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You look great, What an amazing job you've done!! Your beautiful smile says how happy you are now!

Congratulations ?

Vacation!!! My absolute favorite shawl that I take on every vacation for cooler nights.

Hello everyone......... hope you all are doing great and healthy. Haven't been here in a while. Recent trip to Vegas.

OOTD: Mother of the groom. My son got married recently and this was my dress.

Thank you for all the suggestions! I started eating dates here and there as well as dried figs. I also bought Psyllium husk in capsule form but I'm not taking it every day. The problem is soooo much better.

Just wanted to update.. No longer using hers but still on a GLP1.. helped me get off the last 85 pounds and I'm very happy with all the other positive side effects. I've surpassed many goals and have had to set a new one of 200 pounds lost.

Came back to update! The compounded semaglutide helped me tremendously. I've lost another 50 pounds and reached my "big time goal" of loosing 150 total. I have decided to make a new goal.

A few days pre-op (90 kgs) 7 months post op (55.6 kgs).

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My wife bought me a custom-made suit as an early birthday gift and it fits me perfectly. The first photo was taken on our wedding day 11 years ago and the other two were taken yesterday with the new suit.
Wedding suit

vs new suit 11 years after and 2 and half year post WLS. I need to buy new shoes as well since my old shoes are too big now

Spicy roasted chickpeas with feta, beets salad and wilted spinach!

Thats drool food. Enjoy

Almost 4 years since my sleeve. Reached goal at 6 months. Exceeded it by another 10/11kg & have basically maintained +/- a kilo or two. Didn’t have co morbidities before my surgery. Didn’t really stall in the truest sense - just odd couple of days with no loss.
No complications. Have low blood pressure but always had a tendency towards it. Gone from a couple of times a month to every day. (My higher weight probably kept my BP in the normal range.) Had my gall out about two years after my sleeve but not necessarily related to my weight loss.
Still don’t eat rice, pasta, bread, potatoes. They sit heavily in my tummy. Don’t miss them. I have a glass of sparkling water every day but I let it go fairly fiat. Occasionally I’ll have a glass of champagne or have soda or tonic water as a mixer but no other carbonated drinks. Don’t drink much alcohol any more (a glass once a month+/-). Not that I can’t, just not interested.
I have loose skin. Not a lot. Can’t really be seen under my clothes … unless you look closely.? I wear body conscious dresses without needing shape wear to control the loose skin.
No regrets.

Today is my 1 year anniversary of my surgery, time really did fly
I was over 300lbs when I started and now, I'm so close to "one"derland, something I never thought was possible anymore
I know my journey is far from over, the real work starts now.

French Toast! It’s always delicious 🤤

gonna contribute to my own thread, lol.
I feel like the list is long for all the awesome things that WLS has set into motion, but if i had to choose the one single thing that epitomizes all that WLS has led me to achieve, it would be: unadulterated confidence.
shedding the weight with the help of WLS allowed me to let go of my insecurities regarding my appearance so that could be all that i could be.
i am no longer afraid nor shy nor wary nor hesitant to do anything and everything. i am basically how i was before i became obese times 100.
this confidence in myself inadvertently improved my relationships with others. i am more patient, forgiving and fun. because i've let go of expectations from those around me as i honestly believe i can handle anything that comes my way.
i am willing to try anything and everything and am having the time of my life exploring and discovering new things, places, people.
and of course, im effing HAWT. It's weird because i was pretty HAWT back in the day before obesity, but for some reason i still remember feeling insecure and wanting back then. but not now. i'm HAWT and i know it, and i love it.
I'm in my fifties and i am in the best shape of my life. I actually enjoy exercise and activity and seek it out. my weight loss allowed me to do a 180 away from diabetes and heart disease (i was per-diabetic and on medication for high cholesterol and high blood pressure 7 years ago but not anymore). my skin is fabulous (haven't had a pimple in 7 years!); my hair is thick and curly; i look amazing in anything, even a paper bag; mr. is more than satisfied with sexy times. i have energy for days. my stress levels are the lowest in recent memory if not ever in my adult life. live is good. scratch that, life is GREAT.
how's that for bragging.
**mic drop/**

