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Snarky Brewster

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Snarky Brewster
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Here are my stats...

Name: Snarky Brewster

Age: 28

Banded on Sept. 20, 2011

Height: 5'8"

Starting Weight: 259.7

Current Weight: 226.4

Other fun facts: I skate roller derby and am generally very active. Happily married to an awesome musician. I have two beagle rescues, love vintage clothes, fashion and music. I live in Northern VA and would love another workout buddy, band veteran with a rockin' attitude who could share advice, another newbie to gossip with about the strange post-op world or any combo of the three!

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Fat-2-Phat    1

Fat-2-Phat
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Here are my stats...

Name: Snarky Brewster

Age: 28

Banded on Sept. 20, 2011

Height: 5'8"

Starting Weight: 259.7

Current Weight: 226.4

Other fun facts: I skate roller derby and am generally very active. Happily married to an awesome musician. I have two beagle rescues, love vintage clothes, fashion and music. I live in Northern VA and would love another workout buddy, band veteran with a rockin' attitude who could share advice, another newbie to gossip with about the strange post-op world or any combo of the three!

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Fat-2-Phat    1

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Where in NoVA are you located and who's your surgeon? I live in Loudoun county and will have my band installed by the surgeons at Blue Point Surgical Group out of NoVA Fairfax (Dr. Halmi). I hope to get banded the week prior to Christmas 2011, but that depends upon insurance and whether they approve me or not. Stats:

  • 45 y/o female, not married (divorced), no kids
  • work as defense contractor (boring, huh?)
  • enjoy outdoor activities such as hiking w/my dog, mtn biking, skiing w/friends
  • also enjoy entertaining but that will likely change in my post-op life
  • am a foodie, but must change some of those habits to be successful post-op
  • plan to workout at 5am in my post-op life at Golds Gym in Sterling/Cascades
  • am not too big a music buff nor a movie buff, but I appreciate those who have the talent
  • I'm a dedicated Christ-follower (if that's not your thing, I understand)
  • have a great dog named 'Clyde', he's a rescued labrador retriever and we're now trained as a therapy dog team

That's about sums it up. Lemme know if you'd like buddy-up.

Peg

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ssweetblood
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Here's My Stats:

My name is Stacy, I'm 32 years old. I am about to marry the love of my life in February,2012!! I was just banded on October 19th. Still having some pain, but hopng its all worth it. I would love to go through this with a buddy!! I love to cook(perhaps my downfall), I love to walk, especially on the beach, yardwork, bowling, and family time.. Hit me up if you need a buddyrolleyes.gif

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Here's My Stats:

My name is Stacy, I'm 32 years old. I am about to marry the love of my life in February,2012!! I was just banded on October 19th. Still having some pain, but hopng its all worth it. I would love to go through this with a buddy!! I love to cook(perhaps my downfall), I love to walk, especially on the beach, yardwork, bowling, and family time.. Hit me up if you need a buddyrolleyes.gif

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

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