Weight Loss Surgery Success Stories

So I'm down from 231 to 176. I'm having a little stall and it's driving me crazy I just want to make to my first goal of 150. My surgery date was oct 21 2014 anyone else around the same time? I'm interested in how your weight loss has been progressing.

A little over ( by a week ) 7 months post op . Feeling great . Anyone else having struggles with still seeing yourself as heavy even though you've lost a huge amount of weight ?? SW:372 HW( as pictured ) :385 CW:240 Goal : 200

Having a debate with someone. I drink a Gold Standard whey Protein shake (24 or 27 grams of protein) every morning for Breakfast with 8oz unsweetened Almond milk, 1/2 banana & a tsp of Peanut Butter. I'm being told whey protein will make me gain weight because it builds muscle. I do about 30 minutes of cardio 3-4 times per week. What are your thoughts? Do you recommend a different protein? Banded on 10/15/13 and down 23 lbs. Had my second fill of 1.8 ccs 2/5/13. Total fill 6.8 ccs in my 11 band. Still not in green zone but stuck in Bandster Hell.

Been going for massages weekly to help with the lower back pain/sciatica. Got a really good masseuse today and gonna stick with her since she did such a great job. So I also told her my tailbone (which is not aligned particularly well) was bothering me and she started working on that area also. As she worked, she asked me if I used a pillow when I was sitting because I must need something to support the area since I have no body fat back there to pad me. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. The girl with the big bottom just heard someone tell her she literally wasn't a fatass anymore. Whoopee!

So I get discouraged all the time because ive lost 45 lbs and I feel like you cant even tell that ive lost the weight. Yes the major reason I got the surgery was to get healthy but lets all face it, we wanna look better too. Anyways last week I had my favorite pair of jeans on and the button popped off when I was adjusting and I had no other cleann jeans so I found a pair of jeans that I had put away before my surgery because they were extremely tight, well I put them on and they were so big I couldnt even wear then!! Seeing that made me so happy! Then today I was in the bathroom and my grandparents have one of those scales that only goes to a certain weight and I haven't…

Ive been waiting awhile it seems.. finally hit it today!!! What a feeling! 199 this morning! Had to make a famous onederland post. Included a before, and now.. still work in progress!

Mine was 8 months and loss from date of surgery was 134 pounds and 162 total from my start. That was my first goal of being 215….then i kept losing and lost close to another 50 pounds for a total of 212 pounds in less than 12 months. I LOVE MY SLEEVE! How about you????

The band is a miracle tool, for sure. Made it through the holidays without gaining a pound, even more amazing is that I lost 8 lbs. in 17 days! #teameatwhatiwant #almosttimetostoplosing #thatwassofast

I can't believe I am down 44 pounds since I started this journey, in Nov. I want to thank Someone for posting the recipe for Punkin Chili, and no you can not taste the punkin, you would never know it was there. What a healthy recipe. I had a hard time keeping my 50 yr old son out of it. I am not yet in love with my band, it is still to much like a diet to me. Put I will adjust.

I don't mean to be icky but when everyone talks about post surgery gas are we talking loud? Smelly? Or silent? I'm a teacher so I can't imagine if it's t the first two and going back to school

My surgery date was July 18 2012. I am about 10 pounds shy of what the Dr said I would lose but about 40 from where I want to be. I've been stalled for a few months and was curious if anyone else has had that issue and how the fixed it to start losing again.

I am down 43lbs 211-168 in 3 months...day to day I struggle to see changes! My belly is not changing but everywhere else is, this is depressing bc while I am down a size or two I could be down more if I was proportionate! This leads me to feel like I'm stuck! I have been stalled for a few weeks losing very little(maybe 1-2lbs) but today I had an AHA moment when I saw this selfie! I have another 55lbs to lose but hurray for changes even if it's just my face

I never thought this would happen but one year and one month after my surgery I am four pounds below my goal weight. I never even thought the goal weight was doable! I have gone from a Size 22W pants to a 6P. I have so much more energy and work out with a personal trainer twice a week. I have to believe the working out has helped with the loose skin. I still have plenty of loose skin, but I'm sure it would be worse without the exercise! Good luck to everyone!

