Wallflower7522

Thanks for the replies. I haven’t been back to the doctor yet, but she seems much more concerned with my anemia than she does my blood sugar. I’m actually doing an Iron infusion on Thursday since I’m just not absorbing the supplements. So far no more hypoglycemic incidents.

I’m 4 years out. My high weight was 340, and I started the process at 310-320. My lowest weight about 7-8 months out of surgery was 195. I gained 10lbs pretty quickly after that however, I also packed on some muscle. This time last year I was at 212 and yes, some of that was fat. I’m not always rigorous with my diet but I’m very active compared to before. Last summer disaster struck. I had an accident, not seriously injured but injured enough that my activity was limited for a number of months. I knew what would happen but I got depressed and angry at myself and the weight piled on all the way to 230 shortly after my cast was removed. The good thing is, once I got active again it started coming off and I’m down to 218, I’ve been focusing on my diet more carefully recently and cutting out sugar, not that I ate tons before, but I’m just being more careful. I’m hopeful, I’m a big girl. I don’t even expect to be super skinny but I’m going to continue to be healthy and I’m going to at least get back to where I was a year ago.

I’m 4 years out. My high weight was 340, and I started the process at 310-320. My lowest weight about 7-8 months out of surgery was 195. I gained 10lbs pretty quickly after that however, I also packed on some muscle. This time last year I was at 212 and yes, some of that was fat. I’m not always rigorous with my diet but I’m very active compared to before. Last summer disaster struck. I had an accident, not seriously injured but injured enough that my activity was limited for a number of months. I knew what would happen but I got depressed and angry at myself and the weight piled on all the way to 230 shortly after my cast was removed. The good thing is, once I got active again it started coming off and I’m down to 218, I’ve been focusing on my diet more carefully recently and cutting out sugar, not that I ate tons before, but I’m just being more careful. I’m hopeful, I’m a big girl. I don’t even expect to be super skinny but I’m going to continue to be healthy and I’m going to at least get back to where I was a year ago.

I’m 4 years out. My high weight was 340, and I started the process at 310-320. My lowest weight about 7-8 months out of surgery was 195. I gained 10lbs pretty quickly after that however, I also packed on some muscle. This time last year I was at 212 and yes, some of that was fat. I’m not always rigorous with my diet but I’m very active compared to before. Last summer disaster struck. I had an accident, not seriously injured but injured enough that my activity was limited for a number of months. I knew what would happen but I got depressed and angry at myself and the weight piled on all the way to 230 shortly after my cast was removed. The good thing is, once I got active again it started coming off and I’m down to 218, I’ve been focusing on my diet more carefully recently and cutting out sugar, not that I ate tons before, but I’m just being more careful. I’m hopeful, I’m a big girl. I don’t even expect to be super skinny but I’m going to continue to be healthy and I’m going to at least get back to where I was a year ago.

I’m 4 years out. My high weight was 340, and I started the process at 310-320. My lowest weight about 7-8 months out of surgery was 195. I gained 10lbs pretty quickly after that however, I also packed on some muscle. This time last year I was at 212 and yes, some of that was fat. I’m not always rigorous with my diet but I’m very active compared to before. Last summer disaster struck. I had an accident, not seriously injured but injured enough that my activity was limited for a number of months. I knew what would happen but I got depressed and angry at myself and the weight piled on all the way to 230 shortly after my cast was removed. The good thing is, once I got active again it started coming off and I’m down to 218, I’ve been focusing on my diet more carefully recently and cutting out sugar, not that I ate tons before, but I’m just being more careful. I’m hopeful, I’m a big girl. I don’t even expect to be super skinny but I’m going to continue to be healthy and I’m going to at least get back to where I was a year ago.

