YOUR Weight & Health Changes After Bariatric Surgery (incl. WLS Support Group Experiences)
Other visitors will gain a better understanding of what's possible through the changes YOU experienced or are experiencing.
- Which bariatric procedure did you have?
- How much weight did you lose? What was your starting weight and what is your current weight?
- How long did your weight loss take, and how much did you lose each month or quarter?
- Do you participate in face-to-face or online support groups? If so, do you feel this has helped you?
- Which health issues improved or were resolved after bariatric surgery?
- What impact have these changes had on your life?
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Health improvements for other visitors after bariatric surgery
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Weight loss surgery coincidence This isn't the usual story about recovery, but it's certainly one worth mentioning. After returning from New Orleans from the Obesity Help Event, I was ...
Needing Weight Loss Surgery Support Group I had Duodenal Switch weight loss surgery 18 months ago. About two months ago, we move half way across the country from Kansas to Virginia and I am really ...
Dallas BBGC weight loss surgery support group Since surgery, I've found all of my support online. One of the groups that I found online was the Bariatric Bad Girls' Club (bbgc). They have a strong ...
Super Weight Loss Surgery Success (After Duodenal Switch Surgery) Reading and listening to weight loss surgery success stories made me apprehensive. I knew it was possible, but I knew many people failed. I did not want ...
Gastric Bypass Revision and Still No Weight Loss I had gastric bypass surgery and lost 125 lbs. After three years I started gaining weight back rapidly (30 lbs in four months) - I freaked! My eating ...
All of my co-morbidities are GONE after bariatric surgery... and so is 140 pounds! I had Laproscopic RNY Gastric Bypass January 22nd, 2009. At my heaviest I weighed in at 270 pounds with a list a mile long of co-morbidities and health ...
No Weight Loss After Roux en Y Gastric Bypass Surgery I received Roux en Y gastric bypass surgery and did not lose weight. My doctor ordered an upper GI and determined that my anastomosis was too large and ...
Support on different levels will make a positive impact on your weight loss surgery journey! I am a resource junkie! I believe in having support on different levels at different times. I don't have just one type of support in my weight loss journey,...
Once insulin-dependent, but now a combined 200 lbs lighter, two friends embarked on a 325-mile biking adventure Tom Bilcze and Chuck Gough, both Ohio residents, are living diabetes-free and recently embarked on a bicycling trip from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C....
Keep Your Honey in the Bathroom:The Gastric Band and Diabetes As the owner of a gastric band who also has Type 2 diabetes I know it's perfectly possible to lose weight just the same as everybody else - I just have ...
High Blood Pressure has been eliminated after lap band surgery. No more medications! I had Lap Band surgery online and in-person weight loss surgery support groups . I encourage other lap band patients to explore all the online community ...
My energy levels are through the roof after bariatric surgery!
Fat people are constantly tired. I know I was.
Not because it's a character flaw of some sort, but carrying around extra weight makes you tired. Dealing ...
Weight loss surgery support group is a key component in your success!! Weight loss surgery support group for me is a vital part of success. I truly believe in support on all different levels because we all have different ...
Weight Loss Surgery Support Groups: Group therapy and how it can help you You’ve taken the enormous step of deciding to go ahead with weight loss surgery (WLS), and perhaps this website helped you make that decision. So you ...
They say I lost a Backstreet Boy
After Bariatric Surgery
Sometimes when I told someone that I had lost 130 pounds I would hear that I had lost a whole person. One day someone said "You've lost a Backstreet Boy"...
Cliff's DS Journey I had the duodenal switch surgery (BPD/DS) in Oct. 2004, at the time of surgery I weighed 380 lbs. I'm now 52 yrs. old and my weight has fluctuated ...
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