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Goals

To be under 200lbs

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Be successful on my pre-op diet so there are no compications in surgery.

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make it through my surgery with no complications.

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weigh less than my husband

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Lose 100 lbs and become healtly and physically active!

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Thomas Lavin, M.D.
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SharieL's Journey

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Describe your behavioral and emotional battle with weight control before learning about bariatric surgery.
I was always fighting to lose weight. As a young child I was the middle child with an older sister and younger brother. My mother would give me a bag of chips to make me feel better. When I was happy I was eating when I was sad I was eating. By the Sixth grade I was weighing 168 pounds. And being 5'2 it really showed. The summer before Seventh grade my mother and I went to a weight loss doctor. We had the injections (have no idea what it was) and diet pills. That summer I went from 168 to 123. So my Jr High and all of High School I was a normal weight. I met my husband the year before I graduated High School. We were engaged and married in less than a year of meeting.
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Giving God all the Glory

HW 250 SW 237 GW 150 CW 160
              
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Last few pounds
on May 8, 2012 5:52 am
Why is it coming off so slow now? I'm thinking if I do this or do that It will come off faster. No matter what I do its still taking so long. Its frustrating. I should be happy because I have lost so much already. I would like to change my goal weight. Maybe if I hit the goal I will. Everyone keeps telling me I have lost enough but when I look at pictures of myself I still see FAT!  I was wearing a size 22 just 7 months ago now I'm wearing a size 12. Unbelievable! Maybe the stress I've been under is the culprit, The loss of my Mother and my daughter graduating from High School next week, I've been planning her party and of course the expense of getting her a new car and paying for her college. Continuing to Giving God all the Glory! 
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Clothes
on April 16, 2012 8:31 am
 I just don't understand when I go shopping for clothes I always go straight to the Women's Clothing. And I always grab the largest size in the Ladies department. Honestly I don't like the styles in the Ladies Departments. It seems like its more for young adults. I take my daughter with me when I really need to find something quick because it takes me forever to pick out clothes. I never had that issue. Before i bought whatever would fit me. As of today I am wearing a Medium shirt and my size 14 pants only stay on with a belt. I buy only a couple shirts and one pair of dress pants. I wear my sweat pants that has a tie around the waist to wear for every day. I never thought I would be wearing those sizes again. I will never regret having this surgery. Giving God all the Glory! 
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Mama
on March 7, 2012 6:35 am
A week ago I received that phone call that I didn't want to get in the middle of the night. The call from my Father telling me that my Mother had passed away. It was at 3:38 a.m. Thursday March 1st. She has been so sick for so very long. I thought I had prepared myself for this day.  But there is nothing in the world that can prepare you for the death of someone that you love so very much. She has been suffering from C.O.P.D. those of you out there that smoke I want to beg you please stop before its too late. She struggled to breathe so bad. Having to be there watching her suffer was the hardest thing. Now having to console my Father that has been with her for 52 years and for the last 3 years taking care of her. Waiting on her hand and foot the last year and a half. She was the rock that held us together. Seeing my Father broken is killing us. My Lord God did wake me at 2:27 A.M. That morning and all I could do is say Thank you Jesus, when I answered the phone at 3:38 he said she is gone. All i could say is I know. He (Jesus) took her out of her pain and suffering. Please keep us in your prayers. Pray for Strength for us. Thank you!
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ONELANDER!!!
on December 15, 2011 6:51 pm
its official I now weigh 199.2 Hallelujah. I thought I would never see the one hundreds again. Thanking God for His Grace and for making each step of this journey with me.  
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6 weeks post op
on November 10, 2011 6:53 pm
had my 6 week check up today. So far I've lost 35 pounds. Wish it was more. But happy I lost and didn't gain. Usually about now I would have given up on the diet and had gained all I had lost back PLUS. Today I went out for the first time and walked around the subdivision. I was actually able to walk the full mile. And I was walking fast. I hope to keep doing this 3 or 4 times a week. I feel so much better with out the three 10pound sacks of potatoes and 5 pound bag of Sugar holding me down.  My protein levels and vitamin B was very low. So Now I have to make myself drink those nasty protein drinks. Lord Help Me!
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My Story

I would like to say that my story started the day I was born but it didn't.  Mama & Daddy brought me home from the hospital weighing a whooping 5lbs 3 ozs. So I wasn't born this way. It didn't take me long to start to fill out my body. Grade School was horrible. Back then it was unusal to have a fat kid in your class. I was always that Fat Kid. In 6th grade age 12 i weighed in at 167 lbs. Not sure of the height but as an adult I'm 5'2 so I couldn't have been very tall. During high school I managed to lose the weight stayed around 125-130. Senior year I got engaged to my Sweet heart and was married shortly after graduation. I guess that was the signal to let all that weight come back. The first year of Marriage I gained 50lbs. I've been up and down for the last 29 years. Having my children and having Thyroid issues hasn't helped with my situation. I'm Still with my High School Sweet heart. He loves me thick or thin. He just wants me healthy. Now I have three Grand babies and I don't want to miss out on seeing them grow up. Its time to get serious about this weight issue. I want it off. I am a Born Again Spirit Filled Christian and I do believe that my Lord Jesus wants me Healthy also. I have him on my side nothing can stop me now that I have made up my mind to do this.