Nyn

What a great post, on this, your birthday eve. Very uplifting! I especially love the "50 minutes on the elliptical". It's been awesome watching your progress on that. What did you start with, something like 15 minutes? Very cool.

Got any fun plans for tomorrow?

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Nyn
Lap RNY date: 9/24/07
Height: 5'8"
338/160 (as of 11/15/08)
most/current
BMI: 51.4/24.3 = NORMAL! (Who? Me?)

178 lbs gone!
Century Club 12/29/07! * Doctor's 1st goal 4/9/08!
ONEderland 5/5/08! * No longer obese 5/11/08! * Normal BMI 9/4/08!

sdgrrl

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MIKE!! I HOPE YOU HAVE A MOST MARVELOUS AND MAGICAL DAY, Filled with love, health, humor, and abundance!

I've just spent an hour catching up on your posts and am so proud of you, so happy for you, and so amused at some of your musings. You def look like that major league hottie, Bruce Willis.

Thank you for being on TT, Mike, and thank you for being such a totally cool dude. You totally rock!

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Donna the SDgrrl
Happy to be a GrrzlyBear!

doing the best I can each day

Honor yourself, honor others, and honor the Earth...the rest will take care of itself

Dvldog760

Hey Mike I just finished reading this thread and I just want to thank you for the time you put into it. I found it insightful as well as inspirational and just what I needed as I follow you down this road. Its good to have a guys perspective on all this as well as that of all the wonderful, beautiful women here.
I am looking forward to following in your footsteps and I hope I can contrubute to this site at least a fraction as well as you have.

Oh and Happy Birthday.

fisher1000

More like 2 minutes!

Family is getting together tonight...and we're having pizza. (Thin crust...) The rest of the them are having a cake I'll be looking at but not having any of. (Which is fine...even before the surgery, I wasn't much of a cake fan. I HATE frosting! Weird, huh?)

Otherwise, I'm working today, but I'm wearing new clothes and I must say, I look pretty good today...well, pretty good for 37!!!!

-Mike

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FISHERBEAR MIKE
402/204/under 200 (As of 11/15/08)
Highest/Current/Goal
Open RNY - September 24th
198 pounds GONE, BABY, GONE!

BMI: 63 (was) / 31 (is)

Countdown to goal: 206 205 204 203 202 201 200 199 GOAL!

snick1899

Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!

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Jen

http://www.myspace.com/jencard00

Lap RNY July 22, 2008
Couch to 5k Runner #1!
Scale Whore #23!
Gym Rat #122!

298/277/217/190/140
Highest/Day of Surgery/Current/Dr.'s Goal/My Goal

"Some things I cannot change, but till I try I'll never know!"
~ Elphaba (Wicked, The Musical)

annie's mom

OMG Mike, you are a riot ....loved the numbers and the sternum story ....to funny ....

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Annie's mom

Dec. 20, 2007 - Met with PCP to discuss WLS
Jan. 14th - Initial consult with surgeon
Jan. 20th - Psych consult
Feb. 15 - Met with PCP, obtained letter
March 1st - Submitted to BC/BS
March 15th - Denied!!! Needed another 3 month
March 17th - joined WW and
June 5th - Resubmitted again!!!!
June 24th - denied again !!!
August 6 - Finally approved!!!! Doing the happy dance
Nov. 11th - Date of Surgery!!!!

Don't give up and don't give in....I won't..

Godsblessedme

wow Mike you are such a deserving man! Your wife is the luckiest woman in the world! 50 minutes on the torture machine geesush! i feel good when i can do 8minutes then i'm pooped!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY welcome to the land of 37

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Deborah
Highest weight 268
Surgery Date: 12/18/07 Lap RNY
Down 82 Pounds (11/17/08)

Corrine

You're looking more than pretty good Mike.

Another thing you need to add to your list is that you look 10+ years younger.

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- - 24 September 2007 - Lap RNY
Dr. Sebesta. Madigan Medical Army Center (MAMC)

259.5/224.7/123.5
highest/day of surgery/current (5'5")
135lb gone as of 11/16/2008 ~~~ BMI 20.5 ~~~

Hamburgler

So I looked all through to find the new post and found your list...Ive pretty much missed this thread but couldnt miss it today. I have to tell you, maybe Im silly but that list made me cry a bit...It's an amazing process and Im so happy to be sharing in it with all of you. It gets me going when I read something like this because, well, I guess we are all kind of feeling this way. Accomplishments...Eliptical 50 mins! WOOOO HOOO! I moved into these apartments for the weight room, we have two here, have not been on them, and I was just thinking with being able to bike ride now and roller skate, I prob could put in some time down there. Also, my DH and I were just discussing the, being checked out. Twice yesterday for you! It feel good doesnt it. My DH always teases me that Im probably getting hit on all day, and Im not. I catch eyes, but not direct attempts. He told me last night..."go ahead and take that ring of for a day and see what happens." He is silly! You are an amazing person, Happy Birthday to you! Hey your a Leo like me arn't you, well barely making the cusp? No surprise you are so outgoing, typical Leo trait.

fisher1000

My wife shocked the ever living crap out of me by giving me tickets to see MADONNA in October! I'm really excited...being a child of the 80's and all! I tried to go and see her in 1990, but with a .9 grade point average my first year of college (also my blood alcohol level) I had to attend summer school and missed out.

We are making a weekend of it and the grandparents are keeping Lily! I. CAN'T. WAIT.

-Mike

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FISHERBEAR MIKE
402/204/under 200 (As of 11/15/08)
Highest/Current/Goal
Open RNY - September 24th
198 pounds GONE, BABY, GONE!

BMI: 63 (was) / 31 (is)

Countdown to goal: 206 205 204 203 202 201 200 199 GOAL!