wow! what a difference!!! keep it up girl! rhonda

I know exactly what you mean about the scale. I am sure my husband is fed up with my whining about the scale not moving. He always points out that my clothes keep getting baggy and he is right. I am down 82 since I started the process, 62 since actual surgery. My biggest problem is in my head. I worry all the time that I haven't figured out my compulsive eating and emotional eating (I think they are two different things). With those worries that leads me to feeling I will be one of the % to fail at this and gain it all back. This stuff runs in my brain all the time now like thoughts of food used to. I also am getting a bit worried because my libido has been gone since surgery and I wonder if it will ever come back. Hubby has been great about it but for how long?? I am truly happy about the weight loss and am enjoying the fact that people are noticing. I had been so hoping it would help with my back problems, but not yet. I try to get to the pool 5x week as land exercise is just too damaging to me and I pay for days when I do try it. It isn't fun to be in a bathing suit and have everything jiggling worse now than when all that skin was filled out with fat...but I need to keep going and just not worry about what the other people think.

Amy, good question. Again I realize I am a December baby, but I also am worried that I am eating too much. I have not gotten any guidance from my surgeon's office. Their NUT left in December and they just recently replaced her...have not met her yet. For me it still depends on the density of the food. I can eat a couple of ounces of meat at a time, but I can eat an entire portion of oatmeal. I can eat an entire South Beach Pizza - those I have for a treat once in a great while. I track everything on Fitday and mostly stay between 650 and 850 calories. Other than the pizza I have not tried bread, pasta, potato or anything like that. At first the pouch really let me know that three bites was enough, that is over for me now. I have tried to just follow a schedule and watch my blood sugar. My husband and I have had an ongoing debate about ounces by actual weight or ounces by volume. It makes a huge difference and I honestly don't know the answer. The Nurse Practioner from B.center thinks that post ops should be able to live on two little one ounce cups of whatever you put in them. That did work for a few months. She believes that six bites in one half hour is all a body needs to survive.

I was 270 at 5'6.5 and to date I have lost 45 pounds but 37 inches or so, I am losing slow,, it frustrates me but at least it is coming off!

I had taken Prevacid for a couple of years before surgery. After surgery my new digestive system couldn't absorb it and I developed a terrible cough due to reflux. My pcp switched me to Prilosec which is over the counter. I took two a day, one morning and one at night for 3 months. Now I'm just taking one every other day. Losing 78 lbs. has done wonders! Didi