Hello everyone.

I've been obese since child hood. At age 6 I weighed 65 pounds and subsequently placed on my first diet. At age 10 I weighed 122 pounds. By age 12 I was up to 172. By Freshman year of high school I was up to 230......I continued to gain throughout my life, except when I was on a very rigid and strict diet. At 25 I got all the way up to 280 and then dieted down to 230 but couldn't get below... and then started gaining again.

My highest recorded weight is 360... I may have weighed more than that. I currently weigh 330 or a little less now since I've been on the VLCD Preop for a week already. ANYHOWISE... When doctors say that you can expect to lose half of your excess weight, it kind of freaks me out because that would still put me at a whopping 240 pounds! (I'm 180 pounds overweight half of that is 90, 330-90=240.

Any childhood fatties here can share their experience with VSG?

Not quite 40, but close at 36. I have been overweight my entire life. I can remember my earliest embarrassment having to do with my weight in the 3rd grade. Physical fitness day at school. We were in line to be weighed and I was 115 lbs. The kids around me were mortified that I was in the 100's. Fast forward 25 years later and I was sitting at an even 300. The sleeve surgery has changed my life. I have lost 100.2 lbs thus far. My surgery was 11/15/12, so I reached my first and second goal in 6.5 months. I now weigh 199.8! I still have 40-45 lbs to go to hit a healthy bmi and body fat %, but I am well on my way! Good luck to you all!

I too have been obese my entire life. I don't know my highest weight for sure but it was probably about 360 in 2002. I got down to 285 very slowly over the period of three years, then went back up to about 310. I kept hovering round 300 lbs until my brother died in 2009 and I gained 25 lbs, lost it and regained, blah, blah, blah! I'm 53 and my current stats are in my signature. I wish this surgery had been available when I was 40 but I doubt I would have had the courage to do it then. I hope to get down to 220 and I'm well on my way. I'm also very tall, 6'1". My surgeon said to expect to lose approx 80% of my excess weight The main thing is, to my mind, that this isn't a magic cure but a really great tool that makes it much easier to stay on a low calorie diet via portion control.

pre-surgery weight 325; surgery date 2/28/2013; surgery weight 307; 8 weeks past-op weight 281.4; 12 weeks post-op 274

I too was overweight my entire life. I was always the heaviest kid in my class which made me the brunt of jokes. I got down to 170 my senior year if high school but ballooned up when my father passed away 1 month before my 18th birthday. I have lost and gained 50-100lbs several times during my life. I have had several knee surgeries including a total and partial knee replacement. The partial after a life threatening strep/staph infection. I fought for 18 months and had an additional surgery (extensive spinal/neurosurgery). I finally got sleeved 2 months before my 52nd birthday this year.

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