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Hello, I was a long time lurker before my surgery and finally decided to join. Had my Gastric Bypass on 7/14/17 and so far so good. Definitely looking forward to Monday when I can start the puree part of the diet and finally have some food with "taste" lol. In 2014 I weighed 415 pounds and my doctor mentioned the option of WLS which at first scared me to death. After a while I decided it was the right thing to do for myself to get back in shape. I weighed 389 at the start of my 10 day pre-op diet, lost approx 25 pounds and weighed 366 on surgery day. Went to my family doc's yesterday and weighed in at 353.5 which is exciting. The shrinking has begun! lol

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Woo hoo! Sounds like you are doing great! congrats, and welcome!

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8 hours ago, Berry78 said:

Woo hoo! Sounds like you are doing great! congrats, and welcome!

Thanks, It's been a long time coming.

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