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veromichelle    29

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My name is Veronica. I'm 22 years old. I've been in the process of preparing for surgery. I find out my surgery date for the gastric sleeve on February 7th. I am so excited. And motivated! This is going to be my "before" photo. And I will post photos as the weeks go by. Currently I am at 256 pounds. I'm trying to loose 10-15 pounds before surgery. post-311725-14858409978342_thumb.jpg

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I don't have that many "full body" photos of myself because I don't really like them.

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Congrats on taking control of your life at an early age. You're just adorable! . Any full body shots of myself are either an accident or I tried another darn diet in the past. "before pics"

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biginjapan    647

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Congrats - I'll be having surgery two days after you. I've taken a couple of full body photos but they are not the greatest. I'll try again sometime before next week. Good luck with your surgery!

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veromichelle    29

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Congrats on taking control of your life at an early age. You're just adorable! . Any full body shots of myself are either an accident or I tried another darn diet in the past. "before pics"

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Thank you so much. I am the exact same way. All of my photos are usually of my chest and up. Nothing below my chest. But thank you so much. That means a lot

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Congrats - I'll be having surgery two days after you. I've taken a couple of full body photos but they are not the greatest. I'll try again sometime before next week. Good luck with your surgery!

Congradualtions :) it's such a huge step to changing your life. It's so exciting. I will definitely take more photos as I get closer to my surgery date

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Good luck VERONICA! My surgery date is February 20 th! I'm waiting until I start my liquid diet on the 6th before I post pictures! I'm so sick of friends and family telling me I don't need the surgery! They think you have to be over 600 lbs and on death bed in order to have the surgery! Have any of your family or friends told you not to have it!

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veromichelle    29

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Good luck VERONICA! My surgery date is February 20 th! I'm waiting until I start my liquid diet on the 6th before I post pictures! I'm so sick of friends and family telling me I don't need the surgery! They think you have to be over 600 lbs and on death bed in order to have the surgery! Have any of your family or friends told you not to have it!

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AWww that's so exciting. Good luck :) id love to see some photos ! And no not really. The only one who isn't on board with me is my dad. He thinks I'm too young to get major surgery and he's afraid. But the rest of my family and friends are supportive. I did have a friend of mine who said it was the easy way out but he's no longer a friend of mine. That's the only thing that I don't like that people say. I know it's not the easy way out because my mom had the surgery and let me tell you, it was definitely not easy for her.

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I was sleeved at the end of December and we started at around the same start weight! I was banded back in 2010 at 327 lbs. my biggest piece of advice is to get more full body pics of yourself front and back!!! And make sure that you take measurements. I went through a 2 week stall where I lost NOTHING, but my super tight small size pants started to fall off! Good luck!

Banded 2010 weight:327

Sleeved 12/28/16 weight:253

CW: 230 GW: 155

Heather in Texas

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veromichelle    29

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I was sleeved at the end of December and we started at around the same start weight! I was banded back in 2010 at 327 lbs. my biggest piece of advice is to get more full body pics of yourself front and back!!! And make sure that you take measurements. I went through a 2 week stall where I lost NOTHING, but my super tight small size pants started to fall off! Good luck!

Banded 2010 weight:327

Sleeved 12/28/16 weight:253

CW: 230 GW: 155

Heather in Texas

Thank you Heather for your advice. I will definitely do so :)

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Walter.Sobchak    978

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Anyone having surgery and under 200 lbs. I have been getting a lot of backlash from people saying I don't need surgery. I have no support in this! 5'2 195#


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What is your BMI?
You are pretty short, so even though you are under 200 pounds your BMI might be high?
Do you have any health issues? HBP? sleep Apnea? Fatty Liver Disease?

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