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on 12/19/19 8:29 pm
Try to remember you signed up for a long term change with fantastic benefits that require patience, perseverance and a little discipline. The weight loss will come over time and you'll have many small failures along the way. Just stick to the plan as much as possible and pick yourself back up after the inevitable failures.
I was really slow losing weight the first few months but after a year it was about 150lbs. More important are the many lifestyle changes I've adopted after the weight loss.
Ok, I really like salads. In particular Wendy's apple pecan salad. 560 calories, 24g fat, 52carbs, 7fiber & 38g protein. I've been eating 1 a day. I also like baked tilapia fillet. A small fillet is about 3oz I think. 110calories, 23p, 2.5gfat & 0carbs. I eat about 4 a day.So nutritionally how am I doing?
I'm 13yrs out and I'm up to 164lbs and I really want to get down to 140.
Eve
hw:400+
sw:340
cw:163
It is normal, especially if you menstruate. Here are my tips:
Try to focus on the thing you can directly control, i.e. what you eat. Congratulate yourself every day you follow a healthy diet. When you stall for two weeks and then lose two pounds "overnight", was it really overnight? No; you were making progress during those two weeks, even though the scale didn't move.
The other thing you can control, to some extent, is constipation. Drink more water, and that will help keep you regular and reduce the scale fluctuations.
Get a scale that shows body fat percentage in addition to your weight. I usually find that when my weight is stalled, the body fat percentage is going down, which reassures me. Early on, the body fat percentage won't change much, because each pound is a small percentage of your total weight. But as you get closer to your goal, the pounds come off more slowly, but each pound lost has more of an effect on body fat percentage.
Dr Atkins started low carb, high protein dieting. He said that low carb gave a 10% advantage. Which means if you lose 10 pounds on high carb, you would have lost 11 on low carb.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
That depends on what type of diet you're following. Generally speaking, there are two types of diet, which use different mechanisms to lose weight.
- low calorie: which for WLS people means high protein, low fat and generally no restriction on carbs
- low carb: which for WLS people means high protein, low carbs, and generally no restriction on fat
The medical research indicates that these two types of diet are equally effective, so the recommendation is to choose the one that's easier for you to follow, because you're more likely to stick with it.
If you're on a low carb diet, let us know and you'll get more specific recommendations.
I follow a low calorie diet and have been very successful. I don't worry about carbs.
After 2/3 frustrating months I've noticed an annoying pattern. I lose about 7lbs in 4-5 days and then stall for 10-17 days. This has happened about 4 times already and it's quite discouraging. Also when I enter the 'stall period' i go up about 2.5lbs. I know I should be happy that I'm losing weight, but I'm not sure that this is normal at only 5 months out. I will confess my eating habits aren't the greatest. I go some days barely eating anything and feeling nauseous when I do. then some days I can literally eat anything (in smaller amounts than before surgery, but still not healthy foods.) any advice on how to control the nausea and weight stalling?
Thanks for the insight. I was just wondering because I'm a vitamin schedule "tinkerer". While my actual vitamin list stays pretty much the same now I tend to look and see if changing the time or the combination has any change to my levels. Mostly it doesn't and I end up with whatever is working for my schedule but I did get a rise in D by moving it to overnight and morning (1 50k each time).
I've been pretty stable for many years. My D was about the only thing I changed in the first few years, but it has been the same for many years now. Everything else is pretty stable. I am anemic and get iron infusions every few years, I think 2-3 in the last 10 years. But we aren't sure that is related to the WLS. Overall, everything is stable.....
Jinjer
