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One Week Post Op today! I feel great and almost walking back to normal. I have learned in this short week to not drink your dinner protein shake at a constant sipping. I spent 30 min the last two nights trying to release the pressure in my chest. Lesson Learned! I am back down to Surgery Date Weight as of this morning, actually half a pound less. Now to look forward to actual losses LOL. I guess i had a lot of gas and liquids that are taking time to leave my body. Its all good, it will be gone eventually! I have no regrets, and take each day as it comes and look forward to the next stage next Thursday, and getting my stitches out on Tuesday.

Check out my video chat with Dr. Domanskis on plastic surgery after weight loss http://www.mybariatriclife.org/dr-edward-domanskis-bariatric-plastic-surgery-video-1/

Tomorrow is my last day of real food, i cant say unrestricted, there was no food funeral for me because my surgeon requires a weigh in the day before surgery and if you have gained surgery is off. My weight has been good though. Tuesday im clear liquids and then the big day!! Ive been busy all week getting last minute things done, laundry, shopping, pre cooking, i just cannot believe that what ive been dreaming of four years is finally here.

I am 4 pounds from the lowest weight I can remember being in over a decade! 23 more pounds til onederland!

Went to store, used a mortozied cart (because of my ACL knee surgery TWO weeks ago). My teenager was Mortified. Saying that this was like my "600 lb life) and that I needed to lose weight (duh, WLS planned for Nov). I laughed it off, but also realized that if I don't have surgery/lose weight, I am headed for motorized cart & how hard it would be.

I'm thinking about a lot of things. I'm looking back on my past years. 2014 was when I decided enough was enough. I ex had given up on me, January 1, 2014 took my daughter and just left me. At that time I was at 780 plus pounds. In a wheelchair. Didn't hear from them, nine days later I get a call from my sister. She tells me that my ex told her that she was working on divorce and for her to go get me out of the place I was living (we were living with my ex in laws) So I fell deep into depression. Mid Jan. I decided to do something about my weight. So I started walking on my treadmill 5 mins a day at a 1.0 speed. It was very hard, I was not on a diet. Just controlled my food intake and made water a huge part of my day. I've come a long way, i'm now able to walk miles instead of only 5 minutes a day. Its a good feeling, I look back and think to myself "all the achy days, all the mornings and nights I cried myself to sleep cause of all the heartache, pain and felt like giving up: it was all worth it and glad i did not give in or give up" 2014 780 plus pounds today I weighed myself. I'm now at 390lbs and i'm feeling so good, it great accomplishment feeling. On a different note: I'm like 3 days away from my surgery day. Yes i'm nervous, excited about this next steppingstone but worried cause of the diet I will be on. I've never been good at diets, so adapting to this new lifestyle will be a challenge but i'm ready for it...

Last weigh in on Friday, July 1st. Now just waiting for the insurance to qualify me. Ready for the WEIGHT to be over!

I was talking with a friend last night and she told me her weight while she weighed herself (she is trying to gain weight) and I realized I have lost more than her entire body weight, and while she is small, she isn't tiny. It is crazy to think I this time last year I was walking around with an entire person on my back. No wonder my heels are so comfortable now.

how do i update my weight?

Took a nice break; back to read some info; I have my first consult/appt next week on the 19th. FInally coming around. On the downside, my insurance company is requiring me to do all the weight management part again, because there wasn't a CONSECUTIVE documented doctor visits. Ugh. I went from March 2016 to Dec 2016; and only Sept was documented in between. But I'm trying to stay positive. It shall pass.

Still recovering from surgery and every day I feel more like myself. I have lost weight since and already my feet and knees are feeling so much better. I am so glad to have had this surgery.

Had my 18 month follow up with my surgeon yesterday. I've lost 164 pounds. He said that it's up to me if I want to keep losing weight, but he is pleased with my progress and told me to lose until I feel comfortable. I'm far from a healthy weight, so I will continue to try to lose...

Today I weigh less than the weight I lied about on my last driver's license . LOL!!

A minor stall broke today. My pants are trying to fall off and multiple people who aren't aware of my surgery and have been seeing me on a regular basis made comments about me losing weight.

Hello everyone and Merry Christmas! I posted an updated "at goal" picture....here's the link to the post. http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/385726-goal-weight-with-updated-picture/

Wow, I identify so strongly with this. I thought I understood human beings and relationships, but weight loss and the new awareness of how people treat each other (and the factors that influence it) really make me feel more confused than ever.

I'm so happy about where I am in my Weight loss journey!!! I am 5 months in I have a great handle on my eating-- skin not too flabby--still have big boobs, butt is smaller but it's still a force to be reckoned with! I feel great and my confidence is unexplainable. I feel like i'm 26 again!

Onederland!!!!!! I really never thought it would happen in my wildest dreams before surgery and now that I am here, I feel like I can lose all my excess weight if I want to.

I haven't been on Bariatric Pal in a long while. I need to refocus! Weight loss has been at a stall and I have been a bad girl...

Had my 9 month follow up and have lost 92 pounds. Total weight loss 274. Dr is finally looking into excess skin removal surgeons in my area. Have 43 more pounds to lose before he will refer me to the plastic surgeon. HURRAY!

I love pickles but every time I eat one. I temporarily gain 2 lbs the next day. I need to find some tasty low sodium ones. It's not the weight that bothers me but more why does my body DO that? grrrr

Everything except last NUT is done. HAVE to show a bit of a weight loss on Monday. Crossed Fingers.

Yesterday i celebrated my 34th birthday and i basically just reflected on my life and how much i have been evolving and changing. Life has had it where i all of a sudden have been running into alot of people from my past. Some have seen ginuinely happy for my growth, some have greeted me with fake smiles. Some have actually frowned at me probably not knowing that their mouth was saying one thing, but their face was saying how they really felt. Some people have asked what i have been doing to lose weight, stating that im so skinny now, they can hardly recognize me. People are a trip, and i thank God i am a very to myself person so negativity doesnt come my way often, or quite bother me. I am in my last year of nursing school and down 125 pounds and all praise goes to God, nobody else not even myself. It has not been my strength at all because i know i would have fallen without my faith. Just everyone, love yourself in spite of people and their reactions. Just know when you grow for the better, many will not be happy for you.