Patti, I also am having significant hair loss. It is comming out by the hand fulls. I have cloged up the sink AND the vacume cleaner. I knew there was a risk to loosing hair and I didnt think I would be so sensitive to it happening. I think at 3 or 4 months out it is awful timing. Just when your starting to see a good change in your body and feeling good about yourself. But not out far enought to be even close to goal you begin to lose your hair. I am once again very self concience about my thinning hair. I walked 5k with some support group friends of mine for the womens center in Cleveland this past Sunday and one friend wanted to give me a wet towel for my neck and I thought she was checking out the hair that had fallen out and was on my shirt. Some times I want to cry but I keep telling myself that it will all come out and that this happens to alot of people.

I started @ 357 and am hovering at the 80 lb. mark, and seem to have hit a stand still. I just started walking 2 miles every morning, and am exhausted but feel well after doing it. How long can i expect this plateau to last? I am eating primarily proteins and doing the water, vitamins, and following the pouch rules...just getting discouraged. I see that plateaus are a concern of a lot of people for obvious reasons, and I really am hoping to hear that walking and the exercise will kick-start the loss again. Anyone with success with exercise care to chime in with how long it took for results? One of the biggest reasons pre-op that exercise didn't work for me is that I gave up on it too quickly when I didn't notice resuts....and I am not going to succumb to such a pitfall again...any advice or thoughts would be appreciated.... Eric in Pittsburgh

My hair is now also on the losing side. I realized that hair loss is a normal occurance around the 3 month stage but I may just lose it all or that is the way it seems. I dread washing or getting my hair wet because it seems that this when the shedding is the worse. If anyone has ideas about where I could get or make protein based foods that taste good please let me know. I eat protein first but evidently I am not getting sufficient amounts to reduce the inevitable loss of ones locks. I am down 85 pounds since my surgery day of April 15th, 2003 tax day and I had the weirdest expericence with my glasses. I have finally come to realize that I am shrinking in size but I did not realize that my head was apart of the equation. My glasses are about an inch too big on the sides and I kept on thinking that they just missized me last year. The glasses are for reading and I just got them back out since school is upon me again. Now it seems I will make another appointment with my eye doc to get another pair. OH well this is such a small price to pay for feeling better. Talk again , Patti

Hi Lee; Maybe this is what you want. I use it all the time. Just copy and paste. http://clos.net/predict-wt-loss.htm Have fun!! Barbara Scott

Hi Barbara, loss is dependent too on where you started! I began at 226, now 168 in 18 weeks, yes, my loss has slowed down, see my profile. you are dooing just fine, average your loss by the number of weeks out and you know you are right on track. be well, do the protein shakes and yes, fitday.com has also made me keep better track of the foods and i eatand the hidden carbs and fat we forget are there. keep it up, Robin in Va