Hi Lisa! Yeah, that is one thing I wanted to be taken off, my medication! How are you feeling? Hope you're feeling better now. Thanks for your response. Hugs, Lucy

SUCH great news LUCY... glad your being weaned off the blood pressure meds! YOUR pics are fabulous and your doing so well with the tool KEEP up the great work! hugz lisa

Good morning my fellow June bugs! I went to see my primary care doc for a follow-up visit. I haven't been there since January. He was very pleased with my weight loss. I'm being weaned off my blood pressure medication finally!! I have to take a half a pill every other day for the next two weeks and then I can stop it for good. My BP was 100/70 at the office. I haven't lost anymore weight since my surgeon's visit. But that's okay since I haven't started exercising yet. I will be seeing my surgeon next Thursday and will probably get the go ahead and start slowly. My appetite is back something awful. I'm doing the best I can to at least maintain my weight. I am scared though of gaining. Now I am getting comments like, you're all skin and bones; you look anorexic... but I don't feel that way. People aren't used to seeing me so small and I'm not either. I know that I have to be very careful as it is so easy to head down that slippery slope of no return. My pouch still rules though and lets me know when it doesn't like what I am eating. I am so thankful for this tool. I would have never gotten so far in my weight loss efforts without it. I am wearing size 10 skirts and size small jackets now. Who would have thought that? Now, if I could only be happier in my professional life with my job, things would be grand!! Wishing all of my friends, the very best day and week ahead! Love you all!! Hugs, Lucy 484.8/383.4/170/160 pre-surg/surg day/current/goal weight

I was having some memory problems and fatigue too, around my 9month checkup I had to get a vitamin B-1 injection shot (nurse gave me). I don't know if it solved it, but Vitamin B-6 & Vitamin B-12 deficiencies will cause lightheadedness & fatigue. and was told to take a vitamin B-1 capsule and a vitamin b-100 (I take 2 per day). My physician told me to take a Vitamin B-6/b-12 sublingual tablet once a week, unfortunately I don't listen very well & 1 take one a day. It doesn't hurt us to take more Vitamin b tablets than needed. As for protein, do you drink protein shakes? Claudia

Okay - it's 7:03 p.m. eastern time - anyone up for chat???? I just gotta talk about something..... Pam