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So sorry to hear this! Perhaps the endoscope for the WLS has caught it early... which is the good news...

If you still have body fat, your body will burn that when it runs out of calories from food intake... thats the point of this plan, yes? After we lose all the fat we need to, then moderating calorie intake and exercise might have to happen.

It really keeps me accountable, I hope you like it!

goal at one year (85%EW lost) 165- 183 WOW! If I include the 10 pounds I lost before surgery, I am at the top of my 85% goal right now…. at 8 months. The bottom of that range is actually my final goal… 165. I have not lost any weight in 4 weeks, and hope I can shake off this stall soon and finish losing my EW.

Honestly, its great that they found whatever is the problem... you don't want an undiagnosed heart problem... but that PCP needs a knock in the head! My cardiologist was happy I was getting the sleeve, hope yours will too! I had to get a letter of approval from him....

I am less than 20 pounds form goal, and have stayed about the same weight for a month now. That is while eating 1100-1200 a day and exercising 5 days a week... I'm not sure if I will even reach my modest goal at this amount. I guess time will tell.

Nope. Maybe if I really lost a lot of weight every week, but I sure as heck do not.

That is so fantastic! Let us know how it all goes, I know I'm not the only one that loves to here from people who are "further out there" from surgery.....the real story! Cheers to you!

Mine was in my throat, they pulled it out when I was still out.

I went out last weekend to an art opening, and wore a mini for the first time in 20 years!

Congrats girl! They look awesome!

I had a similar experience to this.... I think what you did and how you did it was just fine.

Try using one of the fitday.com or other counting sites on the web, they make it much easier.

hahahahaha! I forgot about that....

What did you do girlfriend!? Drink a gallon of salt water!? Perhaps you forgot to take off the new cowboy boots?

I took this test before surgery and 8 months after surgery... http://www.realage.com/ Before surgery my real age was 60.... after surgery it was 55.... I am 58 years old. This surgery and my lifestyle changes have gained me 5 years from what it was before surgery! I less than a year. Not bad. If I do a few more simple things, it can go down even more. This website gives you a list of things you can do to get even better results the next time you update your test.

that could still change... Read up on their suggestions to bring your number down... Sometimes we may have one or two things that really bring the number up..

Cool Gemini sista!

My cholesterol came down very fast. I was allowed to half my meds three months ago, and today, I am off completely. Hurray!!!!! I am at 8 months.

Thats fantastic! Best of luck with your new labs.

Good work ladies! ( I think your all ladies! If not then good work ladies and gents!)

...Looks a little bullsh*tish to me.....

I am about 8 months out, and at my last checkup (about two weeks ago) I asked if it was OK for me to get off the PPI acid reducer. I have had pretty good luck with not having acid problems using the Omeprazole, except maybe 1 week of some breakthrough acid. Before surgery if I ate well, not too much junk or chocolate, I was fine. Acid problems were directly related to what I ate. Well about 10 days ago I quit the Omeprazole cold turkey. So far so good! I do watch the chili, which I used to love but bothers my stomach a little now... I eat some chocolate every day, but just a table spoon or so....and so far, no acid problems. Have any of you never taken PPIs (My doc insisted I go on them for one mont before and 6 months after surgery) or stopped after surgery? I am worried about the calcium absorption on PPIs....that is the main reason I went off.

I saw a research paper lately that showed a graph of the correlation of acid and weight gain... it showed higher acid after surgery, lowering during the middle phase (till about 2 years I think it was) then it raised right along with weight gain... so it looks kind of like if you slip back to earlier eating patterns the acid increases with the regain....if I find the study I will post... it is on this site somewhere else... maybe research?..

Some say that the acid mimics hunger... I know that my stomach used to make the most crazy noises... I'm sure it must have been acid doing its thing....even with the PPI, I don't think I am feeling more hunger now, after stoping, but we will see! I am one of those people that always had some hunger... it never totally went away. I have had no reflux and only a little bit of acid stomach feeling for about a week while I was still taking the PPI.