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If you can meet your daily requirements of protein from real foods you won't need the shakes. You will have to drink the shakes as a supplement as long as you aren't able to eat the foods or you aren't meeting the daily requirements. I am 5 months out and I don't drink them anymore. I hated them. But my hair is thinning too.
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You know anything from the liquid diet counts as fluids. My favorite thing to eat is Edy's brand sugar free fruit bars. I can eat all I want of them. They help quench my thirst. Btw my surgery was 2/20/12. I've lost almost 40 lbs. I hope you're doing well.
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I had mine on the 20th of February and when I hit that amount lost I also hit a small plateau like you. Don't be discouraged. It's easy to forget the pounds won't melt off like they had been. I know I felt depressed the day I jumped on the scale and it didn't even look like I had lost anything. Give it a few days and you'll start seeing it come off again.