I'm in my 20s. I've lost 140 lbs and I'm still saggy. My arms and legs are the worst. I go the the gym at least 3 days a week. It won't tighten up your skin. That's just the reality. But you know what going to the gym will do is build muscle. I have a lot of flab but I have a lot of muscle too and it fills out the flab some. I still have bag batwings, and wrinkles. But I've gained almost 10lbs the past few months but my body is still shrinking so I know I'm adding muscle.
Here's my point. You can't control how flabby you'll be and everyone is different. But you can still work on your body and get strong, and fast and build muscle. It's far from perfect but I'm proud of what I've got.

3 years out. I feel like I eat small to normal size meals now. I still take a long time to eat a meal and usually just take leftovers home and eat in "chapters" as my other WLS friends say. The amount of restriction varies, sometimes I can only get down a few bites and sometimes I can eat almost a full meal.
I've only had actual dumping once or twice. If I eat a few bites too much or something too carb heavy I will feel a little bit sick for maybe half an hour. It's nothing serious, but it's enough to make me think twice about taking that last bite of something.
My biggest challenge is Protein intake and blood sugar management. I don't eat meat much anymore, so I try to eat a lot of legumes. I have some instances of hypoglycemia and I have more frequent occurrences of reactive hypoglycemia after I eat. My body still makes too much insulin and drops my blood sugar. I keep a lot of juice boxes and small Snacks around.

3 years out. I feel like I eat small to normal size meals now. I still take a long time to eat a meal and usually just take leftovers home and eat in "chapters" as my other WLS friends say. The amount of restriction varies, sometimes I can only get down a few bites and sometimes I can eat almost a full meal.
I've only had actual dumping once or twice. If I eat a few bites too much or something too carb heavy I will feel a little bit sick for maybe half an hour. It's nothing serious, but it's enough to make me think twice about taking that last bite of something.
My biggest challenge is Protein intake and blood sugar management. I don't eat meat much anymore, so I try to eat a lot of legumes. I have some instances of hypoglycemia and I have more frequent occurrences of reactive hypoglycemia after I eat. My body still makes too much insulin and drops my blood sugar. I keep a lot of juice boxes and small Snacks around.

3 years out. I feel like I eat small to normal size meals now. I still take a long time to eat a meal and usually just take leftovers home and eat in "chapters" as my other WLS friends say. The amount of restriction varies, sometimes I can only get down a few bites and sometimes I can eat almost a full meal.
I've only had actual dumping once or twice. If I eat a few bites too much or something too carb heavy I will feel a little bit sick for maybe half an hour. It's nothing serious, but it's enough to make me think twice about taking that last bite of something.
My biggest challenge is Protein intake and blood sugar management. I don't eat meat much anymore, so I try to eat a lot of legumes. I have some instances of hypoglycemia and I have more frequent occurrences of reactive hypoglycemia after I eat. My body still makes too much insulin and drops my blood sugar. I keep a lot of juice boxes and small Snacks around.

310 to 210 and a size 24/3x to a 12/L.
I'm two years out. I got down to 194 and I've gained weight (but not size) since I've been working out pretty frequently. All though I'm happy with my size 12, I'm still feel like I should be about 30lbs less but my doctor is happy and said not to stress about it too much because I have a large frame.

310 to 210 and a size 24/3x to a 12/L.
I'm two years out. I got down to 194 and I've gained weight (but not size) since I've been working out pretty frequently. All though I'm happy with my size 12, I'm still feel like I should be about 30lbs less but my doctor is happy and said not to stress about it too much because I have a large frame.

310 to 210 and a size 24/3x to a 12/L.
I'm two years out. I got down to 194 and I've gained weight (but not size) since I've been working out pretty frequently. All though I'm happy with my size 12, I'm still feel like I should be about 30lbs less but my doctor is happy and said not to stress about it too much because I have a large frame.

People call me skinny, or tiny but I'm still not really. I'm a size 12 but I'm just built big and I'm muscular. But the most important thing to me is that I'm strong, fit, and healthy so I'll take it.

