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You are one of my fave posters ever! Congratulations on your continued success in both weight loss and with finishing college!! How exciting!

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Congrats Blackberry Juice!

Maintenance has always been the scariest thing for me. I'm so happy to see you are doing well with it.

Lynda

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BB juice,

Can you share your Vitamin routine with us?

WCM

I don't take any Vitamins at this point, I stopped after a few months out.

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Thanks for sharing your story. Did you have a personal trainer? I if so, how many months out? Also, I don't see your incisions. How many did you have and how did you care for them? I am less than a week out and worried about how my incisions will heal and look like.

I never had a personal trainer. I already had a good amount of experience with working out before I started surgery. Like I mentioned in my post, I did join a Crossfit gym about a year out - it's all group exercise with coaches, so I got some help learning the more technical movements (e.g. Olympic weightlifting, gymnastics, etc).

I had 5 incisions. 2 of them are barely visible, they look the same as the scars from when I had 2 tiny moles removed when I was a kid. The other 3 are not visible at all. In fact, I showed my abdomen to a bariatric surgeon and he was blown away by how good it looked. He said he would've never guessed I had had laparoscopy at some point, and he couldn't believe Dr. Aceves was able to pull out the stomach through such a tiny incision - he said he wouldn't have been able to do that himself.

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Thanks, everyone!

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BBJ for VST POSTER CHILD :) YOU GO GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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