yea Lisa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! doesnt just feel awesome to say youve lost 50lbs??!!!! Great Job and keep up the awesome work!!!! xoxoxo Bethany

44 lbs for me since surgery. 59 total.

Crusty Ficknehiney here. I think I will keep it.

Carla; This is my hardest struggle as well. The surgeons advise against drinking while eating since the pouch doesn't have a sphincter like a regular stomach does, you can wash out all of the food you've just eaten, therefore enabling yourself to "eat around your surgery." I am very careful to have just a tiny sip of something and I try to wait as long as I can into a meal before I succumb to it. I however, have had the opposite problem than what my surgeon advised me. I've never had the sensation that my pouch emptied out because I had a sip, I tend to get too full because of the sip and will end up vomiting just the last bit of liquid I had. That has been my incentive to not drink while eating, but probably once every two weeks or so, I do it anyway and get sick. What's the saying? "We didn't have brain surgery." Blessings, Jennifer 253 / 200 / ???

miss t, thanks for the vote of faith!!! i was beginning to wonder myself now my next milestone is to hit the 200's!! that will feel even better!! lisa