Hi everyone! I just wanted to post a few pictures of my progress since having been sleeved on 5/3/13. I know that there's someone reading this that's either considering surgery or already had it and are not where they wish they could be. I just want to say that it takes time, effort, dedication, and determination. I'd be lying if i said that i ate a ton of junk food since having been sleeved and lost all this weight. I lost this large amount of weight by working out and training like an athlete, eating clean, and staying hydrated. There were days where i cried, cheated, and gave up but ultimately, i got right back on track and continued. It hasn't been easy but it's de…

Would anyone like to share their before & after pics! :-)

Yesterday, I went back for my six month visit to the biomedical research facility that is conducting a long term study on patients having lap band surgery. (Participating in the study is how I had my surgery and all follow up fills done for free.) My first NSV is that I lost seven inches around my waist. My second NSV is that my BP was 110/72. My third NSV was when I stopped on the way home to Dress Barn. I immediately walked in the store and turned to the left for the "Women's" sizes. A sales clerk approached me to ask if she could assist me. I said "No, I'm just looking around." She asked if I was shopping for myself or someone else. I responded, "For myself." She res…

Hi all, Although I spend most of my time over at MyFitnessPal, I still check in here on a regular basis. I am done purposely losing, and attempting maintenance, using the MyFitnessPal app and website. It's a HUGE reason behind my successful weight loss. I just finsihed the Whole30, where I lost my last 5 lbs and spent a month eating 100% clean- no dairy, grains, or legumes, just whole foods. Along the way I learned how to read labels. During maintenanceI am focusing on eating "clean", and following a mostly "paleo" diet, avoiding highly processed foods in favor of healthy fats, vegetables and fruit, lean meat, eggs, no artificial sweeteners, limited full fat dairy…

Hi everyone. I thought I'd check in with a progress pic. I was sleeved 9/9/2013 SW was 262 and current weight is 200.6. Sooooo close to onederland....very exciting! Good luck to those who have been recently sleeved and to those who are still waiting....it is so worth it! No regrets by far. Not the best pictures, but the best I have right now

I've posted before about this, but with new folks on the forum all the time, I thought I'd mention it again. I'm not thin...I'm not slender. I wear a size 12/14 pant and mostly L (sometimes XL or M) tops. I'm still overweight per my BMI. But...what I am and how I feel is summed up in one word. NORMAL. I'm normal. I look like everyone else...I'm invisible but now in a good way. This is still new for me and I'm always amazed by the things so many people totally take for granted. I not only had all the room in the world sitting in an airplane seat recently, I even crossed my legs. OMG! I crossed my legs in an airplane seat. Amazing. People sit next to me now …

Four months ago today, I started my journey. Today I'm down 78 pounds. 33 more to go to my goal! Today when I stepped on the scale I made it to Onderland for the first time since I was in my teens. I've never felt better. This surgery part was easy.... Afterwards it is work, but thanks to boards like this I was prepared for it. Every day I think about what I'm putting in my mouth, what nutritional value it has, what my best choices are. Not wanting to eat junk all day has been liberating. Sugar was my big addiction, and I have very, very little in my diet. It has made an enormous difference. I'm fitting into normal size clothes12-16 depending on the store, style, et…

This might be TMI...but we all get excited about going down a clothing size, right? I've just purchased the smallest underwear I've been able to wear since about age 9 and a whopping 3 sizes since my surgery. Women, we KNOW that's a big difference. Woo hoo!

I'm five weeks post op and down 35lbs I don't know if this is good or not reading other posts and people are two months out down a lot more than me and I work out five times a day I just don't get it

So. I am almost a year out and I just made this smoothie. I have been feeling that I do NOT eat enough fruits/veggies so this is a good treat for me strawberry short cake smoothie 1/2 green apple 4-6 strawberries 1/2 cup blue berries 1 single serving of vanilla-orange (or any citrus flavor with vanilla) chobani yogurt (You can do 1/2 vanilla and 1/2 any other flavor too) 1/4 cup sprite Blend all very smooth Enjoy! Also I have a non Protein veggie smoothie I make if you want that recipe

So it's been a little while since i hit the site but i wanted to swing past and up date you guys. I had my surgery Oct 9th 2013 and am 96 pounds down effective this morning. I remember wondering if this surgery was even for me, reading all the post and wondering if i really would be able to have the success that i wanted if i would ever really get this small well i can tell you this is the best decision of my life. I would post pictures but i refused to take them. I read a suggestion on here that i choose to do which was to buy a disposable camera and every month take a few photos of my self and then once a year is up to get them developed so i could see the difference. I…

Then and Now! 61 lbs gone Today I hit 199!!!!

