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Thank you!

Awesome nikki! Good luck! Any updates Teres?

Cool. He is awesome. The gas pain is REAL! Walk, walk, walk! As much as possible. You may not feel like you can ever swallow normally again but you will. Just take your time and sip water as much as you possible can. The first couple of days, maybe as much as a week will suck but after that it will be so worth it and get much easier each day. My wife did it about 6 months ago as well and is doing great too.

Yes! I did it with Dr. Purtell at SWAT Surgical.

I'm in Lubbock, Texas and was sleeved in December of 2018. Good luck and let me know if you have any questions.

I have binge watched so much it's almost embarrassing. Ozark is amazing. Currently watching Outlander weekly as they come out with the wife. Orange is the New Black, The Last Kingdom, Cooking shows, The Office, Dark, Mind Hunters, and I'm sure there's more I can't think of right now.

Just posted a video of my journey. Hope everyone is doing well!

Ha! Here we go with the corrections for what it's worth!

Ha! Dangit! I woke up thinking about how I might have undersold that! Can't believe it since I am a math guy. That's terrible. It won't let me just edit it so I had to edit it in the program and post a new video on my channel with the correct totals on there this time. Thanks for watching.

Ha, mine said I should have died a year and half ago! Ironically that is around the date I started researching my options and discovered this thing called "Gastric Sleeve" that I had never even heard of before August of 2018 which is when it said I should have expired. Now it gives my until September 2048. I'd say that's a huge improvement for what it's worth! Instead of dying at 43 I should make it to 73. Yes!!!

Can't believe I'm actually in Onederland! I didn't think this was ever possible again. What a journey! Now it also gives me a great place to cap myself at for the future ie. 199.9.

Wow, you have done great!

Wow. way to go McCaw! You are killing it! Btw, I stepped on the scale for the first time since before the Christmas Holidays and am now unbelievably in to One Hundreds! Officially 197.8 from 426 in late 2018. What a journey. I felt like I didn't stay on point great through the holidays, which include my birthday and several others in my family as well as several Christmas parties but I still lost some. I never thought I would see the 100's again or that it would be possible with the loose skin I have as well. Crazy. Keep going everyone and remember why we did it!

One year sleeviversary today!!! The family even had me try on my old letter jacket from high school. Crazy!

One year today!

You're doing great David! Keep it up. It is amazing all the changes for the positive that have come with this and we aren't even a year out from surgery!

Okay my fellow Decemberists we've fallen to Page 6 so it's been awhile since there have been any updates! My family went on vacation and I made it through it but had been scared to weigh in until I felt like I had worked off anything that I might have done, although in hindsight I must have done pretty well and it was way better than what I would have normally done. I think I mainly struggled hitting in my daily protein goals because I didn't have my shakes. Btw, my wife and kids say they can totally tell when I don't hit my protein because apparently I'm slow and sluggish both mentally and physically so I guess that's one more reason to hit it. Anyways, I finally weighed in and am down 12.1 pounds this month even with vacation so YEAH!!! Last year on vacation I had to go to a clinic and they tried to admit me into the hospital but I refused and just took an IV and got better but that was what helped make my decision to look into options when I got back into town and eventually I got sleeved, which I had never even heard of until last August. What a difference a year makes! I rode rides at the amusement park, felt great, and DIDN'T SWEAT EVERYWHERE I WENT, which is saying a lot considering we were in Galveston, Texas and New Orleans which has crazy levels of humidity which usually devastate me since I'm from a very dry climate. I'm down 181 pounds total and have my next follow up with my surgeon in early September. I can't wait. Hope everyone is doing great and please give any updates. Btw, my wife has started the process of getting sleeved so hopefully that will help keep me focused and we can help each other.

I didn't have one either and believe me, I was sweating it out until I found out my surgeon didn't do it!

I've listened to the first 3 episodes. I like it. Even though I'm a guy I can still relate to a bunch of it. Thanks

Dude, you look awesome! Congrats and keep it up.

just followed you on spotify and look forward to listening while working out!

Thanks everybody. This has been a remarkable journey so far and I look forward to where it still takes me! I feel so much better and am so much more active. I am also off of a few pills which is great as well. Keep it up all my fellow sleevers. We've got this!

Decided to post some pics. This is from 3 days pre-surgery to now, 7 months post surgery. starting weight: 426 surgery weight: 400 current: 267

I do find it disturbingly interesting how much friendlier people are to me now and how many take time to say hello or whatever where in the past most of the time they never said anything! This includes retail workers, wait staff, or just the random person at a convenient store. Kind of sad but whatevs.