Weight loss to date?

Good work everyone! I am down 95 pounds since surgery. These last few months have been a struggle with grazing, but I have kept my exercise up, so I think that has helped me to continue to lose - even if it has slowed down. I would like to lose another 30-40 pounds by my 1 year surgiversary.

After reading everyone else's responses, I feel like such a slug. I've lost 74 pounds since my surgery on 6/26/06. I have about 35 to 40 to go. I'm not exercising like I should be. I am having a lot of problems with food in the past couple months. I'm getting nauseous from almost everything and have diarhhea almost daily. You'd think I'd be past my goal under these cir****tances. I have been craving sugar so much and I know it's making me sick but even things like breaded chicken is doing it (that was safe before). I saw the doctor right after this started and he thought it was stress because I was heading into finals for my last semester before graduating (A.S. in Photography). I stopped taking the Nexium he prescribed after that but I wonder if I should still be taking it. I'm just so sick of being sick. To complicate matters, I don't have a thyroid so I've been on synthetic hormones since 1992. After the surgery, for some reason, I began to really mess up taking my meds. In December I realized that I had filled my scripts since early September. Oops! So I really made an effort to take them faithfully every day. Now I know I'm hyperactive. I'm having a blood test done tomorrow. Anyone have any suggestions?? Thanks, Kim

My surgery was June 12, 2006 and I am down 103 pounds. I feel like I should be down further than that. I, too, have been having trouble with eating the right foods and staying full during the day. The first 6 months I didn't even have to try not to graze during the day, I just didn't want to. But now, it's a different story. I get hungry about an hour and a half after eating. I've been cravings carbs too. I still stay away from bread, rice and pasta completely - haven't had them since before surgery. But I do occasionally eat fries, potato chips, pita bread, tortillas, cereal, and popcorn. All things that are not good for me. I don't eat much of this stuff, but I do eat it. It's been tougher and tougher to stay on protein, protein, protein. I also need to exercise more. I know I can do better. I have another 40-45 pounds I want to loose. I better get my a$$ into gear to get the rest of this weight off. They say after the first 12 months after surgery, your body pretty much won't loose weight easily. The first 12 months is when you need to loose and get to goal, and from 12 months post-op and on it's about maintaining. Well, I have four months left to loose the rest of my weight to get to goal. Do you think I can loose another 40 pounds in 4 months??? I'm doubting it, but I need to try!

Im taggin behind ya'll Down 85pounds...surgery was on 6/12

WOW! You guys are ALL doing awesome!!! Doesn't it feel great to have lost so much weight so far?! I am down 105lbs since initial consult, and my BMI is down to 21.4 so I am feeling good about where I am at. I look particularly better WITH clothes on than WITHOUT, but that is something I can live with!