So I have now had my lap and 13 months and I am down 134lbs...sooo happyyy!!! I would let people take pictures from the neck up for so long and now I get so excited and tell them to make sure they get my whole body. Wow how things have changed. I can see my collor bones which is crazy never seen them before. Its the little things that are starting to mean the most, like not weighing more then everyone in my family! Right now I weigh 244 I have never seen this weight. In 5th grade I weighed 230 and I did not weigh again until high school and was at 315!!! Getting the lap band was best choice I could have made. So many things have changed and contiune to do so.

Hi everyone. I have joined this forum because I have decided to have lap band surgery. I was hoping to hear from you about the challenges that you encountered and how you managed through the things that you weren't expecting. I have an appt with my doctor to begin the process and I'm just trying to get my head around the change I am about to encounter. Thank you for your insight.

I am sure there are threads on this, but couldn't find anything quickly, so thought I would start anew. I have read several success stories regarding pounds lost, but I was hoping some existing bandsters would share their success in inches.... In all my dieting, the scale moves much slower than inches lost, so I would love to hear the time line of losing your inches and how many, if you all would like to share... My surgery is coming up on Thursday.... :-)

We went to a fabulous wedding reception last night. There was an amazing array of food and then of course the cutting of the cake. I was handed a lovely slab and stood there with it for about ten minutes before finding a place to put the plate down. I had zero interest in that cake -- I just wasn't hungry. In fact I didn't eat much of anything all evening but did a lot of dancing instead. This really is a lifestyle change and I'm so happy to have the self-control the band is providing. I wasn't denying myself anything but I just didn't want it. This, for me, is huge.

I am so very happy today, I started this journey on the 21st March 2013 and today I reached my goal weight of 60kgs. I now look in the mirror every morning and I just love what I see.

I am so excited about the success I am having with the sleeve surgery. I am half way losing my excess weight. I was scared and doubtful having the sleeve ..whether I would be alive or lose weight post surgery. I had the lap band 7 years ago, and it did not work for me. The sleeve was so different. My hunger has really subsided ..I don't think about food much. Exercise has helped me with a stall I had for two weeks. I am enjoying food, but healthier and much, much less. I never thought I was a big ester be just liked sweets too much.. I think our society has forgotten what a decent serving pg size is to not gain weight. I was one of those people. I hardly eat out a…

Just had my gallbladder surgery 2-6-14 just would like to know what to expect I'm 10 months post-OP & have more weight to lose.

Hi All, I'm new to this forum. I'm 3 weeks post op gastric sleeve with Blossom Bariatrics (Dr. Umbach) and have lost 27 pounds so far. My day before surgery weight was 215. I feel I'm doing well, but am still bothered by nausea. Is this normal?

Finally....199 (on sale) Get it?? LoL Wonderland, baby!!!!!

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"Anyone lose weight w/out exercise?" Anyone lose w/out able to exercise for whatever reason? I was sleeved on 11/14/13 and due to low back 4 bulging disc and severe pain, I haven't been able to get all my walking in. I'd like to know if you lost weight and how much in how long with minimal or no exercise? I'm losing inches but not lbs. female, 5'7, age 47 HW 266, SW 244, CW 238

Hi everyone, I haven't been on here in a while now. I had my surgery in May 2012. We had some great support back then too, where is everyone? I'm going to hit my one year mark and have lost 140 lbs. start was 342 lbs. Where is everyone? I want to know about all your success stories. Sent from my iPhone using RNYTalk

As a quick recap, Besides my family, I only told two people about my surgery. But they ended up telling a lot of other people, so basically almost everyone I know now knows. Fortunately everyone has been very supportive, asking How I'm doing and congratulating me for doing this for myself. Well today I went in to get my nails done (the one girlie thing I do for myself ) and as soon as I walk in my nail tech says "you've got to tell me how you've lost so much weight and don't tell me it's exercise and diet 'cause that's crap" Well with a salon full of people, I tried to hum and haw around it awhile but finally told her about the surgery. She and another patron were int…

10 months since surgery. 256 on the left, 185 on the right. I'm 25 lbs. from my goal!

