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10 Months Post Op Pic & Feeling Pretty Fabulous

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getnhealthyintx    281

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You look beautiful in both pictures but man I admire your physique in the second one thank you for sharing with us it encourages the rest of us.

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lilijo    187

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Wow! You look fantastic. So happy for you!

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NMJG    1,266

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Congratulations on a job well done. Your hard work is so apparent. I am thinking this will be inspiration for many people early in their journey.

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Kathy812    794

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Wow! Impressive! You lost over 100 pounds in less than a year. You give me hope & you look great! Gotta check out your blogs.

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EBanos    3

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What was your Starting weight and what is your current weight? You look amazing! Your an inspiration for us new sleevers.

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JanetPRN    496

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I am coming up on 10 months also. You truly are a skinny girl now. I completely understand the head games portions of this trip. Walking past windows and seeing my reflection but it still doesn't feel like me. The reflection is someone I am hoping to be . My head needs to catch up with wardrobe! Awesome job!

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WhoKnows    288

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Oh my god, you look great! I hope it isn't too forward of me to ask, but what's your situation with skin? In the picture it looks like you really lucked out! Did you do anythjng in particular?

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dnicewife    3

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You look awesome!

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livvsmum    2,370

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What was your Starting weight and what is your current weight? You look amazing! Your an inspiration for us new sleevers.

My starting weight at day 1 of the 2-week pre-op liquid diet was 278.4. Today I weight 148.4. I still have a few more pounds to go, but hopefully one day soon I can report back that I am at goal! :-)

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livvsmum    2,370

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I am coming up on 10 months also. You truly are a skinny girl now. I completely understand the head games portions of this trip. Walking past windows and seeing my reflection but it still doesn't feel like me. The reflection is someone I am hoping to be . My head needs to catch up with wardrobe! Awesome job!

Congratulations on reaching your goal!

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livvsmum    2,370

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Oh my god, you look great! I hope it isn't too forward of me to ask, but what's your situation with skin? In the picture it looks like you really lucked out! Did you do anythjng in particular?

Not too forward at all. I am an open book....lol. The situation with skin is that I am saving up for skin removal surgery. I wouldn't say I necessarily lucked out because I've been working my butt off in the gym trying to tone my arms and belly in particular, but sometimes all the toning in the world doesn't help when it is simply extra tissue. So, I have extra skin under my arms (wings) and my lower stomach. I think that I probably won't feel like this journey is "complete" until I take care of the skin as well....but I don't think it is something that people would look at me and say "Oh, she must have lost a lot of weight because look at all that extra skin"....know what I mean? I think it bothers me more than it is that noticeable. But it is definitely a self-conscious kind of thing for me.

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fccm04    39

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Wow! You've inspired me! You look amazing. Can I ask you a personal question....dud you have a lot of extra skin or did you tone as you went along?

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mommaof3    39

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You look great! Congratulations!

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MrsVanderbilt    29

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You look so young and thin. Inspiring!

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    • Alisa_S

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. LeighaTR

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        I hope your surgery on Wednesday goes well. You will be able to do all sorts of new things as you find your new normal after surgery. I don't know this from experience yet, but I am seeing a lot of positive things from people who have had it done. Best of luck!

    • Alisa_S

      Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

    • CaseyP1011

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      Officially here for a long time, not just a good time💪
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