--- In NewDimensionsWeightLossSurgery@yahoogroups.com, Carrie Francis
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> hello im carrie, how are you? well i'm so pround of you. my year will be this
year on july 25th. i weight now 195. i stared at 260lbs. i was walking every
day, but i been in school doing home work. i feel good about myself. so what all
you done or eat to lose so much? i do have alot of loose skin, the girl's need
help wth a lift up. i hope we can get something stared so everyone can come back
on line. at one time it was so much fun to hear that everyone was going to do
thing's.but are they still doing the group meeting? i have not goten email on
that at all. i was always getting mail from the group when & were. what ever
happen
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>  Chocolate Essence Carrie
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> --- On Tue, 5/12/09, Michelle Girard <sobhana1@...> wrote:
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> From: Michelle Girard <sobhana1@...>
> Subject: [NewDimensionsWeightLossSurgery] Re: anybody talking?
> To: NewDimensionsWeightLossSurgery@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 8:41 AM
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> It has been quiet. I have been a lurker rather than a poster, but maybe I can
help kick-start some conversation.
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> On April 28th I celebrated my 1 year anniversary. I was 41 and went in for
gastric-bypass surgery at 227 lbs, and now I have been stable at 105 for about 2
months. At 5'1" it is quite a change. I have a little loose skin on the arms and
legs, that I expect muscle development to eradicate. The 3 Bs (bust, belly, and
butt) may need some surgical intervention, but purely for vanity, not for
health.
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> My post-surgical experience went smoothly, and apart from a few cases where I
inadvertently ate something with sugar (1000 Island Dressing--who knew), haven't
had any real problems with dumping.
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> The surgery was the best thing I have ever done. Finding info in the web about
what to expect or when I had a question proved oddly difficult--so much in
anecdotal!
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> Good luck to all you newbies--it is a heck of a ride!!
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I had my surgery Dec. 10 and have lost about 70 lbs. so far. I heard that
support meetings are no longer held over at the NDWLS office bldg. Now they are
being held at the New Life Location (it used to be a hospital years ago off
Fredericksburg.)

I do have low potassium and iron. I passed out in HEB this past Saturday and was
taken to the emerg room. But thats being remedied now.

Judy