Finally!

This morning the scale finally put me at 240 (well, to be honest, 240.3#, but that's close enough!).  It feels like I hardly eat and yet my weight stubbornly refused to move for almost a week.  Now it is going down again and I feel very encouraged.  I'm not fitting into any new clothes but my current clothes are fitting much better (some are even too big).
The really amazing thing is that my weight is now a public thing.  My entire family knows what I weigh.  Most of the people at work know what I weigh.  I've just put away the embarrassment over the whole thing.  I can hardly wait until I no longer think about what I weigh all the time...that will be really growing up.  Until then, it's one day at a time.  The under 200 for my birthday still looks very realistic. :)

HUNGRY!!

Wow, today hunger hit with both barrels.  I ate a huge dinner (huge by the standards of the last month - I probably put away a cup of food - 80% of which was yummy meatloaf.  So far no problem with vomiting or regurgitation.   The constipation is still a problem and I really don't feel like the band is doing anything.  Guess I'm just discouraged because my weight is sitting unchanged and I'm still being forced to diet.
I'm sure it will be better tomorrow!