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Today is my 6 month surgeryversary, and so I finally got my but in gear and pulled some dresses out of the closet to take "same dress" status shots.

The results shocked the heck out of me.

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The first pic is probably at my biggest weight; around 317. The second is maybe 1 month post op (so about 45 pounds down) and the third one -- that's today.

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For the first time in as long as I can remember, I'm looking at these after pics of me and thinking....am I still "fat"? I guess technically I am; still fall just in that "obese" range. But I don't look at them and just sigh at my body the way I used to.

Add to that that I go to the gym 4-5 days a week, walk about a mile and a third on the treadmill every mwf, can walk more than that when I'm out and about, and my perfectly stable sleep schedule -- and altogether, I feel like a pretty different person.

Fun bonus shots of how much too big these dresses (which were slightly too small at my biggest) are on me now:

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Edited by Brandeis
apparently mild cursing gets censored lol

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Ahhh, thank you all! As of today it's 100 pounds down, which is INSANE!!! only about 18 to go to get under that 200 mark......

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Congrats on your success!! You look great. :)

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