One Year Surgiversary
Well its officially been one year since my surgery!!! 
Overall it has been a good experience, I have lost 111 pounds thus far..going from a tight 22/24 to a comfortable 4 a size 2x shirt to a medium/large shirt..and not to mention being able to walk 4 miles on vacation the otherday easily! For the newbies out there it was pretty tough for me at first, I HATED "all" the protein drinks and refused to drink anything but one isopure a day..which meant for the first 3-4 months I wasn't getting anywhere near the amount of protein I needed. I came on here and listened to the advice of people who were doing well and who had more energery than I had and I upped my protein and "forced" myself to drink protein..ended up finding some protein that I actually love and haven't looked back. My weight started dropping off much quicker and I found it a lost easier to stick to my "plan" by eating protein first which I admitt I did struggle with at first. I also started weighing myself every week which helped me keep in line..now its easy to do all of that and I plan on keeping it up to further my weight loss/maintaince whichever comes first. I truly thank the leaders of this board, without you I really don't think I would be where I am today!!!
Overall it has been a good experience, I have lost 111 pounds thus far..going from a tight 22/24 to a comfortable 4 a size 2x shirt to a medium/large shirt..and not to mention being able to walk 4 miles on vacation the otherday easily! For the newbies out there it was pretty tough for me at first, I HATED "all" the protein drinks and refused to drink anything but one isopure a day..which meant for the first 3-4 months I wasn't getting anywhere near the amount of protein I needed. I came on here and listened to the advice of people who were doing well and who had more energery than I had and I upped my protein and "forced" myself to drink protein..ended up finding some protein that I actually love and haven't looked back. My weight started dropping off much quicker and I found it a lost easier to stick to my "plan" by eating protein first which I admitt I did struggle with at first. I also started weighing myself every week which helped me keep in line..now its easy to do all of that and I plan on keeping it up to further my weight loss/maintaince whichever comes first. I truly thank the leaders of this board, without you I really don't think I would be where I am today!!! 
HW: 260? SW: 242 Surgeons GW: 150 First GW: 140 Second GW: 130 CW: 122 
Happy surgiversary, babeeee! You've done a great job!
--gina
--gina
5'1" -- HW 195/SW 187/GW 115 July 08/CW 121 Dec 2012
******GOAL*******
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DS on Aug 9, 2007 with Dr. Hazem Elariny
You have done wonderfully. Actually, we had quite a crop about this time last year. Stacey and I are coming up on a year soon and Maria is just over a year. And we have all done great. What a wonderful board this is that has helped us through.
66 yrs young, 4'11" hw 220, goal 120 met at 12 months, cw 129 learning Maintainance
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