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shaney shaney shaney you look great! came back on here to get an update on all of my old LBT friends and to update everyone on me! i have set a date for plastic surgery... october 19! five weeks from now! TT and breast lift. i'm working out with a trainer still to make sure that im in the best shape before this thing so that i can recover in seconds flat.

i know you said you were looking into plastic surgery too... have you been thinking more about it at all?

update me! hope all is well!

thank you so much!! after being told for years that i have "such a pretty face" as a backhanded compliment.... i really like hearing it these days, because i know people really mean it! haha if you can understand that...

anyways, sorry to hear about your finger! ouch... looks painful!

well hi there shaney! glad you finally listened to me and posted update pictures... you. look. incredible. i bet you are so proud. keep up the good work! how is life? hope you are living it to the fullest

thank you-- and you look FANTASTIC as well! congrats on losing so much weight. you look like you're at goal weight! the ladies must be chasing you around haha

thank you! and you DO have my drive and motivation-- look at how much you've lost over your entire journey! plus i keep seeing your facebook status updated about your crazy BL workouts... im not doing anything like THAT! haha

hows the wedding planning coming along?

um helllloooo -- YOU look amazing! i mean, i look good in clothes but i dont have YOUR bikini body underneath it! haha but either way, im so proud of you. we've come a long way!

hiii! thanks so much for the compliments and for checking in on me. you are so sweet! i saw your before/current pics and my my you have changed! so proud of you for all you have accomplished and for your drive to continue!

hope all is well

you look incredible hillmama! congratulations on your success... you dont even look like the same person in your before and after pics. it's so good to see another girl at the same height as me-- i feel comfortable at the weight i'm at now, but after seeing your current pics i wouldn't mind losing 10 or 15 more!

thank you so much! i cant believe its been an entire year. my life is so different in such a short time, and i just crossed over the threshold into a "normal" bmi at my bandiversary. life is good. how are things going for you??

scarecrow-- ive missed you! thank you for the compliments, it really means a lot! how have you been? and please... i want to see some update pics of you!

aw you are so sweet for the pic comment! how are you doing??

hiii! well i have been enjoying single life for a long long time, so glad you can join me! haha sometimes i actually consider seriously dating someone, but then i realize that im much too busy for a boyfriend right now.

SOOO- im living in new york now, having lots of fun! and 44lbs to goal??--- girl where is that going to COME from you dont have that much more to lose from what i can see in your pics!!! haha i am at 168ish now, i am completely happy where i am now, but if i end up losing another 15lbs or so, i wouldn't complain!

talk to you soon, keep on updating me on your fab life!

well it was only an interview for an internship, which i got and have been doing for 2 weeks... and love! despite no pay.. haha but hopefully this internship leads to a job. we'll just have to wait and see i guess

DREW IS THAT YOU IN THOSE NEW PICS YOU POSTED?!?! looking awesome, keep it up!

aw thank you laurita! good luck, i hope you get approved. if you dont, fight them-- i wish i had fought mine a little harder... think of all the money i would have saved! but nevertheless, i am sooo happy i had my surgery. my life is completely different now. i DO have a little bit of loose skin-- mostly on my arms and lower tummy. it bothers me, but wearing clothes you cant tell AT ALL. and i think i have had a better result by exercising-- interval training, running, lifting weights and the sort. it took a lot of hard work and it will be a few months before i am finally ready to "maintain"... but if i stopped where i am right now i would be totally happy!

keep in touch and let me know if you have any more questions

hahaha! well someone asked me if i had a breast reduction a few months ago! i like your question better.. lol

Hey! I'm doing really well, thanks for thinking of me. I have about 15 lbs to go to goal, which will be slow but I think I can definitely make it by the end of the year. That's all I want.

How about you??

thanks for the pic comment and HOLY CRAP! I just saw your bikini pic and YOU look stunning! maybe next year I will be in a bikini WITHOUT a coverup... but I doubt my skin will ever look that good. maybe from afar or just in a pic, but not up close in real life. orrrr... maybe by next summer I will have the confidence to just say screw it and wear a bikini out anyways!

hope you are doing well!

hey girl! im doing well how about yourself? sorry just saw i didnt reply to your last message about 2 months ago! if that exercise tape you were talking about is anything like jillian michaels 30 min shred, then you are right! its a good way to get in cardio if you can push yourself through the whole 30 minutes! i love it.

how is your fill? hopefully you still arent too tight.

yay 50 lbs thats awesome! you can definitely TELL girl!

i just moved and dont have my scale with me, but i would be totally surprised if i havent lost more weight. since i moved that also means i left my trainer... needing your boyfriend-trainer-friends more than ever now! haha

hey there! im good how are you!? thanks for the compliment, you look soo cute in your newest pic!

bek! i just saw your post about being too tight-- im soo sorry and i hope you went to the doc and got that figured out by now! i had the same problem in late march-early may, although i was at 7cc (and over those 2 months i got multiple small unfills down to 6cc with no progress). it was awful throwing up everything, eventually i couldnt even get down liquids! i definitely lost a lot then, but in a really unhealthy way and i wouldnt do it again. it seems pretty obvious to me now that my band slipped! after they unfilled it, luckily it was early enough for my band to just go right back into place. i have 3cc now, but that is pretty much nothing for me since my doc put my band in me with 5cc! but i am so much happier not getting stuck all the time or being worried eating in front of other people. still losing weight, just through some newfound willpower, eating right and exercising.

anyways, hope all is getting better! and still waiting for my bf/trainer to arrive in the mail...

thanks for the pic comment and the compliments! happy to share my NSVs, but just especially happy that i am HAVING them! heres one i had today... sharing it JUSt for you (because you said you like reading them! haha)

i was working out with my trainer today, and while i was doing pushups he goes "hey, i can finally see your tricep muscles coming in!" my arms are my least favorite part of my body, but they are getting muscular which is awesomeee and so motivating for me to lift harder. then, later in the workout, he just kinda stops and says "you know, thinking back to when we first met (like 8 months ago).. it's just night and day. you arent the same person at all. you can run circles around the old you." which, i mean, i knew... but its always great when someone else notices your achievements.

you have done a great job so far along the journey with your weightloss! keep in touch!

thank you! glad i can inspire. good luck to you!

hey thanks for the pic comment! i work out a lot now, but that was a gradual change in me... im totally addicted now! i started working out lightly before surgery (but i guess on and off i had always been a little bit active). about a month after surgery i started working out hardcore 5X a week, but things got busy with school about two months later and the only real exercise i did for feb-beginning of may was a lot of walking every day. for the past two months though, i have been working out anywhere from 4-6X a week, this last month i have worked out with a trainer for 2 of those days each week. i needed to wait until i was ready to put my everything into exercising... now i LOVE it! cant believe im one of those people... haha

good luck to you! you have made amazing progress already in your pics! let me know if you have any other questions