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Thanks! 6 months total from the start of my preop diet till I reached surgeon's goal. My personal goal is normal BMI, so another 10 pounds. I find excercise very boring so the only formal exercise I've done is riding my recumbent bike 20-25 min 3-4 times/week over the last 2 months. I can do that and watch TV at the same time. Haven't been to a gym in at least 6 years....used to do Curves. My life is my real excercise....I am a vet tech so a I am basically doing Pilates and squats and "lifting weights" all day long. I also have horses, and just last week had to unload and stack a ton and a half of hay (literally....50 bales that weighed 80# each)

Sunday Funday a year Postop. Maintaining my weight loss. So excited. Love my sleeve.

I saw a therapist who specializes in eating disorders
I tried to have a true balanced diet with mostly Protein but did eat whatever I wanted nothing was off limits I just tried to focus on organic natural real foods
And tried to. It be hard on myself
I also logged daily on MFP (my fitness pal) whether I'd had 100 cals that day or 3000
In the past month I've turned to more plant based/vegan type diet - not fir weightloss nessisarily tho it was more of a spiritual new direction in my life type thing
Always love yourself your not perfect and u will have slight ups and downs on the scale but it will go back down

I'm 10 months post op and feeling fit and fabulous. Only 10 pounds to goal!! I feel amazing don't look half bad!

Me:

Taken day before surgery and then about 3 weeks ago...
And taken a couple days ago...
From 240 to about 178 now!

Started at 299 now 177 8 months out 122 down

Thought I'd share our progress. My sister, my sister in law and I all had surgery. First pic is day before surgery (May 9) and second pic was taken yesterday. We're extremely happy so far. We all loss between 56-63#.

Ok....GOTTA share. Feeling pretty proud!

168 lbs down high weight 451

I remember being pre-op and my favorite thing to do was look at progress photos and dream
I am 6 months, 10 days post op and I am down 128 pounds total. This isnt a very great pic since I have been sick, but i still took it because anything is better than my before!!