Please post your before and after pictures here for inspiration to others.

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okay guys. here it goes.

:confused:i've never posted my image before. so i'm sure the camera shyness will wear off. but till then i am incognito.:confused:

i just wanted to have a before pic and hopefully i will have a noticeable after pic very soon.

i put it on as an attachment. i don't know if that is right. I guess i'm not as computer savy as i thought i was. :nervous

okay i think i did it right.

thanks a bunch!

i originally posted a before of me sitting which probably wasn't the best pic. so i just closed my eyes and took one today.

here's my before

and why not.........

my DREAM after

Needed A LOT courage to post these...

BEFORE (weight: between 395 ~ 420 lbs)

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AFTER (Abt 265 lbs)

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If these are too big, someone is welcome to resize them.

Day of banding May 9, 2006

July 8. Down 28 lbs

Just wanted to update. I am about 2 1/2 months out and have lost 58 lbs. I started in the fitness center 2 weeks ago and can really tell the difference.

this is a before and half way there. a friend sent me the 'after' pic this afternoon and i was wearing the same shirt i was wearing during vacation in jaunary so i thought i'd share.

I think I did this correctly.

Josephine

Surgery Nov. 10, 2005

251/142

No Fills

I AM SO HAPPY I MADE IT! NOW I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO KEEP IT OFF!!

Here are three more recent (July 06) pics of me, our "boy" Ethan and my DH.

This is my before pic. :biggrin1:

Here's your side by side, Paul.

Great job on your weightloss!

I'm posting these for Mousecrazy... these are her one year Bandiversary before and after pictures. Doesn't she look great! WTG Cindy!

Befores

Afters

You are all an inspiration...Thanks for posting your pictures. you have no idea how much it helps the people like me who are trying to make the decision to go for the band!!

Here are 2 of my before pictures, I can't wait to add my 'after' and even 'in progress' pictures one day in the not too distant future... (The cruise picture was taken in May of 2004 on my 10 year wedding anniversary, and the top picture was taken yesterday (07/23/06). I think I weighed about the same in both...

I'm still afraid that I will miss the food, but I have had others tell me that I will gain control over food with this type of surgery. Once I get past the fear of 'missing' food and fearing complications (I'm self pay so I cannot afford a complication, and nor would I want one for the obvious health reasons too) I will make that appointment where I put down the deposit and get the ball rolling. I want to lose between 150-170 pounds, but I will Celebrate at every 50 pound increment. I don't want to post my current weight just yet...

OK, here are my pictures to kick off my journey...

~Kim