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I'm 15 lbs from my goal. My doc says it will take a year to lose the last bit. It is frustrating.

Hi All, It has almost been one year since we have had our surgery. I've lost 95 lbs so far. I have 10-15 more and my doc says it will take me a year to lose that last bit. I need to start exercising more, but since April my job has been crazy busy, plus I've relocated to Las Vegas and the move has been crazy too. We are approaching the holidays. Is anyone worried? I've noticed that I've started craving a little bit of something sweet. I'm trying to figure out the best way to deal with that. Since the surgery I can't have any artificial sweeteners. They make me violently ill. I've been trying to fill the craving with a small amount of dried fruit. Anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks

Hi All Fellow December Surgery People, It is 6 months since our surgery (more or less). How is everyone doing? I've lost 76 pounds, 34 more to go. Overall I'm still doing well, though it is a constant struggle to get enough protein. Right now I'm really struggling with a lot of irritation on the loose skin on my belly and irritation under my breasts. I've had to buy a couple of wardrobes so far. I've not fit in this small of sizes in a long time!

They do exist (just do a search on Protein tablets). However, they only offer a very small amount of protein in each tablet (usually 1-2 grams) and are really not much use.

You can get pb2 at Costco too.

I hit 196 yesterday, down a total of 54 lbs. I just passed my three month mark after surgery. I'm thrilled.

It is thought that there are two kinds of RLS; one type that you have genetically and one type that people get after surgery, while pregnant etc. The second type most often will go away after time, or after correction of things like thyroid issues. Unfortunately, I have the other kind. I take medication for it every evening before bed, and that really helps me to sleep. There is a lot of good info here on medications, physicians who treat this, and more. http://rls.org/ By the way, they have now changed the name from RLS to Willis-Ekbom Disease or WED. It was felt that Restless Leg didn't describe the seriousness of the disease. I've had this all of my life, but was not diagnosed until in my 30s. Iron did absolutely nothing for me, and my thyroid tests are always normal. If anyone wants to chat about it, just let me know.

This has Stevia which is the only sweetener I can tolerate. I'm going to try this out.

I hit the 100s today. Barely at 198, but still below the 200s. I'm so happy.

My surgery was Dec 16th. Yesterday I was at 200.0. I didn't weigh today but I'm looking forward to the first digit being a 1.

My surgery was exactly 3 months ago, and I met my goal of 50 lbs in 3 months. I'm very happy with my progress.

bellabloom - That is terrible. Will your stomach pain go away some time soon? I wish you the best of luck with your healing.

Wow, I love the success stories. You people rock! I'm really impressed with what you have accomplished. My surgery was Dec 16 and I'm down 46 lbs. I'm feeling well and exercising. I've walked 2.5 miles at a time, and try to increase it every day. I feel good. For a long time I was losing weight but not a lot of size. About 3 weeks ago in a space of a couple of days I lost a bunch of size, so that was great. (Though I wish I'd lose some in my breasts, and have not lost any there yet.) My struggle is still to attempt to get enough protein every day, but other than that I don't have any problems.

I think that my problem is that I'm simply not able to eat as much quantity of food. In the example above where someone starts the day with a greek yogurt (and thus gets 10-15 g of protein), I can only get down about 1/4 cup of yogurt, or half of a container. With the best yogurt that I can tolerate, that gives me about 7.5 g of Protein. The same with any of my meals. 1/4-1/2 can of tuna is 7-13 grams. Even if I can force myself to eat that 5 times a day, that is only 35 grams of protein a day. Quite often I can't get 5 meals in. I don't see that forcing myself to eat more is a good solution, particularly when it is really uncomfortable to eat more than that.

I went into the doctor a few weeks ago because I had not had a period since I stopped by BC pills before my surgery. Turns out I went through menopause sometime without even knowing it. Yay me!