I am 6 weeks out and have lost around 30 pounds.   I'm doing everything they tell me to do.. NO deviations.. no bites of anything that isn't fuel for my body.

I've stalled the last few weeks too.. but I know they say that this is normal and can happen.

It only gets discouraging when I read about someone that has dropped twice as much in the same period of time as me.. that is really hard to swallow ( pardon the pun)

Some days I am better off staying off the boards, or I get discouraged...  Sad, but true..

Stephanie

I have found that if I eat something high in protein before I go to bed, I do much better in the mornings. Give it a try. You are tired because our bodies are working very hard, first to heal, next to except what we had done to it. It still requires the nutrition to function, so we need to make sure we give it what it needs. It takes a lot of time and effort. I think that you need to have a serious talk with your husband about his comment about the money. This is not an easy decision, and it is not the easy way out. You don't need to have hurtful things said to you. Stand up for yourself and ask him to please stop. After all, he will be sharing the benefits!

Hi!
I had surgery June 4th, and have lost a total of 60#s, 48# of which was from after surgery.  I am slowly learning that I can have bites of stuff that I shouldn't.  I have been type 1 diabetic since I was 3 years old, so it is really hard for me to not have a well rounded meal, even if it is all healthy.  I love the veggies, especially the summer ones that are here now.  But I think that I have lost so much weight because I had so many complications post surgery.  I had my gallbladder removed 2 weeks after my RNY, and was hospitalized 2 more times after that for dehydration and monitoring.  I drink at least 100 ounces of fluid everyday.  Activity has been slow because of all of this, and today was the first time I went to the gym.  It wiped me out!  
You may not have had the complications as I have, but there is no way I am going through all of this and not going to do everything I can to make it successful.  And I think it is fine to have a bite of bad occassionally.  But if it is causing you to maybe not lose weight, then you might want to rethink how badly you want those bites.  And it is really hard, because I have a husband and parents and others and our life revolved around food.  We socialized, drank, hung out, and ate!  But just keep thinking, why did you start this journey??  Was it just to have a year of easy weight loss?? Because if what BTV said is true, after that year is up, you will still have the same eating habits, and your body will start to put that wieght back on.  I know that none of us wants to go through this surgery, and to have it eventually fail.  So you know what you need to do, and I know you can do it!  I can do it, and I am a weak weak person!  I can honestly say that I have never tried smoking or drugs because I know I am weak and I have an addictive personality.  
I am still losing, and I am waiting for the day when my stall or plateau comes.  Not looking forward to it, but I know it will come.  So good luck.  Sorry for the rant!!
ann

I'm am so upset because everyone seems to be doing really good.  I mean don't get me wrong I'm very, very grateful to Father GOD that ya'll are doing good and everything is ok.  But with me I feel like I'm complaining all the time and no one wants to hear it.

Food does not like me!  I get the foams so bad.  But it's ok because I get in all my vitamins and calcium, hair, skin, and nail vitamins.  I make myself take it.  My water intake is really good, I love water, and the K20 protein drinks the tea is good.  I like the Cristal lite energy drink and the hydration.  I'm going to get the vegetable protein drink because I have a hard time with with milk.

I noticed when I get my protein in I lose more weight.  I need to get to a scale to weigh myself again to see how much I lost.  My clothes are really baggy!
I will be going to physical therapy next month to help me get started on the right way to exercise.

How do you do with beans?  My friend scared me off of beans.  She got gas really bad for three days.  What are you eating?

Hi - My name is Mary and I am from Massachusetts.

I started out at 243 and lost a lot fast (37 pounds to date) - I am thrilled with that BUT I am in a stall.  I haven't lost anything I would say in almost 2 weeks.

I had RNY.  I can eat whatever I want without the dumping syndrome.  I don'****ch what I eat, but anything "bad" I can eat, I have just a bite of.  I feel guilty that is the reason I haven't lost.  I dont' over eat anymore and that is the main thing I love about having a small pouch.

I hope this isn't it.  I hope I will still lose, it hasn't even been 2 months.  I was watching BTV (Bariatric TV) and in an episode on their they joked that they could eat oreos every day for a year and still lose weight - they said that the body goes thru Ketosis which makes it so for the 1st year - we lose weight pretty much no matter what.

Is there anyone else that has free reign to eat what they want but choose to be careful?