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Today is my 1 year surgiversary, HWE =423# , Started Surgery journey @ 360# , 6mth post 271#, today 240# .So that is 183# total loss 120# surgical loss. My dream goal is still another 65# away but I could stop now and be happy with my health.

130+ lbs down since surgery 3/3/2015

Here are a few you may or may not be able to tell a difference
The first one is from September 2015 my kids The Second is from 2003 at my sons wedding and the last one my kids refer to as "My Yetti Look"
Hopefully I won't be banned from the thread for including my spouse

Ok the story gets better. The guy who propped me up on the dance floor called. I apologized for been such a drunk and he laughed it off, said we girls were just having a good time so I guess I wasn't as bad as I feared. Well except I don't really remember what he looks like or why I gave him my number!
It really was fun and I don't feel guilty more like a warning. I don't process alcohol normally so if I have a few, well spaced out with food I am fine. ..if I don't follow my own rules... well, it gets crazy fast.
I never drink alone or when I need to drive...safe and at least somewhat sane. .

So im at a christmas party , at my best friends home. His wife who has supported me and I are talking about clothes shopping. I like talking about thrift shopping and my latest finds ( got a pair of dress pants, gorgeous ones, from goodwill the other day, 4.99, they were from Barney's of New York and had the tags still on them for 250 bucks retail....( yay me!)
Anyway, she tells me she has a few pairs of american eagle jeans that her son ( then 16) outgrew last year, and would I like them? SO of course i said sure! I never looked at the size i had already mentioned i was wearing 32 waist 30 inseam jeans that day. SO i assumed they were my size. My friend even laughed and said, man can you imagine wearing jeans my 16 year old son wore?
Now i only recently even tried getting into 32/30 jeans. End of november i was wearing 36/30 jeans, then 34/30 jeans a few weeks ago.
So the move to the 32's has been very recent. SO anyway, I get home later that evening and i look at the jeans.
The tag reads 29/30 . Of course i laugh and hold them up, they look like something ELmo would fit into. Straight cut by the way.
As a joke i throw a leg into them, and then the other.....
Yes you guessed it, THEY FIT! No not wonderfully. I wouldn't tuck in a dress shirt in em. But damn! i could wear em. Holy %$#k! Are you shitting me? People, just for reference, it was 1 year ago I was wearing 56's Now 1 year and 1 week later post surgery and Im able to fit into a 29 waist?
Yea i don't think I stopped smiling for several hours.
Heck i'm smiling now just thinking about it.

My in laws came over today for our christmas, and they gave me a very nice gift card to nordstroms ( which i have never shopped at ) and said to " buy something you wouldn't normally buy for yourself , to celebrate" ( my birthday was 3 days ago.) So im going to do a little shopping! ( with Nordstroms prices, it wont be much, but? it'll be fun!)
If it seems like i'm bragging, I apologize, i'm sure there's a little brag in there, but I wanted to say to those who are fighting the good fight and struggling....You can do this! I anxiously wait for your GOAL post! Keep all those NSV's coming.
They all add up and mean a lot. You can get there. Don't give up!

I don't think so, but if it comes from my back, that would be just fine. No more waxing! Or if I had to shave my face less frequently that would be great too.

I basically live for thrift shopping now. my wife called me a clothes whore the other day lo. Ive done great we have a very close by goodwill and since were very close to an affluent couple of communities my pickings have been fantastic.
My favorite finds, a pair of lucky jeans for 5.99 , a 100% silk black sport coat by tommy bahama for 7 bucks, a couple of columbia fleeces, a cashmere sweater, a lucky brand zip sweatshirt, and so much more, heck just last sunday i picked up a pair of polo blue khakis for 3.99 , literally i could go on a lot, an izod bathrobe with the tags still on it, its so much damn fun and , lets face it, its affordable otherwise id be wearing huge clothes or be totally broker than i am lol.

For your amusement:
I've donated hundreds (not kidding) of articles of clothing now and each time I donate, I take a peek at what they have inside. The irony here is that I sometimes see things I like, that are way too big, and then realize, "oh, that's something that *I* donated last week." :-)
I've been AWOL for a bit (sold house, bought house, busy with everything) and thought I would peek back in. Best of luck to everyone!

