Dawn

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I read your stats and you've done wonderfully! How tall are you?

MarisaDr. Anthone5'3" BMI 45 256# Surgery 11/17/0011/17/00 - 256#12/17/00 - 222#1/17/01 - 206#2/17/01 - 193#3/17/01 - 184#4/4/01 - 176# 80 # gone FOREVER!

Re: how much am I going to lose?

Hi Everyone I am VBG revision to DS, 5 weeks post op, and weigh 223 lbs. I was 245 the morning of surgery. I only want to lose 100 more lbs. I still have 17 more months of weight loss according to everyone who's had the surgery. I am wondering if anyone knew of some people who went into this at a weight simular to mine and how was the outcome 18 months later? No way can I lose more than 125 lbs total. I am going for my 6 weeks check up next week I am going to ask the length of my common channel then. Renae It seems to me you are worried you will lose too much????? My experience is that the weight loss will really slow down after a while as you are able to eat more and you have a lower weight to maintain. I lost about 75 pounds in the first 5.5 months. In the next 5.5 months I have lost about 26 pounds. Now the scale just eeks down enough to show me this weight is going to last for more than 2.5 minutes. I am 5' 4" and am now 166. For some this may not seem a low enough weight, but I would be happy if I never lost another pound and was able to maintain where I am fairly easily. I am wearing a size 10 and sometimes a size 8. Occassionally I look at my legs and feel they are "fat". Then I have to take a moment and ponder on where I am compared to a year ago and tell myself to get a grip! Dawn Dr. Hes 4/27/00 267 to 166 size 22 to size 10 no more high blood pressure or sore feet! ----------------------------------------------------------------------