welcome! Sending you a FR now

Like me, you don't have as much to lose as many others who have chosen this route to weight loss. I was 240 before my pre-surgery liver shrinking diet. I was 225 going into surgery on Jan 5, 2012. I've lost about 60lbs all told. I've had a couple of stalls and slower loss that others who started out much heavier than myself. I started bike riding, and at first I felt pathetic. Absolutely exhausted from even a short run... now I'm doing a minimum of 100km/week. This has helped, so you may find some exercise will get things moving again. I know of a few who are having good results with water based exercises, be it jogging, aerobic, or just plain swimming, and these are great if you have major join issues.

My issue is that my skin is not shrinking back as quickly as the fat and such is, so I'm feeling a little baggy right now, however, skin takes alot longer to shrink back. Mark your "little victories" such as the rediscovery of bones you didn't know you had... like collar bones, and recently I discovered wrist bones! The exercise has helped in that I see muscle definition in my calves, etc.

Stiff upper lift and all that rot, it will happen.

I have quite a bit of pounds to go, but I also would like to have that friend support as much as possible. I was banded on 10/25/12 and would love advice and comments from those veterans. Thanks.