For your amusement:
I've donated hundreds (not kidding) of articles of clothing now and each time I donate, I take a peek at what they have inside. The irony here is that I sometimes see things I like, that are way too big, and then realize, "oh, that's something that *I* donated last week." :-)
I've been AWOL for a bit (sold house, bought house, busy with everything) and thought I would peek back in. Best of luck to everyone!

For your amusement:
I've donated hundreds (not kidding) of articles of clothing now and each time I donate, I take a peek at what they have inside. The irony here is that I sometimes see things I like, that are way too big, and then realize, "oh, that's something that *I* donated last week." :-)
I've been AWOL for a bit (sold house, bought house, busy with everything) and thought I would peek back in. Best of luck to everyone!

For your amusement:
I've donated hundreds (not kidding) of articles of clothing now and each time I donate, I take a peek at what they have inside. The irony here is that I sometimes see things I like, that are way too big, and then realize, "oh, that's something that *I* donated last week." :-)
I've been AWOL for a bit (sold house, bought house, busy with everything) and thought I would peek back in. Best of luck to everyone!

For your amusement:
I've donated hundreds (not kidding) of articles of clothing now and each time I donate, I take a peek at what they have inside. The irony here is that I sometimes see things I like, that are way too big, and then realize, "oh, that's something that *I* donated last week." :-)
I've been AWOL for a bit (sold house, bought house, busy with everything) and thought I would peek back in. Best of luck to everyone!

I like toast, especially with butter and cream cheese on top. I will eat half a slice heavy on the cream cheese from time to time and I enjoy it very much. That's all I can handle and all I need.

They should take the ads off of bariatricpal.com if the company is fishy.

Concerning the Constipation complaint, I've had it too. Miralax and Dulcolax never seemed to work very well for me. On a whim, I drank some straight up apple juice and had a bit of a harsh result. Now that I'm some weeks out, eating about 6 slices of apple, daily and with peel, seems to keep me in good shape.
I know some cannot tolerate peels well. so consider a small amount to test and/or talk to your doc/nutritionist.

I never would have dreamed of showing anyone my weight on a scale. I absolutely dreaded weighing in at the DR's office. As if they cared right?!. Scale numbers are the thing nightmares are made of in my world. I think I was traumatized as a child when they would do "health checkups" at school, everyone would get called to the cafeteria and have to be weighed in front of the people standing behind you. Horrible experience!! Not today folks!! I am thrilled to share my scale experience! My starting weight 10 months ago was a even 267 Lbs on the day of surgery. I am now officially over 100 lbs lost (barely). This process has defiantly been a complete life changing experience. I still have a hard time accepting the numbers, it just doesn't seem real so I weight a good 5x in a row just to make sure I'm not delusional Only 5 more lbs and I will be considered "normal" I have never wanted to be more "normal" in my life From morbidly obese, obese, overweight to normal in 10 tiny months! I would do this surgery 100x again if I had to just to have these moments. I'm incredibly grateful. God is good all the time!!

You need to seek professional help to work through your BED. I'm concerned you will continue to struggle without support from professionals like a counselor or therapist or even a psychiatrist. There's no shame in that. I'm actually very impressed with your success so far dealing with that disorder. You're a rock star! But like I said, there's no shame seeking some extra help to ensure you're successful with the rest of your weight loss journey and beyond. Good luck to you!

