Clothing Exchange Thank You!

[Guest guest]

The clothing exchange portion of Dr. Keshishian's support group

meeting last night was a big success. I came with 5 huge bags of

clothes, and only went home with 2! The remaining clothes will be

donated to a women's shelter. All of the nice stuff went to the pre-

and post-ops in attendance. I even went home with a very nice

outfit. It may be too big very soon, but then I'll bring it back to

the group! It made me feel good to share what I have and exercise

the law of circulation.

And all of you post-ops looked great! Congratulations to everyone on

their losses. Even to Janice who was whining about her measly 59

lbs! Pleeeeze! Janice, you look absolutely beautiful!

And to Dr. K, Dawn and Dee--thanks for letting us do this at the end

of the meeting. Hope to see you all next month!

Suzanne W., switched 9/25/00

Pre-op--311 lbs, bmi 49.9, 5'7 "

Got on the body composition scale last night:

222 lbs, bmi 34.8, fat%-42.6%

fat mass--94.51 ls, ffm 127.51 LBS, tbw 93.51 LBS--

Anyone have any info on what ffm and tbw means?

Goal weight is 150 (or needing to lose 161)--so I've lost 89 lbs (it

goes up and down a few)--I'm not great with math, but I think that

means I've lost 55% of my excess weight. Any math nuts wish to

verify this for me?

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