Shere- thanks for your reply. You are doing great! Wow, 138 pounds! Exercise is so awesome and good luck with the marathon! I started eating more low carb bread and other "good" carbs lately and haven't noticed a differerence in my loss, so I question if I have really needed to be so hardcore. I do notice a difference in my hunger level when I eat let's say grapes and cottage cheese and toast for breakfast instead of my egg, mozzerella cheese and yogurt. I am famished by the time lunch comes around after eating the higher carb breakfast, so I try to stick to protein for my breakfast. I do my exercising in the evenings, so I try to eat my carbs for dinner and then exercise right after. Don't know if that is the right thing to do, but it seems to work for me. I wish I had time to workout in the mornings. It would be a nice start to the day, but I can't seem to get up early enough to do it. Just curious, when you eat that pizza, do you eat the crust? I tried eating crust once and got really sick from it. Do you dump or have any reaction to white flour (starchy stuff) or sugar? I am going to start drinking the green tea today! thanks! Steph

Congrats on the fabulous weight loss. Keep up the great work. What day in Sept. did you have your surgery? I had mine on 9/10/03. I am still waiting to get under 200, that is my next goal. Best wishes to you. Joyetta B 328/203/150 hopefully

I finally made the Century Club. I feel 100% better than I did 7 and 1/2 months ago. Even with my complications I would do it again. Ev 331/231/175

Hi Everyone: It is Friday and 32 weeks since my surgery so it is time for my weekly update. After a couple weeks of not losing anything I decided to go to the gym an extra day making it 4 times a week and adding more protein (if 80-100 grams a day wasn't enough) and I lost 5 pounds. I'm now weighing in at 210 pounds which represents a 163 pound weight loss. My BMI is now 29.3 so I can now proclaim to the world that I'm just overweight and not obese. Isn't that great or what? I got a few comments this week from some of the ladies in the office that really boosted my ego. Before surgery no one really noticed anything about me but this week I got "you really have a cute butt" and "you're really looking like a stud." I guess the weights are really beginning to pay off. Till next time, Jesse 373/210/-163

Hi all! I was just wondering how much everyone eats at a time or in a day. Sometimes I feel like I am eating too much. The weight is still coming off consistently, but I can eat like 8 oz. at a time, sometimes a little more. I can eat a whole can of tuna which is I think 5 or 6 oz plus a small side salad. I am usually pretty full when I eat that. Does that seem too much to anyone? I have my next Dr. appointment in a few weeks and I will talk to him about it, but I was just wondering what you all were eating since your all around the same surgery date as me. I had my rny on September 8th, 2003. I have lost 118 pounds so far. Went from a size 24/26 to a size 10-12, depending on the clothes. Eventually was hoping to get in an 8. I still have 17 more pounds till I get to goal. I workout 5 days a week, maybe more. Biking, rollerblading, walking my butt off, sometimes a little jogging. Maybe I eat more since I exercise alot. Breakfast I usually eat one egg and a 6 oz yogurt. Lunch is usually a can of tuna and a small salad A typical Dinner for me would be a whole chicken breast and about 1/2 cup of Broccoli and a few bites of cottage cheese. sometimes if I am hungry around 3pm I have a protein shake to get me through till dinner. I figure if I am hungry, I should eat something. I steer clear of pasta, or anything with white flour in it, (it makes me sick) rice, potatoes, and sugar. I do occasionally have one slice of whole wheat bread, or a wheat low-carb tortilla. It hasn't seemed to slow anything down so far. I also occasionally indulge in a drink or two on the weekends, but try to watch the calories on that, cause they add up fast. I drink like 80-120 oz of water everyday. Yes, I get pretty waterlogged sometimes. I eat at 8:30 am, 1 pm, and 6 pm pretty much everyday except weekends may be varied a little. But it still just seems like I am eating too much or more than I thought I was going to be able to after surgery. I really don't snack much, and I try not to keep snacky stuff around, and if I do eat that stuff, it is a very small amount, sometimes I really want to, I try to resist, but sometimes I do cave in...like I have 1/2 of my sons cookie...I try not too, but I feel more "normal" or like I am not deprived if I allow myself a bite of pretty much anything...sometimes I have a sugar free chocolate or two or a handful of peanuts, but it's not usually every day. I don't eat, sleep, and breathe this surgery anymore. Everything just seems pretty natural to me now...i mean I don't really measure anything, i just eyeball it. The only way I know how much I eat is to look on the yogurt container and think, damn, that is 6 oz. I was just hoping for some feedback on what others are doing and what is working for them and what is not working. This was going to be short and to the point but I ended up rambling. sorry. Thanks so much for your imput! Steph 285/167/150ish