CW 258.8

@@Sharon1964
Good god, this is a big bowl of "word salad." I'm going to guess it was made by someone trolling.
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-word-salad.html
The term word salad refers to a random words or phrases linked together in an often unintelligible manner. Often, a listener is unable to understand the meaning or purpose of the phrase. Mental health issues can often be the cause of disorganized speech such as word salad. ** See: "Beg your pardon?"
Conditions that Lead to Speaking a Word Salad
** Trolling, alcohol and recreational drugs
Dementia
Schizophrenia
Logorrhea
Schizophasia
Receptive aphasia
Anoxic brain injury
Word Salad Examples
** the original post by the op and most of the follow-up
The sheep languished blue trains suffer
Windows books dogs hands run
Run desk making dinner sunglasses menu
Folders pile swimming red clouds
Sadness cups coffee printer power outage
Porch steps run come here
Dogs sleep chicken pencil trees
E-mail purple orange swims blackened
Garbage pink composition solely bags speak deodorant
Take sharpness filling soda cans
Wetness smooth dancing sheep
Horse paper handbags skipping forests play together
In worlds with pencils, schools page drink slime
Loving living nectar of bees of pollen and butterflies run amok
Children bikes cars sliding
Typing while sleeping and running while cat
Over the hills, cloud blue a shelf lay fuschia
Labels and rash, files are landing
Wall speaks windy hot mess
Brightness foresees the rug
Dirty slime amidst antiquated hoopla
Take shirt slam crazy bike tires in afternoon
Amongst all confused working fly
Sensibly effort compound bed bubble
Kings sense jester realize tongues poetry
Words hard journal describe impossible
Religious hair coma machine idea hate
Interesting hospital interpreting description extreme encounter
Junction one distant fragile mine
Death wretched addled else finally chant mind sea backgrounds
Obey space cat disjointed languages swearing admit stranger bit dressing
Picture cake chocolate rambling UFO solar here fuse barking
Online signature basic color sleep ideas class
Dog bike cat sat sit down under sleep jump
Now later red cat boat ship house girl
Word Salad on TV
Word Salad is also sometimes used for comedic reasons on television, in music, movies, and other media. Some examples are:
The Muppet Show's music often contains words strung together that do not make sense
The Happy Noodle Boy comics by Jhonen Vasquez
Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot, a song by Carumba
Worm Quartet, a comedy music act
Drinking Out of Cups, spoken word by Dan Deacon
Hatsune Miku's song Francium
Popular website LOLCats
Rutland Weekend Television's sketch “Gibberish” by Eric Idle
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Some of the comics of Calvin And Hobbe's
A stand-up act by now deceased George Carlin included Word Salads such as “Niz fluk bwarney quando floo!”
The play Dogg's Hamlet by Tom Stoppard
Now you have seen a lot of different examples of word salad. Since word salad is just nonsense words or phrases, you can easily create your own examples at any time.

Well folks Today it happened. This morning i weighed in at 199.6 , i even took a picture of the scale reading that. The emotions were powerful but amazingly fulfilling.
Id like to thank everyone here who has helped, cajoled, encouraged or offered advice , for what you have done to help me get to this point.
Through surgery, nutrition, exercise and help from my friends, family, and you all I have reached this goal.
Now onward to my final goal.
Thank you all again!

So I started this at my highest weight ever of 337lbs. My ultimate goal is to be in the healthy BMI range and no longer need cpap (if I'm lucky). I think I need to set mini-goals on the way there.
What kinds of things have you all done?
My current weight is 289 lbs and I'm thinking the following --
1. First consecutive 4 weeks of going to the gym: live theater tickets. I love to go but the seats had become uncomfortable.
2. Hitting 237 lbs - I'm a gadget person and I really want an Apple Watch. Maybe tennis lessons?
3. Below 200 lbs - I'm thinking some kind of vacation. Maybe tropical and beachy?
In the past I might have used food as a motivator. That obviously doesn't work for me!

