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Topic: One Year Anniversary Today!!!!!
Hello All!!!
I just feel happy and blessed that I am celebrating my one year anniversary today. It feels like it was only yesterday but then again it feels like I've come a long way. I have now lost 127lbs (before and after surgery) I feel and look so much better and I have even come off my blood pressure meds. I can breathe now when I walk for a distance and don't feel like I'm going to die. I am really thankful to God!!! I hope to update my pictures really soon. 
Starting weight: 336 lbs.
Weight today: 209 lbs.
Weight left to lose: 57 lbs.
Starting weight: 336 lbs.
Weight today: 209 lbs.
Weight left to lose: 57 lbs. 
Topic: Home from Plastic's
Hey, Y'all! Whoa, nelly, what a week it's been. I had Extended Tummy Tuck and inner/outer thigh lift last Thursday. I am so grateful and amazed at how good I am doing. Of course, I anticipated the worst, so anything better is great!
The dr took 8 pounds of skin from me. He said it looked like way more. He took a six inch belt all the way across my back, then about a 10 inch football shape from my front. It is hard to tell what my tummy looks like yet, but my waist is tiny. My butt is amazing! He went to Europe and studied a technique for a "butt flap" that gives a nice round bottom back to us!
I am sore and slow moving, but able to get up and about with a little help to get up and down. I see the doctor tomorrow.
Back to bed for me. Hope everyome is well. The swelling is the worst part to me.
Dana.....about eating. I eat about 3/4 to one cup at a time, twice a day. I use pretiene shakes for breakfast. I get about 1300 calories a day which my surgeon is very happy with.
Hug! Susan
Topic: Silly me
I'm so silly
I was so worried that my surgeon would think I hadn't lost enough today at my one-year visit - but he was super happy and said I was doing great!
He wants me to wait another 6 months before plastics.
Life is good!
Lynne
297.5/195.5/150ish
125 in my dreams
Topic: RE: One year check up today
Lynne, relax hon, Dr. Garth will be happy with your progress....remember this surgery wasn't done for looks but for health reasons and you've accomplished that, keep the faith and believe in yourself.
Best wishes,
Dana
Topic: One year check up today
This afternoon I go for my one-year check-up (a week late) and I'm so nervous. I just know my surgeon is gonna be upset that I've "only" lost 102 lbs. I just know his scale is gonna say I've lost less. I fretted over what clothes to wear and what to eat today to have the least amount of weight. I'm so silly!
Lynne
297.5/195.5/150ish
125 in my dreams
Lynne
297.5/195.5/150ish
125 in my dreams 
Topic: RE: Carafate, anyone?
Thanks - SO DO YOU!! That pic was taken at my wedding November 18. I've only lost about 15 pounds since then. I've read some of the other threads and I too am s-l-o-w-i-n-g down. I expected the last 20 to be really tough, though. But I feel like I can do it! Probably because I can do so much compared to a year ago!
Shelaine
Topic: RE: Carafate, anyone?
Shelaine, sorry I can't help you I hope the meds help with the ulcer. OMG lady, you look fantastic, congratulations 
Dana
Dana Topic: Carafate, anyone?
I got my carafate through the mail-order pharmacy, along with my Nexium. I thought these problems would go away after surgery and they did for a while - but then my stress caught up with me. So now I have an ulcer. My question is really simple - does carafate need to be refrigerated? The bottle doesn't say, but it sure seems like the kind of thing that would need to be...
Thanks,
Shelaine
309/176/165 - Only 11 to go (6'0" tall)
Topic: RE: How much food at one time?
Hey Dana...I do get hungry sometimes. Not too often...usually my pms week i'm hungry all the time. even while i'm eating! I just try to ignore it. I've been having problems with my blood sugar staying too low...so i've been trying to eat a little more and I added a little peanut butter before I go to bed and that seems to have helped. I don't allow myself to graze. I eat my 3 meals a day, before breakfast i have 1/2 serving of a nectar drink, then a protein bar for breakfast, before lunch i have 1/2 serving of this vanilla protein powder i have mixed with crystal light, then lunch which is usually what i told you before the cottage cheese etc, then dinner, and after dinner i do a RTD protein shake (usually atkins), then right before bed a spoonful of peanut butter. that takes me to about 1000-1100 calories a day. i just try to keep drinking when i think i'm hungry. i refuse to let myself get fat again!! i look at my sister (she's about a size 22) and think i don't want to look like that again. i know that sounds awful but it keeps me motivated. I do measure everything i eat...i don't trust myself to just eat until i'm full cuz i was so used to just stuffing myself. i know i need to work on being able to do this without measuring but i just can't. i'm very strict and structured. there is a time for everything i do pretty much. my exercising, walking the dog, eating, drinking, showering....i'm so anal!! 
Topic: RE: How much food at one time?
Hey Steph, thanks for the reply I have been freaking out I', up to 123.4 lbs (from low of 119 couple weeks ago, 120.2 last Monday) since Thrusday and paniced.
I guess I'm not over eating, but have found some grazing going on so I'm journaling every bite that goes in my mouth the next week.
Hunger has come back, do you get hungry too now?
Dana
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