I only told a handful of friends and family members pre surgery. Post surgery if someone asked who I knew had it, or I knew might be interested I would tell them. If it was just some random person saying "how did you do it?!" I would say "diet and exercise" which is true.
I'm 2.5 years out now. I took a new position at work 9 months after my surgery and suddenly I was always around new people who never knew the old me. Now I may make references to losing weight but I never go into a lot details how how or how much. I'm not trying to hid it per say, that's just not my life anymore and I don't want to bring it up constantly. There are plenty of old pictures on Facebook so I figure people can go look for themselves if they really want to.

I only told a handful of friends and family members pre surgery. Post surgery if someone asked who I knew had it, or I knew might be interested I would tell them. If it was just some random person saying "how did you do it?!" I would say "diet and exercise" which is true.
I'm 2.5 years out now. I took a new position at work 9 months after my surgery and suddenly I was always around new people who never knew the old me. Now I may make references to losing weight but I never go into a lot details how how or how much. I'm not trying to hid it per say, that's just not my life anymore and I don't want to bring it up constantly. There are plenty of old pictures on Facebook so I figure people can go look for themselves if they really want to.

As other have said you don't have to, and it may be something you don't want to obsess with. I stopped tracking mine after about a year but I also noticed some weight creeping back on and decided I needed to be more accountable than my occasional doctors appointment. The I discovered my scale is actually broken so I'm going out after work to pick up a new one.

As other have said you don't have to, and it may be something you don't want to obsess with. I stopped tracking mine after about a year but I also noticed some weight creeping back on and decided I needed to be more accountable than my occasional doctors appointment. The I discovered my scale is actually broken so I'm going out after work to pick up a new one.

310 to 210 and a size 24/3x to a 12/L.
I'm two years out. I got down to 194 and I've gained weight (but not size) since I've been working out pretty frequently. All though I'm happy with my size 12, I'm still feel like I should be about 30lbs less but my doctor is happy and said not to stress about it too much because I have a large frame.

310 to 210 and a size 24/3x to a 12/L.
I'm two years out. I got down to 194 and I've gained weight (but not size) since I've been working out pretty frequently. All though I'm happy with my size 12, I'm still feel like I should be about 30lbs less but my doctor is happy and said not to stress about it too much because I have a large frame.

310 to 210 and a size 24/3x to a 12/L.
I'm two years out. I got down to 194 and I've gained weight (but not size) since I've been working out pretty frequently. All though I'm happy with my size 12, I'm still feel like I should be about 30lbs less but my doctor is happy and said not to stress about it too much because I have a large frame.

310 to 210 and a size 24/3x to a 12/L.
I'm two years out. I got down to 194 and I've gained weight (but not size) since I've been working out pretty frequently. All though I'm happy with my size 12, I'm still feel like I should be about 30lbs less but my doctor is happy and said not to stress about it too much because I have a large frame.

310 to 210 and a size 24/3x to a 12/L.
I'm two years out. I got down to 194 and I've gained weight (but not size) since I've been working out pretty frequently. All though I'm happy with my size 12, I'm still feel like I should be about 30lbs less but my doctor is happy and said not to stress about it too much because I have a large frame.

310 to 210 and a size 24/3x to a 12/L.
I'm two years out. I got down to 194 and I've gained weight (but not size) since I've been working out pretty frequently. All though I'm happy with my size 12, I'm still feel like I should be about 30lbs less but my doctor is happy and said not to stress about it too much because I have a large frame.

310 to 210 and a size 24/3x to a 12/L.
I'm two years out. I got down to 194 and I've gained weight (but not size) since I've been working out pretty frequently. All though I'm happy with my size 12, I'm still feel like I should be about 30lbs less but my doctor is happy and said not to stress about it too much because I have a large frame.

310 to 210 and a size 24/3x to a 12/L.
I'm two years out. I got down to 194 and I've gained weight (but not size) since I've been working out pretty frequently. All though I'm happy with my size 12, I'm still feel like I should be about 30lbs less but my doctor is happy and said not to stress about it too much because I have a large frame.