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05-06-2009, 03:45 PM
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| | Whipper Snapper
Join Date: May 2009 Location: fraserburgh, scotland
Posts: 12
Weight Statistics 3 march 1997 Start Date:
due another op with in 3 months Surgery Date:
5' 6"
Height:
310 lb Start Weight:
150 lb Current Weight:
140 lb Goal Weight:
160 lb Weight Loss:
10 lb Lb Left to Lose:
51.6129032258 % % Lost:
january 2010 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index50.0298438935 BMI Start:
24.2079889807 BMI Current:
22.5941230487 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodSleeve Gastrectomy
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hey there. 11 years ago i had the same from my friends!! the ones that are my true friends still are and think i made the best move of my life.The ones that faded away which is heart breakin ( i had one that was there for the birth of my 2 kids)i think they lost there comfort zone, i was always good old reliable me.always there as a babysitter, or if they need a run in the car somewhere, as after all ......they knew i did not have a fantastic social life and shyed away from going out. but when i started to loose weight i got noticed more and was not the comfortable wallflower they were used too! your true friends will support you in decision. and help you in your change, because when you loose weight it is not just the outside that changes , but your inside will too. you will want to do the things that you have never been able to do before!!!!!!!!!!! I remember how i felt when the weight started to fade away and i could lean over the bath to wash my kids, with out getting out of breath, and the way there hair smelled when i could manage to sit them on my knee(i could not before because my stomach nearly cover my knees when sitting) at night and read them a story before bed. The things that some take for granted, i found awesome. you have to go with what your heart tells you, and the reasons why you are doing this. before you have got this far you know things have to change. i imagined what i would have been like in 10 years on .......bigger, more tired, more illnesses, and kids that would have never had a mum they deserved..........more to the point i wasnt sure that i would have seen 10 years with out the surgery.11 years on i do not regret a thing, yes there has been a few bad times,but i struggle to remember what they were , because i have a life now, a full and happy one , where i take part in this world and do not stand on the side lines and watch it go past me.
good luck , thought are with you
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05-06-2009, 03:47 PM
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| | Guru In Training
Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Bergen, Norway
Posts: 281
Weight Statistics November 3, 2009 Surgery Date:
5' 4"
Height:
336 lb Start Weight:
160 lb Current Weight:
170 lb Goal Weight:
176 lb Weight Loss:
-10 lb Lb Left to Lose:
52.380952381 % % Lost:
Christmas, 2010 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index57.66796875 BMI Start:
27.4609375 BMI Current:
29.1772460938 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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I do hope everything stays together. I don't see myself losing friendships, but I do see some of them becoming a bit uncomfortable simply because they won't be comfortable with the new me. As one friend put it, 'you'll be very foreign'. I understand what they mean...it has to be weird seeing your friend turn into someone else, but they can get over it! I have wanted this surgery for years, and in the states with no insurance it was impossible for me. I was blessed with living in Norway now and having access to the incredible health system here. Its now or never for me so I am running with it  I just hope I don't get skinnier than my friends, then they will really hate me 
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05-06-2009, 03:57 PM
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| | WLS Master Guru
Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Cypress,Texas
Posts: 926
Weight Statistics March 17,2009 Start Date:
March 17,2009 Surgery Date:
5' 6"
Height:
294 lb Start Weight:
157 lb Current Weight:
150 lb Goal Weight:
137 lb Weight Loss:
7 lb Lb Left to Lose:
46.5986394558 % % Lost:
Whenever it happens:) Goal Date:
Body Mass Index47.4476584022 BMI Start:
25.3376951331 BMI Current:
24.2079889807 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Girl all I can say is you do what you want to do. You are the only one that truly knows you here on this earth. If you want to be happy you have the choice to be happy. No one can make you happy. It's a choice.
I am sure your friends love you but they just need to keep their comments to themselves. They don't know what it is like walking in your shoes.
I wish you the best.
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05-06-2009, 04:00 PM
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#14 (permalink)
| | Whipper Snapper
Join Date: May 2009 Location: fraserburgh, scotland
Posts: 12
Weight Statistics 3 march 1997 Start Date:
due another op with in 3 months Surgery Date:
5' 6"
Height:
310 lb Start Weight:
150 lb Current Weight:
140 lb Goal Weight:
160 lb Weight Loss:
10 lb Lb Left to Lose:
51.6129032258 % % Lost:
january 2010 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index50.0298438935 BMI Start:
24.2079889807 BMI Current:
22.5941230487 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodSleeve Gastrectomy
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Originally Posted by Jenna  I do hope everything stays together. I don't see myself losing friendships, but I do see some of them becoming a bit uncomfortable simply because they won't be comfortable with the new me. As one friend put it, 'you'll be very foreign'. I understand what they mean...it has to be weird seeing your friend turn into someone else, but they can get over it! I have wanted this surgery for years, and in the states with no insurance it was impossible for me. I was blessed with living in Norway now and having access to the incredible health system here. Its now or never for me so I am running with it I just hope I don't get skinnier than my friends, then they will really hate me | i suppose we are classed like a comfortable pair of shoes, well worn, and they dont want to break in a new pair!!! and yes the few that did not want me to have surgery, i would say i am thinner than them .
but hey girl it really makes you feel good.i know this may sound odd as well, but fat people that have turned thinner, seem to always have a fresh faced look aswell, and because of the health eating it is rare to see any of us WLS chicks with spots!!!so it just gets better and better. and wait till you start buying clothes, you will be like a kid in a toy shop. you will want every thing.........i do !much to my husbands distress!!!! oh i got he as well after surgery!!!! mmmmm may be that was the booby prize , only joking !!!! mmm norway expensive, good about health care , i had the good old national health service here, and a totaly lovely doctor. who i will worship till the day i die !!! audz 
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