I'm going to do a monthly picture story for myself . . . so I'm posting my before pics today. Join in!

(if this works)

This was me the night before surgery.

Its nice meeting everyone! Keep up all the good work .. . and keep on postin'!

This was one of the only recent body shots I can find. This is me on vacation in Canada in September. If you haven't figured it out, I'm the big one with the Florida shirt on lol.

Hello All,

I was banded on December 4th. The top picture was taken on Thanksgiving, I had already lost 20 lbs. from my heaviest weight of 338. That is my dad and my brother with me.

The second picture was taken in May of 2006. This is my oldest son Brett.

The bottom picture was taken at my cousin's wedding in February 2006.

I can't wait to be able to post some after pictures!

Good luck to everyone!

Thought I'd bite the bullet and join the brave and post my before pic.

Thanks to all those who went before me :clap2:

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and now I have to learn how to make pictures SMALLER

</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Photobucket is a great site for this and it is free.</p> <p> </p> <p>After you create an account and upload your photos you'll choose the EDIT button atop your photos thumbnail. There will be several choices for you to copy the URL and then you can paste it into your post or signature.</p> <p>There are better intructions on the site.</p> <p>Hope this helps.</p> <p>susan<img src="http://www.LapBandTalk.com/images/smilies/happy.gif" border="0" alt="" title="" smilieid="60" class="inlineimg" /></p>

Ok here it goes... I am posting my before pictures....

Wow! MissyDFE you've lost 18lbs? Good for you! Are you doing alot of physical activity?

I walk alot, clean house, do what ever I can to be active. I just was banded Dec 14th so I cannot use my elliptical trainer yet. I am looking forward to that.... I have just been eating under 800 calories every day.

Two Weeks Post-Op

I don't have any "true" before pictures. I weighed about 26 pounds more at my heaviest in late September. As of this morning, I'm down 14.5 pounds from my surgery weight.

So I found some pics prior to surgery... here we go!

sorry they are so big! :party:

I can't wait til I get smaller so I can take my "after" pics ...

Dr. Kaza, you have such beautiful eyes!

Dr. Kaza is my surgeon. I'm Julie but thanks!