Hi CT Lapbanders!
Checking in...haven't been here in a while...
Just completed the Couch-to-5k running program and ran my first 5k race last Saturday. Finished the race (second to last) and was very happy to do so!
Continuing my training so I can plan a 10k in the Spring of 2010.
I'm closing in on my 1 year bandiversary (Nov 17th) and working hard to be at my ever-changing goal weight by then. I'd like to be at 170 - family and friends are telling me to stop now...still taking a minimal level of diabetes medicine, and that's my barometer for stopping the weight loss. Once I'm off the meds completely, I'll consider stopping the effort to lose and concentrate on maintaining and reshaping my newly smaller body.
Lots of work to do in the abdominal region - didn't know what an impact the weight loss would truly have until it happened - and it happened so gradually that I just looked down one day and here's all this excess skin and soft spots!


Anyway - glad to see other CT bandsters checking in and doing well. Hope to see some of you at the next support group meeting in New Haven if you are close enough - it will be on Wednesday, November 4th.