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I did it!!! ​I reached my goal weight this morning!! I can't tell you how successful I feel!!

About my journey; started in 2007 at 300 pounds and had lapband surgically placed on June 27. I actually gained 20 pounds during my pre-op phase(so embarrassed to say this). Lost down to 260 pounds and that's where it ended. Vomited a lot, couldn't eat many healthy foods resorted to eating slider foods.

Fast forward to 2012; I lost my job, moved to a new city, life was on a downward spiral. Then something happened; I was somehow guided to this site! Life changing experience and how grateful I am. Within 6 weeks of finding this site I found a surgeon in Tijuana Mexico and had gastric sleeve surgery on September 10, 2012. The best thing I could have done at the time. Weight loss came off fairly quickly but I also learned very soon out that I could eat anything, fat, sugar, sliders and the like. I know surgery is a tool but at the time I didn't realize I needed a greater tool. I didn't initially go with the gastric bypass because I was afraid of the intestinal re-routing.

So weight gain started; Christmas came and I thought I could handle eating a little of this and a little of that; I was wrong.

So 2015 and I want to reach my goal weight; 160 pounds. I want to live the rest of my days at a normal healthy weight.

Through Bariatric Pal I found my amazing surgeon, Dr Zavalza and had my gastric bypass on September 4, 2015 at 203.6 pounds(started pre-op at 212.7).

Here I am at my goal weight, 160 pounds, down 52.7 this time around. I DID IT!!

The gastric bypass for me if different from the sleeve. I have really good restriction, I really don't have cravings, I now have an aversion to sugar, I can't eat anything and I have no issues with the re-routing part my labs are good and I take all of my required Vitamins daily.

Here are things that I do differently to make me a huge success this time around;

I know that there are foods that are trigger foods for me that I should never eat again so I have found healthy substitutes for them that I enjoy. I don't eat bread, Pasta or rice(I gave up a long time ago) but again if I chose have found alternatives that I can have. I also enjoy fruits(limited), vegetables and healthy carbs(squashes, sweet potato) and of course Protein. I track all of my food intake and drink all of my Water. I also have found exercise that I enjoy doing and have made it a daily routine.

I love myself and all of my size 6 clothing that I look fantastic in!

Now on to maintenance; I will keep doing what I am doing and enjoy what life brings!!

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Congrats! Can't wait to get there myself. Only 1 month out but down 30 pounds!

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Congratulations. :) ;) :P :D :lol: B) :rolleyes: ;-)

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WOHOO!!!! Congrats!!!!

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Well done to you.

You have gone though so many battles and you didn't give up!

You so deserve your success!

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Congratulations - all of your hard work has paid off.

I am less than 5 pounds away and cannot wait until the scale reads 130!!

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Your story has really helped me feel better. I've been beating myself up about needing a revision from the sleeve to bypass. I've felt like a failure for the weight regain. My sleeve is stretched and I have acid reflux. Thanks again for sharing I really needed to hear something like this.

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Congrats!!

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        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.

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