Hello All... my surgery was 3/11/09 (full gastric bypass) I have lost 110lbs and I feel amazing! I workout 3 days a week and I just ran my first mile!! I do have a concern about intake. I can eat just about anything (w/in reason) and I am easily eating 1 cup of food per meal. I am eating 2 to 3 meals a day w/ a couple of hearty drinks, V8 and protien. I'm wondering if a cup of food seems normal... Also I just noticed that I can tolerate sugar and it's very hard for me to avoid suger!! I actually stay'd away from ALL SUGARS until I hit a support group and another patient told me that he ate a cookie everyday!! Instead of me being shocked by the cookie I was shocked by the fact that he could eat sugar w/out dumping! Any suggestions about avoiding sugar? Someone told me to eat a bunch of sugar so that I would get sick and I would not eat it again... not sure that sounds smart!! Please help

I was 5 months out on Aug. 2.  As of yesterday, I am down to 258 pounds.  That makes me down 82 pounds from my pre-op testing weight of 340, and 148 from my all-time high of 406.

I am feeling great!  I exercise as much as I can, mostly by walking, and going to the gym once a week.  I walked into surgery wearing a 3XL polo shirt, and size 56 waisted pants.  I am now into XL polos, and I actually FIT (albeit a wee bit snug) into size 42 waist jeans!  As for dress shirts, I went down from a size 22 inch neck, and now am in an 18.5 inch neck. 

It sounds like we are all doing great!!  I'm down 63 since surgery 3/27 and I'm perfectly happy losing my weight a little slower than the average bear.  I realized right away that I could not/should not compare my rate of loss with anyone else.  Soooo not fair to my recovering ego!  I am extremely happy I decided to do this for myself and my future!  Best of luck to all the Marchers!

I am down 80 pounds today!  I lost 20 on the pre op diet and 60 since surgery!  I feel great!!

Dawn

You can do it!!  <---insert voice of that guy from The Waterboy LOL!!