Woop!. Starting at 229 today. According to hospital scale.

Why are the robes for like six hundred pound people?. Even the socks are huge!

Thanks for all the info! I hope you are all doing very good at this point of the process, a couple of months post op. Please Keep us posted. Enjoy your new you!

PR_Pitbull... you are most welcome. Im at 49 lbs lost since 1/6/16. Im happy with my progress. I know there was a week where I lost 5 lbs. That was cool. I had another surgery (Gyn) on the 20th so I went backwards a few lbs. Because Im swollen but I weighed today and dropped 2 lbs. Again. Im looking foward to the weeks where the weight drops off quicker but thankful the scale is moving down. I dont want to have skin removal surgery so losing at this rate is great. Look at all the progress you have done and gone through and that the the weight is staying off. What color is Tron? I may have to do my nails like that!

You're right. We should be pleased with our progress. I honestly (at one point) thought I wouldn't get to 160 so I should b more grateful and appreciative. I might have surgery after. Not sure how things will tighten. You're doing great and look awesome.

Here's tron. It's going to glow at night lol.

Omg that's badass!!! Love that look!

@Rose1up! thanks! i like to have fun with it so imma do it.

welp. i guess in a way this is the end of a first journey. i reached my goal weight today of 160. (im still gonna go to 140) but this is still the end of a goal. so here are the legit before/during and almost final after photos. it was HARD work but imma keep going. this is a lifestyle now. the surgery wasn't the fix all i thought it would be but it has stopped me from binge eating which was one of my problems. but it takes dedication and discipline to get this done. so im happy for the push it gave me. i wasn't about to waste the 12k i paid to get this done lol. so there it is. onward to the next goal.

@Rose1up! thanks! i like to have fun with it so imma do it.

What a great post! So inspiring. Just think... you were the one that started this thread and we all have followed you through your journey! Thank you for sharing all of your story with us! Congrats on meeting that first goal!!!!

How inspiring....I'm waiting for my insurance approval and I currently weight 228, 5"3. Congratulations on you fitness success!

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@@Marissela thank you so much and yay!! i'll keep my fingers crossed your approval comes fast and you get thru your surgery well. we are almost the same exact stats! keep us posted.

@@Marissela thank you so much and yay!! i'll keep my fingers crossed your approval comes fast and you get thru your surgery well. we are almost the same exact stats! keep us posted.

I meet with the surgeon on Thursday. I was told it's the last step before actually submitting my information to the insurance. I'm very anxious and hope the insurance replies soon..thanks for the reply. I'm very nervous and not very many people around me understand

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When you tell your doctor you want to lose 20 more pounds and he looks at you and says no!! then he puts you on the scale and says "oh ok yeah"

lol lol

You must weigh heavy - you don't look like you could lose 20 more lbs. :-).

You ladies are so badass! An amazing job and look awesome. I definitely do not see extra 20lbs either!

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LOL thanks ladies. apparently i'm very "dense" lol. I'm 159.6. Thinking if i try for 140 maybe i'll start looking slim in photos and loose my lower tummy. here's hoping!

so it just occured to me we have some noobs on here and some that aren't even sleeved yet so VETS help me out here but here is my 7 month out experiences with the dos and don'ts - i'm not recommending you do it my way cuz i'm super lazy but this is my personal experience,

carbonation - i don't do it often but i have and it hasn't killed me. i think i've had like two mimosas and three sips of coke since sleeved

drinking during meals - i do it all the time but just small sips here and there

carbs - it's very hard for me to eat carbs so i generally don't. i can eat the **** out of some saltines tho lol. potatoes sometimes. rice not much, noodles not much. bread not at all.

hunger level - im still very un-hungry most of the time but i can eat more than i used to. i always eat Protein first. i can't eat all types of meat either so i stick to ground beef/bison/turkey, shrimp, sometimes steak. hardly ever chicken unless it's very tender - it gets stuck in my throat.

throwing up - i've thrown up like 10x but it's usually cuz i do something dumb like eat too fast or too much or take shots of vodka on an empty stomach lol

alcohol - all the time lol. mostly vodka shots cuz it's lower in sugar and it's not carbonated.

counting stuff - i don't do it at all but i recommend you do - im sure my losses would have been better or more consistent if i did. i just try to do the right thing on the daily and see how it goes lol

Water - i suck at drinking water BAD

Vitamins, Fiber and stuff - i hardly take anything but i know i should/need to

exercise - i work out 3 to 5 days a week including running 2 miles and lifting weights/toning

skin stuff - i have some loose stuff here and there. mostly i've lost my ass completely. if i get to goal and tone for a year and still have it i'll do some sort of body sculpting surgery

i think that's it. if i think of more i'll edit this VETS weigh in

Edited May 9, 201610 yr by pr_pitbullgrl

So weird news. I feel like I just got skinny overnight. Like literally I feel like this weekend I felt skinny and small and sexy for the first time during this journey. these were a size 9 junior jeans and they were corseted (so all the way up the waist) so i didn't think i was gonna be able to fit them but here they are. i'm in them. they aren't loose but i'm in them! lol. and yeah my fupa is still an issue (fatty upper pubic area/lower stomach) but still. it was good. so this was the weekend. I'm not sure why. But I'm grateful. And excited to keep going. I stood next to my gf who weighs 98lbs and I managed to look normal.

Edited May 9, 201610 yr by pr_pitbullgrl