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One year ago today, at 2:00pm, I had my initial phone interview from my bariatric program. I had enough and took the step.

I was always dead-set against surgery and prayed daily for God to help me. I awoke one day at peace on the surgery and made the call. I weighed 329lbs.

ONE. YEAR. TO. THE. DAY I wake to this blessing! 199.8 on the scale.

God works in mysterious ways but, in this case, no mystery...just Gods Grace!

Oct 1 will be 7 months to the day of my surgery

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1 hour ago, Fred in Pa said:

One year ago today, at 2:00pm, I had my initial phone interview from my bariatric program. I had enough and took the step.

I was always dead-set against surgery and prayed daily for God to help me. I awoke one day at peace on the surgery and made the call. I weighed 329lbs.

ONE. YEAR. TO. THE. DAY I wake to this blessing! 199.8 on the scale.

God works in mysterious ways but, in this case, no mystery...just Gods Grace!

Oct 1 will be 7 months to the day of my surgery

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That is so amazing!!! Congratulations to you! God is great!!!

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OMG congratulations!!! That is absolutely amazing!!! You must feel incredible. I'm so happy for you :)

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Congratulations and Welcome to One-derland!

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Great work! Healthy feels awesome, doesn’t it?

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Well done you Fred. You (YOU) have lost loads of weight after your surgery and I'm so glad you're now seeing the benefits! 😍

As an atheist I have absolutely no idea how and why you would want to attribute all your hard work and your loss to some deity or other but - yunno - absolutely good on you if you need to do that! We all get though our surgery and lose our weight in whatever way we can. I don't do that but kudos to anyone who needs to and does. Onwards and downwards.

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