Help me, please! How can I stop myself from losing so much weight?

I know this is not a question that is normally seen on this website, but I am at the end of my rope and scared. I was hoping that someone here might have an answer, or maybe a suggestion. I am just a little over 11 months out on a distal roux en y gastric bypass and I have lost over 260 pounds thus far. I can not begin to describe how horrid I feel. I am exhausted all the time. I am in pain beyond belief. I eat worse now than I did before the surgery, just in an attempt to quell the weight loss, since I have doctors and other such people telling me that I am losing far too fast. When I say eating worse, I eat high calorie things, just to keep from losing 10 pounds in a week. My hair is falling out. My nails are brittle, to the point that they break down the center. My skin peels off in pieces, and is quite dry. I get chest pain often, and I have been told that this might be due to a lack of sodium. In short, I am afraid that if I can't slow down the loss and start getting more healthy, that I may end up causing irrepairable damage to something vital, if not something worse. I can not currently see a doctor, due to the fact that we lost our insurance when my husband left the Navy. We will be getting insurance again, once he gets in the Army, but I don't think this can wait that long. Basically, in a nutshell, I am asking for advice on how to slow down this loss. I started out at 498 and I am now down to 233. I last weighted myself on Friday, and I weighed 239 then. That is just a prime example of what I am speaking of. How can I stop this, before I end up in the hospital, or worse? Please, any and all help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

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