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weigh under 200 lbs!

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Gerald Kirshenbaum
Dr Kirshenbaum performs lap-band only bariatric surgury. primarily cash-only patients. I came to him for the price (under 10k), but this does not lack in quality. He put me on a low-carb diet. Make sure you follow it! he explained what he was going to do to in surgury to prevent lap slippage and his program is awesome! He seems good at explaining what is going to happen and the surgury went without a hitch. see www.lapbandrockies.com for his website. His aftercare has been great. He is good at getting you at the right place on fills and he has a great staff.
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Hello, I'm John...Pre diet 8/6/07 360 lbs, lap surgury 8/29/07 346, current 187, lost 173 lbs 

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Only 13 pounds to go in my journey!!!
on June 8, 2009 4:05 am
im now only 13 pounds to go in my journey!   im 187 and want to make it to 174.....im so close!

it gets harder and harder to loose weight....but who cares!  i will eventually get there...no rush!
im so much happier than when i was 173 pounds ago!  its amazing!
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small fill helps 5/6/09 down 168 pounds
on May 6, 2009 5:30 am
went to the doctor last week.  He is soo thrilled with me.  He told me that ive probably lost more than anyone in their office. i have been strkuggling with close to the same weight for 2 months.  but i think this fill is starting to help.   it was a rediculously small fill...i think they only put in .015ccs in my Ap large band.   But it seems like its fine tuned so i dont need much to make it feel right again.    before this fill i was starting to snack more, starting to eat around the band and eating a tad more than i usually do during meals.  this one should help.  along with my stepped up excercise
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staying same weight 196
on April 4, 2009 6:54 pm

I am real stagnant on weight loss now...its seems hard to loose anything anymore.  I know i need to step it up again in the exercise department and might need another fill.  i probably havent had a fill in 6 months.  Im not real worried.  I have come so far and if i stayed this weight the rest of my life i would be thrilled.

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Idiotic comments from person at bar - down 161...
on February 17, 2009 2:31 pm
Ok, i gotta tell you something that happened this weekend.   I was with a few guys at a bar this friday and we were in a group just chatting.  One guy that i didnt know very well in the group noticed a farily hevyset woman across the bar.  He said, "she probably got that way because she eats too much and shes lazy.".....ARG!  So normally im the type who just ingores idiotic comments like that, but I just had to speak up to this tool! 
I told him...."Do you really think shes lazy?!  Oh really?   Shes probably 150 pounds overweight.   I myself used to be 160 pounds heavier than im now.    Im no longer that heavy!  I was carrying around the equivalent of another person! "      So then i asked him, "Do you think a someone who carries around the equivalent of 160 pounds on him 24/7 a LAZY person?"   Well he kind of got a little flustered because he knew i was a little mad.  and he said , "well, uhhh, no!"    Anyway he later appologized and congratulated me on my wieght loss and I really dont think he is a bad guy, just a little naive and stupid.
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I reached ONDERLAND!!!! im 199 pounds
on February 12, 2009 8:49 pm
I reached my goal of ONDERLAND which is to get a weight of ONE HUNDRED SOMETHING!!!!

This 18 month journey has been a whirlwind!  I still cant believe it was 18 months ago where i was walking around getting tired out after walking 10 minutes!  Now i look at myself and im a different person, a confident person, excited about life. Knowing my life is just gonna get better!   I was a great caring guy then as i am now.  But what has changed is the confidence i have in myself.  I know I have an awesome life ahead of me and i know i can offer much to my future mate and to all of my friends and family.  In some ways i have not changed, but in many ways this weight loss journey has changed my life not only in weight, but in everything that has to do with my life.  For all of you out there considering whether to do this surgury...i say DO IT....it will change your life!
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My Story

yes...like many of you i have been fat most of my life.  I have been on every diet imaginable.  one time 
i lost about 85lbs with a low carb type diet...and like many eventually gained it back...im always good at
loosing weight but much more efficient at GAINING weight. Like many people my size, we are professionals at
 loosing weight, its the maintaining that weight is the problem..well...now with this surgury im on a one way
train to a better life!  my goal is around 175 but would be thrilled to get under 200.  i started at 360

