Hi Jennifer, Can you tell me about your weight loss? I just know my lousy eating is keeping me from losing more! I feel like I am wasting this "honeymoon" 6 months...I am so worried I will never lose all my weight! Pamela

I went out to eat last Saturday for the first time, to celebrate my birthday. I ordered a chef's salad with dressing on the side. I portioned what I was going to eat - what looks like about 2 oz of turkey, some cheese, 1/2 hard boiled egg, slice of tomato and some lettuce, and then dipped each forkful into the dressing. I was SO full quickly, which was a very different feeling than I was used to when I used to eat out. Jenn

It seems that when I get up in the morning I am okay, but after I eat food I start getting a headache. The other day my head started to really hurt and I came home and laid down. I've started to pay attention to this because I'm starting to say to my family that I'm getting another headache today. Seems funny. I hope they stop. I eat different foods everyday. Will just have to wait and see. Hope yours stop.

Hi Edna! You're not doing anything wrong, you're doing GREAT!! I think as a group of losers we're ALL doing great. We all need to remember that our bodies are dropping weight rather quickly (I was told I'd lose 10-15 lbs/month for the first six months--give or take) and they hit a point at which the body says..."heyyyy wait a doggone minute! You're starving me compared to what you used to feed me!! I can't continue to drop this much this fast...PHEW...gonna take a break for a bit!" And it's ok to let our bodies do just that. Come on now, we didn't gain all this weight overnight, we aren't gonna lose it all overnight either, right? I think 46 lbs is GREAT!! Just hang in there and don't let yourself be discouraged! I think as WLS patients we all tended to think we'd lose ungodly amounts of weight in a short period of time. It's just not so. Try thinking of it this way-- what OTHER diet have any of us ever been on that we've lost close 15-20 lbs per month? Weigh****chers, Jenny Craig, Nutrisystem, Diet Center, etc NEVER provided me with that big of a loss every month even when I stuck to it religiously. Realistically, our bodies can only lose weight so fast before it becomes unhealthy. And one of the HUGE reasons we all did this was to become and remain more healthy, right? So, look on the bright side, we're all weighing a WHOLE LOT LESS than we did when we started this journey! HOORAY FOR US!! We're all a bunch of losers--and we love it, right? I hope this helps to make you guys all feel better about the weight that you have lost, and to remind you that your body can only take so much and then it needs a break. One other thing to remember is, that generally when you're in a stall--weight doesn't come back on--it stays off...it just takes a bit for the losing to start again God bless you all!! Brenda

Hi,everyone I to have had my stalling, it makes it hard when you read others are losing 20lb a month. I had surgery 8/20/07 so I right at 2mo out. Ive lost 36 lb. since surgery, and 10 befor. total of 46 lb, I know thats great, just wish I could be a biger losser. LOL I fill pretty good most of the time, I drink my water and do my workouts, and I dont eat very much less then 1/2 a cup and I dont snack. So what am I doing wrong!!