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Hi

I'm new to this list and just wanted to tell my story and comment on some of the

things I have read

in the last few days.

I had my surgery in the middle of July last year. It has been about 11 months

and I've lost 95lbs.

When I had the surgey I was 255, now I am down to 160lbs. I know thats not as

much as some, but I

figure maybe I don't eat as well as I should. I do pilates 2x week, but I know I

should exercise

(more areobics) more. However, I pretty happy with my current 5 lbs a month

wieght loss. I do this

with really trying. The first month I lost 20lbs, The next 4 months about 10-15

a month. I plauted

at bit the 4/5 mark.

I wear a size 12 or 14. I have time with shirking out of my clothes too. I loved

going shopping. I

tried to avoid it because I knew I would lose more wieght and have to buy more,

but I after losing

about 75lbs I have to get something. Wow! Shopping was great. I could fit in

flatering clothes and

pay resonable prices. I actually had a choice where to shop. I love Lerner

clothes. They fit me

perfect and with sales they are inexpensive.

I mostly drink water. I only orange juice to take viatims and my allergy

medicine, but very rarely

any other tiem. I never like tea or coffee and mostly drank water before the

surgery as well. It

wasn't a big thing for me. Drinking pop was something I cut out long ago for

wieght loss reasons.

Diet pop tasted horrible to me. I have had real pop & carbonated juice maybe a

handful of times in

small quanties. I just drank it cause I had real craving. It didn't really

bother me. I've tried

coke, but hate the taste of it now. I would drink coke a few times a week,

usually with pizza or

when going out and at times craved it. I have not tried anything alcoholic. I

probally won't for a

while yet if ever. I was never I really a drinker. I only liked daquri's, other

fruity mixed drinks

and wine coolers anyhow.

I eat basically what I want when I want it. There are a few food I don't

tolerate well. Some meats,

especially steak and stew are just to heavy. They get stuck too easy. I do miss

steak, but I find it

quite taste the same anyhow. I also don't tolerate milk and ice cream well. I

keep trying to eat ice

cream in tiny. Sometimes I do ok, other times I feel sick, oh well. Of couse

other sugary foods like

choclate, cake and cookies can bother me too. It really depends on the day. I've

learned if I eat a

small amont of something non-suragry and then wait a bit and eat just one

chocolate chip cookie (or

other sugar food), I only get sick about half the time.

I guess if figure it could follow all the rules various doctors make up like no

sugar and not eating

in between meals I wouldn't need the surgery in the first place. The not eating

in between meals I

think is outrageous and dangerous. I would literlly be starving all the time if

I did that. I had

this surgery so I would be starving all the time. It would be impossible to get

enough nutrients

eating 3 meals a day. I count a single chicken nugget with a quater piece of

bread as a meal. I will

often have four nugget sandwhiches over the course of maybe three hours (raveous

stage) I though the

idea was to eat several mini meals a day. This keeps your metablims high and

helps to stop you from

over eating.

I also think many things are toally unrealistic for someone who has dieted as

much as most of us

have. Oh course everything needs to be in moderation. If I were monitor, worry

and obesses about

every morsel I put in my mouth I would be almost as miseralbe as I was before

the surgery. Alot of

my depression was caused by dieting in the first place. I am so happy now that I

don't have to worry

about it.

I admit sometimes I eat things I know will make me feel sick, like ice cream.

However, at the time I

feel it's worth it for the taste. My cravings have not dissapeared like some

people I've read about.

However, I have found that they are satified much more easily. For example: I

craved ho's ho's so I

bought a bunch. After eating just one ho ho I didn't want anymore. My husband

enede up eating the

rest. Before I would have eaten all 10 in a pack in just few days.

I have only dumped both ends once and from oranges no less - go figure.

Sometimes things go right

through me, but it usually in the morning and it's not that often. I had way

more problems with that

before surgery and sufferd from irratable bowel syndrome. When I get sick I

usually feel weak,

tired, headache and sometimes queasy / nauseous. It goes away in an hour or so.

I get that a few

times a week, it would probally go away if I wouldn't eat junk. I think I've

heard it called

sugaring. In the beggining I had problems with food getting stuck, if you know

what I mean. It

still happens, but it very rare now. Only about once a month if that.

Somebody here was talking about how they were eating larger amounts and then all

of a sudden they

could only eat a few bites. This is happens to me all the time. About once a

month for 2-7 days I

get like this. I think it has to do with hormones and that time of the month for

me. I don't mind

because usually right before that I am ravenous and eat at times almost every

hour. I figure it

balaces itself out and I'm still losing weight.

I wanted to know if anyone has had an endoscopy and if so what the results were.

I know there was

the news artical and the woman with the warning webstie. I was considering

having it done, just to

make sure nothing is wrong. Also, Dr.R sent a message out looking for

voulentters. I have no

symptons. I used to have constat heartburn before surgery. I have not had it

once since. If somebody

has if they could write me back privatley I would apericate it. I wondering if

you did how bad it

hurt or how uncomforatble it was?

I also wanted to know everyone out there takes fibe?. I don't and never really

have. I tried in

begging, but I had problems with nausea for about a month and some uneasness

for about 2 months

aftert. I just couldn't get it down. I've tried a few other times and just

coulnd't stand the taste.

I made me feel like puking.

What does everyone do when they have a bad headache, strains or muscle aches. I

have been taking the

vioxx on those occations, but I'm almost out. The doctor I saw insisted that it

was ok to take both

tyleon and motrin (ibprofen), but I am still worried about side effects.

Thanks for lisenting,

Angel Lee