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Surgery date : 9/4/12
Weight day of: 240 lbs
Height: 5' 2.5"
Surgeon: Dr. Thomas Borland (self pay)
Current weight: 150 lbs
Total loss: 90 lbs
Just wanted to post a little update since my one year has passed... I wanted to hit 100 lbs by now, but I am totally okay with 90! My one year appt with my Dr isn't til October so I feel confident that I can get there by then! I've kindof fallen off the wagon lately, so as of Monday I'm back on Protein and veggies only! I am going to beat this 10 lbs FOR SURE :
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Down 23 lbs in 2 weeks !
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This is 8day post op and 2week post op:) slowly getting smaller. Lol

Surgery date January 7 2013. Weight 392 at surgery in grey shirt. Weight as of today 252lbs. Total weight loss is 140lbs.
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I had my sleeve on the 23rd of October 2012, weighing 249.7lbs Bmi 40
Today I weigh 148.9lbs and my Bmi is 25.5lb
Best decision I ever made!!!

I had surgery on 8/13 and am down 32.5 lbs.

Update!!! THe scale has moved 5 pounds !!!! Woohoo!! More Protein and water...

I just thought i'd post because I had a total NSV today, I went shopping and found a cute pair of jeans that only had a size 20 left. It was one of those "lets see how much further I have to go" type moments and I put them on and they buttoned and fit PERFECTLY. I was jumping for joy. it's amazing how far ive come in such a short time and I want to thank everyone on here for your inspiration and encouragement. this surgery was definitely a blessing in disguise. I attached a picture of me wearing a size 30 and a picture I took in those jeans in the dressing room today

Had surgery 8/20... SW-307 CW284
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Had my surgery on march 28th. My hw on march 14th was 340lbs as of this past week I weigh 255lbs. That's 85lbs in 5 months!! Beyond happy just got to keep going!!!

Down 23 lbs in 2 weeks !
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Down 23 lbs in 2 weeks !
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Down 23 lbs in 2 weeks !
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Here I am the night before surgery, and then 3 months later!
I see the biggest difference in my stomach and my back. I have a long way to go, but I know I'll get there.

Down 23 lbs in 2 weeks !
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Down 23 lbs in 2 weeks !
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It's crazy.. When I was at my heaviest I would day dream about the day that I would finally be "skinny". I would day dream about all sorts of crazy things.. Some miracle pill that I could take and within days loose all my weight. Perhaps just magically wake up and it would all be gone. Or I even day dreamed as far as thinking.. even if a virus took over me so I was so sick, then I would loose all my weight. I realize that it was all ridiculous. They were but simple dreams that I never thought I would have. Eating was a poison for me. A bad habit. And it's not even that I would gorge myself or eat a plethora of food items per day. It was what I ate. Because I loved the taste of certain foods. And I couldn't help myself. I lacked the motivation to do what I needed to do. Eating right was something that I was never good at. I would do good for awhile but then would fall right back into the same habits. And the progress was slow and the results were slow and that would always dampen my urge to be healthy. I continued to grow and grow and it was hard to comprehend at the time how large I had actually become. I knew that I was extremely over weight, but it really doesn't hit you until you have something to compare it to. I just assumed that I would always be heavy and that would just lead to always day dreaming about a "better" me. I would dream about what I would look like, how many more activities I would be able to participate in, the clothes I would be able to shop for, the athletic activities I could do with my kids... but to me, they were just pipe dreams.. something unobtainable.
It got to the point where I could hardly fit into a roller coaster. I remember going atop the stratosphere to hop on a ride. I don't remember the name, but it shoots you straight up into the sky, high above the city. When I sat on the ride, the harness that comes down over you, would not fit. I remember my ass having to try and squeeze into the seat. And I couldn't get the harness down. It was embarrassing and I had to be moved to the "fat" person chair. Even as I am writing this I feel ashamed and horrified that I could possibly let myself get that far. It was difficult moving around and keeping up with my active family. I never wanted to do anything. That meant I was going to be hot, sweaty and miserable. I was depressed, I hated what I had let myself become. I felt as if I had no self worth and was just disgusted at my body.

Now I can say that I am extremely happy with myself. It has definitely been a long road and journey and continues to be so. I still have to make the right eating choices and exercise. I can happily say that yesterday was the first time I have ran since being.. well I don't even remember the last time I ran. But it truly was amazing. I was able to do it and go for awhile until I started to breath a little bit more heavily, but I was able to continue still! And it felt great after, I am excited and happy and can't wait for even more results.

I was sleeved August 20th, my highest weight was 317, surgery day weight 281, current weight 258!

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Today is my 36th birthday and for the first time in 30 years I am not overweight. I started my WLS journey 1-1-12 (surgery 2-14-12) and since then I have lost an entire person. I started at 335# and a size 28. Today I am 160# and a size 8. I am 20# below my surgical goal. It is a very shocking transformation and I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around it. I am less than half the weight I started out at and wear about 1/4 the size clothes. Mindboggling. I don't even recognize myself, let alone people that haven't seen me in awhile. I don't plan to try to lose any more because I am getting way too bony. I am in the process of trying to have plastic surgery though. I believe when that is done I will be a size 6..possibly even a 4/6. Unbelievable. I am a large framed woman and never would have believed it was possible for me to be this small. A 16 was my goal because it was the smallest I could ever remember being.

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Hey everybody! I'm so happy to share with you all that I am officially 11weeks post-op today, and at today's weekly weigh in, I weighed 188!!! That's 60 lbs down from my highest weight!!!! My height is 5' 6.5"; I started this process at 248, lost 20 pre-op, and 40 post-op. Thus far I have had no problems with any type of food. I eat healthy 95% of the time; I stay away from my trigger foods because I WILL eat them if they are near and accessible; I stay away from bad carbs except on my cheat days (Sunday's), and when I say cheat it is very minimal and only at 1 meal--not every meal. I also exercise with a minimum of 4 days of cardio (1/2 hour to an hour depending on my schedule), 2 days weights.
Whoop! Whoop! Loving my sleeve!

Was sleeved 12-26-12
Had TT 2 weeks ago
Starting weight 393
Current weight 229
Went from a 4/5x shirts and 48 jeans
To XL and 34 jeans

Anything is possible

I will have to try that and see if that helps it go down better Thank you!

What one is "supposed" to be on when varies widely between different surgical programs - docs coming from the RNY world tend to specify much slower progression rates than those who have been in the DS world and have been doing sleeves for a long time; likewise, what we can tolerate when can also be very individual - I had scrambled eggs and yogurt in the hospital without distress. A couple bites of eggs isn't going to stretch anything out - if her stomach didn't like it, she would know about it. My doc's experience has been that most patients do better as they move into real foods, so it seems like she is experiencing this as well.
We typically experience a fairly quick loss the first couple of weeks or so of any big weight loss effort (surgical or otherwise), and then have a bit of stall (it may be a couple days, a couple weeks or more, or none at all...), so if you had much weight loss immediately before surgery, like from a pre-op diet, that could be your initial big loss and now you are into the stall mode. The best thing to do to deal with these stalls is to keep up your Protein and Water consumption needs.

5 months out and I have bones again. It's been a great ride so far and I am looking forward to more.

I have lost 115 pounds since I began this journey!! I'm incredibly happy! I exercise and mostly eat right. I slip now and then, but I get up and keep going! Here's my blog describing this journey:
http://hopeysnewbeginning.blogspot.com