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I am four months post op. Down 60 lbs and have also encountered a stall. I am going back to a semi liquid food plan for a few days to see if I can get past this phase. Fingers crossed it works.

I'm in the San Fernando Valley. My doctor has monthly support groups for his patients.

When I started I wS in a 26/28. 3 months later and 60 lbs, I'm now only in a 22/24. You are not alone.

I'm three months post op and have also found that I can eat more now than in the beginning and have feelings of hunger ( or what I think is hunger).

My first few weeks I was definitely afraid that I would be the only person in history not to loose weight from the sleeve. After a few weeks I started to set in and feel good. Now that I'm three months out and am able to eat a little more, that fear has returned that I'll go backwards and not loose any more or gain it back. I think their will always be a part of me that will be afraid. A lifetime of struggle doesn't go away quickly. To bad they can't surgically remove the parts of the brain.

Thank you for sharing your photos. I also started out at 321 before my surgery and was 314 on surgery day. I'm three months out and now 261. I look forward to sharing my own 100 lbs down post.

No regrets what so ever. Is it easy all the time... Honestly no. But I'm off my diabetic medicines. Down to four meds for my heart and down 53 lbs. the days of struggle are only moments in what is the rest of a long happy life.

Congratulations on your success. I'm just three months out and down 53. I look forward to when I can talk about being 11 months out and looking as good as you do.

I'm about 10 weeks out and I also have started to have more of a bloated stomach and find I can't eat as much from a few weeks ago.

They tell us in our classes that we need to be doing this for us and that we shouldn't compare ourselves to others as we are all different. Then they tell someone they aren't loosing enough? I don't think so. We have enough stress of the real world telling us we aren't good enough because of our body size. We don't need the professionals doing the same thing.

Walk. Distract myself. Read peoples posts here. Play a lot of games on line. And binge watch tv.

I'm 10 weeks out and have had bread. I find lately though I can't eat bread or pastas. I'm starting to cut them out.

I was sleeved January 14th and am now down 48lbs. I've been doing good but this last week or so I am starting to have a harder time. I thought it would be harder in the Beginning rather than 2 1/2 months out.

I've also been having issues. My doctors office says to try Benefiber and that as I eat more and am able to add more fiber it will get better. In the meantime I'm taking Ducoclox and that's helping a bit.

I'm almost 10 weeks out and in the first few weeks when I was on liquids I always felt hungry. When I started more solid foods it started to get better. Now I struggle as I find I can tolerate more food than I did at first. My doctors office says this is normal.

I've also found myself reaching for food for no apparent reason. More and more I find myself trying to reconcile my "head hunger" with real hunger. I think I will always struggle with this knowing some days will be better than others. But I am also only 9 weeks post op and am still learning about my new stomach, which I privately refer to as Tiny Tum.

You are not alone in your feelings.. I have been very open about my surgery and have told pretty much everyone in my life. I'm down 40 lbs bur few people have commented or have seemed to notice. My fear is that I'll be the first WLS patient to not loose weight and everyone will see I'm a failure. I work hard to keep focused on how I feel and not the number. Keep myself in the resent.

My date was January 14. SW 314. CW 273. I have to say I've had mostly a very positive experience. Great recovery. No real issues. My main struggle is more with getting my head in line with my tummy. Best part...my food bill has gone down significantly and I've discovered the art of dressing up left overs.

I was allowed coffee from day one. They did recommend however that I keep it to one cup a day and any more be decafinated.

I am also about six weeks post op and have had similar feelings. I think it's all a part of the process. I try to stay focused on the end game and remind myself that outside of all my concerns is being healthier and living a better life. I too am concerned about the extra skin I'll face as I loose the weight but it's a reality and the damage has been done. I keep myself focused on getting off all my medications and having more energy. There will be time enough in the future to deal with the rest.

I'm officially 5 weeks post op. I've lost 26 lbs and have been feeling pretty good. The past two days though have been tough. All I want to do is eat. I know it's my head talking not my stomach but these past two nights I have not been able to shut my head up and it has been winning over my stomach. In fact here I sit in the middle of the night writing this after I just had to throw away some food that I wanted to desperately eat but knew I shouldn't because I don't want to go back to eating in the middle of the night. I've been doing so well and I don't understand. I know the rankings of a lunatic. I just don't want to feel that I am all alone on this one. Am I?

I've been doing well in getting a lot of my protein in. And I was actually doing well at not feeling hungry at night after dinner. It's just been these past few nights where I've struggled. It could just be a phase. I haven't been sleeping as well either these past few nights. I think I'm a bit concerned because night time eating was one of my issues and it's been going so well until these past few days . Do t want to have gone through all of this to have it be like before if that makes sense.

I'm five weeks post op and take fiber daily and still find I'm only having a movement once a week. I'm eating solid foods so I'm a bit worried about my lack of frequency.

I recovered better than I thought. Didn't think I would ever feel hunger and post op five weeks I do. It hasn't been as easy as I thought it would be. I've been able to eat food I didn't think I would ever be able to eat again. Thought my joints and knees wouldn't hurt once I started loosing weight...they do.

I was sleeved on January 14 the and I also found/find it a constant struggle with the head hunger. There are some days that I will go for three or four walks around the block just to make sure I stop eating or don't Overeater. I read the posts a lot here to help me as well. I don't have the answer but I wanted to let you know you're far from alone.