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Hey Everyone

Hope you Lapband Journey is going great

I am down a total of 82 pounds and I feel absolutely wonderful. I went to a black tie wedding last night and we couldnt resist taking pictures

I felt so beautiful in the dress

297 pounds

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267 pounds

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242 pounds

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234 pounds

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222 pounds

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Here are some other pictures from last night

Me and my girlfriend Sandy

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Me and the Hubby

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Here I am today!

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Sammees comparison pics made me think to get mine out and see how far I had come, I hope noone minds seeing skin, I scribbled the rudie bits out :)

First pic is night before banding, second pic is night before TT after 70lbs lost and third pic is 6 weeks po TT and down 80lbs with some swelling still.

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Hello - I had surgery 5/9/06 and have lost 50 lbs already! :clap2:

I'm not sure if I am loading these pics up correctly, but one picture is of me (the "before" picture) is at the hospital in Mexico and the other two (the "after" pictures) are from this past weekend, 8/20/06)...

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Here is after pics of almost 125lbs down and 1 year out. I'm still not happy with the skin issue, but I'm happy with the overall weight loss.

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AFTER:

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Hopefully these pics will come out ok. The first one was taken on 3/22/06 one day before surgery, the second was taken today, 6 months post and 63lbs lighter.

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Everyone looks great!! Keep up the good work.

Ok, now for my 11 month post-op photos. Pardon the poor picture quality but I can't find my digicam and had to use the cell phone camera.

My starting weight was 274 pounds and I'm 182 pounds in these pictures.

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The first pictures were taken just about a week after I started my preop dieting - down from 255 and the 2nd set are from the 31st of August - 15 days after surgery.

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