Three Easters ago, I started my pre-op diet for gastric sleeve surgery on 4/15/2013, and nothing has been the same since. I started at over 350 lbs, and lost 140 lbs by the end of the year 2013, and have maintained it ever since. I recently turned sixty, and one of my gifts was a book of my life, with pictures from the time I was born until the present. After the age of thirty, it seemed like I got fatter and fatter every year; it was hard to keep turning the pages. The last three years, not only

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I am sitting at work, and just met someone for the first time who works for the same agency, and we were talking about a mutual acquaintance. I am now a normal weight person, even thin, and the person I was talking to, referred to the other person as a big fat guy. Should I say something, or just keep my mouth shut? The person we were talking about, is the size I used to be. I know I would not have liked to be referred to as a big fat guy, even though I was. I had no desire to go into my history,

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My one year surgical anniversary was last week on April 15, and I didn't give it a thought. My starting weight was 342 and is now 213, and has been since November. The sleeve is such a way of life that I hardly remember living any other way. When I look at a plate of food; I know exactly how much of each item I will eat. On two occasions I have gone over the limit, and both times I felt so miserable, I will never do it again. This past Sunday was Easter, which normally would have been an orgy of

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Eight months ago today I had my surgery, and I couldn't be more pleased with the results; except I miss my butt. As someone who has gone through their life with a huge ass, I was expecting to like having a much smaller one, but not expecting to have it disappear altogether. But it has, I literally have two bones where my butt used to be. I have gone from always having the crack of my butt make an appearance and being told crack kills, to being called droopy drawers by my wife, and having friends

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Eight months out, and still feel queasy when I eat food. I hear it sometimes takes a year before you are completely used to eating with your new stomach. I hope that this is not permanent, everything else is great.