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I've gone down one more pant size.. arrgggghhhh, so sick of buying clothes now...   but pretty sure I'm not going to be shrinking anymore.

Still waiting on the gym to get back to me... mind you exercise was never something i enjoyed so i'm not pushing it.

One flight away from getting my paragliding license which is awesome...!!!

Just bought our first investment home.. since I've got a future its time to start planning for a long long life..

Between work and paragliding i really haven't had time to spare..  I drop in to the board daily, but have been lurking mostly due to time constraints....

Still alive and doing well...!!!

Matt

But strangely enough I'm not all that excited..  in fact I go so far as to say feeling outta sorts really.

No idea why, lifes great, family great, work good.. dunno.

Still having trouble adjusting to being "skinny"

Weird I know.

Matt

My weight is stable...  I've gotten used to the VSG and generally don't have any issues..  every now and then I eat to fast etc and get a reminder.. but for the most part its really good now.

Weight loss has pretty much stopped.. though I'm still not doing any exercise and not even really trying to eat the right things etc..  still do a glass of wine or a beer every day or so, happily eat a small chocky every day etc.

I'm still bumping into people I haven't seen since the opp and they are generally freaked out when they see me... lol..

I still remain indebted to this board and will try to make sure I hang around and help out the newbies with any questions etc.   So if you have anything to ask feel free to message me.. warning your going to get the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth 

Matt

I had 3-4 weeks of no weight loss so had decided I'd reached that point where I was going to stop loosing.

Which honestly didn't bother me at all...  I still have a little big of fat in my thighs and tummy..  but as we are told it only works for 85% of loss and both my GP and surgeon said they expected me to get to 90kg everything else is a bonus...

Anyway, back to the topic.. all of a sudden I started dropping again.. no change in diet or exercise.. just "bang" 1/2 a kg.. then two days later same.

So apparently the journey isn't over... 

Matt

Had the worst nights sleep ever.... geeeez

Got the call first thing this morning...!!!!

And...  {drum roll}...    All my stats are back in normal range...!!!  (First time in over 10 years)  He was suprised because they expected it would take 12 months, they did expect to see some improvement, but not this much.

So in short...  I'm gonna LIVE...!!!!  Well until I get run over by a bus anyway... lol

Can't tell you what a relief this is... Seriously I'd been told I only had a few years to go... thats a rather confronting thing.   VSG really has given me my life back.

Matt

Talk about nervous...

For those that don't know, the reason I had the surgery was because I was told that if I didn't do something urgently my liver was going to fail in the next year or two...   The surgeon and my GP were 95% convinced dropping all my excess weight would sort my liver out...

Originally they were going to wait 12 months for the test but I saw my GP yesterday for a checkup and he said "hell lets give it a go now..!"

So I have 48 hours to wait for the results...  man this is worse than the VSG wait.... lol

I've seen so many amazing results here, so if you got any good energy / prayers to share they'd be very warmly received...!!!

Oh on the bright side if the blood test results aren't good at least I'll fit in a small coffin  

Matt

Hard to believe how many Australian's have found this place recently.

So here is a link to our very own thread..!


Matt

Now this is weird...

I've stopped taking benefiber and prunes and still going to the loo every day or two...     I'm suspicious its because I'm back to having a coffee a day, but really not sure.

And again, I was on a stall for two weeks and then had a weekend of drinking beer and eating junk food and all of a sudden lost 10 pounds... for the life of me I can't get my head around this.

Still really enjoying my jerky and not being forced to have those protein drinks.

We had a xmas party at work yesterday and I ran around chasing frizbees all afternoon... and again my daughters birthday today and played Zone 3, a laser tag game where you run around like a mad thing again.

No chance I would have been doing those things at 300 pounds...  man I love my VSG...!

Matt

Well, i've been struggling to get in my daily dose of protein...

I've been trying lots of different things, but finally ordered some beef jerky and oh my goodness is sooooo yummy....

By weight its around 50% protein so real easy to get in my daily dose... and the chilli one.. ohhhh yummy...!!!

Matt

Wow what a day...!

Been doing the Turkey challenge so not weighing myself for the last week or so and today was the first day the scale ban was lifted... and..  {drum roll}    I'm now officially in "oneder land" ie into the 100's pounds zone....!!!   Ok yeah sure its 196 pounds, but hell, thats AWESOME...!

So i've lost over 100 pounds and now in the 100's..!   Able to buy clothes from a normal store and feeling AWESOME...!

Then started the morning with a brilliant paraglide....  quick study and into my exams to get my paragliding license and....   PASS...!!!!   98%

Oh and have a new gaming computer which thumps ass...!....

Life just ROCKS...!

Matt