This has really been a wonderful thing. I had lap-rny, 9/16/03, with a bypass of 150 cm and I am down 100 lb. I started at 412 lb. and loss the most (64 lb.) in the first month. I am not eating as much as I should be. I am always hungry, unless I really eat every other hour. I can't do that. I forget, sometime. I have to literally watch the clock. I am drinking a protein shake once a day and try to drink two. I had a 20 lb. loss in the pass month and think I was on a plateau before that. My clothes are literally hanging off and I'm ready to buy something new, but should wait until I can get into some of the other sizes in my closet. I have everything from a 1x to a 5x and a few other sizes. Jewelry is fitting again and I am really loving all of it. This is a wonderful web site. Congratulations to all of my fellow losers! This is a wonderful trip!

Hello Fran, Me too!!!!! I have been connected to machines for 3 months because I had some complications, but now I just can't seem to get walking. I am going to pick up the Walk Away the Pounds tapes next week.(have to wait until payday) I am glad I'm not the only loafer. Evelyn

Thanks you guys! You have given me some ideas, especially the video workouts. I could do them in the evenings as my mornings are kind of taken. I know that I could get to the gym at least twice a week for about an hour, so I just need to do it. I finally fell off my plateau, only 2lbs, but enough to make me feel better. I also dragged out a box of clothes that I packed up over 3 years ago when I outgrew them and guess what?!?! The lion's share of them fit! about 20 more lbs and I should be able to get into all of them! It was like meeting old friends! I have also restructured my eating habits and am drinking more water to help the weight loss. Thanks, Shannah

I had my surgery on sept. 12th. I hear ya about not having time to work out, but when I went back to work I decided I had to go to the gym as well... I had to MAKE the time. So now I am getting up at 5am to be at the gym by 6am and do a workout for at least an hour then go off to work, which is a sitdown job. At first I HATED THE GYM WITH THE PASSION OF TEN BLAZING SUNS!! but now since I've been doing this since Oct. 28th, I can definitely feel the difference during the day at work when I don't go-- which has been only once. I think that it's all a matter of making yourself go. I am trying to minimize as much as possible the amount of excess skin I will have when all my weight is lost. I was 350 lbs before surgery and I have now lost 97lbs after being on a 3 week plateau, being stuck at 90 lbs. So, in like 3 days I lost 7lbs. So, despite how much I've lost and the effort I've put into speeding up the weight-loss process, I had some very dark days while I was plateau'ing... not wanting to go out, see friends or family, etc... combine that with the winter blues and that's just a recipe for depression. So, maybe you can do something in the mornings before you go to work, if only an 8 minute ab video (which I have and use)... it could at least speed you along.

Shannah, Don't give up.... My surgery was on the 25th of Sept. and I have only lost 56 pounds. I don't have the time to have a workout schedule. I just do what I can when I can. I think you are doing great!! At least we haven't been gaining... Ha! Ha!. I do the samething. I will weigh 181 one day and then the next two or three days, I will weigh 185. What is up with that!! Well, Don't get down on yourself. We are just struggling right now. There is light at the end of the tunnel. Angie