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Ranelle1969 Member

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  • Wow! Great job!
  • Thank you for all of the sweet comments.
  • Thank you so much! It is so encouraging to read all of the comments! I am 5' 6". It has been a wild journey for sure. Two weeks post op I became dehydrated and was in the hospital for fluids. I too had a few issues with throwing up during the first month or so on regular food. I learned quickly to stop eating as soon as I…
  • My favorite recipe when I was on soft food stage was cottage cheese with a little bit of tomato sauce. It tasted like lasagna. I am now 7 months post-op and eat lean proteins and vegetables. I now make lasagna with low-fat cottage cheese or low-fat ricotta, sugar free spaghetti sauce, no noodles, lean ground beef, and…
  • I began having significant hair loss about 3 months post-op. I am 7 months post-op and it has slowed down. I never had any bare spots or really thin spots, I could just tell that my hair was thinner. I would find hair everywhere. But it seems to have slowed down quite a bit now. I take a daily dose of Biotin 5000.
  • I am down 106 pounds, and I am 7 months post-op. I lost 40 pounds pre-op during the supervised two-month diet. HW 340 SW 300 CW 234 My dietician says I should be a little further along, but I hit a stall at 5 1/2 months out and didn't lose anything for nearly 5 weeks.
  • You look great! Doesn't it feel so good to be healthy and off the medicine? Awesome job!
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