Hi Nathan,

First of all, 38 lbs is nothing to sneeze at.   Good job!  I hit a plateau around the 6 week mark, too.  What helped me to break it was more water and more protein.  Add an extra shake.  I know they're disgusting, but you'll soon forget about the flavor when the weight starts falling off again.  Keep with the plan.  The easiest thing to do at this point is to say "Oh well, I'm not losing anyway" and then not stick with the program.  Fight that urge. 

You're doing great and what's happening to you sounds normal especially if your fluid intake is down.  I hate to sound crude, but if you don't feel the constant (or almost constant) urge to pee at this point, you're probably not taking in enough fluid.  Set goals for yourself.  I would lay out 6 bottles of water a day and that would be my goal.  Before breakfast, I had a bottle (usually sipped it on my morning walk).  After breakfast, I had a bottle.  Mid morning I had a bottle.  After lunch I had a bottle.  Mid afternoon, I had a bottle and then after dinner I had a bottle.  I was in the bathroom constantly, but it really did help the weight to come off.

You are NOT a failure.  You CAN do this!!  Keep coming here for support.  We've all been through it and we understand.

I was sooo bummed to miss the group last week, I took my wife and kids to Fun Town so we wern't around.  I'm hoping to be at the next one though, and thank you for your advice, and it's fine that you sounded like my mom :)  I feel like I was so prepared before the surgery, and since it's happend I've turned into a complete dummy LOL  Time to pull out the red binder and read it over and over again.

So I had my 6 week check up today with the doctor, and I have my appt with the nut this afternoon.  Since my actual surgery date I've only lost rough 18lbs.  Alli n all with the two week liquid diet my total is roughly 38lbs lost.  I've been stuck at the same weight now for around 2 weeks.  My doc told me today to excersize more....so that is what I will do and hope that I start losing again.  At this point I am sad and worried that now not only will I remain fat, I'll be even more miserable because I can't eat any comfort food to be ok with being fat, if that makes any sense lol.  Ok, I am done my whining.  Typical things I am eating these days are cucumbers, chicken, soup, fruit, peanut butter, lowfat cheese, and a few other things.  I usually drink 1 to 2 bottles of water per day, which I know isn't enough either.  Well....just wanted to update and share with you all. 

I had my meeting with Lynne at the WLS clinic yesterday.  She did the metabolism scan on me and it appears that I run 23% fast which means my daily caloric intake could be as high as 2300 calories to simply maintain the weight I am at.  LOL!!  I don't know if I believe that.  There's no way I could eat that many calories in a day.

Good news is that I am within the range of acceptable weight loss to be on maintenance.  Lynne told me that I could lose up to 8 more lbs by October if I wanted to, but she was thrilled where I am and did not need to lose anymore weight if I didn't want to.  I am well within the healthy range.  My body fat % is within the healthy range for a woman my age and my BMI, while technically, I'm still "overweight" is still in what she considers the healthy range.  My lean muscle mass had gone up (yay) and I have actually gained lean muscle and have more than when I started this process (another yay!)

Best of all, I'm having a blast this summer.  I can keep up with my kids.  We're outside all of the time.  This is something that I probably would not have done in years past.

Just wanted to give an update!!

Hope all went well with your sleep study!   I feel old on here now!  lol  It's all good though!  Keep us posted on how the sleep study went!