Also make sure you're getting enough fluids. Regina

My Doctor told me that I need to up my protein and that zinc would help with the hair loss. Seems to be working. Also I'm not as tired as I was before I got my portein back on track. I had my surgery June 7, 2004 and have lost 60lbs, I started at 250. God, I'm so happy. And the inches, I wish I had kept track because I have gone from a 3X to a 16w. :- D

Oye mine JUST started falling out this week. I knew it could happen but it still freaked me out. I'm trying to be very careful about getting all my protein and vits in. Does anyone know if you can stop it once it starts? Tasha 303.5/223.5/138

Hi everyone, Well . . . I traveled one hour in rush hour traffic for my 3-month checkup with surgeon yesterday evening, anticipating questioning him about my lack of restriction and my suspicions about an enlarged stoma. Got to the office to find the door locked, and the phone disconnected. What the heck??!! I used my cellphone to try his other office which is even further downtown (D.C.), thinking I had mixed up my dates or something. After 25 rings, one of the office staff answered, saying that the office I was at was permanently closed. Well it would have been friggin' nice of someone to give me a call, ya think? She said I wasn't on their schedule in the D.C. office for yesterday, either. Now I know I wrote this down correctly in my appointment book when we made the original date. Grrrrrr. So I couldn't be seen there, either . . . but I did get scheduled for next Wednesday. Good thing, apparently, because then she informed me that as of October 1, my surgeon was leaving the practice and she did not have any info as to where his new offices would be located or what the phone numbers would be, etc. So now I am very uneasy. I hope I get some answers next week. I feel like presenting them with a bill for my babysitting costs, my gasoline costs, and just plain wasting-my-time costs, lol. This morning, I had an appointment with my regular doctor who oversees my meds for fibromyalgia and back pain (I have degenerative disk disease in my lower back). According to his scale, my 12-week loss comes to 240!!!! Woohoooo!!! I told him that I had some relief from the back pain right after surgery, but recently have been noticing more discomfort. He says that the weight loss has caused my center of gravity to be redistributed and I need to work on exercising certain other muscles in my back to strengthen my posture. He gave me a referral to a physical therapist! So that's the news from my little corner of the world. -BJ 300/240/150???

You look marvilous!!!!!! Way to go!!!!!