Hello! Another BP convert

shermak1
on 1/16/17 7:13 am
VSG on 06/26/15

Hi, all! After some crazy things happened on the BariatricPal site over the weekend, I decided to see if I could find another forum to connect with my fellow sleevers. I had my surgery in June of 2015. I started out at 259.5 pounds, was 242 on the day of surgery, and got down to 161 in July of 2016. Then the scale stopped moving. I have gained a couple of pounds back over the holidays and am really looking to get a fresh start in the new year, on a new forum. My ultimate goal is to get down to 150, and I'm going to make that happen in 2017!

P.S. I was WingFan55 "over there," not because of my love of chicken wings but for my Detroit Red Wings! Decided I needed a new name to go with all the other changes I'm trying to make!

Rachel B.
on 1/16/17 7:17 am - Tucson, AZ
VSG on 08/11/08 with

Welcome!  Great to have you here!  Lots of support in here, and a lot of new BP VP's too!

"...This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away, to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. What he was doing..."

Rachel, PMHNP-BC

HW-271 SW-260 LW(2009)-144 ~ Retread: HW-241 CW-190 GW-150


heidikat72
on 1/16/17 7:18 am - PA
VSG on 06/17/16

another refugee! and my love of hockey was started when I became friends with a group of Red Wings fans. While now a flyers fan, I do still have a soft spot for the redwings - and the tossing of the octopus on the ice (that seriously used to crack me up!)

Beth C.
on 1/16/17 7:37 am
VSG on 01/19/17

Welcome!!! After a couple days you forget what BP was and OH is home... 

Heaviest-325

Starting W-243

Surgery day-227

rachelp
on 1/16/17 8:02 am
VSG on 08/01/16

Welcome to the group!

Sleeved 8/1/16

HW 285 / SW 276 / GW 160

 

 

happyteacher
on 1/16/17 8:08 am

Welcome aboard!

Surgeon: Chengelis  Surgery on 12/19/2011  A little less carb eating compared to my weight loss phase loose sleever here!

1Mo: -21  2Mo: -16  3Mo: -12  4MO - 13  5MO: -11 6MO: -10 7MO: -10.3 8MO: -6  Goal in 8 months 4 days!!   6' 2''  EWL 103%  Starting size 28 or 4x (tight) now size 12 or large, shoe size 12 w to 10.5   150+ pounds lost  

Join the Instant Pot Pressure Cooker group for recipes and tips! Click here to join!

shermak1
on 1/16/17 9:30 am, edited 1/16/17 1:30 am
VSG on 06/26/15

Thank you guys for the welcome. I am not the greatest with computers so it's taking me a while to get my bearings, and my profile all straightened out, but I think I'm going to like it here!

 

VSGAnn2014
on 1/16/17 10:28 am, edited 1/16/17 2:28 am
VSG on 08/14/14

Hi, shermak1.  

Welcome and congrats on your progress thus far.  

I was also at BP a long time, but finally stopped posting there about 6 months ago.  Just got too whiney and weird for me.  Looks like it's gotten untenable.

In comparison, this site feels like "WLS for Grown-Ups."  

Here's to your hitting all your goals and having more NSVs than you can count.  :)

Ann

r.l.cerna
on 1/16/17 1:05 pm
VSG on 05/18/15

Hi! Our timing on everything is similar. VSG was 5/18/15. Stall/climb started July 2016. HW: 329, Surgery weight: 281. Low weight: 195. Goal weight: 175.

In all honesty, my eating hasn't been great but it all started last May with a surgery and a summer and fall filled with injuries. I'm starting on the New Year with the flu and a better attitude.

Lipsticklady
on 1/16/17 1:23 pm
VSG on 05/14/13

I'm so excited to see all the old and new friends!!

ISO ... New "clique" members. You must be kind, warm, welcoming, honest, intelligent, and have a sense of humor. The words "shamed" or "victim" can not be in your regular vocabulary. Sarcasm is welcome (and wanted!), but cruelty is not. You must not be a coddler or a shamer. All members are free to classify themselves as vets, newbies, grasshoppers or anything else they desire.

I enjoy long walks on the beach, puppies, sunsets and taking off my bra as I pull in the driveway. If you are like minded, you are in!

And remember, we are ALL worthy of love, humor, and dignity.

I started a new group here for my old BP friends and any new friends who have a sense of humor. Link to join:

http://www.obesityhelp.com/group/real_talk

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