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Weight Loss Surgery Success Stories

Congratulations! You made a life-changing decision and are now benefiting from your new, positive lifestyle. Please share your Weight Loss Surgery success story with our community. You deserve to celebrate, and your story may make the difference in someone else's life.

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  1. When can we have coffee?

    By huligoo,
    • 6 replies
    • 545 views

  2. When Did I Get Them?

    By Star1221,
    • 13 replies
    • 1,049 views

  3. When Did It Hit You?

    By Condessa,
    • 25 replies
    • 3,147 views

  4. When Did People Notice and Driver's License

    By IveGotThePower,   
    • 5 replies
    • 941 views

  5. When Did You Feel The Weight Loss?

    By jen_1381,
    • 3 replies
    • 807 views

  6. When Did You Realize That You Lost Weight?

    By JanellesMommy8210,
    • 18 replies
    • 2,265 views

  7. When did you start exercising?

    By reesecup2626,
    • 14 replies
    • 900 views

  8. When did you start to work out and what did you do?

    By michellenc,   
    • 4 replies
    • 948 views

  9. When do you celebrate 100 lbs lost?

    By aquitenonnymouse,   
    • 12 replies
    • 1,582 views

  10. When is enough, enough?

    By Raine,
    • 21 replies
    • 3,104 views

  11. when life gets ya down

    By BellaHugz,   
    • 0 replies
    • 442 views

  12. When My Success Does Not Look Successful To Others

    By Stephaniew,
    • 5 replies
    • 970 views

  13. When People Tell You How You've Changed

    By Cheles,
    • 7 replies
    • 1,223 views

  14. When the "new you" becomes the "new normal": Then, what?

    By maintenanceman,
    • 9 replies
    • 2,749 views

  15. When the band works TOO well...

    By TheProfessor,
    • 19 replies
    • 2,315 views

  16. When to go back to work?

    By Shiner86,
    • 5 replies
    • 635 views

  17. When to start exercising

    By carrion98,
    • 10 replies
    • 1,419 views

  18. when to stop? my answer

    By aliekat55,
    • 12 replies
    • 994 views

  19. When will by BRAIN catch up?!? Mental Confusion

    By Nikki Monroe,
    • 4 replies
    • 801 views

  20. WHEN WILL MY HAIR STOP FALLING OUT? AHHHHHHHHHHH

    By Rycherchick,
    • 4 replies
    • 547 views

  21. When You Get To Your Goal Weight, How Do You Plan To Reward Your Self??

    By Anniie.N,
    • 51 replies
    • 4,058 views

  22. When You Hit Green Zone, You'll Know It

    By kbliss78,
    • 18 replies
    • 2,383 views

  23. When You Look Like A Complete Different Person!

    By Iscarelys,
    • 8 replies
    • 1,144 views

  24. Where am I now?

    By stcyt,
    • 6 replies
    • 897 views

  25. where are all my fellow november 2012 sleevers? making any progress?

    By dizzneygirl,
    • 3 replies
    • 644 views

  26. Where Are All The Gastric Bypass Surgery Progress Pictures?

    By ms.pinup85,
    • 12 replies
    • 1,485 views

  27. Where are all the oldies!?

    By Tammy483,
    • 93 replies
    • 9,180 views

  28. Where are my MAY 5 Sleevers? It's our 6-Month Anniversary!

    By Comeflywithme,
    • 1 reply
    • 421 views

  29. where are the male sleever stories ?

    By bigjoe59,
    • 6 replies
    • 769 views

  30. Where Are The Men Are Out There?

    By kenbr14,
    • 13 replies
    • 1,589 views

  31. Where are the Old Timers?

    By Carrie,
    • 2 replies
    • 584 views

  32. Where are the two years?

    By Globetrotter,
    • 9 replies
    • 1,363 views

  33. Where do I belong?

    By sherilynn,
    • 4 replies
    • 812 views

  34. Where Do I Get My Membership Card...

    By keldolbeth,
    • 23 replies
    • 1,765 views

  35. Where do you buy clothes?

    By NewNewMe,
    • 12 replies
    • 1,101 views

  36. Where do you find comfort?

    By superbariatricbabe,
    • 14 replies
    • 1,795 views

  37. Where do you want to be with your weight loss 1 year from now?

    By Suzannesh,
    • 22 replies
    • 1,696 views

  38. Where Yas From?

    By amanda11,
    • 262 replies
    • 20,135 views

  39. Where you originally banded 4-10 yrs ago?

    By Carrie,
    • 1 reply
    • 721 views

  40. Where's my butt?

    By QuilterGal,
    • 5 replies
    • 929 views

  41. Where's the heat?

    By gowalking,
    • 12 replies
    • 1,168 views

  42. Whey Protein?

    By Ms.Vickie,
    • 10 replies
    • 1,698 views

  43. Which bit of your body are you rocking post sleeve?

    By Indigo1991,
    • 4 replies
    • 854 views

  44. which lapband should i get! :-)

