Chunky_Dunk

Hey there, guys and gals! How is everyone this lovely night? Today I am 3 and a half months post vsg and I am down...75 pounds! Starting weight was 220 and my current weight is 145. My first bigger goal was 150 pounds. My ending goal is between 120 and 130 pounds (I am 5'2"). So, I have 15 pounds left to lose until I reach 130 pounds and I will just see how I look and feel from there. I am ecstatic with the weight loss results so far!!! I do want to warn you guys (a little late now I am sure) that there are skin pictures involved LOL! I have a sports bra and pants on. I only put a few on here. I have more on my profile page, and I also, just last night, uploaded a progress video of a bunch of pictures. Feel free to check it out on youtube...the title is very long, so you can just access it by typing in "72 pounds down" in the search and my video should be first. My name is "FindingMyselfAsIDisappear". If not, then just stop by my profile for more pics. Here are a few "in progress" pictures! Good luck to everyone with your journey!!! And if anyone else wants to post a progess update, please feel free!!! I love seeing how everyone is progressing!!!

Thank you sooo much! My aim is definitely to motivate and inspire in any way that I can! Good luck to everyone!!! <3 ♡ ♥

You are very, very welcome! Motivation was my goal so i definitely appreciate the compliment!!! :-D

I will write and explain later from computer LOL my writing up top is almost impossible to understand. I will rewrite or better explain if you guys need me to. I thought the talk to text was working fine, but everything was misspelled or a word was missing...and half the time the wrong word was written. LOL sorry about that guys! :-\

well guys let me just tell you that is much as I motivate y'all you guys keep me motivated and you'll push me to keep going. That is why I post so many pictures. I'm trying to hold myself accountable for the weight loss if I fail everyone will see it. So I have so much appreciation for you guys coming in viewing my page and comment saying and having such positive things to say. I am also loving saying the people who are my height and weight. I remember doing my research and finding hardly anyone my size and when I did find people my fav eyes no one wanted to show their skin they would either hide their stomachs completely or they would hide the bottom part of their stomach into their pants. my stomach hangs at the bottom and I was mostly concerned with how that would end up looking it was so hard to find anyone willing to show that before their surgery and even some afterwards so that is why I showed all of my stomach because I know there are other people out there that have that same thing as me and I know that you want to know you want to get some kind of an idea of what it's going to look like afterwards so I was very happy to see people my size. I am doing this from my cell phone and I just spent a good chunk of time replying a good and its reply and I accidentally erased it so I am redoing this through talk to text so I apologize for any typos that may be in here and if none of this makes any sense at all lol and ask for three and a half months out I still can only eat three to four bites and I am stuff. when the food taste good you just want to keep going but you can't. I remember being so sad about that but I have trained my brain with certain things I have learned certain tricks to use on myself to help fight certain feelings. In this specific case I I would think of how much extra fat they're getting from the extra bites they are taking. I would think back to the way I was before my surgery and I would think that how big my plate would have been had I been allowed to eat as much as I wanted compared to how much I'm eating now. I learned to exchange that sadness that I could not eat with pride if I allowed my I would be back where I was before Surgery. So i look at our restriction as a blessing. You just have to train your brain using your surroundings as motivation. I have so many different tricks for the many situations I have dound myself in. It doesnt bother me now. remember shortly after my surgery oh my goodness this is a permanent surgery what have i done i cannot take this back I cant eat crazy again! I freaked. But I would never be 75 pounds down today had I not taken that step. Please dont regret your sleeve. try not focus on the wonderful opportunities it brings instead of its restrictions. I really not sure what all I have mentioned in what I have not mentioned because I've had to rewrite this lol but I have to trick if anyone is interested VSG has become one of my favorite topics to talk about so please if you ever get bored are you have questions or you want to know anything please ask me I love talking about it when I get bored I will not ignore you and I take me a few days to find it but I will get back to you this is my favorite topic and I open to tell you anything that I know tricks that I've learned the good the bad and the ugly everything I am at your disposal this is the best decision I've ever made and I strongly recommend it for all of you that haven't had it yet I said so much more than the last one I hate that I ended up deleting it because now my mind is so blank if I think of more I'll come back and if you think of anything you would like to know please message me respond on here and we can talk about this however long you like. Failure is not an option...your mind will try ro convince you that this food is ok just this once...you just have to take a step back and talk to yourself. Think theough it. Think of how many times in the past you have held this exact conversation with yourself. How many times you have given in only to eat 5 , 7, 9 times the amount we can eat now and how disappointed you were in yourself afterwards. LOL I dont know if that kind of stuff works for anyone else but i can smooth talk myself out of eating anything these days. LoL your mind tries to trick you...you just have to learn to trick it back. I believe that we sometimes eat out of emotion...I think we can train ourselves to handle food better using the same emotions. I am trying to remember everything i had written and cram it all in at once before i forget and it is not working. LOL i am going to leave it at that in case I am not making sense lmbo and let you guys ask whatever you like if you want to know more!

Thank you so much!!! I appreciate it!

Thank you guys so much!!! I am glad I could inspire at least a few ahaha! I am always searching for inspiration to help me get through my tough times, so that is an amazing compliment!!! I was considered "light weight" and, as such, didn't expect to lose the weight that I did. I figured I would lose about 25 first month and 10 the next two and a little less the next lol! Just goes to show, though, that you never know and to not judge your success or progress on the rate of others. "Comparison is the thief of joy" -Theordore Roosevelt. I hit a stall for a couple of weeks and then when I weighed I was at goal weight on 2/27/2014. That was six days ago from today. Yesterday I was down 5 pounds from 5 days ago. So, it just randomly happens. At any point in time you may drop 6 pounds out of no where. The ending result is what is the most important...and we are going to be a great looking group by the end of 2014!!!

