ONE YEAR, WOW! Well, I have lost 116 pounds in one year! I started at 308 and am now 192, (I am 5'8" tall). (My highest weight years back was 370). The day of surgery 02/01/2008 I was 308 pounds and a size 28. I am now a comfortable size 10 - 12! I no longer have to buy "wide" shoes! I feel GOOD! I feel "human"! I no longer am the fattest person in the room when I walk in some place. I am no longer the fattest person at my job, ( I actually was)!  I no longer have high blood pressure, borderline diabetes, stress urinary incontinence, knee pain, foot pain, shortness of breath. I can easily get up and down from a chair or the bed. I can easily bend over and pick something up or tie my shoes. Easily buckle any seatbelt or fit in any chair or seat. One of my personal favorites: on the BMI chart, I have went from "Super Obese", to "Obese", to "Overweight", WOW!
I am just so thankful for this surgery...

I am hoping to lose another 20 - 30 pounds....
Thanks to everyone here for their support, kind words, encouragement, friendship, and kinship!
Gina  

I have weighed myself the last several days to be sure - and I am now at 199.4 pounds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow, I haven't weighed less then 250 for the last 20 years! In 1995 my top weight was 369. When I had the Revision from stomach stapling to Gastric Bypass this last February, I weighed 308. Now 199! Man do I feel gooooooooooooood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am comfortably wearing a size 14 jeans, and can put on a pair of size 12 jeans and zip them up, but they are tight. I am wearing a size 12/14 shirt. Some shirts fit everywhere except for the upper-arms if they're not a stretchy shirt. That is my biggest problem is the upper arms..... I can wear a good bra, panty girdle and jeans or pants to look nice dressed, but there is no way to hide my upper arms! I am thinking of having plastic surgery on them. But I really do not want to do that. Fortunately, my stomach doesn't have the hanging "apron" of skin. My stomach does pooch-out some, but not too bad. And a good bra works wonders...... (I'm rambling here)....but man, I don't want to have upper arm surgery -ouch!!!! A woman at work had her upper arms done and her breasts, (she had Gastric Bypass too) and like 8 or 9 months later, she still has tenderness and numbness in her upper arms, (but damn she looks good). Mu husband says he doesn't want me to put myself through it. My boss at work, who is a Neurologist, says don't do it, that I look great just how I am..... So, I dunno.........
Anyway, woo-hoo and thank God for being down to 199! My weight loss has slowed down alot in the last 2 months, but it is still trickling along..... I have NOT been exercising, which is part of the problem, but I have been doing well with eating, besides a few no-nos here and there.... I bought some "chicken selects" from McDonald's the other day, thinking, "ok, these are not too-too bad, they are chicken"....well.....WRONG! I went to their website, and the Chicken Selects 5 piece (chicken only, no meal) has 660 calories for 5 pieces and like, I forget, I think it was something like 80 grams of fat and 32 carbs or something!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will NOT be buying those again! Gosh darn it! I just need to stick to simple foods, as always...... That's the best way!
199! 199! 199! 199! 199! 199!