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To get down to 145 and KEEP it off!!!

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feel confident instead of always wondering what people think about my size

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Is to be Healthy again so I can enjoy life with my family and friends.

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be an example to other women/men seeking WLS.

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Join the century club.

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Surgeon Testimonial

Ariel Ortiz Lagardere, MD FACS
Dr. Ortiz and his staff were amazing and wonderful to work with. Everything I had read in the previous reviews were truly accurate in my surgery and stay at Obesity Control Center. Dr So and Dr. Martinez were very friendly and helped answer all my questions and calmed my nerves before and after the surgery. You have immediate access to a doctor and nurse during the whole time you are staying at the hospital...something that is different from my past experiences in the United States. You become friends with the other patients on the floor from the time you are picked up at the airport to the time you depart. I would definitely return to Obesity Control Center if ever necessary.
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3 pounds left to GOAL!!!!
on May 7, 2012 6:56 pm
Well.....3 pounds left to go and I'll have reached my revised goal.  I had originally always thought that I wanted to be around 140. But everyone is starting to say they don't want me to loose anymore weight, they like the way I look now.....so I gave it a lot of thought and decided to raise my goal to 145.  Once I'm there if it feels good and I'm happy with everything then I'll try to start that next BIG adventure....maintenance.  That part is sounding more scary to me as I get closer to my goal.  It's easy to loose weight when you are determined and have a Big goal in mind, but what happens after you hit the goal and have to start living life again as a normal sized person.  When your mentors and admirers are in the back ground and start to fade away.  When you have achieved a huge goal in your life you feel kind of sad at the end...you had such a purpose to your life. I hope I can feel my next big goal is to start living life over again and try to stay as close to my goal weight as I can.  Anyone have any advice on how to deal with the transition from loosing to maintaining?
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Coming into homeplate...
on April 4, 2012 12:22 am
I'm now officially only 20 pounds away from my goal weight....it's sureal.  I can't stop being surprised everytime I look in the mirror or catch my reflection in the window...I don't recognize myself. It's a good thing though... :) I now get to reap the benefits of losing so much weight. I feel like I've been healed from a terrible desease that consumed me everyday from the time I got up to when I went to sleep. I feel so much better and emotionally I've been told that my happiness is radiating from me.  They say I've changed as much inside as the outside.  Well, I still feel like the old overweight person still sometimes but those times are getting less.  
I am so excited to get to my goal weight....most of the people around me feel like I will look too thin if I go for 140, but from now on I'm going to take it pound by pound and when I feel like this is the place I always wanted to be I will stop then.  I'm sure everyone of us has that certain image of ourselves that feels thin or fit and we want to keep going until we reach it.  It's not just a number but also what we've always pictured ourselves lookiong like when we are at a healthy weight. This journey has been wonderful and its only because of the all the support I've had around me.  Next time you hear from me I will be at goal... :)
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Over a 100 pounds lost and still losing!! :)
on March 5, 2012 7:26 am
I hope it's okay to take a moment to thank all those of you who have supported me so faithfully and in doing so helped me reach a monumental goal.  A hundred pounds...wow...I can't even begin to explain how much healthier I feel already.  I have 31 pounds left to my final goal and I know with the Lord's help I will reach it also.  I want to shout to everyone how this surgery can change their life for the better.  This week I had the opportunity to tell several women about my experience with bariatric surgery...and I think this is just the beginning of how many people I hope to help understand a more permanent and achievable form of weight loss.  I want to pay forward the blessing!
Let's keep losing until we cross that finish line!!
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What is it about the number #1 that is so exciting...
on January 3, 2012 6:26 pm
Well.....I finally turned the corner and made one of my biggest goals so far....I weighed 199 this morning.  I was hoping to make it before the beginning of the year, but considering I'm only a few days off of the goal I'm still really excited.  For some reason the difference between 199 and 200 doesn't seem like just a one pound difference it seems more like 50 pounds different. I feel so much smaller at 199 then I did at 200.  It's all in my mind I know but it makes me wonder how do we get so screwed up when it comes to looking at our body and really seeing it the way the rest of the world does....why is 199 so much more exciting then 200...it's only one pound.  :) 
I tried on more clothes this morning that I had been saving until I lost a certain amount of weight and once again I'm still not really seeing myself for what I really am because they were all too big and now I have to give them away.  I've missed out on so many clothes because I keep thinking I need to loose more weight to fit into them and then I try them on and I've completely miss the size and skipped to the next size down.  Thank goodness my sister has been so generous with her clothes...she made her goal but has been passing down her clothing to me so I haven't had to purchase clothing as I keep going on this adventure. 
So now my next goal is 175....and it will be awesome to hit it, but only two goals really seem monumental to me, one is 199 and the other is when I cross the finish line at 140. :) 
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67 pounds down....half way to goal!!!
on December 14, 2011 1:44 pm
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! I can't believe I'm half way to go.....it's been a little over 3 months and the pounds keep dropping.  This has been one of the best things to ever happen in my life.  I would have struggled with losing weight the rest of my life and I know I never would have conquered it without the surgery.  I find myself wanting to tell everyone who looks like they are struggling with their weight about my experience....but I don't unless they ask.  Every person has to come to their "Ah" moment when they figure out weight loss is not going to happen unless they get some help.

I'm so happy that my sleeve sister has made her goal....she is my inspiration that I can make it all the way to my goal, even when it gets tough at the end.  

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