Happy to participate!!! In a few days I will hit my 8yr anniversary of my original WLS (VSG). My journey had been excellent in my opinion even with minor inconveniences.
I realized today that I don’t really think about my weight anymore. It’s on the periphery of thoughts but it is not a focal point. That feels pretty awesome
Also I’m a new gardener and a long time plant parent so here’s one of my babies 🤣

What a great idea!
I'm nearing my 2nd WLS anniversary, and my journey has been a 10/10.
Things have been GREAT. Not good, not okay, GREAT! in all in the glory.
I can't believe I look the way I do, feel the way I do and get to live life like this again. I'm so so grateful, happy, confident, loving life....etc.

Great post @ms.sss. Yes, there are ups & downs but the ups are so much greater & better than any downs. Last night I caught a glimpse of my reflection in my kitchen French doors. Look at those skinny legs I thought and smiled to myself. I love that I was exuberantly dancing at my niece’s wedding without a care and not concerned that people might be thinking look at the far girl trying to dance. I love putting on clothes and having them fit. Prior to my surgery I never knew what would fit me that day, or whether something I’d worn last week, month or year would still fit. It was a fear I had to confront every day. Now, what ever I grab, the zips whoosh up, buttons don’t pull or gape, & nothing is tight around my waist. I even find joy in slipping through narrow spaces - yelping can do that now. These might be little and unimportant things to some but to me they’re huge achievements.
And I agree @Spinoza I love the ups enough to keep myself motivated. And even when things get me down, I don’t just give up. I pick myself up again - sometimes it may take a couple of weeks but up I get.

Love this idea! I am one of the people who have dropped off a bit as I have been having a grand ole time.
WLS is a big big rollercoaster and not everyone has the same experience.
BUT:
I am loving how this board educated me and helped me make the most of it. Cannot thank you guys enough.
I smashed my expected loss after gastric sleeve and have managed to keep most of that weight off.
I still cannot believe that I am this much lighter and smaller than I was 5 years ago. I love love love everything about it. It has been really hard. It's hard every day now but I still LOVE it enough to work at it.
Best of luck to everyone starting their journey. There are lots of bumps in the road xxx

Dinner was Mongolian beef, some brown rice with chickpeas, a boiled egg and my homemade chili crisp. Ate everything except the yolk!

You know how cottage cheese is everywhere and in everything? I've long loved cottage cheese before all the hype. And I've grown to crave it since I had my WLS for some reason.
So here's a picture of my first meal (already dug into almost half of it).
A slice of protein toast (this particular brand is really yummy), around 0.5 cup of fat free cottage cheese, I prefer the low fat one but that's all that was available in the store, still so good though. Two tsps. of my homemade chili crisp. It's pretty elite, if I say so myself.

Cream cheese, whipped feta, quark or a set type of greek yogurt might help with the consistency

I love love the spicy Tunacado from Joe and the Juice (if you're unfamiliar with it, it's spicy tuna mousse, pesto, avocado, tomatoes on very very thin slices of flat bread from this Danish originated cafe, YUM!). I don't have a location where I live, but I make sure that I eat it at least once a day when I'm traveling.
So today's mission was to recreate it at home. I didn't have thin flat bread so I pulled 2 slices of sourdough from my freezer, toasted it them in a pan , placed my cast iron pan on them while aggressively pounding them and trying to place my entire weight on the pan until they became flat, it was legit a workout.
In a food processor I whipped up my tuna, 3 heaping tbsp of Greek yogurt (original recipe uses mayo I believe but I don't like mayo with tuna), diced onions, chopped parsley, serrano peppers, red pepper flakes, salt and lemon and pulsed until mousse consistency. I also made homemade pesto with basil, pine nuts, parmesan, garlic, lemon and salt.

The mousse looks funny but I promise it tasted really good, the only issue is that I whipped it to a very thin consistency that it seeped out of the sandwich when biting into it.

I layered the pesto, avocado and tomatoes

Final product! It is so good but kinda messy, if you're gonna make it don't over whip your tuna mousse, I ate around 1/4 of it with jalapenos. I will likely finish it as the day goes, but right now, I'm stuffed!

Something new! Black beans, avocado, corn and quesadilla.