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Awesome job Molly! You look great!

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Well done and thanks for sharing. You look fantastic x

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4 hours ago, Sosewsue61 said:

Awesome job Molly! You look great!

Thank you so much!! I'm feeling great!

Looks like you're a few weeks into recovery. Hope all has been going well for you! Week 3 was tough but it got better every day since. Best wishes for your post op!

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10 minutes ago, Jeaniered said:

Well done and thanks for sharing. You look fantastic x

Thank you! Feeling great so far.

Looks like you're doing great from your stats! Congrats! :)

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7 hours ago, Molly23 said:

I'm just too excited for this milestone and I know that you all would understand how major this is. Today when I got on the scale it read 198.8! This is the first time I've been in the 100s since probably high school (but I have no idea what I weighted then). I know in junior high I was 186 and I was probably shorter than I am now so this is a pretty huge success. I've never been able to lose weight like this with all of the different diets and workout plans before. I'm so thankful for the sleeve and that my doctor encouraged me to go forward with it. Since the sleeve my high blood pressure has improved, I was able to get rid of a CPAP machine and my chronic ankle pain from a childhood injury has improved a great deal. My last vacation in December I needed to use an ECV because walking was excruciating. I had another vacation last week that was three times as long and my ankle was sore some days but I was able to keep up and walk the entire time. The entire process has been so motivating and positive I couldn't possibly ask for any more.

I've now lost 112lbs since my highest weight and I'm thrilled. I definitely hope to lose some more, likely about 30-40lbs. Hopefully this will put be in a good goal range and I can focus on maintenance. I'm a little under 7 months from surgery and it feels amazing to actually have my goal weight in sight. :)

I got to recreate my 'before' picture and I love having the side by side comparison. I even took the same shirt and remade it into a much smaller size!

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Great job

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1 hour ago, Tina Meinkowsky said:

Great job

Thank you!

Hope your recovery is going well! :)

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Wonderful! I love that you recreated your original picture. You look fantastic and very happy with your results.


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On 11/12/2017 at 11:30 PM, katieroybal said:

Wonderful! I love that you recreated your original picture. You look fantastic and very happy with your results.

Thank you! Recreating the picture was just too tempting when I realized how far I've come. I'm super happy so far and excited about the chance to actually meet my weight loss goals!

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