@@Sharon1964
Good god, this is a big bowl of "word salad." I'm going to guess it was made by someone trolling.
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-word-salad.html
The term word salad refers to a random words or phrases linked together in an often unintelligible manner. Often, a listener is unable to understand the meaning or purpose of the phrase. Mental health issues can often be the cause of disorganized speech such as word salad. ** See: "Beg your pardon?"
Conditions that Lead to Speaking a Word Salad
** Trolling, alcohol and recreational drugs
Dementia
Schizophrenia
Logorrhea
Schizophasia
Receptive aphasia
Anoxic brain injury
Word Salad Examples
** the original post by the op and most of the follow-up
The sheep languished blue trains suffer
Windows books dogs hands run
Run desk making dinner sunglasses menu
Folders pile swimming red clouds
Sadness cups coffee printer power outage
Porch steps run come here
Dogs sleep chicken pencil trees
E-mail purple orange swims blackened
Garbage pink composition solely bags speak deodorant
Take sharpness filling soda cans
Wetness smooth dancing sheep
Horse paper handbags skipping forests play together
In worlds with pencils, schools page drink slime
Loving living nectar of bees of pollen and butterflies run amok
Children bikes cars sliding
Typing while sleeping and running while cat
Over the hills, cloud blue a shelf lay fuschia
Labels and rash, files are landing
Wall speaks windy hot mess
Brightness foresees the rug
Dirty slime amidst antiquated hoopla
Take shirt slam crazy bike tires in afternoon
Amongst all confused working fly
Sensibly effort compound bed bubble
Kings sense jester realize tongues poetry
Words hard journal describe impossible
Religious hair coma machine idea hate
Interesting hospital interpreting description extreme encounter
Junction one distant fragile mine
Death wretched addled else finally chant mind sea backgrounds
Obey space cat disjointed languages swearing admit stranger bit dressing
Picture cake chocolate rambling UFO solar here fuse barking
Online signature basic color sleep ideas class
Dog bike cat sat sit down under sleep jump
Now later red cat boat ship house girl
Word Salad on TV
Word Salad is also sometimes used for comedic reasons on television, in music, movies, and other media. Some examples are:
The Muppet Show's music often contains words strung together that do not make sense
The Happy Noodle Boy comics by Jhonen Vasquez
Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot, a song by Carumba
Worm Quartet, a comedy music act
Drinking Out of Cups, spoken word by Dan Deacon
Hatsune Miku's song Francium
Popular website LOLCats
Rutland Weekend Television's sketch “Gibberish” by Eric Idle
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Some of the comics of Calvin And Hobbe's
A stand-up act by now deceased George Carlin included Word Salads such as “Niz fluk bwarney quando floo!”
The play Dogg's Hamlet by Tom Stoppard
Now you have seen a lot of different examples of word salad. Since word salad is just nonsense words or phrases, you can easily create your own examples at any time.

I bought things from the JCPenney website. They always have sales/coupons. Clicking on the big and tall section will let you easily sort items by size.

Well I was able to get the vertical gastric sleeve done on May 6, 2015 and had a hernia repair at the same time. The only problem I had was that I didn't wake up following surgery until a month and a half later. Apparently following the surgery, which my doctor said went well, they could not bring me out from the anesthesia. During this time my family tells me hey lost me on the table but were able to resuscitate me. When they tried to re-intubate me I apparently aspirated into both lungs developing double pneumonia, sepsis, ARDS, and a plethora of other health problems. I was stabilized and taken to ICU where about 2 weeks later I had a tracheostomy tube inserted into my trachea to allow them to better manage my respiratory status as well as suction the secretions coming from my lungs. I was also kept under induced coma by the doctors for this month and half with TPN feeding, IV's infusing, being placed on a ventilator. From what my family tells me the doctors gave me little chance to survive as I was in very critical condition during this time. There was also talks of placing my on dialysis as my kidneys were shutting down because of all the medications being given to me to try to help me. At one point blood was even coming out of my catheter and draining into bag. When I was allowed to wake up I found myself bewildered as to what had happened. was unable to talk because of the trach. When I tried to move I was unable to lift my right arm or both legs as the muscles had atrophied during the month and half of being comatose. I spent another 3 weeks in the hospital then was transferred to a sub acute rehab center where I would spend a little over a month learning how to walk, dress, bathe, and feed myself. The trach was finally removed this past Monday and I was discharged home on Wednesday. I am able to walk for short distances but I do still get winded and fatigued. I also have some difficulty coughing up phlegm as my cough is still weak. Probably a residual from the trach but pray this will resolve it self in time. I start out patient physical therapy tomorrow and hope I can walk as before and with I feel more secure and stable. Since the surgery I have lost 60 lbs in these past 3 months and continue to lose about 5-8 lbs a week. I continue to eat very little food and fill up quickly. I am still trying to get all my Protein in as well as all my Water and liquids.