I actually have frontal pics of the under bra and regular and what the tags look like too, if you wanna see, just ask. I took them becaus I wanted to be able to get the right ones next time and I also wanted to be able to show how awesome they are lmbo

I really appreciate the encouragement! And with the bra...one thing you should know is that I wear a regular bra with the sports bra on top. The under bra is awesome and holds the girls up beautifully and it is called (I am just reading straight from the card...Customized lift for your cup size! sexy fit by playtex and the awesome outter sports style bra that works wonders is called Moisture-control wicking inner layer racerback 2 pack by Fruit of the Loom Sport. The under bra was $15 and the outter one was $11 for two. They both came from Walmart. Just go and try them on and at least see what you think! Because I can NEVER seem to find a bra that holds them up and firm and out of the way! There is zero jiggle and bounce in these bras! It is wonderful! LOL

Awe!!! Thank you guys so much!!! I hope I can help motivate or inspire someone the way everyone on here inspires me!!! Here is something I just wrote out to send through private message...I get asked this a lot, though, so I will just go ahead and post it on here, too. I just stick to the basics...I wish I had more of a planned routine that I could tell you guys about to help out some, but I am just a random person. I want to get into swimming. My doc told me that swimming is the only exercise that works every muscle in your body at the same time, promotes an hour glass figure, is low impact, and helps improve breathing. I think that it will help me a lot to workout while doing something fun. It can be a steady, daily thing that I do along with my random junk to kind of help things out more. Anywho...here is what I put in the letter: I am not quite sure what contributed to my weight loss so much because I am so random with what I do. LOL! So, I will just tell you all I can think of. Aha I really just think it is because of all of my weight being isolated to the top and so that is where 90% of my weight has come from instead of it coming from everywhere, the change looks more drastic. I stick to the basics, really. I drink tons of waters sometimes with walmart brand sugar free flavor packs (grape is the best lol) eat lots of meats (chicken, and any canned meats) eggs, and Protein shakes. I walk some which I have slacked on severely and I have a 3 mile rediculous obstical course (ROC) race coming up march 22nd that I badly need to prepare for. It just got too cold to walk or run. I do step aerobics at home using my daughter's step stool and some 5 pound weights and, randomly, if i think about it, I break into a floor tummy workout for about 10 minutes lmbo exercise is definitely my biggest struggle, but I figure that 10 minutes is better than none. I drank the special k chocolate Protein drinks for a while there but was told that the sugar and carbs may be bad. I only drink not even half at a time, but now I just treat myself to that here and there. I dont want food nor do i truly enjoy eating anymore, so when I know it is time to eat I just pick a meat and go for it lol Oh, and, I dont know if this is ok or not, but I do not like Protein powder. So I have been getting Water and heating it up. I put one or two TEASPOONS of sugar free french vanilla Cappuccino in it with one scoop of my vanilla protein powder and top it with sugar free liquid french vanilla creamer to taste. I dont do this 5 times a day or anything, but that helps me drink my protein powder and it is soooo good! And I barely put any cappuccino in it! May be bad...i dont know. It just helps me lol i doubt any of this helped...but that is how my average day goes. I do wish that I had an actual planned routine, but I am just very random with what I do. Maybe my body is wondering what the heck is this crazy girl doing and that is the result LOL! My weight is just isolated to the top half and because of this...the only places to lose the weight were my actual problem areas. I am down 75 pounds and about 88% came from my real problem areas up top, so the loss was very noticeable. I hope something out of here has helped! Thanks everyone for viewing the pics and commenting! Good luck to you on your weight loss journey!!! And please let me know if I helped at all. LOL! And if you have any more specific things you would like to know about that I didn't mention, please just ask.

Thank y'all! Congrats on the weight loss, so far, you guys, too! Looks like we are all close in pounds lost, as well! Keeping up the progress! I am always taking pictures. Does anyone else have a hard time seeing a change? I look in the mirror and I look like I have not lost a lot of weight. I go shopping and I pick out clothes that would have fit me 75 pounds ago and I even will think "man, I hope this won't be too tight." They end up being too big. I take pictures and I am so confused by who I am seeing LMBO! No complaints...I know my mind will just take a little bit longer getting used to the quick changes as they happen! It is just funny, though, because before...I would look in the mirror and think I wasn't very big and then I would see pictures and be speechless by how big I was and that is how everyone else saw me. I went to Goodwill for some more clothes several weeks back because I don't want to buy a whole wardrobe only to fit them for a few weeks lol (I have great finds and they are cheap...highly recommend it). Anyways...I ended up finding some super cute pants that were size 9. Last time I tried on jeans, I was a 10. So, I decided to go on a limb and try it out. They fit! So, then I tried on, and bought, several pair of sz 9 jeans. Then I saw a pink pair of tighter leg jeans. Looked at the tags...size 6...how unfortunate! My sister says "just try them on...I bet you can fit them." Absolutely not, but in an attempt to prove her wrong, plus the jeans were awesome, I went ahead and tried them on. They buttoned...Oh My Word! They were tighter, but, hey...they fit! I obviously bought those amazing huge size 6s LMBO And then I bought two other pair of size 6 jeans that were abnormally big (there is no way I fit a normal size 6...just...no nuh uh...) Ahaha Just goes to show that even now my eyes/mind play the meanest tricks on me! Pictures are my best friends! LOL