I'm scheduled to have surgery with Dr. Lopez in January and I was wondering how your surgery went? Did you have a good experience with Dr. Lopez and his team? I'm pretty confident in my decision to go with Dr. Lopez but it'd be really great to hear from someone who had the surgery firsthand. Any advice or info you'd be willing to share would be awesome! 

Hi and thank you for your response.  I am not drinking protein shakes much anymore.  I get most of my protein from solid foods (meat).  I follow a low carb diet like Atkins which seems to work for me.  

The biggest tip is to follow the post op diet and to recognize that there will be many things changing with your eating habits.  Honestly, just accepting the changes is the hardest part but if you can reach that acceptance, you'll have success.  I have had stalls but not serious ones and I believe they were caused by they hypothyroidism.  I will battle that for the rest of my life and again, acceptance of that is the first step.  

I hope this helps.  

WOW you have lost 70lbs in 4 months, that is incredible!  Are you drinking mostly protein shakes?  Did you have any stalls?  Any tips, tricks or advice you can give about your success would be awesome.  Congrats on your great success!

I was just sleeves 7/25/15 thru a lighter me with Dr Ortiz and it was a good experience. I didn't have a single issue at all. If u have any specific questions feel free to ask

Thank you so much.  I am quite excited that I have almost made it in such a short period of time.  :)