thegad posted a discussion topic 12 years, 10 months ago
YASV: In the century club and only "overweigh -  Thought I'd mark two big ones - down 100lbs from my surgery day weight, which coincides with a 29.8 BMI making me no longer "obese" by NIH standards. On to my goal of below 25 BMI...

thegad posted a discussion topic 12 years, 11 months ago
Scale victory - dropped below 0.1 metric ton! - I remember being mercilessly teased as a teenager in my first year at college (in India, where I grew up) because I weighed over 100kg - or 220lbs. They called me "0.1 ton" - becau...

thegad posted a comment 12 years, 11 months ago
Notice my look of serene detachment from the wildness around me?

thegad posted a comment 12 years, 11 months ago
Um. Yes.

thegad posted a discussion topic 12 years, 11 months ago
Eight months out, weight loss slowing - I wrote a blog post that folks might find useful: http://www.obesityhelp.com/member/thegad/blog/2011/04/28/starting-over/ 

thegad wrote a blog post 12 years, 11 months ago
Starting over, eight months out - It doesn't matter how often I hear something, there's a moment at which I have to accept it and make it my own, that's when it finally becomes truth to me. I'm still 25 lbs from my...

thegad wrote a blog post 13 years, 7 months ago
At 16 days: the mushies, grazing, and heartburn wo -  So it's mixed, again. As I came up to the two week mark, I was riding high, had lost 16 lbs, was feeling ok energy wise, and felt ready to start the mushies. Boy what a differe...

thegad wrote a blog post 13 years, 7 months ago
One week out - musing on food - Changes. Big changes. It's not the losing 7-8 lbs in a week, that's the least of it. It's that the entire structure of my life has changed overnight and I'm reeling. Food was wo...

thegad wrote a blog post 13 years, 7 months ago
Big Day - Or, not-so-big day, the point of this is not to get so big.. haha.  Well, all the pieces are in place, I'm scheduled at 2pm, and feeling slightly nervous, and somewhat excited - ch...

thegad wrote a blog post 13 years, 7 months ago
On my way - So I'm a dad and a husband and had my father go through two heart attacks and die from the second one before he was 70 after decades of pills and battling hypertension and gout. I'...

thegad scheduled a GastSleeve for Aug 19, 2010. 13 years, 7 months ago
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