healthy, recent bloodwork came back perfect, even my A1C was great. I do have High Blood pressure but not too bad, but doc says that my organs can only hang in there so long. Of course my back is killing me ! OK that is not short, but that is me,

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