My dietician said lean cuisine's and smart ones are fine as long...just so you know....smart one's makes a new one called truth about carbs. They are strictly meat and veggies, low carb and most are over 20 grams of protein and low fat. Little bit smaller portion too. They work great for me. Good luck! Lisa -71 lbs

b - cottage chz with pineapple 4oz L - small egg roll, 2oz teryaki ckn, 2 spoons rice S - 2 hershey mini's D - 2oz ground beef, 4 bites rice 40oz water 8 oz hot chocolate Was this too much or not enough as far as food goes? I know I need to do better on my water..

What do you eat on a daily basis and how much exercise are you doing? I had my surgery on 10/6/04, I've been between 255 and 260 for the last few weeks. I am 259.5 today, per the Dr's scale. help me be as successful as you have been. What are you doing? Help!

Robyn, Oh my gosh, you had your surgery on the same day that I did. I am at a stand still, and I'm so frustrated. I went into surgery weighing 316 lbs. I am as of today 259.5 lbs On 12/09/04 I was 270 lbs. so in a little over 1 month, I've only lost 11 lbs. I was busting out of size 32 clothes. I've lost 56.5 lbs. I've been reading the posts on this site and at a couple of other sites and alot of folks say the heavier a person is the faster they drop the weight. I've read that alot, so it must be true. Right!! I went to my 3 month follow up appt. today. The doctor I saw was not the surgeon that did my procedure. I let him know I was concerned about the slow down in weight loss so soon. He asked about how much water I drink, I told him 60 ozs usually. He said it's not enough of course I asked how much should I be drinking, he answered "I don't know" I asked how many calories I should be taking in, he asked how many I burned a day, I said I don't know, his answer, "I don't know, no one knows" I told him I don't get a feeling of fullness, he said "don't worry about it, if you eat too much you will throw up. Not everyone feels full, some people feel hungry". He told me to get in ,two scoops of protein powder and to eat two meals. No snacking and to drink and drink water. He said I can't drink enough water. I'm concernd that I'm eating too much. Last nite my husband asked me to have just liquids for a few weeks, to try and continue to lose weight. I read a post last night that mentioned a site called fitday.com I visited the site and punched in everything that I ate yesterday. Wow, I ate over 1500 calories. I haven't seen a nutritionist and the surgeon that I saw today was of no help. So I'm going to ask my PCP for a referral to a nutritionist. This surgery was such a drastic action, for me not to be successful. I have never been a normal size. Never. I want to have a few years in a normal size body. I'm 5'3" tall, at one point I was over 320 lbs, I don't know exactly how much over, but I wasn't even fitting into my size 32's, I was wearing stretch knit pants and making my blouses. I visit the California board as well and there are ladies there that do the "What did you eat today" But I haven't participated, usually I get on the computer in the evenings into the wee hours of the night ( I haven't returned to work yet) so I always feel why post it's way after the last post so no one is going to read it, I won't get any replys. How helpful is that! So, if you ladies are going to be doing a what did you eat I'll check into this message board daily to post my consumption. I'm going to try to increase the water, and only have two meals, and the two shakes as the surgeon instructed. Oh, he also said he wants me to do aerobics. I don't go to the gym and I don't have any tapes so, I'll dance around and get hot and sweatie for 20-30 minutes if I can. I hope i don't bring down the house (literally) my poor old house! Well, I'm sorry this is so long. Good Luck to us! I'll be back!

Rachel, That is WONDERFUL!!! We have a lot more to look foreward to! I know exactly what you mean about the jeans! Speaking of jeans, you reminded me of a time when I was in fourth or fifth grade, I was helping a friend put her clothes away and I couldn't actually believe that any human could actually fit into her jeans. It was/is so foreign for me to see "normal" sized clothes, I guess I just never knew anything other than being overweight. Around that time I could pretty much wear my mother's clothes! Just the idea of having jeans that aren't huge and weigh 20 pounds seems so unreal to me. I actually can't even remember the last time I weighed 235lbs. It is sort of freaking me out! Fasten your seatbelt Rachel, you are about to have a ton of WOW moments! Good luck and congratulations on your accomplishments thus far! Stay warm! Amber