1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

Nov 02, 2009

Well here I am, 1 year out and...drum roll please...*snicker*...170# LOST!!!!!!!!!!

I was turned onto this site by a friend I met in LPN school. She herself has had the Gastic By-Pass over in Brunswick. If it wouldn't have been for her I'd have never known about the VSG and that it would be affordable enough for me to actually be able to have one performed! I'd do it again in a heart beat! This is a very good, informational web site for the obese from all walks of life! I thank GOD they came up with this place. It has saved my life through the grace of GOD and the skill of a surgeons hand.

It hasn't been easy to say the least, with all the getting too full too fast and throwing up or getting the slimmies, hurting in the chest, etc...This is a journey, one you have to get used to and follow the rules. Which I'm sorry to say I have not. Which I believe if I would've I would have already lost the 183# that was my goal by this time.

I don't care the responses I get to this, if any. But it's true =/

I didn't follow the rules from the very beginning. On the flight home I was at an airport and went over to some Mexican restaurant and ordered a bowl of some kind of hot and spicy soup. That, by the way, I found out about on this website. Although I didn't drink much of it, it was very hot to me (I was about 4 days post-op) and I wished afterwords that I hadn't have eaten it. Thank the LORD I haven't had a problem AT ALL! NO leaks, NO problems AT ALL!! The thing with this is, you eat because your hungry yes, but for me and me alone (my post, my opinion) its so hard to get used to how much is too much =/ I've always had grinlin (sp?) I do get hungry and always have. I had to stop coming here because it was so very depressing that some people didn't have the feelings of hunger when I was sitting here starving =/ Or at least I thought I was LOL
I honestly didn't know if the $11,000.00 would be worth it or not. But here I sit 1 year post-op and can say that YES! This surgery has been a miracle for me. No more CHF, No more HTN, No more Edema! I can even jog! Just a little for right now, but you have to crawl before you walk,,,Right?

Although I don't come in and post like I used to, I do still come in and read from time to time. And I'm always keeping up with my ticker =) I have added some pics from Halloween but they really don't do me any justice because of what I'm wearing LOL But I'm gonna get one of the kids to take a pic with some other clothes on to be able to show the extreme difference very soon...

If anyone would like to ask questions about my experience in MX or about my journey through the past year. I'll be more than willing to answer them =)

I miss you guys-Keep in touch if ya' like =)
CYA......Ms_Deb

PS
Here are some stats;
Starting weight- 363
Starting clothes size-5X or 30W
Bra size-48D

Weight now-193
Clothes size now-12 jeans/L shirt
Bra size-38C

As you can see, I've shrunk a whole lot over the past year. Even not following directions like I should've, I still think I've done a good job and I LOVE MY SLEEVE!!!!!!!!!!!!

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