Re: FEMALE PROBLEMS/plateaus

January 22, 2004

fantastic job on the 179 lbs, denise!

but dayyyyummm, 18 months is an eternity, talk about frustration.

lori h.

>

> Hi my name is I had open gastric bypass surgery 1/17/01 I

have lost

> 179 pounds and I am at goal weight. I have been on Depo since

1995 I did

> not get a period for years then it would come on about a week

before the

> shot was due. I have been bleeding about 18 months now with about

a

> three-week break in all this is not fun. I was supposed to have

surgery

> last Feb a D & C and Endometrial Ablation. I put the surgery off

just in case

> if I was bleeding from my new way of eating and all of the weight

I have

> lost. Well, the bleeding is still here after 18 months so next

Wednesday I

> will be having these two things done. Therefore, women you are

not alone

> out there.

>

> For the people that have stalls, I had them too one lasted up to

nine months

> then I would drop ten pounds. Now there was a time that I did not

eat for a

> few months and I was just doing protein drinks this could have

caused the

> stalls since I really was not getting in enough food for the day.

I am

> happy to say that I am at goal and have maintained goal for about

a year.

> S.

January 22, 2004