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Pastor Paula Jackson    91

Pastor Paula Jackson
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Started at 299 now 173 down 126 in 8 most lost the first 100 at 5 months goal is 185 12 pounds under that and 9 pounds to be to normal bmi
heck no! You look AMAZING!!! Please tell me what you did to loose 100lbs in five months! I started at 260 now 223 and I would be 2 months post opt next Monday.. My loss is slowing down to about one pound a week. I do not exercise, but I'm FINALY getting my Protein in.. I get it from a health food store.. Pure natural protein from vegetables instead of meat.. And the taste is awesome.. Again please tell me, I feel so lost..

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ebonisekim    1,713

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heck no! You look AMAZING!!! Please tell me what you did to loose 100lbs in five months! I started at 260 now 223 and I would be 2 months post opt next Monday.. My loss is slowing down to about one pound a week. I do not exercise' date=' but I'm FINALY getting my Protein in.. I get it from a health food store.. Pure natural protein from vegetables instead of meat.. And the taste is awesome.. Again please tell me, I feel so lost..[/quote'] I'm a big meat eater .. Lol I didn't exercise either I walked but I really don't kno the weight just fell off

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enjmom78    37

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I know I had those thoughts. But I am so glad that I had the surgery. My surgery was May 15 and I am over 80 lbs down. From a size 20-22 down to 10. And it is still melting off. Praying for your peace' date=' safe surgery, quick recovery and big weight loss!!!

Blessings ~ Melody (BlessedFun2)[/quote']

Thank u Ms Melody...i needed the positive feedback...bless u and ur family

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tmde63    53

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Has anyone had or know of anyone having bowel obstruction post surgery ? Im 6 months out but have been n pain 4 weeks now and went to ER. They think it maybe that. Waiting on what my surgeon thinks.

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ebonisekim    1,713

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Has anyone had or know of anyone having bowel obstruction post surgery ? Im 6 months out but have been n pain 4 weeks now and went to ER. They think it maybe that. Waiting on what my surgeon thinks.
omg I had one 3 months out they had to do emergency surgery on me I started throwing up my bowels I felt horrible you can die from that because if the bowels getting in your lungs and get you septic please get this tooling care of I had to get a 5 inche cut in my stomach and if it's to bad you can wine up with a boop bag in my case cause my hernia was causing my obstruction my intestines was knotted up and if it lose blood flow and die they would have to cut that part off but it was gone be temporary but I didn't want to go through that thank god my intestines was intac but the had to stick a NG tube down my nose to suck the rest of the bowels out my stomach I pulled it out three time it felt like I was choking but after all that i lived just try to take care of it please

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ebonisekim    1,713

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Good job. U look good
thank you

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LesIsMore    22

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Has anyone had or know of anyone having bowel obstruction post surgery ? Im 6 months out but have been n pain 4 weeks now and went to ER. They think it maybe that. Waiting on what my surgeon thinks.
could it be you're impacted and need an enema?

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newcocoame    54

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could it be you're impacted and need an enema?

I would drink milk of magnesia every day until then. That is a serious matter.

Since surgergy I drink MOM at least 1 time a week to prevent bowel obstruction/locking.

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Slimleo74    5

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Hello all. I am a potential sleever in Memphis, TN. I meet my surgeon next week.

I'm from Southaven, Ms...how are U doing with your sleeve?

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Someonefab    25

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Hey everyone. Just an update. I was sleeved on 10/22. When I weighed myself at home the day of surgery, I was 214.8lbs. Today I got on the scale and I weighed 206.4. I ended up coming down with a cold so it is a pain to keep blowing my nose and coughing up phlegm. I habe been walking around. I walked twice yesterday. I am going to try to get more Protein down today since I only got 14oz down yesterday. I calculated it wrong yesterday. I thought I had 17 but it was only 14. So I need to get more in today.

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sweetcurves3    57

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Hello everyone' date=' just passed my 3 year mark about 2 weeks ago, officially down 305 pounds.

Really glad to be here![/quote']

Congratulations to you!!!

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sweetcurves3    57

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Hey everyone. Just an update. I was sleeved on 10/22. When I weighed myself at home the day of surgery' date=' I was 214.8lbs. Today I got on the scale and I weighed 206.4. I ended up coming down with a cold so it is a pain to keep blowing my nose and coughing up phlegm. I habe been walking around. I walked twice yesterday. I am going to try to get more Protein down today since I only got 14oz down yesterday. I calculated it wrong yesterday. I thought I had 17 but it was only 14. So I need to get more in today.[/quote']

I hope you feel better soon. At the beginning it's hard to get in all your protein and liquids.< /p>

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