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Thanks for the Advice. This is definitely a journey and there are a lot of changes... I have been losing, but a LOT slower than at the beginning. I think I am ok with that as I need to stop at some point and I would like my skin to get a little tighter.

It has been a week and my weight goes up and down about an lb, but no loss. I understand that my concern is a bit "frustrating" to some, but I really do want to know if I am doing something wrong? I am 216lbs and I have been there 217-216 for two weeks. I am not sounding an "ALARM" because I am happy. However, if I am not doing something right and need to make adjustments, I need to know. Has my body perhaps gone into starvation mode?

CubsWin - Good luck on your date. I remember my last week of what was Normal. Tonight I saw a bunch of people I have not seen since last June and some did not recognize me. My date was 10/18 and I have lost almost 80 lbs. The weight is coming of very slow right now (1lbs a week), but that is ok. I see my Dr and NUT in a month so I will see what's up then. Obviously Im not worried as it will give my skin a change to tighten up a little. Good luck, if you have any questions let me know.

Glad I could participate in your daily dose of frustration. Notice the "?" mark in the title? It irks me when people are irked over a simple question.

I used to think I was losing to fast and it worried me. Now, I am losing slower and I am not worried, but I wonder if this is normal. Im 8 months and I have lost around 80lbs. In the last month I have lost 8lbs and only 1 of those is in the last week. Is this normal? Is there something I need to do? Breakfast Raw Protein - Protein Drink (35g P and lots of vitamins)lunch Cup of Soup / salad Or - Nuts dinner Lean protein veggies small potion of Carb/starch Exercise None

I wanted to update this, incase anyone looking at having this process reads it and is curious to know my outcome. This was a scary decision for me, but I did it and I am still alive. Soon I will be 5 months and my life is completely normal. I am happy, eating, drinking, and losing weight. I have lost about 80lbs since 10/18/2013, today is 3/3/2014 (4.5 months). WOW!!!! THAT IS CRAZY. I am happy I did this and would not go back to my old life. I still want to make changes to my new life, but at least weight is not one of them. Thank you Forum friends for coaching me through this.

My Dr. put me on a soft food diet after 7 days. Everything you mention was on my menu. I'm not a Dr., but I was fine so I think you are probably fine.

Last Friday was one month for me and I am doing great. My Dr. released me to eat anything and that is what I am doing, well except for junk food. I still can only eat about 2 oz of meat and when I see more than that, I think "WOW that is a lot of food". I eat dinner each night with my family and watch my kids cram down a piece of chicken twice as large as mine in 1/2 the time and just shake my head. Tonight I am making a bowl of meat chili. I'm not sure how well that will go down, but I am going to give it a shot...

Am I alone with this issue?

Alex, thank you... Issue resolved. I am posting from my iphone.

I do get unknown errors on my ipad. They seem to be related to page refreshing after a post. Example. I reply to a conversation and get an unknown error when I try to post it. I click the refresh page link and I get the same error. I then click the back button and re-access the conversation is there but there are random characters where I have placed a return to add a paragraph. Example <>\ (something like that) I just reopened the app to see exactly what the characters are for the "return" and I am now getting the same permissions errors i posted about while describing my iphone. Reply #35

Are you positive you're actually logged in ? We promise not to take as long as Obama is taking!!! This post is from my Ipad. I logged out and back in on it. The post above where I describe the permissions issue was describing the issues I am having with my iphone. Both are running ios7.0.3.

I know you will be much quicker that Obama. I am logged in, but When I open the app I get an error... "You are not allowed to use the private messaging system". When I access my profile I try to log out and get a pop up "are you sure you want to log out? When I say yes I get an error... "Permission Denied" My instinct is it uninstall/reinstall the app, but sine I have the big guy replying to my post I will wait to do so.

The iphone app is terrible. I can not post to a thread or quote someone. This is SO BUGGY everywhere. It's like Obamacare.

I'm reposting because of issues with the new environment. I will call me Dr. But this is not something that is an emergency and I want to hear people's experiences as mush as I do my Dr. Advice or more. After I eat I feel literally full. Then after 15-20 min I start spitting up food. It is not the slides, I have had that. It is disgusting and doesn't quit until I drink Water and drinking water is not comfortable when that is happening. 2 questions 1) What is that called 2). How do I stop it. I don't think I'm eating too much. This morning I had a piece of toast with 2tbs of Peanut Butter.