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Walk without my thighs rubbing together

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get more exercise and look forward to it.

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Come off of High Blood Pressure medicine

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hike across my state

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Reach Onederland

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Surgeon Testimonial

Andrew Averbach, M.D.
He seems nice but horrible front office staff--I arrived early for my appointment, and ended up waiting over an hour. And it was the first appointment of the day! Hope subsequent appointments are not as long. They did say Fridays are their busiest day but it's the only day I can get in there.

Edited to add: Terrific nutritionists (who I hadn't met when I wrote the first review) but I'm not real impressed with their follow-up care. I had to remind them, more than 6 months after the surgery, that I hadn't been seen since my first post-op appointment. I wouldn't bring it up, but they stressed they had excellent follow-up care, so it's an area that needs improvement.
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  • Comment by LeaAnn on 6/26/11 9:07 am
    HELLO! I hope your surgery went well for you. I pray to Flying Spaghetti Monster that he guided your surgeon's hands with his noodly appendages and that the great pasta one 'll keep you safe and in good pain meds! Check in when you're up to it and let us know how you're doing!
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 Hi, I've struggled with my weight since I was a teen. I was a painfully thin child but I hit puberty and everything I had ever eaten went straight to my thighs. In 1979-1980 I did Weight Watchers for almost a year, went down to 150 lbs. and immediately started gaining back. Then I got pregnant. I gained all that weight back plus more. 

The next 5 years I lost a little, gained it back plus, lost a bit, etc. until I gave up and decided to accept my size.

My late husband was a big guy and OK with this. His doctors wanted him to have this surgery after his heart attack but he resisted it. He died at age 60, weighing around 400 lbs. Although I have lost almost 50 lbs. on NO S, I am still in pain from osteoarthritis, and take meds for high blood pressure. I am ready to do this. I want to live a healthier life and not die at age 60 like my husband.
      
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State of the Eva
on April 21, 2012 2:34 pm
 Hi, welcome to my blog, the least-read section of Obesity Help. Sit down, get comfortable.

Stuck in a plateau the last few months but since I'm the same weight I was 40 years ago, I'm OK with it. What I'm focusing now is getting my leg, hip, and arm muscles in the best possible shape before my knee surgery this fall. My milestone this week is being able to do an armchair push-up: just using my arms, raising my butt completely off the chair. I would like to get to the point where I can support myself with my arms fully extended downward. That way, when I'm on crutches, I can avoid putting any weight at all on my other leg. Ideally, it would also involve having First Lady arms, but let's not get carried away here.

Still working on getting to the gym more often. I scheduled a fitness assessment so check my blood pressure, body fat percentage, etc. and then I'll ask for an exercise routine that incorporates the knee rehab I'll be doing. I'm hoping to make the rehab routine easier that much easier.

I told people that I was getting my VSG to avoid knee surgery, and I'm a little disappointed that didn't work, but at the risk of sounding shallow I LOVE being 80 lbs. leaner than a year ago. I found myself eyeing my new self in the full-length mirror yesterday. Wish I had someone else checking me out, but I'm slowly becoming reconciled to the idea that isn't going to happen. Better to be alone than with a lying, cheating POS.
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This is very wrong
on December 29, 2011 1:07 pm
 But I joke that the 75+ lbs. I lost in the last 6 months...I know where it went. Right to my ex's mid-section: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35025258@N00/6096674707/
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E's pants
on December 28, 2011 1:52 pm
 I don't know what I'd be doing for pants if it wasn't for E, who never gets rid of her clothes. 

I borrowed several pairs of "size 20" pants back in August, and have strunk out of them. Also, E has lost some weight on her own, so she can fit in them again. So I returned them. I've borrowed several more jeans, noticeably smaller, but still size 20 on the labels. Clothing sizing is crazy...I've been wearing 18's and they were too big, so these 20's are more like 16's. 

Anyway, I'm down 75 lbs. since my surgery 6 months ago, 116 lbs. in the last 3 years, 133 lbs. since my DH died almost 7 years ago. A friend took a picture of me holding her baby, and I did not recognize myself. And then all I saw was my bones and wrinkles in my face. I'm waiting for my mental picture to catch up.


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Made it to 1-derland!
on October 23, 2011 7:44 am
 Weight this morning on the scale: 199.8. Looks better in real life than I envisioned it while doing my arm cycling.
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Size 18 & flirting with One-derland
on October 9, 2011 8:28 am
 The size 20 jeans I borrowed from my BFF are a little loose but they still fit. I didn't know until I went to the thrift store that I was an 18 because they tag them with waist sizes and I didn't see the size 18 tags inside until I got them home.

About 10 days ago I got down to the weight I was when I started Weight Watchers in 1979: 212. (I would eventually get to 150, then didn't lose for several weeks, so I quit in frustration. Then I got pregnant, and it all came back.) For the past week I've been bouncing between 206.6 and 204.4, "gaining" a pound on one day, "losing" it the next. Same scale, and I'm completely naked on it, so it can't be from different clothes.

Still, the overall trend is downward, and I feel like I'm making progress. Guess I'll update in 5 lbs. or so!
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I was a skinny kid. A TALL skinny kid. Shirts were always too short in length and never seemed to go to my wrists. Then, one night in 1967, I went to bed a flat-chested tall skinny girl and woke up average height, large breasted (my training bra was a C cup!), and FAT.

Or so I thought. Looking back at my pictures, I can see it wasn't enough to sweat over, some toning exercise and I would have been fine. But what teen believes that?

Got married. Went up to 212 lbs. Went to Weight Watchers for the first time a few months after I turned 24 (and my father had recently died), spent 9 months (and too much money!) doing that, was 150 lbs. for about 10 minutes when I just got tired of counting, weighing, and going hungry. Got pregnant at the age of 25, gained 69 lbs., gave birth to a 9.25 lb. baby.

The next 5 years, I lost, gained, gained more, lost gained, gained more. Finally, in 1986 at around 250 lbs. I gave up dieting. I did some exercising but not enough, spent almost 5 years trying to have another baby, had a 9.75 lb. baby, gaining about 10 lbs. during the pregnancy. The midwives CONSTANTLY nagged me to eat. I did, but it didn't want to stay in my stomach long enough.

Was against the surgery. It was recommended for my husband but he died before we could jump through the insurance hoops. Planned to do this a few years ago, when the band came in, but then I had an employer who didn't cover it. Then changed employers (but not jobs), and found it was covered. Right before my DH died, I was at my peak weight of 315 lbs. but I didn't have much of an appetite for months afterwards and lost 18 lbs. (Not a diet I'd recommend!)

Also, November 30, 2008, my son told me about an eating plan a friend of his was trying. It was called NO S for no sweets, no snacks, no seconds unless the day of the week began with S. I started it the next day, reasoning that if I could do it during December, I could do it the rest of the year. Since then I've lost 45 lbs. more.

Now I'm getting a VSG and thinking of aiming for between 150 and 170 lbs. I am in constant pain from osteoarthritis. I long for the day I can wander thru the woods near home. Or take a bike to the store instead of the car. In memory of my mom, who died at age 66 and my DH, who died at age 60, I'm going to do what I can to live a long life.