    By myshine84,
    • 14 replies
    • 1,155 views

  45. Which To Have

    By r4snd,
    • 7 replies
    • 645 views

  46. Who can eat everything?

    By sparker,
    • 33 replies
    • 3,805 views

  47. Who Can Guess My Weight Loss? Need Your Help!

    By Raven21,
    • 19 replies
    • 1,325 views

  48. Who Dat?

    By OKCPirate,
    • 2 replies
    • 679 views

  49. Who doesn't like progress pics? :)

    By hayleylamas,
    • 19 replies
    • 1,588 views

  50. Who else has been through this and conquered it?

    By KK66,
    • 11 replies
    • 1,338 views

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    • KeeWee

      KeeWee

      It's been 10 long years! Here is my VSG weight loss surgiversary update..
      https://www.ae1bmerchme.com/post/10-year-surgiversary-update-for-2024 
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    • Aunty Mamo

      Aunty Mamo

      Iʻm roughly 6 weeks post-op this morning and have begun to feel like a normal human, with a normal human body again. I started introducing solid foods and pill forms of medications/supplements a couple of weeks ago and it's really amazing to eat meals with my family again, despite the fact that my portions are so much smaller than theirs. 
      I live on the island of Oʻahu and spend a lot of time in the water- for exercise, for play,  and for spiritual & mental health. The day I had my month out appointment with my surgeon, I packed all my gear in my truck, anticipating his permission to get back in the ocean. The minute I walked out of that hospital I drove straight to the shore and got in that water. Hallelujah! My appointment was at 10 am. I didn't get home until after 5 pm. 
      I'm down 31 pounds since the day of surgery and 47 since my pre-op diet began, with that typical week long stall occurring at three weeks. I'm really starting to see some changes lately- some of my clothing is too big, some fits again. The most drastic changes I notice however are in my face. I've also noticed my endurance and flexibility increasing. I was really starting to be held up physically, and I'm so grateful that I'm seeing that turn around in such short order. 
      My general disposition lately is hopeful and motivated. The only thing that bugs me on a daily basis still is the way those supplements make my house smell. So stink! But I just bought a smell proof bag online that other people use to put their pot in. My house doesn't stink anymore. 
       
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    • BeanitoDiego

      BeanitoDiego

      Oh yeah, something I wanted to rant about, a billing dispute that cropped up 3 months ago.
      Surgery was in August of 2023. A bill shows up for over $7,000 in January. WTF? I asks myself. I know that I jumped through all of the insurance hoops and verified this and triple checked that, as did the surgeon's office. All was set, and I paid all of the known costs before surgery.
      A looong story short, is that an assistant surgeon that was in the process of accepting money from my insurance company touched me while I was under anesthesia. That is what the bill was for. But hey, guess what? Some federal legislation was enacted last year to help patients out when they cannot consent to being touched by someone out of their insurance network. These types of bills fall under something called, "surprise billing," and you don't have to put up with it.
      https://www.cms.gov/nosurprises
      I had to make a lot of phone calls to both the surgeon's office and the insurance company and explain my rights and what the maximum out of pocket costs were that I could be liable for. Also had to remind them that it isn't my place to be taking care of all of this and that I was going to escalate things if they could not play nice with one another.
      Quick ending is that I don't have to pay that $7,000+. Advocate, advocate, advocate for yourself no matter how long it takes and learn more about this law if you are ever hit with a surprise bill.
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    • BeanitoDiego

      BeanitoDiego

      Some days I feel like an infiltrator... I'm participating in society as a "thin" person. They have no idea that I haven't always been one of them! 🤣
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    • ChunkCat

      ChunkCat

      Thank you everyone for your well wishes! I totally forgot I wrote an update here... I'm one week post op today. I gained 15 lbs in water weight overnight because they had to give me tons of fluids to bring my BP up after surgery! I stayed one night in the hospital. Everything has been fine except I seem to have picked up a bug while I was there and I've been running a low grade fever, coughing, and a sore throat. So I've been hydrating well and sleeping a ton. So far the Covid tests are negative.
      I haven't been able to advance my diet past purees. Everything I eat other than tofu makes me choke and feels like trying to swallow rocks. They warned me it would get worse before it gets better, so lets hope this is all normal. I have my follow up on Monday so we'll see. Living on shakes and soup again is not fun. I had enough of them the first time!! LOL 
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