Just want to pass along how I spend my Friday evening. I ate two bites of a hamburger on Thursday night at 10 pm, and had terrible "indigestion" for the next 16 hours. I called my surgeon's nurse at 2:30 pm from work, and told her I was hurting pretty badly. She told me to go to the ER because I most likely had a blockage. Welllll, it was absolutely awful. By the time I got to the ER, I couldn't even swallow my own saliva! I ended up having to be anesthetized and have a procedure by a GI doctor to remove the blockage. The bread had wrapped around the meat and blocked my opening to my small intestine. Everything I swallowed then backed up. I will never eat white bread with meat again as long as I live! This was an excruciatingly painful lesson to learn and I just wanted to pass it on to others. White bread can form "bread balls" in your pouch and block the new opening to the small intestine. The pain got to the point of approximately 9 on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the worst. My advice is: JUST SAY NO TO WHITE BREAD! LOL.

Also -- I stopped losing weight for 3 weeks. I have started losing again. Give it some time. According to my Dr. he says that we tend to lose a lot of water weight in the beginning and then our body gains some of the water weight back and LOSES some "real" weight. It may seem like a plateau but it probably really isn't. He says to go by how your clothes are fitting and how you feel. Don't worry Nancy -- I think everything sounds normal. I came across a really interesting document called "Pouch Rules for Dummies". Have you read that yet? It talks about the differences in pouch sizes from 3oz to 9oz and that there is not a significant difference in the amount of weight lost between either. I have the document in a Word file. Let me know if you haven't read it and I will paste it into an email for you! Sharon of Minnesota

WOW Congratulations. 65 lbs is a lot. I have lost 46lbs and feel great. Happy Holidays.

Congratulations to you! I thought I had lost at least 50 pounds! Turns out I have only lost 34 (feels like 50!). I love WLS!!

It seems like forever before the surgery and then afterward it flys by. I am down 65 lbs, from a BMI of 60 to 48. WOO HOO. When asked if it is worth it, after the kidneystones, nausea, vommitting, and uncertainty, ABSOLUTLY!! I could stop lossing today and it would have been worth all of it. Dr. Fernandez and his group have been awsome, there every step of the way. They never make you feel "dingy" for asking a question or needing advice. Congrats to the rest of the October Crowd with their success. Nicole