Before and NOW pics--- Add yours! (PICS!)
(These are just face shots!!... and yes! I know I desperately need to re-dye my hair... it's a mess!)
... but before I do... to all of you who posted the photos already... you all look great!! I hope I am as sucessful as all of you in a years time!!
Okay First, the classic (you know you've all done it at some point) "hiding my extra chin" shot!

and then the one I just took with my webcam... notice NO extra chin... and no need to hide!! Please, try to fail to notice my lack of make-up! I'm lazy today. We went pumpkin' huntin with our daughter today (looking for Charlie Brown's Great Pumpkin!)... and the pumkins don't care if I wear make up.

Cheers and Glamour Shots!
-Betty
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I have never done this photobucket thing but here she goes.
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Let me try it this way. HELP!
Here I am 2 months post-op - August 2006 - ('cuz pre-op, I hid from the camera). I was about 45 pounds down from my high/surgery weight of 298 (so, like 253)

And here I am about 2 years after that - August 2008 - dressed up for a night out, down about 146 pounds to 152.

I'm still trying to find pre-op pictures. I know somebody's gotta have a few of me stored electronically somewhere!
"Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--
Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U. Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08
Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09 -Dr. Pontell, Media PA Mastopexy/Massive
Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
Total Cost: $33,500 Start wt: 368 RNY wt: 300 Goal wt: 150 Current wt: 148.2 BMI: 24.7
Shari, what a transformation!! And for everyone else in this thread too!
What a difference a year makes!
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