stopped loosing - ThinnerTimes

Raingirl33 · 11-07-2007, 08:09 AM

HI Guys ... I am almost a year out and I haven't lost anything in 4 months .. Does anyone have any suggestions to get it kick started. I have just recently moved from San Diego to Va Beach and really looking for a support group here but no luck yet . I feel as I eat right and always working out. I am very happy with my loss but the last 20 lbs is so hard to do . I just see so many people that have lost so much more that has surgery the same time I did . I know we arent all made alike and I shouldnt compare myself but it's very frustrating. Sorry to vent just in a rut..

MiladyB · 11-07-2007, 08:19 AM

I stalled out too right about a year. What I did was to kick up my protein to about 100 grams from 70 grams. It kick started it for awhile. Now I'm 21 months post-op and haven't lost for the past 6 months, except what I lost from my plastic surgery. I'm like 5-10 pounds from where I want to be and even with increased protein it isn't budging. Right now I'm playing around with the idea of going back totally on the bariatric product that I was on for my 2 week pre-op diet. I thought I would do it for 1 week and see if that would kick start anything. I just need to get to my surgeon's office to get enough food to get me through a week. We shall see.

What I have heard helps to kick start your weight loss again is to shake things up from what you have been doing.....options are to go strictly on a liquid diet for a week, stop exercising for a couple days, increase your protein and calories for awhile or decrease your calorie intake for a few days and then back to your normal intake. These are only suggestions that I've read. I can't promise any of them willl work, though. Sorry.

MaiMonna · 11-07-2007, 12:10 PM

I feel you. I have been at 140 for the past four months if not more! and my personal goal was 135 and that has not been happening! Every one tells me if I lose any more weight I am going to look like a skeloton! But to me i just dont see it.There are times i look at myself like wow i am thin then other times i feel like a cow. I always wieghed more then i looked, heavy bones i guess. It gets to a time where our bodies know that its enough, any more would be an issue... so keep doing what you are doing, eat right and excersise! It it will come off it is supposed to.