6 Years!!!
Congratulations both on your weight loss and on your positive attitude. I started out as super morbidly obese at over 570 lbs. I knew when I had my RNY that my goal weight would be higher than most people's starting weight. But, I knew that I needed the surgery.
It's good to concentrate on how much weight you have lost. It's tempting to compare ourselves to others but our individual weight loss journeys are different. I wish that all of the heavier men will take encouragement from your success.
It's good to concentrate on how much weight you have lost. It's tempting to compare ourselves to others but our individual weight loss journeys are different. I wish that all of the heavier men will take encouragement from your success.
Congrats, Jim .. 
I wish, unlike you, I could look at it (i.e. my 50 lb. regain) in a postive light, like that .. On the contrary, I've been crying in my beer all week .. This past Friday was my 5-year surgiversary and I'm hating myself for BEING 50+ lbs. above my lowest post-op weight..
I feel like a total failure with my surgery, esp. since I never lost the last 50 lbs. I wanted to .. (= I'm 100 lbs. over goal now) . They have greeted my return with, "LTNS!" at the Big & Tall $$ shop and I'm "back in black", despite the record hot summer. 
People say to me, "oh, but aren't you glad you're healthy now w/o diabetes and high blood lipids anymore?" .. True, but that just means I 'll live even longer in my super-sized, solo misery now .. thanks ..
I wish, unlike you, I could look at it (i.e. my 50 lb. regain) in a postive light, like that .. On the contrary, I've been crying in my beer all week .. This past Friday was my 5-year surgiversary and I'm hating myself for BEING 50+ lbs. above my lowest post-op weight..
I feel like a total failure with my surgery, esp. since I never lost the last 50 lbs. I wanted to .. (= I'm 100 lbs. over goal now) . They have greeted my return with, "LTNS!" at the Big & Tall $$ shop and I'm "back in black", despite the record hot summer. People say to me, "oh, but aren't you glad you're healthy now w/o diabetes and high blood lipids anymore?" .. True, but that just means I 'll live even longer in my super-sized, solo misery now .. thanks ..
Frank talk about the DS / "All I ever wanted to be was thin, like that Rolling Stones dude ... "
HW/461 LW/251 GW/189 CW/274 (yep, a DS semi-failure - it happens :-( )
Good to hear Jim! Great to hear stories like this. I am one of the big guys and have struggled through July but am still trending downward. I know that this is a life long journey but know that I can continue to lose and get to where I want to be!! Thanks for the post!
9/9/09: Highest Weight: 506.5 lbs 9/20/10: Tufts Start Weight: 492.4 lbs
2/7/11: Surgery Wt: 462.5 lbs. 9/16/12: Current Weight: 287.8 lbs.
4/15/12: First 5K - BAA 5K - PR 35:49
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