bigbattynatty

230 pounds 9 months later 159

Hey all!! I wanted to share my update B&A pic, Halloween edition! I chose my outfit last year during the Preop phase. My surgeon, Dr. Ariel Ortiz, completely inspired my choice. He reminded me of Batman- intriguing, handsome, mysterious (even though after I met him he was still handsome but a total ball of energy- so cool). I thought of the operating room as the Batcave where he would whip me into shape with all his fancy gadgets and weaponry. So I decided last September I wanted to be Poison Ivy! A year in the making, I am so thankful and blessed

Me before surgery

Last week

New suit

Had surgery March 19th 2013. So far I've lost 142. I started off weighing 277 n now I'm 135 as of dis morning.

Sw: 326
Cw:206
Sleeved February 6 2014
120 down. 50 more to go.
5'7..... 20 years old.

302lbs leaving hospital and six months later at 169lbs went for am size 46' waist to a size 30' waist!!

I LOVE Before & After pics so here is my contribution.

Even though I'm about 2 and a half years post op, I've been up and down the past year or so. But not the kind of up and down (mostly up) that I was before the sleeve. By up and down now I mean maybe 12-15 pounds, which seems to be related more to my workouts and muscle gain or loss for the most part. Not the 20-40 pounds like before the sleeve. I'm still very happy I went through getting the sleeve over 2 and a half years ago.....hope I can still say that 10-20 years from now. The first one I was almost at my heaviest....320-ish. The second one I was about around my lowest (low 220's I think) and the last one was a week ago in the mid 230's.

Sleeve four month ago, October 7, 2013 and down over 100 since day of surgery.

Creating a new thread because the other one has gotten really long.
So, here are my before and currents to keep the topic moving.

Current as of last week: