Hi! I'm (currently) 39 years old, live in Northwest Indiana, am engaged and have a very active one year old daughter. I work full-time in Chicago and having a hard time finding the time and energy to get back to exercising. I was banded in Peoria, Illinois in March 2005. On the day of surgery I weighed 301 and am down to 219 - I actually was down to 195 back in October 2008 but I was breastfeeding my daughter and that helped me burn a lot of calories. I didn't start to re-gain the weight ...

Hi! I'm (currently) 39 years old, live in Northwest Indiana, am engaged and have a very active one year old daughter. I work full-time in Chicago and having a hard time finding the time and energy to get back to exercising. I was banded in Peoria, Illinois in March 2005. On the day of surgery I weighed 301 and am down to 219 - I actually was down to 195 back in October 2008 but I was breastfeeding my daughter and that helped me burn a lot of calories. I didn't start to re-gain the weight until July when the breastfeeding sessions went down to one time a day.

The pictures are me before my surgery, me in May 2009 and then from last week at my current weight of 219. I'm turning 40 next year and that just freaks me out because I want to get back down to 200 or lower because then I won't have to be on blood pressure medicine and I know I just feel so much better when I exercise.

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