I wanted to post this ongoing photo grouping that I've been working on with my sons. It started as a great way to show their aging, but it's also showcasing my weight loss.

2010, pre-band. I was around 370 in this photo.
2014, post-band. I was around 310 in this photo.
2018, post-bypass. I was 237 in this photo.

Just wanted to show everyone that, even just 4 years can change things so drastically, 8 years is even more amazing. Looking forward to going back and taking another update in 4 years, I can't wait to see what 12 years of changes looks like.

So when you are just a handful of days out of surgery and are feeling like nothing is changing. Or when you are stalled out for a week and are super frustrated. Please remember, this is a long term adjustment. Some folks are lucky and do see really fast results, but that doesn't mean anyone that doesn't see fast results is a failure.

Just keep looking at the horizon and taking 1 more step forward. Soon enough, you'll be where you want to be.

You got little and your boys got big (grown)!

Great! Congrats!

1 hour ago, Matt Z said:

I wanted to post this ongoing photo grouping that I've been working on with my sons. It started as a great way to show their aging, but it's also showcasing my weight loss.

2010, pre-band. I was around 370 in this photo.
2014, post-band. I was around 310 in this photo.
2018, post-bypass. I was 237 in this photo.

Just wanted to show everyone that, even just 4 years can change things so drastically, 8 years is even more amazing. Looking forward to going back and taking another update in 4 years, I can't wait to see what 12 years of changes looks like.

So when you are just a handful of days out of surgery and are feeling like nothing is changing. Or when you are stalled out for a week and are super frustrated. Please remember, this is a long term adjustment. Some folks are lucky and do see really fast results, but that doesn't mean anyone that doesn't see fast results is a failure.

Just keep looking at the horizon and taking 1 more step forward. Soon enough, you'll be where you want to be.

*shrugs*

Not even the same people

Lol CONGRATS

Wow, great pics! They grew, you shrank!

You got smaller, they got bigger, everyone’s beard got longer. Congrats all around!

Congrats on your loss bud. Amazing the changes that occur over such a short amount of time. Great idea with the pic by the way. Great memories there!!!

Great Pic . Very cute how you all changed in different ways.

And Matt Z,you could,in 4 years have a daughter in law, but you and your sons are a very handsome group.

Amazing transformation in all 3 men as time went by. What a wonderful family. Congratulation on your weight loss! Your sons lost some too...lol

Looking forward to VSG!

Something to notice as well, and it's an important "side effect", notice how fat my kids were as well in 2010. And how they also got thinner and healthier as I did. Because of my eating habit changes, the rest of the family's habits changed along side mine and the benefits are clearly visible.

That’s fantastic!

Don't stress about the SMALL stuff, and if you live long enough everything becomes SMALL potatoes anyway!

Thank you for this post and the pictures. I’m only 6 days post op and I was feeling frustrated. Can’t eat can’t swallow much. Only losing the water weight from the hospital fluids. But your words and pictures are an inspiration. All 3 of you look great! Congratulations

And someday yet I will gain coyrage, like you did, to show the changes in ME, they are still subtle to many people but I can start to See some Fat Cacoon starting ? to Crack Off! Hoping to Still be Less the Woman I started Out Here With! And IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN! SW319 current 279 and DROPPING, thanks be to my surgeon, Bariatric Pal and a still-liquid diet. And I'd like think I MIGHT HAVE a small stake here myself!

Surgery causes facial hair to grow!