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I haven't posted in a few months, after I retired on December 31st, 2015 I took over as full time Daddy, my wife has successfully begun her career and is on to her way to get her Masters in September this year, I see a lot of new faces on here and some old losers like me so I thought I should give an update, I began my journey in January 2015 @ 388lbs after fighting depression during the previous year holidays ( my entire birth family passed on, father, brother, stepdaughter, and mother, and it was the first anniversary of her death on December 12th 2014), I began dieting before even meeting my surgeon to show I was serious and committed, so when I met him in April 2015 I was @ 365lbs, my surgery was June 10th 2015, and I believe I was at about 326 or so, today I am 7 days away from my 9 month surgerversary !!!! And I am @ 248.0lbs, only 53lbs away from my goal weight, never would I have believed I would have been able to come this far and this quickly, I've had 3 stalls and 2 injuries which kept me out of the gym but I remained focused and determined, I also have my maintenance and future goals for after I meet my goal weight, my was size when I began was 60w, I have also lost 14 waist sizes and now am at 46w, soon I will also be an XL size shirt, I am now a 2x, down from 5&6x, I am opting before and after to give encouragement and let the newbies see that anything is possible to when YOU WANT IT!!!!!

It's hasn't been easy, it is hard work but overall my life is 1000x better, I'm also posting my motto which keeps me on track...... Good luck and don't give uppost-254362-14570608521884_thumb.jpg post-254362-14570608672585_thumb.jpg post-254362-14570608824123_thumb.jpg post-254362-14570609262458_thumb.jpg post-254362-14570609335178_thumb.jpg

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Good to you post also, too many changes in me and my wife's lives right now......... Great ones fortunately, including that I'm a full time stay at home dad( ironically between groceries, appointments, gym, kids school, for the life of me I can't understand why they call them "stay at home moms" lmao

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Glad to see some people back after hiatus.

I think we all offer something unique... Weight gain is very personal ....and it is different to be so open about weight loss.

Keep posting. We are all wanting better lives for ourselves and our families.

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Good to you post also, too many changes in me and my wife's lives right now......... Great ones fortunately, including that I'm a full time stay at home dad( ironically between groceries, appointments, gym, kids school, for the life of me I can't understand why they call them "stay at home moms" lmao

I used to have a bumper sticker that said, "if I am a stay at home mom, why am I always in the car?"

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She bought me a new SUV this weekend as a reward, it's too fancy for a guy like me, leather seats, moon roof, fully loaded but I drew the line when she said to get those people figure stickers for the back window of our kids, her and all our pets, that's 13 freakin stickers!!!!!! How the hell will I see out the back lmao

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