Made it through alive!

[sellersm]

Milestone achieved - hit the 100lb. mark! Current weight loss total is 102 pounds gone! Still have some more to go though. It's wierd going from XXXXL shirts to XL, hard to comprehend that.....

Congrats!! Been there, done that (without the surgery), and it's a great milestone! It's weird how our brain still thinks that we're as big as we used to be! I know what you mean about the clothes sizes (why I'm selling a couple of gun belts!). You have to get an entirely new wardrobe!

I'm familiar with the surgery, back in NY when I was in the medical field, I worked in the OR with a Dr. that was one of the first to do this procedure in the 80's.

Stick with it, keep to the required diet. Someday, I'll tell you a crazy story about a patient who went home and stuffed herself with pizza, needless to say she came in that night for emergency surgery!

It'll take time, but eventually your brain will 'catch up' with the "new you"! Again, kudos and congrats!!

[RblDiver]

Milestone achieved - hit the 100lb. mark!

Congrats! As of last week I was down 85 myself (at the ~5month mark), they expect me to lose another ~10 or so. Doesn't being thin (at least, relative to what we used to be) feel good?

[Dave_L]

It's hard for me to lose the 10-15 lbs I'd like to. I can't imagine 100 lbs. You guys are awesome! Keep it up!

[th3w01f]

Awesome job, looks like it's back to a juice fast for me.

[rondog]

Update - weight loss has slowed to a trickle, as they said it would, but is still going down. Current total is 135 lbs. gone (what my wife weighs, but SHE isn't gone), and I'm at 197. I can't even tell ya what decade it was when I was last under 200 lbs!

[crays]

Great job, Ron. Keep it up. I know your journey has inspired a few members to work on getting a bit more healthy.

[mackbamf]

Way to go man, that has to feel awesome. Keep up the good work...

[Irving]

Man that's great. I bet you just about did cartwheels.

[Dave_L]

Kick ass! Keep it up! Pretty crazy to think that you were basically carrying around an extra person on you.

[rondog]

Kick ass! Keep it up! Pretty crazy to think that you were basically carrying around an extra person on you.

What really drove it home was going to work for Home Depot last June. I looked at the 50lb bags of sand and Quikrete, picked one up, and realized that I basically had THREE of those permanently attached to me! Everywhere I went, everything I did, every moment of my life, I had the weight of three 50lb bags of concrete mix hanging on me.

It was all I could do to pick ONE bag up, picking up three was out of the question. Yet I was carrying THREE of the fuckers 24/7/365. No wonder I have back, knee and foot problems. It was time for it to go. Got 15 left for that goal, and probably a little more after that.

Yeah, it's a big change. Sometimes change is good! I'm diggin' it. Wife doesn't want me to get any smaller than I am now, but that's TFB. I'm not doing this for her.