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Nancy: I feel great. I feel very fortunate as the only issue I have had is dehydration one day. ( bad experience). I feel great. Have lost 47 lbs since surgery (6/4). It took me a little to get my energy back. Keep posting your stories/ blogs, love them.
??? Have you ever gone to the support groups at Lehigh valley ??

I love all of you, and we are a great group !!!

I'm chiming in since there seems to be too much fun going on in here. Go away for a few and geesh you miss it all. Kevin starts a neat thread and now we're at spanking? I'm game. hahaha
Honestly, I think it's great folks get a boost in confidence. We've lived long enough beating ourselves up and putting up with others helping with the beating. I'm looking forward to the day that I "like" having my picture taken or I'm not embarrassed because the pose isn't right or my chins stick out too far. This surgery is far from the easy way out to say the least. I've had my struggles since mine on 7/11 and it's a learning process even though I researched things like crazy before, during and after. The ups and downs of worrying is this going to work for me etc. Heck, still going through all of it but, it's encouraging to be here and read the positive and yup the negative things about the whole process.
I think it's great to be able to look in the mirror and say "Hey, I like the new look and healthier me." Looking forward to it myself and this is encouraging
Thanks Kevin for putting it out there, DL waiting for your pictures (says Tinkerbel LOL) and working with everyone here on our journeys. Go FOR IT!

Hey DL, you encourage us all, teach us to love ourselves and then you go on talking about scaring small kids.. Self derogatory doesn't work with us, we've all done that. Take that mug shot, I think we are all gonna love you!

Lol you guys are hilarious! I love it! What a fun forum we are, right?! Lol!

Now Mami, no need to get your jammies in a bunch! Lol!!

I agree, for someone who can build excel spreadsheets , quote the web, and keeps everyone informed, you must have the technology
To get a pic up sooner than a few weeks. Be like Nike....... Just do it !!!

I agree, for someone who can build excel spreadsheets , quote the web, and keeps everyone informed, you must have the technology
To get a pic up sooner than a few weeks. Be like Nike....... Just do it !!!

Ok the results are in for this friday
Last week 217
This week 214
(Just inching closer to ONEDERLAND!!)

My nurse would ask my name and dob everytime they came in finally I answered John Holmes

I'll be honest, I was SO turned off by the people I came across at St. Luke's that I have faced most of my journey alone (sans family of course but we know thats not the same) I had no interest in support groups since the people I came across were not... supportive LOL!
Sounds to me like you're doing wonderful! Grats and keep up the great work!!!

Thank you everyone. I feel welcome, which is nice. I should warn you, I'm a writer. Not professional by any menas, I just mean I LOVE to write, so my blogs, posts etc will rarely be short. If you don't want to read the walls of text I can understand but I alaways felt sharing my journey may help someone, anyone, in some small way.
So, I guess as the saying goes, I can't tell you where I'm going without telling you where I've been. So lets do this first...
So as you know I am just shy of 1 year, 8 months since my surgery. It really doesnt seem like it yet it seems like a lifetime ago. I suppose in essence it is. My life is nothing like it was. Its not just anbout losing the weight. Well no, it is, obviously but I mean its so much more then you can ever realize. The old saying of "until you've walked a mile in my shoes..." is really quite perfect. Except now instead of walking a mile in cobby cuddlers I can do so in heels HAHA! Sorry had to inject humor...this is VERY emotional.
Ok so lets do numbers first. My top weight was 332 lbs.

I lost 60, then gained 20. I was down 40 still by the time I began my journey. I weighed in at my surgeons office just before the surgery at 290 lbs.

Right now I weigh 153. That puts me at 137 down from my surgery and 179 down from my top.

