Hello Sonya~ I miss my pizza too! I do Michelina's five cheese pizza lean gourmet. It tastes good but I still can't eat it all. I can do maybe 4 bites and I'm done. 280 calories for the whole thing...15 grams protein..4g sugar and 7 g fat. I've also done 1/2 english muffin with pizza sauce without sugar, mozzarella and some ham...turns out pretty good too or we also make reduced fat pizza with popin fresh dough..s/f sauce/mozzarella. Don't know it this helps? Take care! Bridgett

Shelly you are right. I feel like I traded one life threatening illness for another medical condition but this condition will make me healthy but its a trade off. I too have had no complications but that doesn't mean we have been down the easy road. I just tell everyone by no means was this the easy way out. If you knew me before you saw that I was dying, slowly. I ask that they just understand that I am working on being healthy and this was the trade off I chose, that workes for me. I really feel I traded on life long medical issue for another one. But in reality this is saving my life. People just don't get it. And I think the want this surgery to fail. Because they just don't understand. Jane

What is your response when someone says they feel that surgery is the "easy way out". Not in a disrespectful way nescessarily, but they feel that diet and exercise is a harder route to go. For some reason this comment from someone I love dearly has really hurt me, and I'm trying to figure out why exactly. I have made this journey appear too easy to others I suppose...LOL. I have been blessed to have no complications and marked success. I'm not saying it has been extremely difficult either...just not "easy". Maybe people just don't see the constant struggle of the food addiction we still encounter, all of the changes and sacrifices we make like, not drinking with meals, no carbonation, no sugar (or in small quanitities), minimal food choices, always having to worry about your protein, your supplements, your fluid intake, your vitamins, the constant worry of complications like obstructions or perforations, or having to run to the bathroom due to an "issue". These things are all forever for me......and that's ok. I mean looking at this lisst, it is all worth having my health, and hopefully a longer life....and a much more fulfilling life at that, but I wouldn't say it's "easy". Just wondered what all of you thought. Shelly

Sounds like your surgeon is very pleased with your success. You have come along way in a year! Keep smilin' and keep on movin'. The rest of the weight you want to lose will come off, maybe a little slower than in the beginning but it will come off. Just you wait and see! Now go find some protien, young lady!!! Peggy B.

((((HUGS)))) Kim! Posting food hre on the boards can wait. Just take care of yourself. We're here for you. My e-mail address is always available if you need to talk. Peggy B.