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Mine is May 21st in Massachusetts!!!! Scared, excited, I'm a bundle of nerves!!!!!! YAY FOR MAY!!!!!

Hey Jrock,
Congrats on your decision to embrace exercise!! I wast 450+ pounds and on oxygen and started my walking program with 30 seconds and now I compete in Triathlons. The key is start today... And increase a little each day. Also I used to live in Vegas and understand the heat you are dealing with there.
I suggest:
1- Immediately get a Leslie Sansone walking DVD / pop it in and follow - keep track of the time ( how long you do it) start with what you can do without it being an huge huge effort - write down the time it took - maybe 3 min maybe 5, it doesn't matter just document it. Then do it EVERY day adding 30 seconds each time.
2- Two additional days a week go to the mall or a target or Walmart and walk briskly and with purpose - distance and time of walk depends on your specific rate needs etc...
3- The DVD walk should be done as soon as you get out of bed - Pre coffee Pre shower - right away.
Hope in Your Future is Power in Your Present!
Lee
280lbs Lost - All diseases reversed - ACE certified Personal Trainer & Health Coach

Mine is May 21st in Massachusetts!!!! Scared, excited, I'm a bundle of nerves!!!!!! YAY FOR MAY!!!!!

Wow thanks so much for the support you all ugh i have an overwhelming spells of emotions that's crazy right now. I'm feeling squeamish,excited,nervous,shock,surprised the list goes on! The sad thing is my family is not so supportive of this but im so tired of being over weight i just wanna. Go bike riding, ride a roller coaster,swim in a pool put on a real bathing suit on smh i have to do this! :-) for me!

WOW WOW WOW WOW!!! You all look amazing!! Great job, thank you for being an inspiration for all of us as we go on this journey!! You all ROCK!!! Ahhh please pray I get my approval letter soon

Well I am Banded and doing great! Just some pain where the port is. Not too bad today!

Now I can't wait for my day to happen!!!

Absolutely thee most powerful thing I have read in years!!!! I can definitely relate!!!!!! WOW

I have not always needed you.... and one time in my life.. i was a "normal" person. Size 0-3... weight a whopping 100lbs. Back in my single day... then one day you meet a wonderful guy and you fall in love... ahhh things are great. You get married and have a beautiful son. and life is good.... but then you notice that your not happy as you use to be. some days are worse than others... you find the strength to get up every day and go to work and live a "normal" life. Things are good at home... but something is missing... that spark, that feeling you use to get when you and your spouse were together intimately .. and you notice that those time have gotten further and further apart. and you think, what is going on? and one day the reason is staring you right in the face... the mirror... but in that mirror is someone else... surely it's not me... I don't look like that... that's a ugly fat girl... i'm not ugly and i for damn sure am not fat. Can't be... i told my self years ago i would NEVER like myself look like... those people... but then you look closer... and closer and there.. i know those eyes.... those are my eyes... but why do they look so sad. I have happy eyes. and i see, i see the real me. the one others have been seeing for years.... how did i not see this... how did i let myself get like this ... how did i become that girl that now had to shop at the plus size store... when just yesterday i was a size 3... How did i become the girl the skinny girls are not looking at and saying... i'll never let my self look like HER... and i'm the HER. this feeling takes the very last shred of self-confidence and stomps it into the dirt and spits on it. and you think...i am ugly i am fat i am unworthy of love.... unworthy of feeling good. and you start to eat... more and more and everything keeps getting worse. you stop taking care of your self, stop dressing up stop wearing make up and fixing your hair.... stop putting forth the effort at all... You are now sitting in a deep dark care, alone and no one or nothing can show you the light....
But one day... you open your eyes expecting to see nothing... complete darkness and there it is... a speck of light.... it's tiny, but just right there in front of you. and you squint to see it.... making sur its really thee. that speck was my friend Paula... she had lb surgery and everyday we talked and everyday my light grow brighter.... I went to the doctor and did all the test... did it all and the the news that i was approved... OH ... JOy. I looked in the mirror and saw a glimmer of hope. But as the days grew closer... I started to think... WHAT IF... what if i die on the table, what if i fail at this too, what if i stayed fat forever... Then i saw this site...trolled for a long while. I didn't want to sign because, well what if someone knew me... the horror... Then i saw all the successive people... the beautiful woman and handsome men that in their before pictures looked so sad... sad like me. Then i saw the after pictures.. and all the happy smiling faces... people who were bigger than me... now wearing size 6 jeans (lellow)... and i thought.. i can do this i can get my life back.... I will be happy again. so on November 10, 2009... i awoke.. was re-born. and i did do it... i lost 80lbs... it took me longer than most, but i don't care. I have donated all the 12-14-16 & 18 and moved in to my own size 6... On Feb 15, 2012.... after a long hard fight.... i won and awarded my self a tummy tuck... i deserved it. I earned it....
so to my band... thank you... for sticking with me and always keeping me on track.
and too all you out there thinking about doing this.....search with in your self and be happy again... which ever way you choose.....
blessings.....

I love reading what you post!! You not only inspire me but you make me smile

steph...you are the sweetest thing too...dont want to leave you out :wub:

Me too!!

I love reading what you post!! You not only inspire me but you make me smile

I love reading what you post!! You not only inspire me but you make me smile

I must be willing to give up



what I am in order to become what I will be

Congrats to both of you!!! How exciting!!!! I'm waiting to hear for my approval...I have my throat scope next wedneday...

Awesome! I have my surgery on May 21st also! I have to start my Pre-Op diet on the 6th!

Got approved today!!!! Surgery is May 21st!!!!! Start pre-op diet the 11th!! Scared and excited!!! Oh who am I kidding I don't know wether to scream or throw up!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHH

Got approved today!!!! Surgery is May 21st!!!!! Start pre-op diet the 11th!! Scared and excited!!! Oh who am I kidding I don't know wether to scream or throw up!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHH

Got approved today!!!! Surgery is May 21st!!!!! Start pre-op diet the 11th!! Scared and excited!!! Oh who am I kidding I don't know wether to scream or throw up!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHH

Got approved today!!!! Surgery is May 21st!!!!! Start pre-op diet the 11th!! Scared and excited!!! Oh who am I kidding I don't know wether to scream or throw up!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHH

Scheduled for my first fill on May 11th and I am getting nervous about it. But I am excited that I was able to lose 24lbs without a fill. Can't wait to see what the next months have in store. I also created an instagram to track my progress and put up inspirational quotes. If anyone would like to follow and offer their encouragement. @gettinfitletty is my username and if anyone needs some motivation and has an instagram reply to this post and I will definitely follow you!

Hey everyone I know all insurance companies are different... But how long does it usually take to hear an answer? Should I call my surgeons office and ask them how it is going along? So confused and anxious and hopefully excited!!!

when i started i was 336 and was a head hunger princess and felt this was my destiny...but it was ME who had to finally say, i am getting WLS, and its up to me to do what i can to make it work..dont hate me for saying this please.....
but you make the decision in what you eat...you revert back to old habits because you chose to do so.....now you choose to do better....eat your allotted amounts of healthy good for you foods and drink alot.....i am sooooo proud of you for seeing someone to talk to and help you through this..i did that for many a year after i struggled with bulemia and binging so i know what you are going through..
we all are addicted to food. if we dont eat, we die
so eat.....but choose to eat healthy foods and let the band help you eat less....you have to truly WANT to lose weight and then DO what you have to do.
you wanna talk or b**tch or vent, pm me anytime...
i am sending big hugs from NC to you.

Congrats!!!!