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My expereince wasn't very good so I'd rather keep my comments to myself except to say that I should have researched my choices better rather then taking the first place that I found my insurance would pay. That is one thing I would like to stress to everyone who is looking for a surgeon. CHECK EVERYTHING OUT!!! Including the hospital where you'll stay.
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  • Comment by grannycarolyn on 6/12/06 8:46 pm
    Thanks a lot Kim, your encouragement is a great boost.
  • Comment by xxlisamariexx on 5/23/06 12:43 pm
    Thank you kindly for your words of encouragement! You are an excellent example of how WLS works! You look fantastic!! WTG!
  • Comment by swangirl on 3/11/06 2:37 am
    Congratulations on your successful weightloss, and best wishes for the future! Linda/Bactrac/swangi rl Name/CB handle/me post op
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This has been one adventurious journey that started in May of 2003 with me weighing in at almost 500lbs. Now it's 2007 and I'm over 300 lbs lighter and feel that I am a new, healthier and MUCH happier Kim. I feel like a prisoner that has been set free. Although there were some rough times and low times in the past 3 yrs.  I would do it all again in a heartbeat to be where I am today. I AM FREE TO BE THE REAL ME !!!!!

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Feb 16
on February 16, 2007 9:00 am

I have met several nice people on here so far. It is cool to get to chat with people from different areas of the US. We all have our weight lose in commen although our journeys have been very different. I love this site.

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Feb. 8
on February 8, 2007 8:15 am
I've been looking at pics on the site and it still amazes me to see the physical difference that weight makes in our appearance. So many people look TOTALLY different now. It's great.
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on January 31, 2007 1:10 pm
One thing that I never thought about before losing all the weight I did is the what would happen to all the stretched out skin. I guess I asumed it would shrink with the weight. Well it didn't. I had 4 plastic surgeries in the past 2 yrs. The first was to have the lose skin from my stomach removed. They cut off 25 lbs of skin. It hung down over my thighs almost to my knees. The second surgery was a trunk lift. They cut off 10 lbs of skin from my hips. The 3rd and 4th were done at the same time. I had the skin on my inner legs tightened up. I also had my breasts moved up to where they belong. They are a cup size smaller and don't hang down to my belly button anymore. Plastic surgery is a BIG decission and there is a lot to consider. You trade the loose skin for scars. It all depends on you and what you want. I'm basically happy with my decisions although I'm not totally happy with my legs. My Doc did say that he would like it to be a two step process because I have so much loose skin but I'm not sure I want another surgery. Maybe later. I just had the last one in Sept. and I had a lot of complications after including a blood clot that is still being treated. All in all I'm happy though. I know I'll never look like Barbie but I look SOOOOO much better then I did. And most of all I feel better.
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on January 25, 2007 3:54 am
This is all new to me. I guess it's kind of like a diary. I would love to meet and make some friends on this site. We all have something so in commen no matter what point of the journey we are on. I think we need all the support we can get to make and to keep maintaining it all.
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I don't remember a time when I wasn't overweight. I was a fat kid, a fatter teen and became a very fat adult. By the age of 23 I had 3 kids and weighed almost 300 lbs. I am 5'2" tall. I'm not blaming the kids for my weight gain. No one forced me to eat. You would think that chasing 3 kids around would keep you from gaining but it didn't stop me any. As a matter of fact I believe if I hadn't stayed so active I would have gotten even bigger then I did.  Even so by age 40 I weighed almost 500 lbs. My weight was really staring to effect my way of life. I had a hard time doing anything. I even had to stop driving because I couldn't fit behind the wheel. My husband had to do a lot of the shopping because I couldn't walk far or stand to long. I had to sit down to do my dishes. One fortunate thing is I was very lucky that I had absolutly no health issues that seem to go along with obesity. I had started to look into getting gastric bypass in 2000 but my insurance wouldn't pay for the bariatric treatment center and I gave up not realizing that there were other places doing the surgery Not as many as today but there were other options . In 2002 my mom found an article on a place that took my inurance so I began the whole process of getting approved for surgery. Believe it or not the inusrance company denied me the first time because I had no health related issues. I guess weighing 500 lbs is not an issue. Anyways I lost my husband in Aug. of 2002 in an industrial accident. It was a shock and almost made me give up on the whole surgery thing. But my family encouraged me to go through with it.  My children were a little afraid for me because of just losing their dad but they also understood that my not having the surgery was probably more of a risk then my having it.  So I  had my surgery in May of 2003. Thank God for my family and all of there help and support. I can only say that I feel like I've been set free and  that I have truly been given a second chance at life. I wish I would have known about the surgery long ago but I can't do anything about yesterday all I can do is live today and believe that is exactly what I do. I am learning to love me and to accept me. No I'm not what the world considers skinny but I am healthier and I am happy with me. I know this journey will not end until I am gone from this earth but because I had the surgery I am enjoying the journey now. Life is good.