McCaw1980

I don't have a horrible story for you, sorry. I was 378 pounds when i started this process. I'm now 169 pounds and struggling to gain weight. I'm not sure if this has ever been a topic here but i'd like to start it............ I'd like for those of you who are a year old after surgery and went hardcore like i did to reach out to me. I want to be 185 ish or so anything between 200 and 185 is fine. Looking to talk to others that lost massive weight, took this serious, and are serious about maintaining it. Hit me up in private messages if you have to.

You have to be proud of yourself. You have extended your life by years and years doing what you have done. Keep up the good work!

Quick update. 202 pounds gone in a year!

The lifespan addition was the goal actually, I'm currently not on any medication where as i was on 3 different meds before the surgery. Thank you for the age compliment i'll take that as well!

Thank you! Makes me feel good, apparently i'm lucky! I'll take it!

I thought mine was normal? No one ever shows the after effects so i have no idea. Hell maybe i'm lucky? I'll take it!

Well thank you, that honestly means something when i'm trying to act tough LOL

I decided to show the "skin issues" that i could care less about after losing 202 pounds. This honestly doesn't bother me one bit, it's reality. As you can see my giant gut is gone and your stomach wrinkles a bit, my ribs are showing (at 175 lbs or 79 kg in the second picture) but you can still see a little man boob left.... this is reality folks. When you are 377 pounds or 171 kg this is the best i can do. I just want to help others and have no shame in my new body. I literally have no worries, I'm proud of the hard work i've done and you should be too. No surgery needed as far as i'm concerned.

To be honest it's all in the inner thigh area on my legs, stomach is wrinkled a bit, and I have tiny man boobs left. I'm not sure if i will ever be able to get rid of it, but it's definitely not surgery worthy or anything that bothers me in the least.

I just found the picture I had taken the day after surgery, you can still see my fresh cuts from it.

you will be fine, it sucks for the first 3 weeks. Do not cheat yourself. Eat low carb and watch your intake. I ate 800 calories for about 9 months. Then i worked up to 1200 by my 1 year mark. It's funny how it works, at first you can't eat anything other than 3 bites of food, it will increase to 6 bites. Then by a year maybe 8 bites. Your intake will be nothing at first and increases over time. It happens over night too. So don't be alarmed. I went from 3 ounces for damn near 8 months to 5/6 ounces almost over night. It just seems to happen. But it will take you a year to get to 4-6 ounces eating. As you can see i lost 202 pounds. I find it hard to gain even one pound at this point and i'm actually trying to. I think i'm too skinny at this point but i can't stop losing weight LOL.

You are on the same path i was. All i can tell you is eat low carb everything for a year and get your butt on a treadmill for 1 mile no matter how long it takes. You will see the weight drop off like crazy. This gift of surgery is your chance to take advantage of what we wall lost long ago. Use it to your advantage. Make yourself better. I did and it's wonderful. Keep up the good work!

Thank you, I do and i love to world travel so I am planning on Cambodia in May for my 30th country. ?

YES Gold coast right there! hahahaha! Great area! I can't wait to get back!

Thank you! ?

Yeah and you have a lot of outback fires going we are wishing you all the best from here. I live out west in the US and we get them all the time in Cali and Nevada where i live.

It's on the agenda in the near future. I was going to do a southern AU tour to Taz, Adelaide, and Melbourne. It's in the works for 2021 or 2022! Going to fly into Brisbane in 2020 and use Warwick as my home base for 2 weeks. Might head west from there and check out the outback from there this time.

I just had my first trip to AU this past Sept. (profile picture is at the AU Zoo!) I flew coach class for 15 hours to get there and fit! Visited Sydney, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Warwick, and Sunshine coast. I was right around 200 pounds then. I love your country man! Going back next year! Hope you are well!

Well everyone i'm here to tell you this surgery works wonders. I was 377 pounds in December 2018. It's now the end of Dec of 2019 and i'm 175 pounds and healthy. I ate nothing but low carb protein food 5 times a day for the last year and 3 weeks. All i did was walk on a treadmill 4 times a week for a mile a day. I never cheated on my hardcore diet. I've only puked 7 times or so by eating too much since surgery in the last year. As we all do, i had to learn the hard way sometimes. I couldn't be happier and I have hit my goal weight. I am here to tell you if you follow the doctors orders it works. Having said that i did go against doctors orders shortly after getting home. I was starving (or so i thought) and ate meat from the first week on. Probably not a good idea. I could only get down 3 bites. I had this grand plan to portion out food and bag it up and freeze it so i could heat it up.... it all went in the garbage. First day after surgery i could only have 3 sips of water. Stomach made weird sounds and such. I highly suggest everyone takes off work 2 weeks afterwords. I went back to work with in 10 days and i was a mess. I was dizzy every single time i stood up for about a month or two. Your body will adjust and you have to do the hard work on the treadmill. My back was killing me before surgery. I could hardly stand up to order at least a pound of food per meal. It goes away.... you have to do the hard work and work though the pain. Walk a mile on the treadmill at 0230 in the morning when no one else is there like I did. It's a struggle but it pays off in the end. Work hard and listen to your doc's. I wish you all the best. Starting weight 377 pounds Now: 175 pounds Waist starting: 50 inches Now: 30 inches Shirt size starting: 5XL Now: M to L BMI starting: 50 BMI now: 23