Hi everyone. I am new here. I think this is a great idea and I hope to meet many new friends. I am very grateful for my new life. Like a lot of us, I was overweight my whole adult life. It seems to run in my family. All my aunts on my mothers side are little round Italian women. I seem to take right after them. LOL. The only time I have been able to get the weight off was in the late 1990's when there was a local clinical trial for Meridian, thats about the same time as the Phen Fen diet pills/study. I lost 60 pounds in 6 months and looked great. But of course the medication was pulled from the market, a law suit ensured and needless to say all the weight came back and 20 lbs extra. Fast forward 12 years and my Veterans Affairs (I'm X Navy) discovered I had NASH (fatty liver) along with high B.P., hight cholesterol, diabetic, sleep apnea...I was just a mess and I knew something had to be done. So I started to look around and research and I happened onto O.H. and the rest is history. Here I am 7 months out, down from 220 to 160 and still going. and guess what! I am off my B.P. meds and my cholesterol is great! Hence why I am thankful.

Welcome. I hope to be you very soon. You are doing so well.

Welcome and congratulations on your success! You truly have turned your life around. Thank you so much for posting your story.

Hi everyone. I am new here. I think this is a great idea and I hope to meet many new friends. I am very grateful for my new life. Like a lot of us, I was overweight my whole adult life. It seems to run in my family. All my aunts on my mothers side are little round Italian women. I seem to take right after them. LOL. The only time I have been able to get the weight off was in the late 1990's when there was a local clinical trial for Meridian, thats about the same time as the Phen Fen diet pills/study. I lost 60 pounds in 6 months and looked great. But of course the medication was pulled from the market, a law suit ensured and needless to say all the weight came back and 20 lbs extra. Fast forward 12 years and my Veterans Affairs (I'm X Navy) discovered I had NASH (fatty liver) along with high B.P., hight cholesterol, diabetic, sleep apnea...I was just a mess and I knew something had to be done. So I started to look around and research and I happened onto O.H. and the rest is history. Here I am 7 months out, down from 220 to 160 and still going. and guess what! I am off my B.P. meds and my cholesterol is great! Hence why I am thankful.

Welcome to the forum!

I still have Meridia that I got in Mexico when I was trying anything and everything. Just ran across it a few weeks ago. I have no idea why I keep it, I should throw it away.

Congrats on the weight loss! Feels good to be in control, eh?

What did you do in the Navy?

Edited June 14, 200917 yr by WASaBubbleButt

Hi everyone. I am new here. I think this is a great idea and I hope to meet many new friends. I am very grateful for my new life. Like a lot of us, I was overweight my whole adult life. It seems to run in my family. All my aunts on my mothers side are little round Italian women. I seem to take right after them. LOL. The only time I have been able to get the weight off was in the late 1990's when there was a local clinical trial for Meridian, thats about the same time as the Phen Fen diet pills/study. I lost 60 pounds in 6 months and looked great. But of course the medication was pulled from the market, a law suit ensured and needless to say all the weight came back and 20 lbs extra. Fast forward 12 years and my Veterans Affairs (I'm X Navy) discovered I had NASH (fatty liver) along with high B.P., hight cholesterol, diabetic, sleep apnea...I was just a mess and I knew something had to be done. So I started to look around and research and I happened onto O.H. and the rest is history. Here I am 7 months out, down from 220 to 160 and still going. and guess what! I am off my B.P. meds and my cholesterol is great! Hence why I am thankful.

Congrats on your success sounds like you are doing a great job working with the sleeve to change your life.

FYI I think the medication is called Merida

Thank you. It's been a wild ride for sure. U too will be there soon enough. Just keep your eye on the prize, wink

FYI I think the medication is called Merida

Merida is a city in Mexico. Meridia is a drug, aka Sibutramine.

It was a typo.

I am always glad to see people who post over at that other board come over here and start posting.

I think this board and the people are fantastic. I don't know any of the people over there, but I find that site difficult to navigate.

Congratulations on your weight loss. It's nice to see some more people who aren't newly sleeved in case people like me have questions. I can't seem to get it through my head that I can't eat as much as I could with the band.

Yep, was a typo...never could spell worth a darn. LOL :001_rolleyes:

Merida is a city in Mexico. Meridia is a drug, aka Sibutramine.

It was a typo.

Yep typo, Meridia not Meridian or merida.

I find that site difficult to navigate.

And the software is very buggy.

Yep typo, Meridia not Meridian or merida.

Now I'm totally confused. I can't even remember what we were talking about. :lol0: