DOWN 225 POUNDS, AND 200 MORE TO GO!!!!!

Hi Joshua

Welcome to the men’s board, I understand what your going through and I feel your pain. In 2001 I hit my highest weight at 878 pounds. Without going into great detail here if you want you can check out my profile. I did manage to get into the mid 600 pound range on my own, by working with weight loss doctor, by him putting me on different drugs like wellbutrin, xenical, and meridia. However he didn’t believe in people having bypass surgery. That worked for awhile but then the effects of the drugs started wearing off, and I started yo-yoing with my weight. Then in December of 2005 I found out that one of the local hospitals in my town did bypass surgeries. So I met with the Doctor’s and at that time my weight was 613 pounds. Dr. Hodges told me that he could do my surgery even at my weight, and it may even be possible to do it laparoscopic. That shocked me, but what he told me next blew me away, he said he could see me getting down to 250 pounds. Man I thought this guy was a nut case, there is no way that I could ever get down that low. I would have been happy getting down to 350 or maybe even 300 at the least, but never 250 pounds. Well as it turned out in order for my insurance to pay for the surgery I had to attend a 6 month medically supervised weight loss program, which I did and managed to get down to 544 pounds the day of my surgery. So on November 14, 2006 I had my bypass RNY surgery laparoscopic. Well with a lot of hard work and following the rules, tomorrow will be 13 months since my surgery and I have already hit my goal weight of 250 pounds, with a weight loss of 294 pounds since surgery and a grand total of 628 pounds lost. Guess my doctor wasn’t so crazy after all.

You are doing a great job on your own, so hang in there and hopefully all will go well and you will get you approved. Just keep coming to the men’s board and posting and reading. This is a great bunch of guy’s here on this board and they will and have inspired and helped me in my weight loss journey. Also if there is anything I can do for you just send me a message, and I will do what ever I can for you. Again welcome and good luck, hope to see you on the board. Alan