Tips, tricks, advice?

Interesting! If it doesn't break loose in a week or so, I'll definitely try that! Makes perfect sense

Personally I would actually try a few MORE calories, in the form of dark green veg, dairy, egg, fish, etc.  Sometimes the body needs to shake things up a bit when you have been eating the same thing for months.  Toss some spinach and seafood salads, egg salad, beans, avacado, etc into the works...

Audrey

Even though you are at your goal weight, you are still malabsorbing.  When the malabsorption goes away, after about two years, then your body will normally start gaining back the weight that it lost.

Malabsorption is when the body cannot absorb the calories that it is taking in.  The body is smart and will grow new appendages in the intestines that will hold food against the walls of the intestines and allow it to be absorbed.

When that healing has occurred it is usual to gain ten or twenty pounds very quickly.  My surgeon advises us to be ten, twenty or even thirty pounds under goal during the honeymoon period.  Then there is a cushion or Bounceback regain.

Weight loss slows considerably after the first six months.  You need to stick to your plan and also be sure that you are counting calories and intake correctly.  As Grim said, calorie intake often increases without our realizing it.

It is better to be too skinny for a while now, then to have to fight regain later.  True maintenance will be in the third year when malabsorption is completely gone and you then know what your body needs to maintain.

You have not been cured of obesity.  Your body will always want to gain weight and you will always have to be aware of what you are eating and how much you weigh.

Can you send this to me in three years? Great information, and great advice!