highfunctioningfatman

Nicely done! A bit off topic but that looks like a sleep number bed. How has your sleep number changed as you lost weight?

Here is another one that nobody talks about. Without the padding holding my boys in place I sat on my boys trying to sit down on the toilet. Ouch! Unfortunately this has happened a few times and I've learned cradle them or speak in a voice that only my dog can hear.

I might actually have a little bit of sheep in me! My grandparents were married in New Caledonia. I've always wanted to check it out. What can I say, I'm Baaaaad!

This is awesome! I'd missed your story previously. Congratulations!

I have to agree with everyone else. You look great in both pictures. Congrats!

Dang. Very impressed!

Awhile ago I was at my doctors office and he was going through the usual questions. He asked if I had been sexually active. I said yes. He then asked if it was with multiple partners and without batting an eye I said do goats count? Later he asked me to stick my tongue out and say "ahhh". Instead I said Maaaaa!

She may not see this because you didn't do the @@QueenOfTheTamazons notification. The simple answer is that if you are regular in your pooping then you tend not to be stalling. When your pooping your losing weight, when you're not pooping you're not losing.@@rubia72

I weigh naked. Just for grins I weighed myself last night before going to bed. I was 246. This morning I was 242 again. A word of caution, don't fry bacon naked...

Mine still smells like poop but it isn't the horrendous smell of something that is dying and trying to crawl out of my body like it used to.

I am weird. I did my research. I made my decision. I wasn't nervous or excited. It was just something that needed to be done and I was completely at peace with it.

Just watch the person who you know. Their weight will return because "their sleeve didn't work". They are making crappy choices while you're doing it right and have learned how to eat. Congrats to you you and sucks to be them!

Drinking is definitely tough at first. I'm 12 weeks out and I can always get my 64 oz but sometimes I just have to hold my cup to remember to drink. Lately I've been doing 90 oz. You'll get there!

Congrats Dub!

I'm wrapping our Christmas tree in the clothes that I can't donate and it will be doused in gasoline. I plan to throw matches at it because it will be one heck of a fireball. I will dance around it like the lunatic that am right in the middle of the front yard. I plan to have the fire out by midnight because those clothes don't have a future in my coming years.

Yuck! I don't like squash. I've had it many ways over the years and the only time that I found it passable was zucchini and pumpkin bread, pumpkin pie or zucchini relish.

My 12 weeks is today. These are my victories during that time. First, the mighty scale... I've dropped 70 pounds! I even went to a Thanksgiving dinner at church last night. Next, the tale of the tape. Weekly measurements show me down 30.75 inches from my chest, stomach, waist, biceps, thighs and calfs. Non scale victories. Surgery in Mexico completely changed my perception of Mexico. I would go back for vacation. I felt comfortable and safe. I can still cook for a bunch of people and enjoy it without feeling like I'm missing out on anything. I did this the weekend after I was sleeved. As my stomach size has gone down I can now see more of "Mr Happy". My wife and I are both enjoying the additional 2.5 inches of manhood and the possibilities that it has opened up. I now feel like a pornstar! At about 4 weeks out my 38 waist shorts fell off as I got out of my vehicle at a patient's home. On October 9th I fit in a pair of 34" Wrangler slim fit jeans! On November 13th I fit in a pair of 32" Wrangler slim fit jeans! My blood pressure is normal! My shirts no longer fit! I went from a 4xl loose to a 2xl loose/XL snug. This is the same shirt. My wife can put her arms all of the way around me!!!!!!! My wife has made some changes as well and she has lost some weight. She now fits in clothes that she hasn't been able to wear in years! As crazy as this sounds, my poop no longer stinks! Sure it still smells like poop but before it was like death coming out of my ass. I even eat chili 4 times per week because the Fiber keeps me regular. I hurt myself exercising! No way I would have done that before. I won't say that I enjoy exercise but I'm actually doing it. I weigh less than I have in my entire adult life. I can remember being 225 in the picture of me with this monster backpack. I believe that I was 13 at the time. Check out the cuffed pants because of how short I am. The backpack was 100 pounds! Drawbacks; My feet are almost always cold even with thermal socks. My hands get cold easily. I've almost lost my wedding ring. I have a theory on the cold. My heart rate and blood pressure are much lower now. I used to have a resting heart rate of 85-87 now it is 67-69. That is about 20% less blood flowing through my body to keep me warm. My ass is so boney that it is uncomfortable to sit more than half an hour. I now sit on a thin gel pad... Some extra pictures. Hard to believe that I used to fit in this! This is my favorite picture of my wife and I. We took this before we were married in 2008. This is the same shirt. And this is that same shirt now. http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w242/skylarkgp/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-11-20%2020.40.29_zpsydq39xbx.jpg I love/hate this picture. I love that my boy and I are both enjoying being in the garage tearing down this engine. I hate that I look like fat bastards stunt double from Austin Powers. http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w242/skylarkgp/Mobile%20Uploads/20150425_115026_zps6c76pg4d.jpg Geez! http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w242/skylarkgp/Caseysfirstgaragepics045.jpg http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w242/skylarkgp/IMG_0099.jpg

Just a thought. Your family has seen you fail before and they don't want to see you go to surgery and fail again.

This 3xl isn't cutting it anymore.

This!

Our home was completely remodeled between 2005 and 2007 with nothing but the finest quality cheap crap available. Who knows where that door could have come from! I also love the stains from the previous owners. They bought it in 07 and never made a single payment on it. The house was foreclosed on late 09. Thanks!

Thank you everyone!

Kiss my saggy ass! WTF is wrong with you? Are you really this crazy? Why do you think that I give a flying crap? Ummm, check it out as i walk away from your insult grandma! Wow! You really are ugly inside and you can't do sh!t about it. At least I did something about my problems. Me being me, I would laugh like a hyena on meth and then start singing I feel pretty in the highest voice possible.

Talk dirty to me Dub!