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I can finally say I feel great!  My energy level is up.  I am walking/running on the treadmill 30 minutes each day.  I just barely got into onederland and it seems that although I am following everything to the T - I did not get up on that OR table to fart around with my diet - the weight loss has slowed down.  I just posted a before and after picture a few days ago - I am down several sizes but I still have 65 more pounds to lose - all in all when I started dieting back in October, prior to my surgery to date I have lost 75 lbs.  Since surgery I have lost 43 lbs.  Well I feel like throwing the scale out of the window and I need to stop jumping on it every day but I cannot help myself.  I know I am building muscle now and that could be one of the causes but for me it gets a little frustrating because I just want the numbers to go down!!  All in all despite the agony of my complications I feel great and now I feel it was well worth it after all!!!!  I get compliments every day.

I am sooooooooooo glad I am feeling a lot better now although still on the weak/fragile side.  I still have rubber legs and get tired easily - plus my abdomen is still very sore especially in the area of the gastrostomy site however it is healing beautifully - hope I can get rid of the ugly crater someday.

On 4/5/07 it will be two months since my surgery.  I just returned to work full time today - and was very glad about it.  I have lost a lot of weight so far but am more concerned about regaining my strength right now.  I am having a terrible problem eating - everything makes me gag if I smell it - the foods I liked are not appealing anymore neither are the ones that I do not like.  Plus I am nauseous all the time and have this horrible bitter taste in my mouth that makes me gag.  Someone please tell me this is going to go away!!!!!! Sometimes I wonder if I made the right decision.  I really do not want to start regretting this.  I really want it to work for me.