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Daniel Fang, M.D.
Unlike most people I was unable to choose which Dr. and hospital I wanted for the surgery. However, my insurance company made a wonderful decision in regards to my surgeon. Dr. Daniel Fang is a very personable, experienced, informative Dr. He has an excellent bed side manner and makes you feel most at ease when you see him! I am glad that my insurance company chose him and I look forward to my next visits with him as I continue to lose weight.
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Almost 1 yr post-op
on January 20, 2008 4:41 pm
Well, I am coming up on my one year anniversary!  February 1st will be one year!   I haven't been on here much so I am writing now to let everyone know how well I have been doing!  I started this journey at 324 lbs the day of surgery.  I now weigh in at 212 lbs!  I lost 50 lbs a month or so before my surgery so all together I have lost 162 lbs!  

I dont even have to tell you how totally different my life is!  I finally got over the terrible depression that I found myself in and I have really started to ENJOY living my life!  The pounds aren't the only things I have been able to shed!  My attitude about life in general is totally different.  My family tells me constantly what a joy I am to be around now and that I am not so ANGRY anymore!  I am active and I do things that I have never before done..simple things, like doing the dishes, cleaning the house, taking care of my animals.  I know, it sounds like silly things, but to me and my family, they are huge accomplishments.  Before my surgery I slept 23 hrs a day.  I got up long enought to eat something and go back to bed.  I didn't care whether or not I woke up the next morning...and honestly thought it would be better for everyone around me if I didn't!

Those of you who have been down this road already, I know you understand everything I am writing.  And to those of you who are just beginning your journey or are considering it.....I wish you the best of luck.  If you are standing in the shadows and aren't sure if this is something you really want to do..let me tell you something!  I was 33 yrs old when my Neurosurgeon told me that I had 6 months to live!  I had a terrible neurological disorder that was making me blind...I also had diabetes, high blood preasure, high cholesterol and a number of other issues due to my weight.  When I first had the surgery, all I could think of was that I had made a terrible mistake!  But as the time has gone by and the pounds have come off, I would do it all over again if I had to!  By the way, I WON'T ever have to because I love the new me and I never ever want to be FAT again!  

I will put  up a couple of new pics so everyone can see....I have a neck now and only ONE chin!  I am now down to 32 lbs away from my goal weight for plastic surgery to remove the skin...It is very frustrating to have lost almost 200 lbs and look the way that I do...but I know that it isn't permenant and that I only have to deal with it for a short time!  When I am standing or even laying down, I can take all the skin and ball it up and see that I have a flat stomach!  It's very exciting and can't wait till I get this skin off!

Good luck to everyone that is going through this now and to those of you who are considering this.  It is definately a life-style change...but you can do it if you put your mind to it!

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Sharon M.
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5 months post op
on July 26, 2007 8:46 pm
Well, I am now 5 months and 3 weeks post-op.  I had my surgery on February 1st of this year.  I have lost 74 lbs since the surgery.  I started losing weight on my own before the surgery.  So, all together since December of last year, I have lost 130 lbs!  It is very exciting!  It has taken me quite a while to get used to the new me!  I guess I still have issues with my fat mantality that I have had for so long.  It wasnt until I took these new pis of myself this week that it finally kicked in that I really have lost a lot of weight!  I put up a new pic so that y'all could see my progress!





I still have 90 lbs to go to get to my goal weight...but I'm not worried about it, I know it will happen!  I feel so good and am really enjoying alot more now than I was able to before.  I will post more pics as I get them taken and then update on my weightloss as well.  



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One Month Post-Op
on March 4, 2007 1:59 pm
Wow, its been a month now since I had my surgery.  Alot has happened in the last four weeks.  My life is so different now that some times its hard to believe!  Unfortunately I spent the better part of two weeks not feeling too great.  I was unable to eat or drink much but I feel like I am doing better with that now.  I had even stopped losing weight which was really disturbing to me...but alas...I got on the scale this morning and I am down another five pounds...WOOHOO!  That makes me losing about 29 lbs right now.  I am really starting to feel it too.  I had weighed originally 375 lbs by last July...well, about 4 months before my surgery I started trying to lose some of that and I got down to 324 the day of my surgery.  Its all starting to catch up with me..my stomach is getting smaller, and oh, my breasts...boohoo are getting smaller as well...as well as my thighs and my back!   

Its a great feeling!  My mom tells me at night when she gets home from work just how great I am starting to look and she points out all the places that are visibly shrinking.  Most people have a barrel-chest, I have always had a barrel-back!  I'm sure some of you know what I mean by that...well, its starting to shrink!  And I had a terrible hump on my back below my head, it was terrible, but its going away fast!  

My goal weight is eventually to be down to the 135 I was in highschool, don't know how realistic that is but I am going to set my goal weight on here to 150 lbs.  That is a healthy weight for me and I will not only feel great, but I know that at that weight I will look good as well without pushing it by going down to the 135.  

It has been a hard road up to this point but I think it can only get easier...now that the depression has seemed to go away and I feel like I am getting things down easier.  I know that for the last two weeks when I was so ill, all I could think about is how I wished I had not had this surgery!  But obviously reality has set in and I know that there is nothing that I can do to change that...its done!  They cant undo the surgery, no matter how badly I wanted them to!  

I know its not going to be easy, but if it was, would I appreciate it?!  Probably not.  So anything great is worth working hard for. 

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