Hi Friends, I am new to this forum and this is my first Post. firstly this is a very valuable forum with lot of good infromaiton.. I am two weeks post Op and had lost only around 4 lbs and unfortunately i have gained a lb back today... i am about to get my periods as its already due. could it be reason for the weight gain.. also i am currently in the pureed diet stage.. i am walking 20 to 30 mins.. Request you to share you views. i am worried about this sudden weight gain.. Thanks dears.

This has been a huge NSV week for me. 1. I ran down stairs to show my husband that I can wrap a towel round me and tuck it in. Woohoo! Did I mention I can run down stairs now too? 2. I can now fit into a size 10 jeans. OMG! 3. I can now walk on my treadmill for over an hour without stopping (3.5 mph). At the beginning of this journey I couldn't walk for more that 10 minutes at a slower pace. 4. I am no longer obese. My BMI is under 30. 5. Lastly while I was shopping at Christoper & Banks I found out I now fit into a SIZE 10! Then to my surprise the clerk approached me and asked if I would be interested in modeling their clothes at an upcoming event…

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Last week, I made a post about my frustration with my weight loss (or lack thereof) and today I am still in the same boat. I only lost .4 pounds this week which is frustrating BUT I took my measurements today and I have lost 4 inches overall in the last 2 weeks. I attribute this to the hot yoga classes that I have been doing. It's a lot less frustrating seeing minimal weight loss on the scale when I know that I am losing fat but gaining muscle. To see my measurements and more information about my journey, visit my blog http://adventuresinlapbandland.blogspot.com/

I've lost 150lbs in 9 months! My start weight was 397 and currently weigh 243! I got 43lbs till I hit my goal weight! The weight loss has slowed down significantly but I'm still grinding everyday and eating healthy! Hope y'all are doing well also!

Hi my fellow sleevers. I don't post here often enough anymore but I get so much support and motivation here. I'm hoping this will give encouragement to someone who needs it. I was sleeved in May 2013. I have spent the last almost three months in a stall and bouncing up and down. Although I felt like giving up I didn't. I stuck with the program. Suddenly in the last ten days, eight pounds fell off putting me at a normal bmi. I have to admit I had started to believe this wouldn't happen. My doc set my goal at 170-177 (still overweight) so when I stalled for so long at about 166 I thought, well I guess that's it. I wasn't done and I'm still not done. I'm now 15…

I got my LB in March and was able to drop 50 lbs. But for the last 3-4 months I've been holding steady. I have 70 lbs to go and I'm beginning to feel discouraged. I have good restriction on my band and am careful to stay away from foods I shouldn't eat. My husband had LB surgery in April and is steadily loosing am average of 1 lb per week. Any suggestions?

I've been a bit down because my loss has slowed due to inactivity. Last month I sustained a stress fracture which had me on crutches for three weeks and, just as that was getting better, I slipped a disk in my back. Oh the pain! Even getting from the bed to the living room is more of a shuffle than a walk. But! These pics make me happy. And I know once my disk slides back into place, I'll be back to pushing my FitBit to the sky. Keep moving, everyone!

So all my life I have lied on my drivers license about my weight. Yesterday I was looking at my license and it hit me BAM I'm under the weight on the license! WOW its a first ever! ~~~happy dance~~~ Also don't judge me because I lied.. I'm sure I'm NOT the only one who lies on their license

Friday for the first time i heard those words i've been waiting 3 years to hear - "Hey girl you look great but you sure don't need to lose any more weight" LOL. Woohoo - of course i do still have at least 20 pounds to lose but that's ok someone thinks i don't need to lose anymore. Felt so good.

Hi guys can someone tell me first signs of a leak? I have had lower cramping all day, and feel really weak I am 2 weeks out Tomo. What should I look for? I have no fever but have gotten myself Completely petrified of a leak more to where I don't even sleep at all! Someone please tell me what they know?