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@@leag78 I love Peanut Butter too. Instead of using bread or uncrustables, use an apple and skip the jelly. Maybe have a spoonful of 1% cottage cheese with half an apple and a tablespoon of peanut butter for lunch. I leverage that sometimes as my lunch and other times a small apple with a tablespoon or 2 of peanut butter but I do measure my peanut butter. Mostly because I love it so much I could easily eat more and 2 tablespoons of peanut butter is 190 calories which is fine but it also has fat and sugar in it so I like to measure and track it. Other times for lunch I will have a larger portion of cottage cheese, a few fresh strawberries and some canned peaches. It's filling, has great Protein and valuable carbs. If you like breaded baked chicken try breading your own using almond meal, or even crushed nuts. They make fantastic breading and much lower on the carbs front. I make baked chicken Parmesan using almond meal and Parmesan cheese for the breading. It is one of my favorite meals. I use a jarred marinara sauce that is all natural with no added sugar and I top it will full fat mozerella cheese. I no longer make Pasta with it, so I serve the chicken next to fresh steamed whole green Beans. Yum! One of my favorite dinners, very healthy with great protein!

I had it for years and finally after two rounds of cortisone injections it went away. It has been gone from my life since 2001 thank goodness because it can be so painful!

I have tried many but my favorites are the hot chocolate. Many flavor to pick from and very good.

I was home alone the first day I was home. Hubby made sure I had everything I would need and then he had to drive to Wisconsin. Now I have had lots of surgeries so I knew what to expect and this one was a piece of cake for me.

As soon as your weight loss slows way down or stops. Mine stopped between month 12 and 13. I spoke with several doctors about this and they all told me the same thing and they were right.

@@Gaylene Davison Hi there! I had RNY and have lost all my weight. I am now in maintenance and I fight head hunger every single day. Some days I win and others my head wins. Bypass will not cure head hunger at all. Only you can work through this possibly with a therapist. If you are considering having RNY to resolve a possible erosion issue then great but if your expectation is that RNY will cure your head hunger you will be very disappointed I am sorry to say. Good luck!

I had a huge double chin 146lbs a go. Now I am at goal. I did have some loose skin under my chin that was very noticeable. Now 18 months post op that sagging under my chin has improved some and is hardly noticeable. There are excercise should can do to help too. I wish exercises would get rid of all my other loose skin but I fear that is not going to happen. Good luck

@@Titaniumsleeved2014 Diarrhea is very common while on the clear fluids and full liquid fluids stage. Once you start puréed constipation is very likely. I also would not worry about the weight loss. The first month or two works like that and then everything slows down to about 10lbs per month. It's funny because people assume when they go from losing that 1lb or more a day to 1-3 lbs per week, they think they are stalled. A stall is no weight loss whatsoever in 10 days or more. Congratulations!

So I am 18 months out. For the first 2 weeks I had diarrhea and then when I went to puréed foods I became constipated. I literally went a whole week without going. Even now I have to take stool softener with laxative twice daily to stay regular. If that doesn't do it for me I take a third dose. Until I had this surgery I never knew how bad constipation and it took me a while to figure out how to stay regular. For me, I will be on stool softeners probably forever but seriously the trade off is well worth it. I am down 146lbs and at goal!

Dang.....I had a whole list of things but they are not vegetarian! My favorite snack is something I really never cared much about before surgery. Bacon! I love bacon now. There is nothing better than a piece of baked crisp salty bacon. Mmmmmm......

Ok, I had to google Tim tams and now I want some! I have pajama day at my work! LOL.......

I would immediately call the doctor to get a different solution. I am allergic to many antibiotics penicillin included. Although penicillin causes a more severe reaction, erythromycin causes me to have the same symptoms you have indicated. I would not take another dose until you talk to the doctor. There are many other antibiotics they can substitute that won't hurt your tummy. Please do this quickly because until you get antibiotics going you are contagious and you will get sicker. Strep requires antibiotics, it will not go away on its own. I know this because my husband just had it and as a youngster I had it quite frequently.

I hate to say it and hopefully I am not the norm but I am 18 months post op and I have to use stool softener with laxative twice daily to be able to go. If I even miss a single dose I don't go for 3 to 5 days. I talked to my GI Doctor about it and he prescribed Linzess but honestly that doesn't work well either for me. I gave that medication a try for 3 weeks and it didn't help. So, I am back to taking my stool softener plus laxative twice daily.

I am 18 months out and still struggle daily. I have been taking 2 stool softeners with laxative in them twice daily. Recently my gi doc gave me a prescription for Linzess. It sort of helps but it's expensive and many insurance companies won't pay for it. I don't think I will renew that prescription because the stool softeners with laxative work better. Miralax and regular colace without stool softeners don't help me at all. I get plenty of Fiber and drink well over 60 0z. Of Water everyday. If I have a day where I am under 60 oz. I don't go for a couple days. It really is one of the drags about WLS but I would rather deal with this than weigh 146lbs more than I do today.

I had RNY sept. 2014. In June of 15 I had a 3 level cervical fusion (huge surgery), nov. 15 I had another spine surgery, in February I had shoulder surgery. To say I am sick of recovering is an understatement but I fared well with all of them. Unfortunately I still have a lot of pain.

