Met my GOAL!!!!!

  Wow, I can't believe this day has come!  I'm excited but it feels so surreal!  Now I have questions for you who have been here for a while.  I'm 9 months out from RNY.  I  still don't feel like eating most of the time.  I drink Unjury shakes to get about 80 grams of protein in.  Is it OK to stay on the shakes.  I read someone's blog that said NO.  I don't know what I'd do without them. How do I maintain and not lose weight now? Any advice is very much appreciated!  I am so happy I could screeeeeeeeam!  I knew I could share with you!  Thank you so much! 

I am only 2 months out so I have not advice for you.....Just wanted to say GREAT JOB!!!!!! 

Thank you very much!  You'll be there before you know it!  Good luck!

Congratulations!!!

Thank you Laura!  So we seem to be real close as far as losing our weight in 9 months and our pre-op weights.  So how has it been keeping it off so far.  You are past the 1 year point now, that's great!  Did your body just stop losing?  Did you have to eat more?  Do you supplement with protein bars or shakes?  I supplement with both to get the protein in.  Would love to hear more.  Thanks again and congratulations to you too!!!  Great job!

My weight has been stable (within 5lbs) since Mid-March.  I do eat more now than I did before -- but since my weight is stable and below goal, I don't worry about it.  I'll get things in check if I have any substantial gain that is not fluid related.  Not to say that I don't worry about re-gain, I do, so I'm a daily weigher.  I'm 5'5" and fluctuate between 120-125.

I still supplement with protien bars - I love them and have one for breakfast everyday.  I never liked most shakes and couldn't wait to get rid of them! 

Congrats again on reaching goal!  Welcome to maintenance!
Laura

Hi again Laura:  Can I ask you what protein bars you like?  The only ones I seem to be able to eat that don't make me feel sick to my stomach are the Pure Protein bars.  The rest seem to have too much sugar for me.  Thanks.

I have two favorites:

Powercrunch (pb creme - no chocolate) - these are my absolute favorites! 

If I can't get those, Oh Yeah! - wafer bars in peanut butter crunch will do.  

Thank you!  I found them in the internet but couldn't find the nutritional information.  Can you tell me the amount of calories, fat, sugar and protein?  Where do you purchase them from, would like to try them.

For powercrunch, I couldn't find the info for peanut butter creme -- but this is the vanilla creme:

Serving size: 1 cookie
Amount Per Serving
Calories	180
Calories from Fat	80
Calories from Saturated Fat
Amount Per Serving and/or % Daily Value*
Total Fat	9g (14%)
Saturated Fat	2g (10%)
Polyunsaturated Fat
Monounsaturated Fat
Trans Fat
Cholesterol	0mg (0%)
Sodium	75mg (3%)
Potassium
Total Carbohydrate	9g (3%)
Dietary Fiber	1g (4%)
Soluble Fiber
Insoluble Fiber
Sugars	4g (0%)
Sugar Alcohol
Other Carbohydrate
Protein	14g (0%)
Amount Per Serving and/or % Daily Value*
Vitamin A	0 (0%)
Percent of vitamin A present as beta-carotene
Vitamin C	0 (0%)
Calcium	0 (12%)
Iron	0 (1%)
Flavor	0 (0%)

This is from the Oh Yeah!

Serving size: 2 sticks
Amount Per Serving
Calories	210
Calories from Fat	117
Calories from Saturated Fat
Amount Per Serving and/or % Daily Value*
Total Fat	13g (20%)
Saturated Fat	6g (30%)
Polyunsaturated Fat
Monounsaturated Fat
Trans Fat	0g (0%)
Cholesterol	2mg (1%)
Sodium	135mg (6%)
Potassium
Total Carbohydrate	8g (3%)
Dietary Fiber	2g (8%)
Soluble Fiber
Insoluble Fiber
Sugars	4g (0%)
Sugar Alcohol
Other Carbohydrate
Protein	14g (28%)
Amount Per Serving and/or % Daily Value*
Vitamin A	0 (0%)
Percent of vitamin A present as beta-carotene
Vitamin C	0 (0%)
Calcium	0 (8%)
Iron	0 (8%)
Kosher	0 (0%)
Flavor

ETA - I purchase from amazon.com