Shaunale

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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?

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... :)

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!!

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. :) 

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.  

I've lost 50 pounds as of today and I'm so thankful to God for every pound lost! I'm still having trouble seeing much of a difference, but my family thinks I'm crazy, it should be so obvious to me the difference. I know when I lost a lot of weight before that it takes a while for my mind to catch up with the reality.  Maybe it's because I still see an obese person in the mirror no matter how much weight I've lost so far. I am happy though because I'm now seeing the dial on the scale move after all those years of seeing it go in the opposite direction.
I still don't have any hunger at all and I find myself going way too long in between eating and then I try to cram all my daily protein in the evening, which doesn't' work. :) Not being hungry has been the best part of the surgery so far for me.  I'm hoping that it never comes back....I don't miss eating at all, like some people say.  I had kind of conquered it before the first time I lost weight.  Once I was thin after being overweight my whole life I found I loved being thin way more then food and food has never appealed to me the way it once did. 

I'm so excited to be losing weight....it's like my dream is finally coming true.  People are finally noticing my weightloss and along with that comes the dreaded questions of "how are you losing weight so fast"?  I've told most people, that are sincerely interested, how I'm losing the weight.
My next goal is to be below 200 pounds....

Wow, surgery is over and I've started this new phase of my life. I am so happy....I've lost 26 pounds so far and it's just enough that people are starting to notice and ask if I'm losing weight.   It's like I've got a small taste of what this new adventure is going to be like and I can't wait to see the end result.  It's going to be hard being patient as the weight comes off...I want to jump to the finish line already.  
Surgery and my whole experience with Dr. Ortiz and the Obesity Control Center was amazing...they are just as wonderful as everyone has expressed on this forum.  I really can't add much more to what is already written except to say read his reviews they are very accurate.
Learning to eat this whole new way has been quite an adventure....it's been hard for my mind to grasp onto the concept that I'm full after just 4 spoonful's. Also to eat when I'm not hungry at all so I can get my 5 small meals in each day has been very challenging. 
I'm so thankful to God for all he's done for me...especially allowing my dream of losing weight to come true.

My surgery is scheduled for the 13The....excited, nervous and determined to make this my most successful weight loss program I've ever done....and I've done them all. :) I've been sticking to the pre-op diet closely and I've only lost 12 pounds after 4 weeks....felt like I was starving to death the first two weeks, but it's gotten better. The pre-op diet has really shown me that loosing weight without VSG as a tool would be impossible...I'm not able to loose 127 pounds just using the same old diets and tricks.  I am so thankful that I get to have this surgery....looking forward to the Losers bench and the next chapters in my life.