Tomorrow is my 9 month anniverary
WOW, 9 months since my surgery on 6/8 I can't believe how fast the time has gone.
I saw my surgeon yesterday and my total weight lost is 158 pounds since surgery! Adding my pre-op weight loss with weigh****chers, my grand total lost is 259.3 pounds.
I am a very happy 
person and enjoying life to the fullest. No more stares by people and children. I am fitting into society and I'm not the fattest person anymore.
I have a life outside work. I am exercising 
and using my tool. I attend support group meetings with my hospital as well as another. I don't have stress incontinence any longer. My blood pressure normalized.
In these 9 months, I got my life back. I can see the light in the tunnel. I only have 25.6 pounds to enter ONEderland. It's going to happen.
The support on these boards has been a godsend to me. I've learned a lot from all of you. I've gone through phases of losing hair, constipation, plateaus, you name it I've been there. It is through sharing that we succeed.
I am so glad that I had the surgery and would do it again in a heartbeat.
Thanks to all of you on this board. Yes, the Junebugs are doing quite well!
Have a great day and enjoy all of your 9th month anniversaries! 
Just think if I had a baby in this time it would have been 158 pounds! 
My picture is from New Years Eve, so I've lost a lot more since then.
Lucy 
person and enjoying life to the fullest. No more stares by people and children. I am fitting into society and I'm not the fattest person anymore.
I have a life outside work. I am exercising and using my tool. I attend support group meetings with my hospital as well as another. I don't have stress incontinence any longer. My blood pressure normalized.
In these 9 months, I got my life back. I can see the light in the tunnel. I only have 25.6 pounds to enter ONEderland. It's going to happen.
The support on these boards has been a godsend to me. I've learned a lot from all of you. I've gone through phases of losing hair, constipation, plateaus, you name it I've been there. It is through sharing that we succeed.
I am so glad that I had the surgery and would do it again in a heartbeat.
Thanks to all of you on this board. Yes, the Junebugs are doing quite well!
Have a great day and enjoy all of your 9th month anniversaries!
Just think if I had a baby in this time it would have been 158 pounds!
My picture is from New Years Eve, so I've lost a lot more since then.
Lucy 
Hi Kathy.
Thanks for your response.
All I can say is that it is so worth it. I keep in my thoughts that I have the tool to succeed and while in the honeymoon phase, I need to give it my all. I don't want to squander my tool. I also had to pay for the surgery myself since I didn't have the 12 month documented physician visits. I didn't want to wait anymore.
I knew someone who had the surgery 3 years ago and she squandered her honeymoon phase. She has regained a lot of the weight and I don't want to go there. I won't do that to myself. I keep remembering where I came from. I think that is helping me stay focused. I want to get to goal this time around. There is nothing else that will work for me. I have to do it myself.
Lucy
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