1. What types of food did you eat this week? Chili, fruit, turkey meatballs, steak, tea Misto's, and I found a new snack that I'm starting to really like - dry roasted edamame also - Sensible foods Crunch Dried fruit snacks, they are so good, nothing but fruit in them, and between the edamame and these they really help with my crunch issues. 2. What types of exercise did you do this week? walking 3. How much weight did you lose? I forgot to weigh today, but Wed. it was 2 lb. Total loss? 140lb gone forever! 4. What was your biggest challenge? No real challenges this week, I had a great week! 5. On a scale of 1 to 10, how bad is your "dumping" experience? I've had it happen only once and it was an 10, bad enough I never want it to happen again. *Fun bonus question: Name some of your favorite Authors or favorite books? If you don't read, name your favorite something else, hehehe! I read all the time and all sorts of genres - Vince Flynn, Lee Childs, Danielle Steele, Janet Daily are some of my favorites.

We decided to go to the Pizza inn because they would accomadate all of us and would also only charge us for a kids meal. Those that want to can bring their kids and so more people are able to come. Thay have a salad bar. Also the seats are a lot better to sit on. Hope to see you soon. You can even bring you honey as there are husbands that come to. It is across the street from where the old Sams club was on Rivers. Rose

Sarah, Are you drinking anything with sugar or a lot of carbs? When a person has gastric bypass surgery, the body will produce 4-5 times as much insulin when we drink anything with sugar in it. Insulin will keep you from losing. Try cutting any sugary or drinks with carbs out of your diet. That is the first thing to look for. Jim

HA! I've had similar experiences and we started around the same weight...and are about the same weight now! Keep jumping for joy......we can keep on keeping on to reach our ultimate goals! Christina S

I've found that recently stress has become a factor in slowing down my loss. I even went through a small gain last week but after a relaxing weekend and making sure to be aware of my calories, fat, protein intake I lost that and another 1/2 pound. One of the other things I realized was that I wasn't getting enough calories. When you are under a lot of stress your body tends to store fat and since I wasn't putting in enough fuel my body went into storage mode pretty quickly. I started to look at my intake on Friday and realized that between my first 2 meals and 2 snacks I had only taken in about 400 cals. That's not much at 8 mos. out considering I had also done 45 mins of cardio--burned all that off. My body was basically screaming that it was gonna hang on to everything it could. I managed to get in 1200 cals. on Sat. and Sun. and by Monday I had taken off the 2 lbs I gained and another 1/2.