You are not going to believe this!!!

[brabea22]

Well I went to get my knee checked out. Since I started on 3/23/05 (weighing in at a whopping 574) I haven't been weighed. So, needless to say, I was both excited and very frightful about being weighed.

He said my knee will be alright but I need to stay off it for a bit while it heals. The best thing he told me however was how happy he was that I have decided to begin a healthy lifestyle. So today, on 4/21/05, less than one month after I started, I weigh:

--drum roll--

518.4 lbs

56 POUNDS GONE! I am in shock. I started screaming literally in the doctor's office. THANK YOU GOD AND DR. ATKINS!!!!!

[CherTLC4u]

WOWOWOW!!!!!!!!!!!! Mega CONGRATS!!!! I actually have tears in my eyes for you!!!!!!!!!!!

KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!!!

[2big4mysize]

woo hoo weigh to go! Congrats on the great job you are done so far shrinking you and getting healthy.

Glad your knee is okay and you can join the TDL exercise challenge here is the CC forum!

[nikki_e]

That is amazing! Isn't it a great motivation to see numbers like that? Heck, you've just motivated me to go workout tonight! Congrats and keep it up!

[Dawn]

That is just amazing! Congrats to you!!!!!

Dawn

[Isabeau]

Wow!!!! I feel like shouting with you! Congratulations!

[Firemedic mom]

That is so wonderful, I can't tell you how happy you have made me tonight! Congrats!!!

Anne

[papajack_1]

That is just so incredible! Keep it up...................you know it works!

[RunAwayMichelle]

O M G !!!!! :joy :joy :joy :joy :joy

How Wonderful!!! :clapping :clapping :dancingb: :dancingb: :dancingb: :dancing :dancing :dancing

[chicogirl61]

I'll just jump on the bandwagon!!!! Congrats!!!! Love your body and it'll love you back with moments like these. I hope there are many more of these moments to come for you and everybody else!!!

[Katlam]

That is the most awesome news. How wonderful! Wow, it took an injury to get a look at the scale early huh? The most lovely of all surprises! Congrats to you!

Kathy

[sidrah]

WOW. :icondance :icondance

Could you really tell before you heard the numbers how much difference there was? Did you feel different then compared to now??

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!

[brabea22]

thank you all very much. i think the most difficult for me today is fighting the urge to jump up and go walking. my knee has been feeling better day by day, though, and i don't want to mess all the progress up.

changing your entire way of life is never easy, and it is hardly an easy task to break the bad habits that you have supported for an entire lifetime, but i have to say that with this wonderful approach and such a wonderful supportive group of friends, it really couldn't have been much easier.

thanks again guys. i appreciate it.

[brabea22]

actually when you are as large as i am, you don't see any real changes. little things though tell me that i was doing the right thing. i only began seeing the first physical changes last week when i noticed little dimples appearing on my stomach.

i am going to take a picture today so i can if i can notice differences as i shrink.

[Kent]

Simply amazing weight loss... Your commitment is really evident in both the number, and your desire to get back to exercising. I know how hard it is to see changes. That's why you need photographic evidence as well as to get that tape measure out. The combination of the two is going to capture what your biased eye might miss. I still have no idea where my ten feet of " lost has gone, but the tape can't lie.

Keep up the phenomenal work!!!!