My primary reason, of course, is health...  with all of the weight i have no energy like i used to.  i have 
sleep apnea and cant sleep without my bi-pap.  i have somewhat high cholesterol and some hypertension.
i broke my leg 15 years ago and now have arthritis problems in my anke.   The arthritis is preventing me from doing heavy 
exersize activity.  Loosing weight will help my arthritis.  I am hoping loosing weight will reduce or eliminate some of these 
problems. 

progress      weight                  comment
8/06/07           360          0           start low carb diet pre-surgury
8/29/07           346         -14         surgury date                                                   (avg weekly loss 4 lbs/week - pre surgury diet)
9/13/07           331         -29         going strong! pre-lab band first fill             (avg weekly loss 7 lbs/week)
9/19/07           328         -32                                                                                   (avg weekly loss 3 lbs/week)
9/24/07           329         -31         chalk gain as bandster hell week
                                                        today get first lab band fill                            (avg weekly gain 1 lbs/week)
10/5/07           324         -36         just got back from vacation and lost!!!       (avg weekly loss 3.1 lbs/week)
10/12/07         317         -43         just got my 2nd fill so i can loose more!!  (avg weekly loss 7 lbs a week!!!
10/29/07         312         -48         hangin in there                                               (avg weekly loss 2.1 lbs a week)
11/16/07         306         -54         got my 3rd fill today (this one is much tigher!)    (avg weekly loss 2.3 lbs a week) 
11/26/07         299         -61         made it to two- derland!!!                              (avg weekly loss 4.9 lbs per week!!) 
12/10/07         293         -67         still loosing after 3rd fill                                 (avg weekly loss 3 lbs per week)
12/24/07         289         -71         merry christmas!                                            (avg weekly loss  2 lbs per week)
12/31/07         286         -74         Happy new year!                                             (avg weekly loss 3 lbs per week)
01/10/08         284         -76         slowing down a bit - time for fill!  fill 1/11   (avg weekly loss 1.4 lbs per week )
01/30/08         278         -82         hangin                                                              (avg weekly loss 1.9 lbs per week)         
02/20/08         274         -86         slower - time to get my butt excercising     (avg weekly loss 1.3 lbs per week)
03/10/08         266         -94         wow!  got past a plateu!                                 (avg weekly loss 2.9 lbs per week)        
03/25/08         263         -97         im excercising more - but slower loss       (avg weekly loss 1.4 lbs per week)
04/15/08         259        -101        finally hit my century goal!                             (avg weekly loss 1.3 lbs per week)
05/06/08         255        -105        still going slow but goin                                 (avg weekly loss 1.3 lbs per week)
05/27/08         250        -110        wow..memorial day past                               (avg weekly loss 1.45 lbs per week)
06/30/08         243        -117        half of 2008 is over                                         (avg weekly loss 1.44 lbs per week)
07/29/08         237        -123        11 months banded                                         (avg weekly loss 1.4 lbs per week)     
08/21/08         232        -128        if i loose 1 to 1 1/2 lbs a week im happy    (avg weekly loss 1.52 lbs per week)
08/28/08         231        -129        1 year anniversary                                   (avg weekly loss 1 lbs per week)
10/13/08         224        -136         got a fill which helped a bit but still slow   (avg weekly loss  0.8 lbs per week)
11/17/08         217        -143         hey as long as im still loosing still good  ( avg weekly loss 1.4 lbs per week) 465 days
12/03/08         210        -150         good loosing spirt here- like the old days (avg weekly loss  3.06 lbs per week) 483 days
01/12/09         206        -154         holidays...gaining then loosing                   (avg weekly loss 0.7 lbs per week)  523 days
02/11/09         201        -159         hard to get to that onederland                     (avg weekly loss 1.1 lbs per week) 553 days
02/20/09         199        -161         i made ONEDERLAND!                                (avg weekly loss 1.5 lbs per week) 562 days
03/20/09         196        -164        slow but sure                                                   (avg weekly loss  0.7 lbs per week) 590 days
04/04/09         196        -164        not loosing right now                                      (avg weekly loss 0.0 lbs per week)  605 days
05/11/09         190        -170        didnt have a fill for 7 months..small fill helped  (avg weekly loss 1.13 lbs per week) 642 days
06/06/09         187        -173        going slow- need to exercise more             (avg weekly loss 0.84 lbs per week)