Hello, all! I'm Lindsay, and I will be exactly 4 months post-op tomorrow. I'm about 75 lbs out, so I thought it'd be a good time to post progress pictures. Here are some facts:

Date of surgery: 6/6/2012

Age: 25

Height: 5'11

Highest weight: 383

Weight on date of surgery: 368

Current weight: bouncing between 308 and 315 for the last FIVE WEEKS. ANNOYING.

Approximate weight loss: 70-75 lbs

Goal weight from my doc: 150-155

Weight left to lose: about 150-155 (eeek)

HIghest pants size: 26

Current pants size: 22(tight)/24

I've posted a few times on this site how I'm frustrated that 75lbs lost= one pants size drop for me, but lots of you gave a lot of great insight (larger sizes are further spaced apart than lower sizes, since I'm tall, theres more area to lose from, etc). I've taken lots of progress pics in different outfits, but in these pics, Im trying on a size xxl shirt from Old Navy that fit years ago but had been way too tight recently (as you'll see in the pic, I couldnt even pull it down over my stomach). The jeans are a size 22 that were always a bit snug, but I chalked it up to them being skinny fit...yeah right. Before surgery, they werent even close to buttoning.

The first picture was taken the week before surgery in early june, the middle picture is mid-august, and the last picture was taken today. It doesn't fit perfectly, but its progress! And please excuse that horribly offensive first shot where my stomach and underwear is exposed. Not cute.

You look great! Congratulations on your weight loss. The pictures don't lie!!

Thank you so much again for the extremely kind words. I can't wait until the fourth picture is one of me holding out the waist of the jeans to show a large gap! The abroad program I did in college, semester at sea, is having a big 5 year reunion cruise leaving on January third, so I'm going to try to lose 40-45 more pounds by then...fingers crossed! I'm not in love with the idea of hitting a Mexican beach with a bunch of friends I haven't seen in 5 years. The goal is to at least look decent in a sarong!

Wow you look fantastic! You seem to carry a lot of weight in the middle and I think that may be why your sizing has been slow to decrease but you have almost totally lost all the bulk of the mid section weight!! Totally amazing job!!

Wow you look fantastic! You seem to carry a lot of weight in the middle and I think that may be why your sizing has been slow to decrease but you have almost totally lost all the bulk of the mid section weight!! Totally amazing job!!

I DEFINITELY carry most of my weight in my mid section (not that every other part of me is small)! I do a bootcamp that focuses on a different body part each day if the week, but one day of abs definitely isn't enough! I've been spending extra time on abs and obliques. Hopefully that'll help!

Keep up the progress...looking good!!

You look great! Keep up the good work! I hope to be loosing soon. Surgery is Nov. 6th!

You look great! Keep up the good work! I hope to be loosing soon. Surgery is Nov. 6th!

Good luck on your surgery! The first few weeks might be tough, but its a lot of fun when you are getting into more a d more clothes that wouldn't have fit prior to surgery!

Its major progress my dear! Good gravy! 75 pounds in less than 5 months! Freakin fantastic!