Photos Mine (0)I'm in (0)No Photos Have Been Uploaded Yet. Upload A New Photo View Other People's Photos I'm Not In Any Photos Yet. Friends OMaggie has not added any Friends yet. Click here to view all of your friends. Goals No Public Goals Yet. View The Goals Page Surgeon Testimonial Update your surgeon information here. Member Interests Update your interests here. Hospital Reviews Update your hospital reviews here. Product Reviews Update your product reviews here. Weight Loss Survey Responses Update your WLS survey here. Latest Surgery Support Comments No comments posted yet. Please post yours. Click here for the surgery support page [ Edit Introduction]Hello I am Maggie & this is my story. I guess I should begin at the beginning. I am 52 years old ( 5/15/1955) and the mother of 4. My children are Matthew 28, Heather 24, Samantha 22, & Michael 15. I had a fantastic body as a girl and was very athletic. As I had my family I got bigger & bigger. I developed a very bad back and I was unable to work. My blood pressiour was getting out of control. I first heard of gastric bypass surgery about 12 years ago when a close family friend had it and had grate success. At that time I was trying every diet that came down the road and failing miserable. My daughter-in-law was a very big girl and young. I watched her have the surgery in 2003 and then she got pregnant before she was a year out. Since then she is about to have her 3rd child. I hope & pray that after this child she is able to lose her weight. In early 2007 I was very depressed. My husband never seemed interested in sex, mined you he never complained. I think he didn't even know it was my weight putting him off.... THAT HAS CHANGED :) . I decided I was going to look on the internet one more time. I knew I needed to have good support & didn't want to go out of my area as my daughter-in-law had done. I searched on Google & low & behold up popped a local doctor. He sounded fantastic & I made that all important first phone call. The office staff was fantastic and I was in Dr. Bobby's office within a week. I was surprised, amazed and impressed how fast things went. Dr. Bobbie had me jumping through a lot of hoops. I went to see several specialists over the next few weeks. I saw a pulmonary specislists, & a cardiologist. Thank God I didn't need to see a diabetic Dr. as I hadn't reached that point yet. It turned out my insurance paid for everything!!!!! If you had asked me a year ago what the most life changing thing I have ever had was I would of said having my children. But now it is having my gastric-bypass. I had my surgery on my birthday 5/15/2007, today is 1/14/2008 and I have lost 100lbs!!! I ha happier then I have been in years. If I could say anything to help anyone it would be this: Lister to your DOCTOR. fallow directions. Never be in a hurry to eat a lot. be happy to eat a little and make it the best. Go fourth and have a life and God bless you all. Thank you Dr. Bobbie I never could of done it without you!

OK, I need some encouragement this week. I gained 3 pounds and it really upsets me. This week I am back on Protein Shakes and only protein! Hopefully I will have it off by next week. Before surgery: 279.5 Last Week: 175 This Week: 178 Gained: 3 pounds How did all of you do? Hugs, Esther

Hi everyone, I'm back on track again and was so ready for the month of December to be over. It just feels so much better to be doing the right things and then seeing the results. I see my doctor on March 7th and would love to be at my final goal of 190 by then. After his visit I intend to get to 180 and then slowly bounce back up to 190 over the next six months or year. From all that I've read, it is VERY common for a bit of bounceback no matter how hard you try. Anyway... Highest: 347 Surgery week: 300 Last week 216 This week 212 Total gone: 135 Lots of fish and chicken. Also, I'm faithful about drinking tha****er...I've even brought it back into my classroom while I teach. I'm wishing all of you a great week... John

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