Hi everyone!
Hi Everyone. 
Just thought I'd pop in and say hello. I can honestly say that life has been good to me since my last update here on this board. I know that I and my family are very blessed!
After a slump of about NO exercise for about 6 mths, I joined Curves back in May. To day I've lost 6 lbs and about 10 inches. I faithfully go three times a week, and honestly enjoy it! I always feel so much better after working out!
I am still a few pounds away from my goal, but I'm okay about it. I'm at 165, and my surgeon's goal was below 160. I wear either a M/L shirt and either a 10/12 in bottoms. Before I went into this whole process my surgeon had me make a list of things I wanted to do be able to do with the help of this surgery. I can honestly say I've crossed the last thing off that list, so I honestly feel this surgery has been a success for me, even though I have no hit my "goal" weight. I joke that I came out of my mom a size 14 and just went up from there. I've never been a "small stick figure"... so it was never my desire to become wafer thin.
Back in February I was asked to be in a photo/video shoot for my surgeon's office. So far I've been in a few local magazines and on their brochures. If you go to My MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/sdeshaw) you should be able to see the photoshoot pictures. Here is a link to the back of the brochure for my surgeon's office: http://s71.photobucket.com/albums/i147/susan8555/?action=view¤t=Brochure2.jpg. My friend Roni who had the surgery 1 mth after I did was also selected to be a part of the photo shoot. They used her video and put it on the movie theatre screen in an advertisement (you can see the video here: http://s205.photobucket.com/albums/bb235/susan8555d/?action=view¤t=P6020086.flv -- I snuck my dig camera into the movie theatre and recorded it).
I hope everyone is doing well. 
Susan
Just thought I'd pop in and say hello. I can honestly say that life has been good to me since my last update here on this board. I know that I and my family are very blessed!
After a slump of about NO exercise for about 6 mths, I joined Curves back in May. To day I've lost 6 lbs and about 10 inches. I faithfully go three times a week, and honestly enjoy it! I always feel so much better after working out!
I am still a few pounds away from my goal, but I'm okay about it. I'm at 165, and my surgeon's goal was below 160. I wear either a M/L shirt and either a 10/12 in bottoms. Before I went into this whole process my surgeon had me make a list of things I wanted to do be able to do with the help of this surgery. I can honestly say I've crossed the last thing off that list, so I honestly feel this surgery has been a success for me, even though I have no hit my "goal" weight. I joke that I came out of my mom a size 14 and just went up from there. I've never been a "small stick figure"... so it was never my desire to become wafer thin.
Back in February I was asked to be in a photo/video shoot for my surgeon's office. So far I've been in a few local magazines and on their brochures. If you go to My MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/sdeshaw) you should be able to see the photoshoot pictures. Here is a link to the back of the brochure for my surgeon's office: http://s71.photobucket.com/albums/i147/susan8555/?action=view¤t=Brochure2.jpg. My friend Roni who had the surgery 1 mth after I did was also selected to be a part of the photo shoot. They used her video and put it on the movie theatre screen in an advertisement (you can see the video here: http://s205.photobucket.com/albums/bb235/susan8555d/?action=view¤t=P6020086.flv -- I snuck my dig camera into the movie theatre and recorded it).
I hope everyone is doing well.
Susan 
Hi Susan,
Congrats on all of your accomplishments. I just posted about being asked to be a spokesperson for my surgeon then I saw your post. I feel much better about what I agreed to do after seeing your pictures. I will think of the inches and pounds you lost everytime I resist going to the gym. Thanks for your inspiration!! Keep coming back to the board, I've been away for awhile, too, and hope to see more of you.
~Tiffany
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