I am now 96 days post op and I've now lost 64lbs. I haven't decided if that is a great number or not. People are more likely to comment now that they can see that I've lost a big amount of weight. I'm not even half way to my goal but I'm getting close.

First of all I want to reassure newbies that although the journey is not easy, it does get better. I'm only 3 months out and I'm really able to eat just about anything. I don't push it with bread or vegetables but so far I haven't had many issues with any foods. I can no longer tolerate protein shakes but I'm getting my protein from real foods now so I don't worry about it.

Some days I wish I could just not eat that day. For us it's just not an option. Ensuring I have plenty of fat included in each meal seems to help with my skin texture and preventing constipation. I even made biscuits and gravy this morning. I found these tiny tubes of biscuits in the store, I found the butter kind, and there are 5 small biscuits in each tube. Of course I can't even eat that many at one time, but making the bigger biscuits would be just wasteful. So I bake them till they are a little overdone cause I like them crunchy. Then I baked 4 slices of bacon, 2 for me and 2 for the roommate, and used all of the bacon grease to make a rather small amount of gravy, I used about 2 tbsp of flour and even a small pat of butter to add a little more fat to those carbs. It was heavenly. The protein was in the bacon and I lightly fried an egg in butter, leaving the yolk runny, to add even more protein to the meal. And topped the whole thing off with a glass of whole milk. I love my DS!