One Year Surgiversary!

(deactivated member)
on 6/30/09 12:30 am - Buffalo, NY

I truly cannot believe it's been a year already! It feels like just yesterday Dr. Caruana of Synergy Bariatrics sliced open my belly and changed my life forever. At my heaviest recorded weight, I was 315 pounds, however, there was a two year period where I got SO big that I refused to weigh myself, and would request that doctor not share the information with me when I was forced to weight in at the office. I guesstimate my highest was somewhere around 330. I was wearing a size 28, I should say, I was wearing a size 28, but they were so tight they bruised my stomach. Today I am a very normal 157 pounds. That makes 158 pounds lost in one year! I'm wearing a size, well those of who you ladies who hate the sizing system as much as I do will understand, I wear a size 8-11, depending on where I shop. I'm happy, I'm healthy, and I finally feel like I have been freed from my prison of fat. Thank you so much, all of you, who have supported and encouraged me not only in this last year since surgery, but throughout the 4 years when I began researching it.

shannon1891
on 6/30/09 12:35 am - It Never Rains In Southern, CA

RNY on 07/07/09 with

You look so good! Congrats!

(deactivated member)
on 6/30/09 12:37 am - NY

RNY on 04/14/09

Congrats! you look great...

Therese W.
on 6/30/09 12:46 am - Cottage Grove, MN

RNY on 05/04/09

Congrats! That's amazing!

I can do this, I can do this, I can do this - AND SO CAN YOU!!

Therese

jeanninev
on 6/30/09 12:48 am - Dunkirk, NY

RNY on 03/12/08

Congratulations Jessica Jean. Make sure you get yourself something to commemorate this great anniversary. You have done a great job.

(deactivated member)
on 6/30/09 12:57 am - Fat City, NJ

Lap Band on 09/30/09

All I can say is wow!

Sue M.
on 6/30/09 1:01 am - Nantucket, MA

RNY on 11/12/08

Hottie before, hottie after. GREAT JOB!

Read my blog, BARIATHLETE I run because I can.

First 5K race October 4, 2009 (34.59) PR 5/22/11 (27:26)
First 5 Mile: January 1, 2011 (50:30)
First 10K: July 4, 2010 (1:03.26) New PR 4/10/11 (1:01.14)
First 10 Mile: April 11, 2010 (1:46.15)
First 1/2 marathon: June 13, 2010 (2:22.21) PR: 5/1/11 (2:17.30)
First Marathon: October 16, 2011: 5:47:20
Goofy Challenge: January 7-8, 2012
If you think you can, you can. If you think you can't, you're right. - Mary Kay Ash

Not the Same Dawn
on 6/30/09 1:03 am - BEE EFF EEE, CA

RNY on 07/11/06

I can totally relate on the sizing issue. I wear a size zero to a size 8 depending on who made it...bad stuff.

Congrats on the one year! I'll ge woo-hooing my three year in a week or so.

Yes, RNY worked for me but it also requires a lot of work from me!

Before Surgery: 214
Highest Weight: 240
Now: 125.6
Goal: 130

free4ever
on 6/30/09 1:09 am - Elizabeth City, NC

RNY on 02/02/09

Congradulations!!! You look amazing... I am so inspired by your loss. I only hope I can do half as well as you have done. I will be 5 months out July 2nd. Do something special for yourself to celebrate!!!!!!!!!

Kellie

ejjy
on 6/30/09 1:16 am - Watertown, MA

RNY on 06/16/09

omg... you look like you exploded into a stylin' superhero! sexy academic by day... fierce crimefighter by night!

RNY 6/16/09 - Last weighed 10/27/2011 weighed 151 lost 52 pounds 66% toward personal goal of 125, six pounds from unofficial unpretentious goal of 145lbs......basically very happy. boo-rah, RNY!