namaste - think how big your loss would have been if you haven't been bloated!! Welcome to the give and take of weight loss...little losses eventually lead to bigger losses.

I'm glad your spirits are lifted and you had a good WI...keep us posted about that 30lb board!! (that was the first board I got really excited about...for some reason 30lbs sounded like a HUGE amount of weight to have lost in such a short amount of time). I'm excited for you.
Holy cow Gazoo kicked my butt last night!! (Gazoo is my Gazelle for the non-crazys who don't name workout equiptment like I do) I could only do 15 minutes on the actual machine, but that was a hefty 15 minutes...I also did another 15 of other exercising, so I was ok with that. Today is aerobics at school so I'll be Tae Bo-ing all day...I'm gonna be so tired

I was thinking about the other Gazelles like
donuts has and I think with my Gazelle, I'm fighting against my own weight. If I move my arms to the upper position on the handles, I'm making my arms swing the weight of my body...thats enough resistance for me. If I bend my knees, it's even harder. I think I might die if Gazoo had resistance as well...especially since he kicked my butt without it. Well, when I conquer Gazoo, I'll go on to his big brother who has resistance

(I know, not a Gazelle, but really fun little smiley, right?)
Ok...my before picture is now in my profile (click the chick). I have no idea what I weighed at that particular moment. It was taken in March of 2006...a little more than a year before I started program and I'm sure I weighed more when I started, but its close enough. This picture was on our Christmas Card last year from when we were in San Fransisco, so when we get out new picture taken for our card this year, I'll post that...probably in a week or so.