Curvy Girl

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Thank you so much!!! If you are on Facebook you can find me at http://www.facebook.com/melinanarezo I REALLY appreciate your encouragement!!!! Or my website at www.melinanarezo.com

I was sleeved on August 24th. I wanted to share a video that a local TV station did about me. I am a singer/songwriter and they wanted to do a piece about my music. We started talking about my surgery and the impact it had on me. Hope you enjoy it!!!

Thank you so much for all your KIND words!!! I REALLY REALLY appreciate it!!! I am a singer/songwriter and I wanted to share a video that a local TV station did about me. It was about my music but then we started talking about the surgery and the impact it has had on me...I hope you enjoy it!!

I am a singer/songwriter and a local TV station did a piece about my music and we ended up talking about my surgery and the impact it has had on me. I wanted to share it with you...Hope you like it!!!!

I did lose hair especially on the side and top. I wear clip on extensions to "thicken" up my hair. It does seem to be slowing down. I get all my protein, vitamins in but STILL lost hair...but they say it does grow back.

HERE ARE SOME BEFORE AND AFTER PICTURES..........My surgery was Aug 24th 2012...I am 10 months out. I have lost 94 lbs and losing has slowed down to about 5 lbs a month so I just started exercising (walking) to help SPEED IT UP...LOL I still have a LONG WAY TO GO to get to my goal of 150/160 lbs...HOPEFULLY I'LL MAKE IT!!!

My surgery was Aug 24th 2012...I am 10 months out. I have lost 94 lbs and losing has slowed down to about 5 lbs a month so I just started exercising (walking) to help SPEED IT UP...LOL I still have a LONG WAY TO GO to get to my goal of 150/160 lbs...HOPEFULLY I'LL MAKE IT!!!

FINALLY!!! I am FINALLY under 260 lbs 258 lbs as of today. OMG I thought I was gonna be in the 260s FOREVER!!!! I have been there since JANUARY!!! That was the longest stall/slow losing period I've had!!! I was really getting worried. I have not started working out. I started at 348 Aug 24th I'm almost 8 months out 258 today...down to a size 18 jean...XL or 14/16 top. I bought a pair of 16s for kicks and couldnt get them over my BIG BUTT!!! If anyone says this is the easy way out they are SOOO wrong...I have to make the right decisons on the DAILY to eat the right foods. Which is a struggle but I am doing it!!! The only thing that DOES help is that if I do eat the wrong foods I can't eat much of it. Bread doesn't sit well. Before bread and butter was a BIG problem. I am almost halfway where I need to be. I PRAY I can make it...I PRAY we ALL make it!!

Okay AUGUST Sleevers...anyone STUCK?!?! I was sleeved 08/24/2012 SW 348 CW 263 I was stuck at 269/267/264 since 02/08/2013 Just going up and down up and down... FINALLY I've been staying at 263...I have SOOOOO far to go to get to 150 Hopefully the scale will start to move again... On a MORE positive note...I am in a size 18 pant 14/16 top which is almost too big and I bought a dress that was an XL!!!!!!!!! Anyone gong through this right now?!?!?

I was sleeved Aug 24th so I am almost six months out. Today I hit 80 lbs gone...I will continue to eat. I just need to be patient. In the beginning it was really hard. I find it so much easier to reach my protien goals if I drink one protien shake for breakfast everyday.

Today I have offically lost 80 lbs...I was sleeved Aug 24th so I am almost 6 months out...my size 20 jeans are baggy so I'm going to buy a size 18 now....my shoes are too big...my shirts are 14/16 or XL...Crazy Crazy Crazy!!!!

Okay so I really try to get in my protien, calories, Water etc... But I wonder...Should I be making myself eat cause it seems that's what I do. I could probably get by with barely eating but I make myself because I know I need my protien. So I eat probably around 800-1000 calories a day. I get my 70 grams of protien. And I lose slowly. I see people losing and losing and I wonder...Are they eating as much as me? Should I cut back on my eating to lose faster? I would totally appreciate any advice or comments!!!

No work outs yet...I'm trying to lose as much as I can then when my weight loss stalls I'll add in exercise

I am NOT the perfect by the book sleever!! But I do follow the protien first rule!!! I have not started exercising yet... I do have one tip...don't get discouraged when you don't see the scale moving...you are making positive changes in your life that the scale doesn't always show (I forget that too)