How is everyone doing??

1) How much have you lost? 37 pounds - today is eight weeks 2) What are you doing for excercise? some walking - just started an exercise video yesterday - managed 15 minutes and had to sit down! 3) What foods are working well for you? cheese, tuna, fish, protein drinks and power crunch bars 4) What are you having problems with? getting in enough water, eating too fast 5) Any tips you might have that will help us? if you hit a stall, RAISE your protein consumption I still find myself a bit more fatigued at the end of the day than I thought. I went back to work in 1.5 weeks and that is mostly what I do with my energy....work. Vicky

1) How much have you lost? 57lbs since december 27th 2) What are you doing for excercise?30 min of cardio and walk dog, lift weights: mondays-chest and triceps tuesdays-biceps and back wednesdays-legs thursdays-shoulders fridays-just cardio weekend-off everyday is 100 ab lounge crunches 3) What foods are working well for you? i can eat anything! 4) What are you having problems with?nothing 5) Any tips you might have that will help us? drink your water, workout, and chew chew chew. get in all your protein and eat that first in your meals.

Hi Becky, Glad things are going well for you. My Report: 1) So far 42 lbs. I have 78 more that I'd like gone --- yesterday. Oh well. 2) Walking. I aim for 60+ minutes 6 times a week. 3) I've used receipes from OH to make Chili and Taco soup that I love. Heavy on ground turkey and beans. 4) I discovered great sf fudgecicles. 35 cal, 2 g protein and I can't stop. So, no more for me. 5) Try very hard to stay with your program guidelines. That's why I'm dropping the above food from my grocery list. It is very important to me to stay away from "trigger foods". Corrine

Hi Corrine, Could you tell me where you got the recipes for the soup. That sounds like something I would like and Im really trying to get the protein in and im having alot of trouble. I had my surgery on Dec 21 and I got for a check up tomorrow so I dont know yet how much ive lost. Im done 2 pants sizes and can finally start to see it. Thank you Wendy

1) How much have you lost? according to my scale it is 45 lbs. I go to the doc tomorrow so we will see what his say. 2) What are you doing for excercise? I go to the gym about 3 times a week and i ride the bike for 15 min. and do some weights to help with arms and butt area. 3) What foods are working well for you? Well tuna is good shrimp is great. I have been going through a thing of throwing up. I tryed an apple and one day it is good the next I throw it up? 4) What are you having problems with? Remembering to chew enough. 5) Any tips you might have that will help us? Don't really know. Some days are good some are just yuky Steph

Hi Becky 1) How much have you lost? 50 pounds about 1 week ago 2) What are you doing for excercise? Denise Austin exercise videos, Miracle Mile Walking video - 3x a week; going to aim for everyday 3) What foods are working well for you? shrimp, some pasta, chicken 4) What are you having problems with? getting protein in, remembering to chew food 5) Any tips you might have that will help us? eating 6 small meals a day helps me to stay away from snacking all day long. JaNae 338/288/175

1) How much have you lost? 37 as of yesterday - 6 week post op visit 2) What are you doing for excercise? Dancing my behind off, now that my knee pains are gone I am shaking my booty for at least an hour a day. Or I will use my gazelle while watching TV. 3) What foods are working well for you? Lean Ground Beef. 4) What are you having problems with? Fish and White Meat Chicken 5) Any tips you might have that will help us? Exercise Exercise Exercise!

Hello everyone, I have no support groups in the area so here I am. Progress wise I am doing well. . . 1) How much have you lost? 63 since highest, 40 since surgery 2) What are you doing for excercise? treadmill daily, approx. 40 min. 3) What foods are working well for you? string cheese, milke, tuna & crackers 4) What are you having problems with? Doing to many things at once and paying attention to the chewing, it ends up stuck and I throw up, then feel bad the rest of the day. 5) Any tips you might have that will help us? Exercise and think of the end result. Thanks for listening, Jody

1. I just got weighed at my 6 week appt. and I am down 33.5 lbs since surgery on my docs scale. 2. I usually do my treadmill, but I have a virus that is just wiping out my entire routine. I hope to get back to my mile and a half 3x a week. 3. Refried beans, thin deli turkey, milk. 4. Getting in fluids, getting in protein, eating in general - I get full quick! 5. My nutritionist says that re-heating meat makes it harder to digest and makes the protein coagulate. This might explain some of my problems... hmmm....

Went for 6 week check-up and weight loss was disappointing. 16 pounds. I've been doing 2 pro-complex and one mini meal per day. 80 oz fluid and calcium, multi and iron. Makes me full just typing it. Doc says the transfusions sometimes make the system retain fluids but didn't give me a time frame. He said to cut shakes to 1 per day and cut fluids to 48-64. (I think he's as confused as I am) I'm hanging in there because I've gone from a 24 the day before surgery to an 18 I have to use a belt to hold up. It doesn't make sense but I have seen a few other cases with similar results. DH and I work out at the gym 4-6 days per week. Shrimp, thin turkey, cheese, zuchini, fit n lite yogurt. almost anything I've tried except chicken and fresh garlic. We don't do any refined carbs and DH is almost officially past his diabetes. Shows what diet and exercise might do for Diabetes. ( huge smile) I'm having sciatic testing today (UGH!!!) and hope to be more mobile soon. I'd love to be doing the treadmill for more than 10 minutes at a time. Drinking too close before and after meals was a problem - That's my biggest challenge - ignoring the thirst for that hour or so. Tips - I mixed my protein powder with yogurt and it stayed in the pouch a bit longer than mixed with water. May we all be big losers.