{"id":3231,"date":"2013-10-21T06:20:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T13:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2021-12-08T16:28:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T00:28:22","slug":"destins-160-pound-weight-loss-surgery-success-story-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/destins-160-pound-weight-loss-surgery-success-story-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Destin&#8217;s 160 Pound Weight Loss Surgery Success Story &#038; Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Destin-B-Before-and-After-Gastric-Sleeve-Surgery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Destin's Weight Loss Surgery Success Story &amp; Photos | BeLiteWeight | #gastricsleeve #vsg #WLS\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3232\" height=\"402\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Destin-B-Before-and-After-Gastric-Sleeve-Surgery-1024x706.jpg\" title=\"Destin B Before and After Gastric Sleeve Surgery\" width=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Destin-B-Before-and-After-Gastric-Sleeve-Surgery-1024x706.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Destin-B-Before-and-After-Gastric-Sleeve-Surgery-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Destin-B-Before-and-After-Gastric-Sleeve-Surgery-434x300.jpg 434w, https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Destin-B-Before-and-After-Gastric-Sleeve-Surgery.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif\"><font color=\"#000000\">All my life I have struggled with my weight. I have always been the biggest of all my friends. I had to special order clothes.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif\"><font color=\"#000000\">In January 2012, my health was dramatically declining.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>I was put on blood pressure medicine, and fighting daily with physical health problems, excess sweating, fatigue, light headedness, and shortness of breath.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>I reached a maximum weight of 430 lbs.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>I then decided to change my life by committing to seek out help through BeLiteWeight.&nbsp;<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif\"><font color=\"#000000\">My journey through BeLiteWeight was very successful.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>My experience in the hospital, the days before and after the surgery was great.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>The day of the surgery was the worst day by far.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>After following all doctors&rsquo; orders, I began to see improvements in my health.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif\"><font color=\"#000000\">The first three months, after surgery, I lost 100 lbs, and was able to come off all medications. Within the first year, I lost 160 lbs.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>I would say my experience through BeLiteWeight was a &ldquo;huge&rdquo; success.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>I would and have recommended this process to anyone in need of a lifestyle change. <br \/>\n\t\t<\/font><\/span><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n\t\t<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 11px\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Procedure: Gastric Sleeve \/ Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 11px\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Surgeon: Dr. Jose Rodriguez &amp; Dr. Elmo Aramburo<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All my life I have struggled with my weight. I have always been the biggest of all my friends. I had to special order clothes. &nbsp; In January 2012, my health was dramatically declining.&nbsp; I was put on blood pressure medicine, and fighting daily with physical health problems, excess sweating, fatigue, light headedness, and shortness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[917,12,13,20,10,8,19,52,919],"class_list":["post-3231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weight-loss-success-stories","tag-gastric-sleeve-surgery","tag-gastric-sleeve-testimonials","tag-laparoscopic-vertical-sleeve-gastrectomy","tag-lose-weight","tag-sleeve-gastrectomy-surgery","tag-vertical-sleeve-gastrectomy","tag-weight-loss-2","tag-weight-loss-story","tag-weight-loss-surgery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3658,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions\/3658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}