HELLO I AM DAY 6 I WOKE UP FEELING GOOD BUT AFTER MY SHOWER AND FIX MY Breakfast I FEEL SO SICK RIGHT NOW I CANT EVEN DRINK MY BREAKFAST, I HAD TO TAKE A NAUSEA PILL. LAST NIGHT WAS RUFF I MUST SAY. I THINK I STRESSED THE MAIN INSISION AND IT BOTHERED ME ALL NIGHT THE ACHE WENT ALL THE WAY TO MY BACK. YES I WAS SCARED BUT I KNEW I WOULD BE OK. I THINK I AM HAVING A REACTION TO TRADER JOES SPICY BLACK BEAN Soup, KEY WORD SPICY LOL.

I WAS ABLE TO GET MY 60 GRAMS OF PROTIEN IN AND I THINK THAT MADE ME SICK AS WELL I WAS FORCING IT BUT I COULDNT FINISH IT NO MATTER HOW HARD I TRIED LOL.

I HOPE EVERYONE WHO HAS HAD THE SURGERY IS DOING WELL. PLEASE SHARE YOUR PROGRESS SO WE CAN LEARN FROM EACH OTHER.

Results of my 3.5 month follow up appt today: Lab work good. Need a tiny bit more protein. 61 lb weight loss currently. Dr said i look twenty years younger and am doing great. Wants me to drop another 30 lbs by my 4/11/13 appt. Says he knows I can do it. Lol. Well, if anything, it does encourage determination. Also the RN told me that my kidney stone incident on Thanksgiving is common with patients who had surgery and a study is developed trying to see if calcium is the culprit or too much animal protein possibly.

Hi momof.... I do get in 70-80 grams of protein vit and bitoin since before surgery just now seeing a lot of hairs fall away, I do badly need a hair cut so maybe that's it or it is really loss... Anyways you mentioned uping protein what do u get in a day? Thanks:) glad your doing so well

I would say that in general I'm getting in about 70 grams a day. I have a smoothie at breakfast which gives me about 30...and I've taken to drinking some light juice at night with some plain protein in it which gives me another 10 before bed (not to mention some extra fluid which I could use!). And in between my food gives me the rest. An ounce of any meat, fish, poultry is 7 ....as is an egg. And I get in a good 4 ounces or more generally which gets me up to about 70.

If it weren't for the smoothie I'd be back to sucking on the protein. Which I was, but I think I'm better now. I do know that my protein levels in my 3 month labs were low. Like the very lowest end of normal...20....so I do watch my protein now much more. Speaking of which, I'm hungry....SMOOTHIE time!!

Four months and a few days. I never really lost hair before this so i pull hair out in the shower and when i dry it and of course throughout the day its on my clothes. I might chop my hair again to my shoulders. Shorter it is the less the hair clumps will look lol

Same here and I think it's because I've slacked terribly on the protein and allowed junk. Time to kick it in gear

4 months yesterday and 80lbs! Yay. Looking into some boudoir photos for v-day by a photographer in the area. Trying to get my daughter to win a cover girl photo contest, any help would be appreciated ladies! She is #2 http://www.dkolphotography.blogspot.com/2013/01/dkol-cover-model-vote.html

Npm- you have had fantastic results. Congratulations!!!!!

I found that using MFP has been a great help to keep me on track. I also enjoy the support of the other "losers"!!

i have no hair loss either. becca stop copying me lol my vanilla twin

Lol for real girl!! I sure hope it stays this way!!

just saying hello, nothing really to support except i think im constipated and thats why the scale is not moving this week, backed up poop lol

Hey September peeps. In a stall I think but I believe this illness I caught will ignite the scale again.

Go packers!!!!

Xoxo

Feel your pain I'm still kicking away at my 7 week stall this so sucks. Hang in there

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I'm like that everyday. Since surgery I have to take meds to even go. I never go in my own any more.

it sucks

I have been stalled for a couple of weeks. Today I was down 2

Down another 20lbs since Dec 13...

I also have problems going...doctor told me to. take Miralax.

I finally dropped 2 pounds. 9 pounds for the month.

Suepep- great job!!!