ok, here is my first blog entry, it was posted Jan 24, 2011. Just shy of a month after the surgery...
Having been overweight all my life it was something I guess I just came to accept as an inevitability. Be happy with who you are. I convinced myself this was meant to be and I should look for the positives in me. If people don't like me cause I'm fat...screw 'em. Did some things bother me? Well ya, of course. Lots of boy friends growing up, but no boyfriends. Hell, try hanging out with a bunch of size 0 or 2 and look like me. Hard for a fat chick to be invisible, but to guys, I think I was. I remember too many times that I was with my friends and we got invited to a party but guys we just saw in the store or something. They would smile and flirt with my friends. I stood in the back, eyes down. I didn't need to see what I perceived to be disgust when they dared look at me. I was on line once at the Dairy Barn drive through with one of my friends. Suddenly the guy in the car in front of us got out and came to our car. He leaned in and looked at my girlfriend and said "I just had to come tell you that I saw you in my rear view mirror and I had to tell you that you are the most beautiful girl I have ever seen" This was the story of my teenage years. Sure, I think I had a great personality, but as the ugly chick saying goes...that was all that was said about me. Even my ex-husband told his mom when we met in college "I met a girl with the best personality" Man, even the guy I married thought I was the "fat chick"!
Both my kids were hard pregnancies. I remember when I was pregnant with my son the Dr. had written on my folder (on my very first visit) "Morbidly Obese"...WTF!!! But sadly my weight did complicate things. His delivery was easier. I was heavier by the time I had my daughter and it was just one thing after another. They used to laugh that they would name a wing after me because of all the Dr visits I had in the hospital. I don't know how many people I told this to, but as if things weren't bad enough I almost died giving birth to my daughter. Well thankfully and obviously I didn't. But thanks to all that went wrong in the pregnancy and delivery the Dr told us...another pregnancy would likely kill me and the baby I carried. WHY OH WHY DIDN'T I GET MY TUBES TIED!!!
I had contracted gestational diabetes with my daughters pregnancy. The worst part is, it never went away. It started with meds, but I never worried and just kept eating and getting heavier. I eventually went on insulin telling myself, oh this will fix it so I can still do what I want. Its awesome to be in such denial. I don't recall what started it, but a few years ago I suddenly went hmmm I want to lose weight. I swam every night with the family, we did laps and then played in the pool. Then we would go home and cook a healthy dinner. It was a great summer. But fall and winter came. Not as easy to get out and there was no way in HELL I would join a gym. Why is it the gyms are always filled with people who don't seem to need it? Can you see me on a treadmill next to some 120 lb chick? Excuse me, would you mind my fat butt on the treadmill next you? I could walk for 5 minutes and shamefully waddle away. So the 60 lbs I lost started to creep back. Thankfully only 20 returned. But there I sat for about 3 years.
Gotta run for now. More later ^^
Thanks for listening, so far lol
btw...here is my recently obtained new license, my first one since the surgery. I attached the old one on top (obviously)

I hope you all don;t mind if I keep going...
I haven't even begun if you'll listen

Just so you know I might not reply but I'm reading. This is better then my lazy house wife book LMFAO

Surgery. 5/1/2012
Starting weight. 283.4
Last weeks weight 214,4
Todays weight. 211.4
Total loss. 72 lbs.

Thanks everyone, I can't wait to keep dropping I still have a long ways to go but was just so excited to see some results:-)

I say we keep making posts until he finally does it !!!!

S/W - 264 (7/12/12)
Last week - 231
Today - 224

I say we keep making posts until he finally does it !!!!

Thanks so much. Surgery was 6/19. I've lost almost 50 pounds. Went from a size 30 to a 26. Still a Long way to go, but I feel so good now at 50 years old.:-)

Kevin I am so right there with you and honestly - it has nothing to do with conceit. It is so amazing, so exciting, such a boost to your self-esteem. I don't know about you but I fully intend to keep looking in that mirror and I hope the elation never stops!!

I keep saying I'm going to get my pic up and I never seem to be able to find the time to get it done. Got to get together with my son and see if I can get some shots!

Baby girl, I have been watching your progress and you are doing great !!! Keep up the good work !!!

I am almost 3 months post op (6/4 surgery). I have lost 47 lbs, I am 3-4 sizes down, slimmest I have been in 20 years. Seems so surreal !!! I can dance without losing my breathe and I have so much energy finally that my body can move as fast as my mind... I used to pretend I was just a body experiment gone bad, god has finally begun to hear my prayers and let the world see what a beautiful person I am now !!!

the day after surgery they took me back in because of a leak. then on the 11 the found an abcess. on my spleen. then i had Fluid around my lungs and had to have a chest tube..not fun... lol but thank god im home now and hopefully it just gets better and better each day.

1st pic 224 the 2 pic 183
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