Quit getting discouraged. Remember when we went to weigh****chers and starved for a week and lost 1/4 pound. How soon we forget. It would have taken 2 years to loose what you have lost by now. We all loose at a different pace. I know a lady that just had it and has lost 56 pounds in 7 weeks. I have not lost that much in 7 weeks since i started this journey. I am hapy with what i have lost and you should be also. I quit weighing and it does come off, just slower at this time in our journey. Inches are dropping if the scale is not moving. Hang in there and cheer up. Debbie p.s. i have a new profile, take a look.

Thanks for all your support. If I could just say goodbye to the 200's I know I would feel alot better. I am doing things at the gym (equipment) that I never would of tried 10 m0s ago. If I could get down to a 12/14 that would be great. As much as I love my doctor if he hadn't said "you should end up at 150" I probably wouldn't feel like such a failure. I haven't seen the scales move in almost 12 weeks and I'm exercising like crazy and hardly eating at all only when I'm hungry (starving) so somethings got to give. As soon as I get some insurance I will go back to my surgeon and also get a plastic surgeon consult. In the mean time I plan on going to the Bariatric conference in Ft Lauderdale Oct 22nd maybe I'll get some ideas there. www.usbariatrics.com Thanks again for all your support pray for us Belinda ps maybe we should start a slow loosers page rny11/04/03 280/210

Hi, I totally feel your pain..... I went for 3 months or so and had'nt lost one damn pound!!!!!! I was also exercising and trying to be good and wasn't losing. I thought for sure that was it, and I was shocked to get on that scale and see that I had dropped another 4 lbs... I've lost a total of 95 lbs . the thing that really got me was that people constantly tell me that I'm still shrinking. I never wanted to measure myself, but that could have been it, I could have been gaining muscle and losing fat since I jog for exercise. I so want to be at 165 I don't know if I'm ever gonna see it, or see less than a size 14. God, all I want is to be a 10, not even an 8. But again, friends and coworkers constantly tell me , don't lose too much more, but they don't weigh 194 lbs... Please don't beat yourself up, tryand remember you are so much thinner than you were 10 months ago.. There are alot of us in the same boat, hang in there. Can you call the nutritionist at your WLS???? Mine has been really good about calling me back when I had a question... Good luck and keep up the good work!!!!!!! Paula

Wow, You all look great. I have a before and after picture out there, but I don't know how to find the link to it. How can I get the link? Cecil

Hi, I am at goal and have been for a month or so. please do not get discouraged. we all lose differently. just as it was when we gained the weight in the first place. i only eat about 4 1/2 oz. at each meal. and i work out 4 times a week at curves. i don't always get in my liquid but i do get my protein in every day. i even have a protein snack in the afternoon to make sure. i also never eat sugar, that was a pandora's box i couldn't open up. alot of my friends do, but i just can't go there ever again. i find though that if i really need something i can have a sugar free something and they are good enough now you can't tell the difference. when i used to plateau i would up the protein and exercise and it usually worked. also, are you measuring yourself because usually when you are not losing weight you are losing inches. so Measure yourself!! hope all this helps and think happy thoughts you have done so well to get to this point!! Keep up the great work!! Stacy 262.5-132.0 11/14/2003