http://obesityhelp.com/morbidobesity/member-interests/black_american/postdetail/95236.html?vc=0 In case you missed the details!! Nitro

I hope it is just the season change. I too have been down in the dumps and also on a plateau for the last 3 weeks. This bites. Dawn -100

Hey this is Gloria!Just wanted to say great post.I wanted to mention also even though I am very thin now I am a food addict for life,so dont think when you get to goal that everything just goes away and your life is perfect.You can eat more further out and some can tolerate more carbs or junk food.Being thin does not solve all my problems and I doubt it will anyone elses.I actually have alot to deal with compared to a simple life on the couch before wls,and I have issues with people being jealous and catty to me that were not before and all kinds of crazy comments!.My husband thinks I am way too thin and tells me to eat and everyone I know asks me when I am going to stop losing ,and all like I am anoerxic Mary Kate Olsen or something.I am eating like 1500 calories a day now btw thank you very much ,just very active.. .Also I do weigh myself but only to make sure I am not losing too much as I am down to 122 when my goal was 150.But I would like to mention when I was in losing mode and not yet at goal,the scale made or broke my day.My whole life depended on that number and I obsessed over every calorie and ounce I consumed.Now I forget to weigh,I eat very normal food for the most part except sugar,and I am trying to concentrate on the goals I have made for after I got to goal like finding a career,playing with my children,staying healthy and enjoying my family,notiing how pretty the fall leaves are.I am very happy to have made it this far.But do stop and smell the roses pat yourself on the accomplishments you have come so far!I was happy at 150 pds which was goal,so I kept losing and losing to 122 when people were staring at me at 125 already.So your individual body will loose the amount it wants no matter how bad you try to get it to that perfect number its very hard to control!So just save yourself the heartache and be happy with the skin your in today! I think today I am in cute small outfits,tomorrow I could be paralyzed in a wheelchair and it wont matter how small I am.We are not promised tomorrow!So I thank God for my everyday blessings and CONCENTRATE on important things like health ,life,and loved ones. Peace! Glori

Hi Tracy, I understand about the slow loser remark. Starting out as a heavyweight, I had lost 85 lbs at six months post-op and felt like a total failure. I was down to losing 4 lbs a month and seeing myself never going below 200 lbs. Someone told me about the "Stillman Diet". She was 15 lbs from goal, had been on a 4 month plateau, did Stillman and lost 7 lbs in 10 days. I decided to give it a try. I was amazed to lose 11 lbs in 9 days, (gained 2 lbs back when I went off of it). It's not that different from Dr. Atkins which I'd been on for months but different in that you don't consume ANY carbs. I've decided to do it one week of every month until I reach goal. The other three weeks I will do low calorie/low fat with some carbs sprinkled in. I now have hopes of reaching goal before my window closes. Two months later, having done Stillman diet twice I have lost an additional 19 lbs for a total of 104 lbs post-op. It's so exciting to think I now have two tools, wls and Stillman diet to move me along. The diet is designed to break plateaus and isn't something you can do all the time. It is not an easy diet because all you eat is meat (no pork), seafood and eggs but I can do it one week a month to reach goal. If you are interested go to your search engine on the internet and type "Stillman diet". It's only 2-3 pages so you can print in out. The diet is made easier when you get on those scales and see a pound or more drop most days. It's like being a new post-op. Like you, I have never lost fast. The first week after surgery I lost 5 lbs. I have a chart of my weight loss on my profile if you'd like to check it out. I know we aren't suppose to compare but sometimes it helps to know we aren't alone. I work out 45 minutes 5 days a week, eat healthy, drink my water, etc. I was feeling cheated to have done all this work and still not get the results others seem to get with no effort. As my surgeon explained it all goes back to metabolism, age, diabetes. It seems every carb I eat goes to fat.....but that's my body, not everybody's metabolism works the same way. Best of luck for your continued success on your wls journey. You are a success and it will only get better as we lose more.

Hey January Jumpers! After a two month plateau, the scale has finally returned to the downward trend. It hasn't happened in any large measure to be sure - but it moved! That's all I care about! Two months is a long time for a plateau. Although - I will say that a lot has changed in that two months. I got a new job. I started traveling for my job. I was in Nashville (different time zone) for a month and then 3 hurricanes to worry about at my home that I wasn't there to check on. Then I went home for Labor Day & had no power for a week and a half. Next challenge was that my bipolar medication wasn't working well again and they had to adjust the dosage. That in and of itself is enough to make me gain weight and go into despair. But I battled through it all and here I am! I'm in Atlanta now until January and then who knows where. I have a fitness center across the street. Every time I turn into my hotel, I am reminded to GET MY BUTT INTO GEAR! We don't have that long to our year anniversary and I'd really like to meet my goal by then. Thanks for the support you all provide here! God Bless! Barbie 281/195/170ish