I am 18 months post op and at goal. B: premier Protein shake S: 3 fresh strawberries L: 1/2 cup 1% cottage cheese with a few canned peaches S: cheese crackers D: homemade shrimp fajitas with 1/2 tortilla S: Kozy shack chocolate pudding This is a typical day for me although the dinner protein at dinner and lunch changes out. Also if I don't have strawberries I will swap that snack out for a small apple and a tablespoon of Peanut Butter.

You look fantastic! I would bet you feel better too! Congratulations!

@@luvbnme I am so sorry you are having a hard time. It has to be frustrating for you. In terms of your senses being more sensitive, that did get better for me. Those first few months are rough and I do remember the smells and tastes being out of whack. Has the doctor provided any insight as to why you are vomiting so much? It would help to know where you are at with your food plan. Does everything make you vomit or just certain things? Are you able to get Water and Protein shakes down and keep them down? For me, once I was able to really get after the protein and water I started to feel better and be stronger. I hope you get better soon!

I always prepare a pretty, balanced plate of food. You are not crazy! We eat with our eyes first. My nut also taught me from the beginning that I need to eat balanced meals. She does not believe in Protein first. She believes in 2 bites of protein to every 1 bite of veggies or fruit. I always end up with leftovers on my plate because I have very good restriction. I wish I had a dog! LOL!

I am so sorry that you are struggling. I can totally relate! In June I had major spine surgery, November another spine surgery and in February shoulder surgery. Of course this all began happening while in the sweet spot (under 1 year) for my surgery. My doctors put me on meds that cause you to gain weight and of course my ability to exercise has been impacted greatly. I was still able to get to goal although it took me a lot longer and I really had to be careful on my diet. I did have to limit my carb intake greatly although I have always eaten whole fruit. Not everyday but just about every other day. Someone mentioned fruit being empty calories. That is not true. There is huge benefit to eating the whole fruit and fruit is a part of a balanced diet. My nutritionist has required that I eat fruit, even in the puréed stage. So many nuts have different plans. Anyway, I just wanted to wish you the best of luck, hopefully your stall will break soon. My longest was 28 days and that was when they put me on steroids following spine surgery. Hopefully just changing some things up in your diet will help break the stall and you will be back on track! You can and will do this, just keep working with your nut. Good luck!

My program does not allow for calories in beverages with the exception of milk or Protein shakes. I have so little room to get my protein and have a hard time wasting my calories on juice. If I want fruit and veggies which I always do, I eat the whole fruit and take advantage of the fiber which is critical after this surgery. Are fruit and veggie juices on your plan?

I can totally relate to how you are feeling. I agree with so many of the posters here though. Your pictures show a beautiful face! Seriously! I find that I am so critical now of everything about my face and body. I am not sure why. I guess when I was fat, I did not care. Now that I am normal sized I find myself constantly looking at flaws. I don't know why we do this to ourselves but one of my Bariatric nurses pointed this out about how we begin to pick at ourselves. She had RNY too and suggested giving yourself time for your brain to catch up with our bodies. Work with your therapist on this. They should be able to help you work through it. But rest assured, what you see, the rest of us do not. You look fantastic both your face and your body!

It does take some time to figure out which meds will be impacted. I am also on a biological injection called Stelara every 8 weeks. Anything given via injection or patch seems to work better. I do miss my NSAIDs and have had to go back on narcotics for real pain control. I am unwilling to use NSAIDs at all. Of course they always want to give me steroids for my spine in but that causes my psoriasis to come back with a vengeance. Now I am also hypothyroid and then medication had to be lowered because of my massive weight loss. I have now been on the same dose for a year but have lost a significant amount of weight since the last change yet I do not need more synthroid. We suspect I may be malabsoring that too. Once you get them all set and your diet remains consistent it normalizes.

I am 18 months post op and yup, every single day. My husband and I have named her the grouch pouch. She loves to make noise any time I feed her or give her any liquids. It does seem to be noisier when they are milk products. I don't think it will ever go away.....have fun with it!

RNY is designed to malabsorb. I would just like to clarify this for people because it really can be confusing. It is not a complication or cause of the surgery. I have never thought about the rate of malabsorbtion nor have I heard that term used. I did spend quite a bit of time on this with my surgeon and nut because initially I was very worried about this part of bypass. It does in fact depend on many things. Medications and nutrients are malabsorbed in different places. For example we will always malabsorb Calcium because it apparently absorbed in a different area within our new digestive system. Protein on the other hand is less impacted. There is some belief that malabsorption lasts forever which is why we must take Vitamins for life. The body does adjust some to this. My own personal experience is that I definately malabsorb some of my medications. I am on cyclosporine which I take for a few months a year for severe psoriatic arthritis. When I weighed 310lbs I would need to take 200 milligrams a day and it would clear me up quickly. Now I am 164lbs and recently had to go back on it. We started with 100 for a month when that didn't budge it we moved to 200 and now I am up to 300 and it's barely touching my psoriasis. Same thing with pain medication. I take it and had to have it doubled and then it barely lasts for an hour. Now we moved me to a patch and that seems to work much better. Why are you interested in the rate?