Re: Hi!!! FIRSTS for me....

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HOW COOL IS THIS??!!!??!!!! Congratulations!!!! What great wow

moments!! Thank you for coming here to share with us.

Hugs!!!!!!

>

> Just had to post, I usually stay pretty dormant and lurk but I had

> surgery on Feb 16th, 3 weeks today and I've had so many firsts I

just

> had to tell someone!! This past weekend I took my kids bike riding

at

> the lake for the first time and didn't get tired, or quit, we rode

3

> miles up and down hills. They had such a great time and so did I.

My

> kids even commented that I had never ridden bikes with them before

and

> since the birth of my daugher 6 years ago and all this weight gain,

I

> rarely did anything active with them, I am usually just the watcher

of

> activities.

> I must brag too that my heightest weight was 362, I was 340 at my

pre

> op consult, I was 329 the day of surgery and now 3 weeks later I am

> 299!!!!!! I was so excited to break the 300, I will never be there

> again and although I've got a long way to go, 299 sounds so much

> better than 300!!! Went to the gym and celebrated with a 20 minute

> bike ride, a 30 minute tread mill walk and a 3 minute elliptical

> machine struggle!!! (never could even fathom that scary machine

before

> this)... A good day to all!!! Carmen

>