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Username: MC83
Member Since: 6/21/2012
BMI: 33.3
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Surgery Type: RNY (04/28/12)
Surgeon: Kahlil Shillingford

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One more month to go!
on March 28, 2013 8:24 am

In exactly one month I will reach my one year surgiversary!
Weighed in at 197 today. Probably won't lose more than 5-7 in the coming month, but I guess I'll take it :)

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Onederland!!!!!!
on March 20, 2013 7:51 am

I am 11 months out from my surgery, and I have finally hit a huge milestone...ONEDERLAND! It feels amazing. The last time i was one hundred anything was a good 8-9 years ago, but here I am, at 198 lbs...and it's only going to get better. My BMI has dropped ~20 points as it started at 53.4 and I can't wait until the day where it says I am a normal weight. Pilates has been great for me and I'm loving the firmness of my body. My goal for these next 13 months is to reach my target weight of 135-140 lbs. I know the road will be tough as the weight loss is slowing down, and the stalls are increasing, but I will do this. I will reach my goal weight.

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8 Months Out
on January 20, 2013 7:52 am

Today I stepped on the scale and lo and behold, I have lost 100 pounds! It blew my mind. I still have 71 pounds to go to reach my goal of 140, but I will get there. With the help of pilates and the support of my husband, I will get there. It's so crazy! I feel great!

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9 weeks out
on July 7, 2012 10:57 am

So here I am, 9 weeks out from my surgery, holding to having lost 41 pounds. It's frustrating, I feel like I need to lose everyday though I know that's ridiculous. I'm an obsessive weigher. I have been weighing everyday, sometimes multiple times a day, for the past few weeks and I have finally asked my husband to hide the scale from me. I will commit to weighing twice a month to track progress. It's so retarded that I must do that, but I feel like I can't stop myself. My days would be ruined from the time I got up if I hadn't lost weight. I feel like I should have lost at least 50lbs by now. I fear somehow I have ruined my surgery, that I've stretched my stoma, or that I will never see one hundred anything much less my lofty goal of 130lbs. I feel left out that I don't have a nutritionist like everyone else on here seems to have. I don't even know if my ins would cover one. I should find out. My surgeon's operation is very bare, his office staff consists of himself and his receptionist and I don't even know who will do my followup care such as labs. I have an appointment the 18th so I will ask if that just has to be done through my PCP. The days are weird. Sometimes I'm feeling great, knowing I can do this for the long haul, then others I'm pretty down and worried about everything. All I can do is make the right choices, take the supplements, exercise daily, and drink...I'm at the mercy of my body though as to if it will comply and lose the weight. I'm scared of my first big stall, it will kill me. I'm scared of losing 100lbs and just being done. This journey takes a huge toll psychologically :(

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Two Month Surgiversary
on June 28, 2012 10:50 am

This time 2 months ago I was prepping for my life changing surgery. I'm down 38lbs so far which feels amazing though I still wish it was more. I guess I'm destined to have weight and food always dominate my life. Constantly counting, watching what I'm eating, trying to lose, maintaining the lost weight...seems so unfair. I wish this surgery solved everything...like a cure, oh I reached my goal weight so i'm finished and moving on with my life. Of course it can never be like that, but it would be nice.

So, now that I'm 2 months out I've learned a lot and will most likely continue to learn. I'm feeling way more energetic and actually look forward to exercise...which in the past I would have never fathomed. A few weeks after my surgery I had like negative energy, all I wanted to do was sleep for 17 hours a day. My incisions are still pretty ugly, but I suppose that's a small price to pay for this amazing opportunity. The seemingly constant hunger that I was having has now stopped since I've been making protein smoothies...guess that was my body yelling at me. Overall....I feel great! I'm starting to see a big difference in the mirror, and yesterday a coworker who hadn't seen me in weeks was amazed. It felt really good. Of course I didn't tell her how besides drastically changing my eating and exercising which is true...so I don't feel badly about wanting to keep it on the DL. Tonight I'll take some pictures to continue photodocing my journey. I'm so impatient, I just want to be 130lbs now. Thinking about all the things I want to do when I'm "skinny" is driving me crazy. I have an adventurous skinny girl on the inside, but I'm a fat girl on the outside and that's what wins out the most. Anyways, I guess that's all for now.

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This is the story of me and how I was a fatty. I am currently 28 years old and have lost 36 lbs since my surgery almost 2 months ago (4/28/12). At my heaviest, I weighed 311 lbs...shameful...and now I am (for you non math types out there) 275 lbs. I have set a personal goal of reaching 135lbs as that is what the charts say a person of my height of 5'4 should weigh (yeah I know those charts don't convey true health or take into account muscle) but I would look damn sexy at 135.

So a little more background. I have been obese for several years now and though I tried the diets, tried the exercise, things just weren't working for me. I would lose weight, gain it back plus some ...typical yo-yo. I had considered WLS for years but was in no financial condition to pay for it and no insurance I had ever had, would. Then after a move and a job switch I got on my company's insurance and to my disbelief, they had a plan that actually covered it. I found a highly rated surgeon, did a nutrition and psych consult, sent off the paperwork to the insurance and was approved in about a week. They scheduled my surgery for about 3 weeks later and that was that. Never thought something like that would happen so quickly and easily. The first few days after was hell as the pain was pretty intense for me. I ended up having a few complications with my incision getting infected and taking a really long time to close and heal fully. Now I'm just trying to eat the good foods I need, exercise, and reach my lofty goal of losing 140lbs.