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I had surgery on a monday morning at 8am and went home tuesday at 1pm. I would have left in the morning if the had taken the fluid iv out. No complications.

Amazing journey your on, and it keeps getting better. You look marvolous.

I hit a stall every 10 lbs or so, lasts anywhere from 1 to 2 weeks. Just keep working your plan, the weight will come off. I spent 47 years being obese, now I'll spend a couple years getting to my goal, thats not so bad.

Wow! You sincerly look fantastic. You darn well should be proud!

Not even going to happen, bermuda shorts and polo shirts for me this summer.

As a guy I naturally hate shopping, but I just bought a pair of 38w Levi's and was able to fit in them. I haven't wore anything that started with a 3 in 30 years.It was definatly a pleasant suprise. Now I have to let go of my old cloths, which were all expensive and nice, so somebody at the second hand store will definatly get a nice treat.

You wouldn't happen to be from new castle would you?

Tell me about it. I have been reading for months about how the procedures are in the USA and compare them to here(Sweden) and it is like night and day sometimes. I dont mean just the dietary recomendations, but the entire process from the start has some but few simularities. My doctor was from Iceland.

You look like a new person. Fantastic.

Well I'm down 118lbs since starting my pre op diet on August 6th and am thrilled to say the least but I never relised how much that was until yesterday. I'm a chef, have been for 34 years(yes this does make life a little interestring post op). Anyway, I got a delievery yesterday of good American beef( top blade, the cut I use to make roast beef)total delivery weight, 51 kilos or roughly 112lbs. I stood there and stared at this pile of meat a relised that on Aug 6th I had this amount and a bit more hanging on me. I was amazed and appaled at the same time, I wish I had taken a picture but was really to disturbed to think of it at the time.To see all this weight in one pile was sobering but gave me a real sense of what I'v accomplished so far, another 70 lbs to go.

Too funny. you both look great.

Congrats. Milestones are great. I too am looking forward to just being overweight in another 40lbs.

congrats on the comming baby. I had my surgery on sept 10 2012 and my 3rd daughter was born on oct 11 2012. I was nicely healed and ready to go. You should be fine.

I had a bit of turkey, 1 bit of stuffing, sweet potatos and cranberry sause. couple hours later a little sliver of pumpkin pie. It is truly amazing to compare what I ate this year compared to the years past. Truth be told I dont miss the volume at all.

I just have to look at how much pie is left over to relise that this surgery has probly saved my life.

I have no regrets what so ever. Im 3 and a half mths out from my surgery and down 110 lbs from when I started my liquid diet on Aug 6th. Tuesday this week I sliped and fell at work and banged my left knee up pretty bad, and I can5 imagine how I would have gotten around now with that extra 110lbs I had hanging on me a few mths ago. Congratscon you surgery, hope all was well and a very merry xmass.

100 lbs is a major feat, you should be danm proudd!

So here I am 7 weeks post op, Im loosing steady, excerising regulary, working, have a new baby at home, no pain, havent thrown up even once, feeling good. But, I have absoultly no appitite at all. If I dont set my phone to remind me to eat and snack I never get hungry, I do get dizzy and can feel my blood sugar drop, but even then I have no desire to ea I drink and force myself to eat 3 times a day plus 3 snacks but have a tough time chocking it down. Is this common and if so when does it end. I see my doctor on the 12th of nov next. I guess this really aint a problem since I spent the prior 47 years being hungry.

I was never thin so I dont have anything to miss. Things I dont miss is the pain in my knees and back, hard time sleeping, running out of breath after 1 flight of steeps, eating like a hog and beeing obssed with when my next feeding would be, feeling tired all the time, not beeing able to fit in the clothing I just got a few months ago,feeling and being he biggest person in the room and a host of other things that I dont miss. Im enjoying a new life.

Fantastic! Its a wonderful feeling isnt it!

I pretty much told my family and work mates. My family has been completly supportive and my work mates have been suprisingly supportive in a different way. They have asked questions, smart questions, and been completly non judgemental, plus when I went back after 4 weeks they had got together, passed the hat, and gave me a 200$ gift card for a nice mens store to go celebrate when I get to my goal. People on he edge of my life, you know the ones you see every few months or neighbors you just wave to , I will tell if and when they ask but I dont actively bring up the subject.

I have been trying to limit my scale time to once a week but today I just couldnt help myself and jumped on, and realized I am down to 128 kilos, that being 281 lbs. I cant remember being that low on the scale. I started on aug 6th at 163 kilos=358 lbs so Im down 77 lbs and my goal is 86 kilos= 190lbs. While its not exactly half way I cant express how flipping happy I am. I would have never dreamed when I started my liquid diet that I would ever get to this point. I really cant get the full effect of how much weight that is until I realised that is about what my 10year old daughter weighs. I lost a small person.

Well I'm down 72lbs since the 6th of august and went from 54 waist to a 46 so I'm happy as a lark so far,I'm looking to go down another 116 or so to get to 175, which I think I last weighed when I was 15. Another thing to brag about is my wife lost 12 lbs yesterday as she gave birth to our 3rd daughter, came home with her today, healthy and pink.

I understand what your going thru, isn't it great. I'm down 64lbs with still more than a 100 to go and things are hanging on me like a tent, so we are going to get a little bit at a time for the comming furture. I am looking forward to Feburary when we are going to Spain for a couple weeks when I can go out and buy new shorts and summer shirts and a swimmimg suit for the trip. So long size 58. I am keeping a couple outfits and suit in the big size just for insperation in the future.

Fantastic. I know I'm looking forward to buying clothing that don't come from the big and tall store.