LaurieMore

267 vs 203
16 weeks out
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how tall are you? We pretty much have the same stats, you look great

Leaving Las Vegas.
On Saturday we dressed up for a night on the town, just like we do every year. Only this year over the course of the evening men and women complimented me on my cocktail dress or told me I looked beautiful.
What was more amazing was I FELT beautiful. I felt like I could smile graciously and accept their compliments with confidence.
Not because I was the thinnest woman in the room or the most lovely but because I am fighting hard for who I am. I fight hard for mental, spiritual, and physical wholeness and health. I feel strong. I feel wise. I feel beautiful.
I feel like for the first time in two decades my outside is starting to match the inside.
I am more proud of that than the number on the scale any day.
Small decisions lead to big changes in a year.

Just posting a face pic because you really can't tell much of a difference in my body as I started at such a high weight.
Pre-Op Diet: 12/28/15
Surgery: 1/13/16
Weight lost: 66lbs

before and during... Have another 60lbs to go

Down 71 lbs!!! This is a size 12 dress!!!

Please pardon me if I've already posted this. I thought that I had, but can't find it. Lol.

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Few days shy of 6 months

SW-360 currently 195

Sleeved June 16, 2015. Total loss 80 plus! Doing my 1st 8k ever in 3 weeks!

6 months tomorrow close to 100 lbs down

4 weeks post op and 18 lbs down hopefully it will keep coming off !!

Before: 267
Now: 213
11 weeks out from surgery
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I hit my goal weight of 160 today! I still want to lose another 5 lbs so I'll have a bounce range.
Before:

After:

BEFORE- Aug 2015, 195 lbs




AFTER- Jan 2016- 123 lbs

Back in October 2015....the day prior to my surgery.....disgusted with the state I'd fallen to:

Taken today:

I don't get my sleeve until March 29, 2016... But I've been working my tail off to get a head start. Can't wait to get to the other side and finally move past my ALWAYS stall weight of 198! HW-270# CW-201 GW 135

Great job @@elo402
What a head start!!
You're f***ing awesome!!!

The fat acceptance movement is a lot like the feminism movement in that a lot of people have utter misconceptions about what the movement is actually about and why it exists. Much like the crazy people who call themselves feminists while attacking men, saying we should just kill off all the men, saying the men are inferior, etc are not ACTUALLY feminists, people who truly believe that being fat is healthy and that all doctors are just being hateful and discriminatory are not actually fat activists.
The point of the fat acceptance movement is the same point as the broader body positivity movement: it doesn't matter if you weigh 800 pounds and literally can't move off your bed, it doesn't matter if you have made yourself unhealthy with poor choices or if you are making no move whatsoever to lose weight. Every person deserves to be treated like a human being, with dignity and respect, end of story. Fat acceptance is all about treating fat people like they are humans instead of the often appalling way we are often treated, ways that are still socially acceptable and that need to change, NOW. The point is, no one has a right to judge you or treat you poorly because of your body because it's your body, not theirs, and no one gets a say unless you want them to. These misguided people who stubbornly tell themselves that fat acceptance is about pretending to be healthy and thinking fat is better are just that, misguided. I can't really blame them, in some ways. Being treated like less of a person because of how you look is just absolutely wrong and ridiculous, and doesn't serve to actually help people.
No true body positivist would ever ignore medical advise just because they are hurt and offended by the truth, just like no actual feminist would say that men are inferior. There are idiot radicals in every movement, but what's important to take away from it is the core message.

Sharing my 5 month post op pic! First pic is from 12/25/14, 342 lbs. My current pic is from 5/29, my 5 month surgiversary, weighing 250.4. 92 lbs down so far since surgery, and 118 from my highest weight of 368! My goal weight is 170.

Honestly just following my Dr. Orders. I do suck at getting my Protein in which now on summer break I'm going to really try to get better. I also walk a lot. Usually 2-4 miles a day with some days going 8 miles.
Good luck, you got this!

I just happen to do another side by side before as yesterday was my 10 month surgeversary!! I had surgery July 25, 2014. I started my journey at 336 and today I'm 115lbs lighter at 221!! Whoop whoop!! Things have defiantly slowed, as I'm having to work harder, but I feel amazing and actually want yo get out and exercise!!

Down 103 lbs almost 7 months post op. 6lbs to onederland