THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!

WOW! It's been a YEAR since my surgery!!!! I can hardly believe it's been that long! What an amazing journey it's been!! Such an amazing blessing! Aside from the weight-loss-which to date is 128 pounds (this is a combined 96 pounds since surgery and 32 pounds prior to) I've gone from 320#(which is not my all-time highest) to 192 pounds!! I've gone from a size 26/28 to a 14/16. So unbelieveable, that I don't even believe it myself-seriously! Mentally, my mind STILL has not wrapped around the idea that I am smaller. It's so strange that when I see a tag on clothing and try it on, I still think "Oh, someone HAD to have mis-marked this!" Or when I walk into a room, I still feel like the fattest person there-still constantly pulling on my shirt to cover my poochie! Everyone tells me in time, my mind will eventually catch-up and I'm hoping this is true. Physically though....WOW- That is a different story!! My gosh-the way I FEEL is amazing! I have sooooooooooo much energy!! I can walk for hours and not get tired...my feet don't hurt! I can work-out at the gym for an hour and still want to do more. I can bend over and not feel like my head is going to explode from the pressure! To be able to comfortably cross my legs! To fit into restaurant, theater, amusement park seats-COMFORTABLY!! (even tho in the back of my mind, I'm thinking "They MUST be making these seats bigger,now!" ha ha There are soooo many other things I can do now, that I couldn't before and it's an awesome trip to my mind when I accomplish something that seems so insignificant to the "thin" world, but means the WORLD to us!!! I am such MAJOR proponent of this surgery...I am not afraid to tell everyone I've had it done, and have talked so openly about it (the good, the bad and the ugly) There are many whom I know that are now are seriously looking into it for themselves. It makes me sooo ecstatic that they will also be able to experience this WONDERFULLY-AMAZING-PHENOMENAL-EXTRAORDINARY-MIRACULOUS-LIFE-SAVING-GIFT, we've been given!! I want to say THANK-YOU, first of all to God, for allowing me to wake-up from surgery and experience this entire journey and for the REAL life I'm now LIVING. I want to thank my surgeon, Dr. Dennen-You're the BEST! I know I'm not on here as much anymore, but I want to thank this website-It's definitely a GOD-send!! And last, but not least...all the GREAT people I have met here! What an AMAZING group of people you are!!! And over time, I can't wait to meet more of you! (OK, Where's my OSCAR?!?! Geeez-that sounded like an acceptance speech!!) ha ha Take care all, and MANY BLESSINGS TO YOU!!!!!

AMEN!! May are good Lord be with you and yours. Keep up the good work because you sure made me feel better. Chrisy

Congratulations!! I am on day 6 of my journey! WoooHoo! Surgery was on Monday. Your post meant a lot to me because since monday I have lost a bit of the before hand sparkle I had. I am not as sure of what to do and how to do it. Posts like yours comes like a light at the end of a tunnel for me. To help me through this clear liquid diet time, when I don't feel real well, and things still hurt quite a bit. Thanks again for helping put things back in focus. Sheryl