welcome back, xylie! our challenge is to set a reasonable goal for ourselves and work to achieve it. i'll go head to head with you on 8 lbs if you want. that's how much i lost in june. glad everything worked out well for your husband! mine had pancreatic cancer, but is now doing fine. sure thought i was going to be a widow! awfully glad to have him here still, and he intends to keep it that way. i told him i'd love him for the rest of my life. and he said, "you told me you're going to die first". so i said, "yes, and after that you're on your own. i didn't say anything about the rest of *your* life!". glad we got that settled, lol