5 Month Surgiversary Before and After Pics

WOW!  AWESOME!

You look fabulous and I LOVE the new outfit!!! One day I too hope to be able to do 5ks!  Congrats on the successful journey :) 

You look splendid!

oh. my. god.  Heidi you look freakin' fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  i'll post a pic soon, but you have beaten me by a mile, surgiversary sister.  you are literally a different person!!!!!  i love the outfit, i love the sound of those sizes and can only aspire to them at this point!!!!

i'm just so proud and pleased for you.  you're way ahead of me in the exercise department, which may be part of the problem, but i start Zumba tomorrow, so watch out world!!!

sending the biggest hugs, my skinny sis.  and, hey, maybe you can teach me how to put pix in a post!!!!!

(((((((((((((((((((((((((skinny-melinky Heidi))))))))))))))))))))))))))

OMG,,,Only 5 months!!! That is so awesome...Thank you for sharing your pictures..It makes me more and more excited to get my surgery and see what I will look like....

Soooooo encouraging! You look amazing.
I'm preparing for my surgery and I can't wait to have freedom over this obesity and run with my new life. My surgery date will most likely be July 14th and it's all I can focus on. Living a new and different life.
Thanks for sharing your story and new photo. You're doing an awesome job!!!
Lizette

WOW!! You look sooooooooo good! I can't believe your scale says 190! You look like your about 140!! You look truly amazing!!  Hugs!! Kris

You look really great and I hope you don't mind me saying this, but I think you might want to revise your goal weight. You don't look like you have 40 more pounds to lose. Have you had your body fat percentage tested?

This might give you a more accurate goal.. you look like you are much closer to being done. Of course this is just my opinion based on looking at your photos. You might have more muscle/lean body mass which is why your weight might be higher than what the charts say it should be.

Hi Rose!
Thank you so much for good idea. I've been really torn about where to set my goal. I'm 5'5" and the top of my BMI is 150. I am big boned...literally. My hands are wide and long even after losing a bunch of weight. I take a size 9.5 shoe. Delicate I ain't. I'm not small framed and even at my thinnest, I still had a large frame. It's the heavy German farm woman heritage, I tell ya. 

I know that a BMI is not necessarily a very accurate measure of the right fat percentage for an individual. I had a pinch test done at the gym by my trainer, and I thought he was out of his mind when he computed everything and told me my perfect weight should be right around 166. Maybe this is a better goal. I'm not sure how much stock I put into a pinch test, though. This is 16 pounds over my highest BMI range, and so I'm not sure what to pick.

I've heard about the Bod Pod test and have been told it's pretty accurate. I need to spend the bucks and get the thing done I think. It's about $125 but I think it may be worth it to know where I need to end up and what to work toward.

Hugs to ya Rose!
Heidi

On June 10, 2011 at 9:05 PM Pacific Time, DragonGirl wrote:Hi Rose!
Thank you so much for good idea. I've been really torn about where to set my goal. I'm 5'5" and the top of my BMI is 150. I am big boned...literally. My hands are wide and long even after losing a bunch of weight. I take a size 9.5 shoe. Delicate I ain't. I'm not small framed and even at my thinnest, I still had a large frame. It's the heavy German farm woman heritage, I tell ya. 

I know that a BMI is not necessarily a very accurate measure of the right fat percentage for an individual. I had a pinch test done at the gym by my trainer, and I thought he was out of his mind when he computed everything and told me my perfect weight should be right around 166. Maybe this is a better goal. I'm not sure how much stock I put into a pinch test, though. This is 16 pounds over my highest BMI range, and so I'm not sure what to pick.

I've heard about the Bod Pod test and have been told it's pretty accurate. I need to spend the bucks and get the thing done I think. It's about $125 but I think it may be worth it to know where I need to end up and what to work toward.

Hugs to ya Rose!
Heidi

I use a special scale that measures body fat percentage, and I've had a BodPod done too.. guess what.. they said the same thing. :)  Although I don't think the scales are SUPER DUPER accurate, I think they give you a general idea. 

I'm like you also.. big hands and feet and lots of muscle (I wear a size 13 shoe girly.. make your 9.5's look itty bitty :) and my Grandma was German.. also big german farmer stock. Just my lean body mass alone weighs 138 pounds currently, so if I followed the weight charts I'd put my body fat percentage so low I'd stop menstruating. Currently to get to a normal body fat percentage without losing any lean body mass I'd only have to get to 192 pounds.

Also years of obesity have made my bones much denser. So you just can't trust those plain weight scales as they say nothing about your body composition and the body composition is what matters.

 So I'd definitely recommend you go get one of those body fat percentage scales (cheaper than the bodpod and you can use again and again) and go by that rather than the scale. I have an older model Tanita brand body fat percentage scale but it still works great.  I'd recommend you look into this one, which is a mere $50 on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Tanita-Scale-Monitor-Water-Percentage/ dp/B000AVC458/ref=sr_1_3?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1307769089&sr=1-3

Hope that helps and hugs...