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A weight loss surgery blog by Hopeful.911 on BariatricPal. 4 entries on surgery, recovery and progress.

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Read more about Finally! It's about damn time....

Finally! It's about damn time....

I finally had a few pain free days (minus time with my mother-in-law) and i have started going to the gym. So far I made it Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and today, Sunday. I have been trying not to weigh myself too often but so far i have gone from 273 (my heaviest in May) to 239.5 (as of today). I have only cheated on the no smoking a few times but did really good until last week. Going to try again, hope this time, no cheating.   Starting to wonder about how i am going to celebrate my birthda

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• Hopeful.911
• August 31, 200917 yr

Read more about just because i havent posted for awhile

just because i havent posted for awhile

Sorry I havent posted anything but not really anything nice things to say other than, still not smoking. Although, I want one real bad!!!! Things are not going well:cursing:, i will just leave it at that....

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• Hopeful.911
• August 18, 200917 yr

Read more about Last Appt. Before The Big Day

Last Appt. Before The Big Day

I just had my last appt. with Dr. McBride yesterday and she was so awesome:wub:. I am really glad she is the doctor doing it. I am also super happy that the next time I will have the pleasure of seeing her, will be the 5 mins before the lovely anesthesia team knock my ass out.   Since I had my gallbladder out on the 9th of July and couldnt eat (i didn't want to either) for quite some time, I lost enough weight and my incisions are healed enough to keep my August 5th surgery date. Also since I

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• Hopeful.911
• July 29, 200917 yr

Read more about I wanted my first blog to be a positive one. And I finally have GREAT news!!!

I wanted my first blog to be a positive one. And I finally have GREAT news!!!

WHOO HOO!!!! I NEVER GET GOOD NEWS!!!! SO, I thought I would share :cursing:   Just saw my doc yesterday and she said tht i didnt have to start my liquid diet this week!!!!:cursing:   Since I just had emergency gallbladder surgery last week and the infection is almost all gone and im healing "as expected" she said that as of now, my LB surgery is still the 5th AND instead of losing the 10 lbs she wanted me to lose prior to surgery, i've lost 16.5! :cursing: whoo frickin hoo!!! Thank goodness

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• Hopeful.911
• July 22, 200917 yr