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Topic: RE: 16 month update with pics!!!!!!
 Great job you look great. Keep up the good work 
Vinny mac

Vinny Mac

            
Topic: RE: Down 100lbs in 7months.... with PICs!
WOW!!! U look very very good keep it up.

Vinny Mac

            
Topic: RE: Will I need a wheelchair on my flight home? 3 days post op
Yes I would ask for one. day three was bad for me also I fly into houston and I wished I had asked for one my gate where along way from each other and by the time I had walked from one gate to the other I felt very weak and sick . Just ask for one if you don't need it don't use it.

Vinny Mac

Vinny Mac

            
Topic: RE: people who lost 200+
The sleeve works trust me. I lost 253lbs in about 9 months  and I have kelp it off for over 2yrs now. The thing with the sleeve is even after 2yr I still can't over eat . just look at other forum there is allways someone on there talking about they have gain all there weight back you never see that on the VSG forum . go look at my pictures from when I started maybe that will inspire you to do it.Good luck

Vinny Mac

Vinny Mac

            
Topic: RE: A new training program
Thank you 4 saying that. I arm and shoulder and legs look ok but my mid section is nothing but lose nasty skin . I workout like a animal but only surgery will take away lose skin.

Vinny

Vinny Mac

            
Topic: RE: A new training program
I was in a stall for a few months.I didn't gain are lose any weight . I was workout 5 days a week doing 30-45 min of cardio then weight training and I have been doing this since 4 week out of VSG. Anyway I start a new class at my gym where they use weight traing as carido it alot of reps at a fast pace wth low weights well It has been 3weeks and I have gained 3 Lbs but my pants size went from a 40 to a 38 a lose 38 but not a 36 yet. I was told today by the trainer that I would start loseing again now.Anyway what do you think will I start lossing again. My cal count is 2000-2300 a day.

Thanks Vinny

Vinny Mac

            
Topic: RE: VSG to Gastric bypass
WoW! In 2yrs on this forum I can't recall anyone gaining all there weight back they do sometimes gain a little. 30lbs an't **** . Bro the sleeve is the best and safest WLS. You are looking for a miracle cure in WLS. The gastric Bypass will be your last step. what if u start gaining after the Bypass there is nothing else . What I'm trying to say is no WLS will work if you don't make it work. The VSG is the best surgey you will ever need so make it work you can do it. Willpower is a *****

Vinny

Vinny Mac

            
Topic: RE: About JILLIAN MICHAELS
Dang Tripmom02 U might hate Miss Michaels.Fu.. it I hate her to let find her real email address and write her and tell her that she was never realy fat and that she sucks because she is richer then we are. She is dead to me!!

Vinny Mac

Vinny Mac

            
Topic: RE: About JILLIAN MICHAELS
I don't care what she is into ether.I hate to know she was a smoker . The fact that she is say she use to obesty ****** me off she was chucky not even fat just a little overweight at best. I love all you guys answers. I'm over my Jillian Michaels crush now .

Vinny Mac

Vinny Mac

            
Topic: RE: About JILLIAN MICHAELS
I don't Know if this **** is true and I realy hope its not But I found this video on you tube from a dude that was her trainer for 11 yrs he talks about Jillian being fake that she was never a fat kid like she tell everyone that she take strriods how she has had to have plastic surgery to make her look more womanle that she is a big time smoker ,coke head and bar fly . Like I said watch it and tell me what u think.  http://youtu.be/tbsYbE0xAs4 P.S I was a big Jillian Michaels fan I was looking up workout when I found this.

Vinnymac

Vinny Mac

            
Topic: RE: not washing hair decrease hair loss??
I'm 24 month 2 days out from VSG and I have been taking bioten the whole time my hair fell out by the hand fulls for 9months then if slow down now I have so much new hair and I think its because on the bioten it works and my nails allso look great because of it. good luck but your hair is going to fall out it happens to us all keep takeing the bioten it will slow it down.

