Hey everybody on Fed 20th/2013 my 1 year Anniversary is coming. My starting weight was 255, surgery weight was 235 and my weight now is 130 :-) I'm so freaking proud of myself. My total weight loss is 125 pounds in total. Wohooooo . I just LOVE my SLEEVE!!!!!

Girl, did it fall out... I had longgggggg hair. And around 3 to 4 months my hair was coming out in clumps. I mean we all lose like 100 strans aday but this felt like 1000's . So I slowly started cutting my hair. Shorter and shorter. Now I have the face for it. I do all my protein intake all my Vitamins. And after around 6 to 7th month it started slowing down. And now at my 10 to 11th month I'm having regrowth. My doctor told me because your body is going throw such a shock, from the surgery and the weight loss it is bond to happen. And I decide to cut it off cus I didn't want comb over. Lol. I look at it this way, I'm a sexy skinny No haired gal....lol it will come back. And the positive side is. I use less shampoo and it only takes me 5 mins for me to get my hair done. Than before it would take almost 1 hour... I love it now. One trick that my hair stylists said if you have dark hair is to lighten it.

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Thanks I am thinking about cutting it but as a big girl my hair was the only thing that I had going for me. It's a big step. I'm blonde/gray already so hopefully it won't be to noticable. But WOW I have hair all over the place. I can't believe I still have some on my head. My co-workers are even started to see longe blonde hairs in their office. I'm so embarressed but I'm the only blonde in the office they all know it's me. I saw my co-worker walking down the hallway yesterday after I left his office and there was like 4 long blonde hairs on behind he had on black pants I wanted to cry but I laughed it off. At least I'm getting skinny.....

And that's what you have to do is just LAUGH it off. Now what I did I did it in stages. So that it wasn't such a sock to me. I went from hair past the back of my bra to, shoulder length too a bob an now a pixi cut. So it was easy going and it was not to much weight on my head. Meaning you brushing it all the time, putting it in a ponytail,hot rollers, blow drying it.., and it was fun because every time I lost 15 to 20 pounds I cut my hair to go with the weight loss and new face. So my thoughts would be do it in stages. Or if your BOLD and BRAVE go all the way. I wasn't BOLD or BRAVE with my hair either :-) just remember you'll look hot either way!!!!

Congrats, that's awesome!

And that's what you have to do is just LAUGH it off. Now what I did I did it in stages. So that it wasn't such a sock to me. I went from hair past the back of my bra to' date=' shoulder length too a bob an now a pixi cut. So it was easy going and it was not to much weight on my head. Meaning you brushing it all the time, putting it in a ponytail,hot rollers, blow drying it.., and it was fun because every time I lost 15 to 20 pounds I cut my hair to go with the weight loss and new face. So my thoughts would be do it in stages. Or if your BOLD and BRAVE go all the way. I wasn't BOLD or BRAVE with my hair either :-) just remember you'll look hot either way!!!![/quote']

During this year, were you stalled at some point? Have you followed the regimen of liquids, Vitamins, Protein, and exercise (playing)?

I'm afraid I'll be the one that the sleeve won't work. I'm 7 weeks, lost 40 the first 2 weeks and nothing since then. I don't even want to weigh myself anymore.

Thank You so much! What an inspiration you are!! I my pre-surgery weight was 216. I'm down to 210, career the 8 I gained immediately after surgery!! I cannot wait for this we results!!! Can you tell us what you've been doing this year to lose?!??!

Oh yea, I totally stalled. But I put the scale away and knew that I was losing inches. But the numbers were not dropping. So I didn't weigh myself for two weeks. Meaning I stuck to the diet plan and when I finally took the leap of faith too get on the scale, too my surprise I lost over 15 pounds in 2 weeks. I think that's great results. Right now I've lost 125 pounds in 11 months. That's alittle more than 11 pounds per months and I think that's super fantastic. My daily work out is Zumba. I bought the DVD's and I love them. I get 3 things out of it. 1st I'm sweating and burning calories and toning, 2en I'm learning how to dance SUPER sexy...lol and 3rd the bed room is very interesting... I know TMI but I'm just enjoy my NEW life and QUILTY of LIFE :-)

That my husband and my daughter. This year for Christmas and last year . And the other photo is of my sister and my self. This year and last year . So before and afters:-)

That my husband and my daughter. This year for Christmas and last year . And the other photo is of my sister and my self. This year and last year . So before and afters:-)

Wow!!! You fabulous!!! Congrats!!!

You look great. Congratulations!!!

Congratulations!! I'm wanting to lose 130 pounds also. I'm about 2 1/2 weeks post-op, and it seems like I've already stopped losing weight.

Do you remember how much weight you lost in the first month? Was that the month you lost the most weight? How much weight did you lose on average per month? I know it's a lot of questions, lol, but I'm just getting myself really bummed out because I expected the first month especially to be the biggest for weight loss.

How often did you 'exercise'? I know you don't like that word, and I completely agree with you!!

I lost the first month like 25 pounds. And I did come to a stand still for awhile aswell. But it picked back up. It ended up being 11.5 pounds per month. Some months it's more than others. The first 6 months the weight flew off me. My work outs. I fast walk. Even when I'm home alone. When I'm cleaning. I go up and down the freaking basement stairs all the time. I do Zumba 3 to 4 times a week. And that's about it for now. When it gets warm again, bike rides and nature walks. I try not to over do. Because ill get board and then ill stop. When I clean the house I put fast dance music on, so I get my heart rate up. And it's actually a work out its self. And the best part is its FREE and fun. My daughter thinks I nuts. Lol. :-)

Just make sure you don't over due it because your only 2.5 weeks out.