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Celebrate my one year Surgical Anniversary!

On Monday, July 28, 2014 Dr. Alan Leslie Schuricht performed a gastric sleeve on me at Pennsylvania Hospital where I weighed 343 pounds (my high weight was 363 pounds) and a year later I am 143 pounds lighter and weigh 220 pounds! Thanks Dr. Schuricht and Penn Bariatric Medicine! Thanks to the following: Dr. Sara Slattery and the team from Penn Medicine Fitness Now; Beth Marks, www.GetFitNowNJ.com and Kennedy Health Bariatric Fitness; Personal trainers from the YMCA of Burlington and Camden County! I am also thankful today to my beautiful wife, Jan and my great kids Liz and Matt!

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Congrats Lou on your inspiring success story!

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congrats!

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Yeah!!! Congrats

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Happy Sleve Birthday Lou. You are so inspiring and you look fantastic :D

Kate

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143 pounds lighter - weigh 220 pounds! thankful beautiful wife, and great kids

@@Lou Schopfer

happy surgiversary :rolleyes:

great pics

nice to recognize the people that have and will continue to support you :)

they are very important - wife, kiddos doctors, trainers etc

all those people were there for you in many different ways

YOU were the one that did all the hard work!!

sad we will continue to see "less and less" of you :wacko:;)

we love the great results you are getting :)

you get the blue ribbon for the day :)

please come to the boards more often ;)

newbies et al can never get too much good advice, help, experiences :)

keep up the amazing job

(i know you will) :)

kathy

congrats

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CONGRATULATION! Keep up the good work.

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Great work!! You look great!

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Congrats Lou. My numbers are similar to yours. Heaviest at 343 pounds - April 6, 2015. Sleeved June 30. Working hard and am now down to 274. Hope to get where you are. Thanks for the inspiration! You look good and healthy friend.

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Congratulations on your success!!

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Oh my!!! What a difference!!! Congrats on all your hard work and effort!! You look good!!

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Great job!!! Congratulations!!!

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Thank you for all the words on encouragement! I feel truly Blessed!

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