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Get your iron levels checked.

At least 60 for women, higher if you're a man. I eat no less than 120g a day. There is no maximum and you can eat as much protein as you'd like in a meal (keeping your calorie limit in mind). It does not go to waste, despite what many think/say.

I disagree with all the previous posters. Lapband, the sleeve, nor RnY is the answer for you. Sure, a malabsorption surgery may be better for you, but in the end, no surgery, no doctor, no diet, no NOTHING is going to "force" you to lose weight. Maybe you should talk to a therapist or some other professional who will be able to better understand and help you. Nothing in this world will force you to loose weight, unless you're locked in a room without food or Water for months on end. It comes down to how bad you want it. You need to track your calories, exercise, and have some willpower to want to lose weight. Surgery isn't the easy way out; there isn't one.

I'm glad your surgeon isn't pushy with fills! Mine isn't either, though he did always ask if I was sure when I said I don't want one, haha. That's what I do when I'm hungry; chug the water! Hunger is normal. It's a sensation everyone feels, and just because you're hungry doesn't mean you have to eat. That's what I've learned. I've been on a fasting diet (14 hours of no food) and I love it. I'm not hungry until 11:00AM. I think it helps greatly with ghrelin levels. My loss has slowed down insanely as well but I have 5-10 more to go and I don't expect it to come off easily.

Like Rachel said, very normal. You're losing a lot of water weight. Congrats on being banded!

A pound of muscle weighs the same as a pound of fat. Muscle is simply more dense, and therefore gives off a "thinner" "leaner" look.

Not true. As someone who is TRYING to put on muscle, a day in the gym, nor a week, builds true muscle, sorry. It takes eating excess calories and lifting heavy weights to put on muscle mass. Another crazy exercising myth. Muscle doesn't come easy. If anything her muscles are holding onto more Water weight which may be reflecting on the scale.

Are you counting your calories? Weighing your food? We often eat more than we think.

Lean meats, greek yogurt, low fat cheeses, etc.

Eat less or move more..or maybe you need to eat more because you're exercising.

I'm 20, was banded at 19 and my skin hasn't gone back to normal; i don't expect it to. I'm looking at having a TT soon

1800. 130g protein.

Congrats!

Five. 4 small ones, 1 big one (port)

Never been a problem for me. My MV and calcium pills were horsepills. Always went down fine; stopped taking them though.

Weights Run outside. Run the stairs. Jump rope. Walk jog then sprint.

Not chewed enough, too much at once, band too tight, and some foods just don't agree with the band. When I got stuck, I'd get a really bad pain throughout my chest and I'd actually get dizzy and see stars. It's not fun and definitely not something you want to experience.

Good job!! Congrats 100 times over

Even then, getting ALL of your Vitamins from a Multivitamin is NOT recommended. It's unhealthy and I can only imagine what the body is going through internally. Stuff like this makes me wonder how some doctors can practice medicine, let alone advise anyone to eat so little and say it's "okay."

Well that's a healthy and normal life. Have fun with that.

I don't regret my band but like I tell everyone else who asks me about it, if I knew back then what I know now about eating and exercising, I'd have never been banded. Surely losing 100lbs+ in a year is amazing, but I feel as if I did it on my own with very little help from the band, so part of me wonders why I got it. Either way no real regrets; I've had an awesome journey so far. No fills, minimal post-op pain, very few stuck episodes, etc.

THIS. Haven't had a fill either but have had my fun of getting stuck; thank god that's over with. "Choke/get stuck" on your food enough and say hello to esophageal problems in the future. Go look at some of the bandsters who need their bands removed due to erosion and slipping then look at the after-effects of the band, even once it's gone. It's not just a walk in the park when 'food gets stuck.' You can easily be doing some damage.

Nothin like a "doctor" advertising his "superior" Protein powder with untrue statements. Hahah. Gotta love business today. Sensationalist to the extreme.

Therapist, honestly. This is the start of an eating disorder, in my opinion.

No problem: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19943985 Study shows there was no difference in weight loss between subjects with high/low meal frequencies. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9155494 Evidence supports that meal frequency has nothing to do with subjects' energy. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11319656 No difference in energy in the subjects compared to 2 meals a day to 6 meals a day. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1905998 Eur J Clin Nutr. 1991 Mar;45(3):161-9.Links Influence of the feeding frequency on nutrient utilization in man: consequences for energy metabolism. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11319656 Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2001 Apr;25(4):519-28.Links Compared with nibbling, neither gorging nor a morning fast affect short-term energy balance in obese patients in a chamber calorimeter. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18053311 Br J Nutr. 2008 Jun;99(6):1316-21. Epub 2007 Dec 6. Links Acute effects on metabolism and appetite profile of one meal difference in the lower range of meal frequency. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1905998 Eur J Clin Nutr. 1991 Mar;45(3):161-9.Links Influence of the feeding frequency on nutrient utilization in man: consequences for energy metabolism. Again, I am not against breakfast but people should know that the timing of breakfast (when you break your eating fast from sleeping) does not matter.