My wife works for a Hospital thats self-insured, MHealth...so they're pretty lenient on covering different procedures.

Great job Dan, just wondering who is your insurance carrier?

Hot hot!! You look friggen amazing!!!

Damn Brother you have done amazing!!!

You look incredible.

Dan,
I haven't really been on the site in a couple months and seeing your most recent weight is a big surprise! You have done amazing! I can't tell you how happy I am for you. 200# down in 8 months is just the best. I read your post about having difficulty seeing yourself as you are now instead of how you used to be...I certainly can relate to that. I think our mind is slower to accept the changes but I believe it will happen. I didn't have that far to go when we started this journey but mentally, I was "huge". So the weight was a big mental thing, just like it is for most people. The fact that I liked how I looked in pictures was weird but I guess it's almost like seeing someone else bc you're emotionally removed a bit from that person in the pictures. At least that makes some sense to me. And once I saw myself remotely (in pics) enough and bought a couple pieces of clothing that fit in small then I started making a real connection to that thinner girl. But it's been quite a journey. I fun one. You're doing amazing and I'm so excited to hear more.

Hey Dan....just stopped by to check on you! You're looking great!!!

Hey Dan, u look great hun.. U keep shrinking!! xx

whats up man hows the sleeve treating you. dropping in to say hey. As for me im approaching the 4 month mark about to hit 70lbs gone. Seen your pre op pic and this one now and you can see the huge change.

Great to hear you're well and headed towards hotness. Haha. I encourage your wife to make that decision if she's been the roller coaster I have been on for years. To be honest, it's the most amazing gift I've given myself. I am ecstatic. I know it's hard to make the financial commitment to pay cash for this when it seems like losing 50# would be easy (cheaper) another way... But it's the constant battle I needed to stop. Let me know if I can help her with her decision in anyway. I so want to pay it forward.

Best to you and your family. Good luckon your journey to permanent hotness ( what I keep telling my husband. )

Daniel,
I haven't been on this forum in a while but wanted to check in with you. Wow, you're dropping weight like crazy! It's amazing to see my surgery date buddy kicking a** like that. I'm so happy for us both.

How are you feeling? I am feeling amazing. Struggle to hit my protein goal everyday but otherwise just feeling amazing. Down to my goal essentially and am really happy with this decision. Now I'm focused so much on other things that food is definitely no longer my obsession.

Tell me about how you are...Cindy

Can you see your scar?

Hey Daniel,
Any information that you can give me about your surgery, the hospital stay, ecct. I'd really appreciate it. I've scheduled my appt. already but still freaking out.

Just dropping in to see how your doing man.. Hope all is well. I go in 2 weeks for mine. best wishes

I'm glad to hear from you. I knew when I didn't see you online for a couple days, it probably meant you were feeling rough!. I totally understand the second day being horrible. That was my worst day. Although day 3 was a close second. The heaving. Yuck. Now today, day 5 post op...I returned to work for half day and honestly other than fatigue...I'm doing well. I've been doing some protein (setting a goal of 50 gms) and today was the first day I made that goal. I have have been doing ok with liquids, but it is a total lifestyle change.

I knew that lifestyle change was happening along with surgery but it has set in with a firm reality. I am enjoying the process as much as possible but honestly, this isn't the fun part. I'm really glad to hear from you. Keep me posted. I still don't know how this forum works all that well so finding this string between us is an egg hunt for me. haha

Best of luck! Cindy