Good Morning! No change this week. SW: 247 LW: 159 CW: 159 Walked every day last week. Twice on Wednesday! I guess my exercise is balancing out my intake. Still wanting to get to my goal of 135 - 140.

Good Morning all!! Still not under 160 pounds but inching towards it and closer to my goal!! Only 22.4 more pounds to go. HW 327 SW 322 LW 163.4 CW 162.4 Down one pound See you next week!

So here are my stats this week: HW: 232 SW: 228 Two weeks ago: 116.2 CW: 115.4 BMI - 20.3 Still loosing. .8 loss and I am already down to 114.5 this week. I think I have had a stomach virus. I am posting to be accountable. I was so swamped this past week that I haven't been able to get online at work or home. Lori - I am still praying and keeping you in my thoughts dear. I am hoping that you get news soon. I know you will share when you are ready. Hugs to all, Lindy

New Awesome Food! Totally vegetarian, and only one gram of fat and two grams of sugar!Certified organic, made with organic pinto beans, organic brown rice, and just the right blend of spices, wrapped in a organic wheat tortilla. It's great tasting, plus it has zero cholesterol, and is lactose free! Amount Per Serving: Calories 260 Calories from Fat 10 % Daily Value* % Daily Value* Total Fat 1g 2% Total Carb. 48g 16% Saturated Fat 0g 0% Dietary Fiber 7g 28% Trans Fat 0g Sugars 2g Cholesterol 0mg 0% Sodium 490mg 20% Protein 13g I got mine at Costco. You can get them online at http://www.cedarlanetogo.com/p-21-cedarlane-burrito-wraps-to-go-16-items.aspx with a variety of other burritos in a "burrito sampler pack" One of the varieties has 350 calories and 35 grams of protein--great to split in half and have as two snacks! I'm still a big fan of the Boca Breakfast Wrap--if you haven't tried them yet, please do! I reviewed it a few months ago--have a look... Jill

No that's the problem - I can eat more than I feel like I should be able too. I'm thinking of doing the cottage cheese test to see the size of my pouch. Has anyone done that?? INFO BELOW: Just about every patient asks this question on occasion. It is expected and appropriate that the stomach pouch will enlarge somewhat as the months pass after gastric bypass. Some of this enlargement is an actual increase in size, and some represents a softening (regaining of elasticity) of the pouch and its outlet. The real answer is that the FUNCTIONAL size varies with many factors such as time of day, the amount of time taken to eat, mood of the patient, other medical issues, and (most importantly) the type of food eaten. It is expected and appropriate that the pouch will handle a much smaller amount of solid food (chicken) than mushy stuff like mashed potatoes or soup. The cottage cheese test is a technique that was presented at the June 2000 meeting of the ASBS (and many times before that) by Latham Flanagan, MD (website is at The Oregon Center for Bariatric Surgery). It is meant to be a standardized, reproducible measurement of the physical size of the stomach pouch in a person who has undergone a gastric bypass procedure. Purchase a container of small curd low-fat cottage cheese. Begin the test with a full container, and perform the test in the morning before eating anything else (this will be your breakfast on that day). Eat fairly quickly until you feel full (less than five minutes). Note that the small soft curds do not require much chewing. The idea with the rapid eating is to fill the pouch before there is much time for food to flow out of it. After eating your "fill" of cottage cheese, you will be left with a partially eaten container that has empty space where cottage cheese used to be. Start with a measured amount of water (16 ounces, for example), and pour water into the container of cottage cheese until the water is level with the original top level of the cottage cheese. Voila - the amount of water poured into the container is the functional size of the pouch. If this is your first time doing the test - DON'T PANIC. You are likely to find that the "cottage cheese" size of your pouch is way bigger than your surgeon told you he/she made it at the time of surgery. Dr. Flanagan's data indicates that the average size of the mature pouch by cottage cheese test is 5.5 ounces. He has also found that sizes ranging from 3 to 9 ounces have NO IMPACT on the person's success in weight loss.