Okay, I guess I'm confused... You said: "I assumed that anyone would think I was doing as I was instructed" But you also said: "I can eat ANYTHING. In never ever get sick... " "My surgeon says an hour, but I'm lucky to put in thirty minutes" So did your doctor instruct you to eat "ANYTHING" and find out if it makes you sick? Is so, I apologize, I've never heard of a baratric surgeon giving such advice. Did your doctor tell you to only do half of the excerise he instructed? If so, again I apologize. You have a strange surgeon. OF COURSE we assumed you wern't doing as you were instructed, because you TOLD us you were not! LOL! Nobodys insulting you here. If what you want is someone to pat your hand and say "There, there" regardless of what you say or do, then I think you've come to the wrong place, as you're looking for enabling, not support. I suspect that you have a long history of "mean people insulting you." My suggestion would be to stop asking for advice is you are really only looking for validation of you actions. Eat what you doctor tell you. Excersize as your doctor advises you. THEN complain about not losing weight. The surgery ain't gonna do all the work for you. Sadly I doubt any of this was useful, or could be, but maybe someone else will get something out of it. -Perry

Dear Jennifer, Sorry to hear about your long plateau. I hope you can get the weight loss started again. I have read on this board that when your weight loss seems to have stopped that you should try 3 or 4 days of the liquid diet that we had to start out with. You know, the protein drinks, s/f jello, s/f popsicles, that kind of thing. It can't hurt to give it a try. Also, you might want to check with your surgeon about checking out your new pouch and make sure that you haven't stretched anything. As far as exercise, I think that as long as you are doing SOMETHING it shouldn't matter if you do a whole hour or not. I don't know about you, but before surgery I couldn't do ANY exercise. Now I am so much more active, but I don't do any "formal" exercising yet. I'm working on it, but I have a schedule from hell too. I'm also sorry that the responses to your post got you down, but sometimes people have a bad day or whatever. Try not to take it to heart too much, okay? These are just MY thoughts and I hope that you find something that works for you. Take care!!

Jennifer, I think you might have read a little much into that last post. To be honest, when I read "I can eat anything, except ice cream" I came to the same conclusion. As you did not qualify this statement with anything about what you ARE or ARE NOT eating, I'm not sure how you can expect readers to come to any other conclusion. Please don't get mad when folks comment on what you write. If you want us to comment on what you THINK, then please put that into words. As far as it being "easy for people who start off at 268", that was simply immature and uncalled for. If you don't realize by now that this surgery and the rest of our lives following it are not "easy" for anyone, then you have bigger issues than ice-cream to deal with. Please think before you react, remember you ASKED for opinions. Thank you, -Perry

I am so jealous!!!!!!!!!!!!! i wanna be 160!!!!

B- protein drink L- half tortilla pizza ( cheese and banana peppers) D- I will have a low carb yogurt, and 2 peices of string cheese Might have another protein drink depending on how much protein I get in today.- Melissa