Well.... I must say one thing. This is also the first best thing I have ever done in my life. I wish I had done this years ago. I too have been stalled for around 3 and a half weeks....fortunatly the scales are moving again slowly. I have noticed though when not losing the weight I would have seen move on the scale I saw that I have moved down one more size YEAH! I have more energy and it gets better with every day. I have went back to school and I am striving to do my best at work when possible. My hair loss hasnt really been that bad.....it does end though so don't fret! I go for my 6 month {even though I want be officially 6 months until Sept. 2nd} next Friday the 26th. I can't wait to see what the doc.s scales say then. Oh and BTW....my official weight loss is .......Drum ROll PLEASEEEEEEEE.. 105 POUNDS!! Life is great. I cant wait to see what the next six months hold for me. IF there anything like the first six then I am out for a long great RIDE!! Becky 390/377/285/??? consult/pre-op/right now/ whats NEXT!!

Well I was in a stall for about 3-4 weeks myself. I thought oh well, I'll be a size 18, which isn't that bad since I was a size 28. But just this week the weight has started coming off again. I started taking a protein supplement in the morning. I felt I wasn't getting enough protein. I still have a terrible time eating meat, eggs, etc...Since I'm gone 10 hours a day commuting and working I don't eat very much. I don't exercise which I know isn't good but I just don't have the time but on the weekends. When I get home from work around 10Pm or later I'm so tired I usually find myself asleep on the couch and get up and go to bed to start the day all over again. My hair is slowing down falling out finally. It's still coming out but not in gobs. I'm taking 2 biotin daily. The Nioxin and my scalp did not like each other at all. I also use the protein enriched Pantene shampoo/conditioner. I have now lost a total of 81 lbs and still going..... Deborah W. 298/207/170

Yea for you! Keep up the good work and happy attitude!

I am glad to hear everyone's experiences. My friends are very supportive and now call me the incredible shrinking woman, which makes me feel so good, I am afraid my head is going to start growing! Then I would look upside down compared to before surgery! LOL I was secretly embarrassed when I first started seriously contemplating the surgery worrying that people would think I was a loser who couldn't just control myself. Of course, that's probably what they thought while I was walking around 120 lbs overweight, huh?! Anyway, it suddenly hit me one day that not a single other person had to live my life (or NOT live the life I want to live by doing things with my family that I couldn't do before!) and what in the world did I care what they thought? It set me free and I immediately started telling everyone with no shame whatsoever. If someone felt they should say it was an extreme choice, (everyone was nice, but of course, some were concerned as I was), I would say yes, but so was slowly dying which is what I was doing. I don't try to recruit anyone to have the surgery, but if they ask, I want everyone to know how beneficial it can be since I know they have probably tried everything and lost all hope, too--like I once felt! Skinny people may be judgmental (when they should just be thankful), but many will ask questions because they know someone who has had WLS or who they think could benefit from it. It's been a great experience for me and I am becoming more and more concerned about educating others on a grand scale, so that insurances, etc., will hopefully begin to support this life-saving option and to hopefully teach other prejudiced folks that we aren't just eating machines that can't turn off--afterall, we could still eat things we shouldn't and not be successful even with WLS, so it's just the added help a certain group of people might need to be successful. Eating is not the only problem this population has! Oh, well, that's my soapbox!

Thanks Michelle, I seriously hate to walk. I get some kind of a panic attack when I get too far away and the thought of getting back home is overwhelming. It's a shame, too, because I have four dogs and they'd "kill" for a walk. Any walk. Just to the end of the street! ANYTHING! Sounds like I need therapy. Barely can pay my mortgage right now, so am just hanging on! I've had a hysterectomy, so I can't tell when I get PMS, so to speak. But I have consistently had trouble every 5 weeks. Seems like an odd time, but my fifth week after surgery was horrible emotionally and week 10 was bad, not as bad. I just finished week 20, so there must be something to that. Heidi