Vinny

Vinny Mac

            
Topic: RE: attn: coffee drinkers.......question ???
Why can't you have coffee

Vinny Mac

            
Topic: RE: Exercising... bummer!
I go 5 to 6 days a week but no less then 4 days a week I have been doing that sence 1 month after my WLS.I have change my workout so mean times that keep your body confussed. At frist I was going early morning doing 30 to 45 min of cardio then going to work and doing weight training after work I lost alot like this. Then I started weight training in the morning and cardio in the evening. now i do 10 mins cardio weight train, 10 more mins cardio more weights 10 more mins cardio and more weights then a 10 min cool down on the spin bike for a total of all most 2hrs. But if I don't I fill like ****

Vinny Mac

Vinny Mac

            
Topic: RE: Confusion of a BIG man!
Thank you for being a strong person .I to am so so sorry about your Brother-in-law it makes my problems look small. Please hug your family for me .

Vinny Mac

Vinny Mac

            
Topic: RE: Self Payers...
I was self payed.I went to Mexico its much safer then you might think. It was a 8500 total then i think its cheaper now you can call Dr Elmo anytime day or night . If you thru BELITEWEIGHT.Com and talk to Joann she will finance you for I think 10%down and $200 a month.

Good Luck

Vinny Mac

            
Topic: RE: Confusion of a BIG man!
I love all of you guys so much from the new people to the people that have been here longer then me. It just a very bad thought that all the weight could come back. Its just a bad time for me right now i'm not a Xmas person (childhood ****) so In my past food is my go to support and because of that I was 553lbs .I fill better already.

Thanks to everyone
Vinny Mac

Vinny Mac

            
Topic: RE: Confusion of a BIG man!
Hi my name is Vinny Mac and I'm a food addicts . Tomorrow will be two years since VSG surgery I've  lost 259 lbs and I'm very happy about it  But all the craveings and late nite Bingeing have came back . There is not a day or nite when I don't won't to eat. I hate the filling of being helpless over food. Thank goodnees I can't eat as much as I use to and I love workingout as much as I do are I would gain every pound I lost back. I know its all mental but it so F.cking hard. I HATE food its the drug I can't shake. My depression is at a point that It has never been even before wls.I'm not trying to get replys but sometimes it helps to talk about. Anyway everyone keep up the good work.

Vinny

Vinny Mac

            
Topic: RE: Howdy, Newbie Here Looking for Accountability
Welcome Newbie this is where you need to be the people on here will be your best friends . And congrats on the Sleeve I know its hard now but the VSG works you have lost over 30lbs in a month HOLY S.IT how cool is that. so good luck to you.

Vinny Mac

Vinny Mac

            
Topic: RE: Frisco-Quick Stir-Fry !!!
Ha Frisco have you every found a low Cal BBQ.
Thanks Vinny



















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Vinny Mac

            
Topic: RE: Ice cream lovers
Has anyone every hard of Arti**** Ice Cream.This s.it has only 150 cal for a whole pint . As for someone that loves ice cream this is a great find.Some of it sucks but I tryed Maple today good stuff just try it.

Vinny Mac

Vinny Mac

            
Topic: RE: band slipped considering sleeve, any advice!
Yes get rid of the band. My girlfriend has had her band for 1yr and a half she has lost 22lbs and her food gets stuck all the f.cking time she hates it . after the first of the yr she is getting the band out and the sleeve in. If you don't mind how much have you lost.

Vinny Mac

            
Topic: RE: Am I just not seeing it, or are there really that few VSGers that have complications?
I know that a few people do have leaks I never did. The VSG is the safes WLS there is. And its funny I get asked this alot because I went to mexico to have surgery. But the only complication i had if you can call it a complication is I had the worst gas right after surgery and my hair fell out but its all back now . it took about 6weeks to get all the gas out. But VSG works .

Good Luck
Vinny Mac

Vinny Mac

            
Topic: RE: I still can't believe this is me !! w/pics

NICE KEEP IT UP VSG works!!!


Vinny

Vinny Mac

            
Topic: RE: Relationships After WLS!
I'm depressed alot more  and I snap on people not as much my family but people I don't know I get in a screaming match with a supervisor at American Airline yeaterday  for F..king up my ticket and make me 3 hours late then the taxi cab driver in San Francisco thought i was a tourest and drive me  way the hell out of the way I wanted to beat his brains in. I use to would never speak my mind now I speak it to much. When I get depressed are pissed the only think that clams me down is workingout so thats a good thing.

Vinny

Vinny Mac

            
Topic: RE: How long before decaf coffee?
I was also givein Decaf in Hospital PO. it was so good Decaf coffee and Ice chips nothing better after WLS.

Vinny Mac