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What was your BMI on the day of surgery?



What was your BMI on the day of surgery? (private poll - names not printed)  

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  1. 1. What was your BMI on the day of surgery? (private poll - names not printed)

    • Less than 30 (you never know...)
      1
    • 30-35
      14
    • 35-37
      26
    • 38-40
      28
    • 41-43
      47
    • 44-46
      14
    • 47-49
      13
    • 50-52
      13
    • 53-55
      10
    • 56-58
      2
    • 59-60
      1
    • More than 60
      5


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49.2 on the 18th... steady dropping (peep the ticker)

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WOW!!!! That's awesome! What did you do?

I lived in the gym lol :tongue2:! I hate it but I think it has helped a lot. It has slowed down these last few weeks, I am no losing about 1 to 2 pounds a week which is great of course. I work out about 5 to 6 times a week for 2 to 3 hours.

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was banded barely below 50 bmi.. now I sit at 37. Still unhealthy but a huge drop im so happy about. I do feel the band has been successful for me in achieving weightloss, healthy eating, and a more healthy me. Some of the medical problems however are not being resolved, which just means they arent related to my weight. But i will be more healthy to deal with them! Ive 67 pounds in almost 4 pounds and feel so much better. This has changed my life and I am forever grateful

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Wow Jodi, you're doing awesome! I had my surgery the end of last May also....However, I have not lost a bunch yet but I am 1/2 way there anyway. This just may take awhile. Started at 32 BMI, currently 28.

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I was at 40.5, my current is on my ticker. I'm just about 6 weeks post op and LOVING the results (with no fill). I'm so thankful I was able to have the surgery and it's working (so far). I'm just afraid one day it will stop working and I'll gain my weight back, then I think NO WAY did I go through all this for nothing!!!

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My BMI pre-op in March 2007 was 62.2

As of April 17, it is down to 47.5

I got a long way to go, but came a long way too!:smile:

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My Highest BMI: 48.3 (295lbs/134kg):)

(Thats when i decided to draw the line and started my journey to bandland!!)

Surgery Weight/BMI: 47.1 (287.7lbs/130.7kg):wink:

Current BMI: 27.9 (170lbs/77.2kg):rolleyes:

My BMI from the start to the current has come down 20.4 points!!! (Down 125lbs/56.8kg)

Thats the bmi of a normal weight person lol.. then again the amount of weight lost is equal to a normal size adult woman.. scary when you put it into words like these.. i was carrying the weight of two people on my back and legs and my heart and other organs worked to support two people instead of one... wow what a risk it is to be obese... i never really thought of it that way until now!!!:wink:

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

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