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I’ve been big my whole life always at like 290 plus pounds through high school even when I’ve been active I play basketball go to the gym. I had my surgery on Halloween and I’m down to 278 which is the smallest I’ve been since before high school. I wanted to get the surgery as I’ve never had high blood pressure or diabetes or anything. A lot of my family is over weight also.

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Well Good For YOU and may you be always successful in This Journey. YOU may have just dodged That Bullet of Bad Health in TIME; nobody should have to walk around as a Ticking Time Bomb- I did MYSELF So I should Know. Think my primary Care is pleased down-deep with my loss et cetera,but on the surface He Is Peeved that All His Gloom and doom Didn't Come true, and the fact that I NOW Have WEIGHT-Lost down to 20+ pounds LESS than HIM, he's Not a Happy Camper About THAT!
What can I Say but *****PHYSICIAN HEAL THYSELF ! But a thinly veiled snicker when I left His Exam Room. After All I am Ornery and Red- Headed, getting older day by day, but Not Dead Yet!😝👍😝🌈

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My mom has bad diabetes and doesn’t control it like she should it really woke me up the last year or so. My wife is having the surgery in a month so we really will be following it together.

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And my new Friend, if you go back and re-read my much earlier postings, you WILL SEE that Freudian as it sounds , IT WAS ALL MY MOTHER'S FAULT, IF course the Fact I stayed that WAY all of my childhood and most of my Adult LIFE, that's MY BLAME but Honestly I knew of No Way out of the Quagmire, tried all the diets known to the Western World, up to and including Medical Supervised Starvation and a few the Orientals must have sent over, NOBODY EVER EVER even mentioned Bariatric Surgery for Weigh Loss. A little over 1 year ago I was a Sad Sick on my- way- to -dying 365+ pounds at 72, now I am 180, a year older and Much Wiser, Much Healthier and the fact I largely exist on Protein Shakes, Soups and broths, really NBD in the scheme of things, I AM ALIVE, Gastrointestinally Crippled but ALIVE! So it Ain't perfect but it is MINE and I WILL Claim what victories I HAVE.

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Stay BostonStrong, BostonProud, Live Your Best Life, for truly the Rest of Your Life will Become the Best of Your Life and My Best to you and your LOVELY soon-to-be Smaller Wife! I'm almost always here if you feel like talking, I keep this one of my cellphones active because all my BP postings are on here, don't even use it for calling And et cetera; I have an Oreo-level Android to do THAT! 😝👍😝

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