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Eve - as a DSer your needs are different than RNY or VSG.
I'm 16+ years post-op and the only three things I look at are protein, fat and carbs. I eat a minimum of 120 grams of protein a day. I eat full-fat everything. I don't really "count" carbs. I probably consume somewhere between 200-300 grams of carbs per day to maintain my current weight. If I notice my weight creeping up a bit, I simply cut back on the carbs. I know my DS tool still works.
It's finding the balance of maintaining my weight, keeping gas and bloating under control and getting in enough protein and water.
If you want to lose 20 pounds then you have to go back to basics - high protein, low carbs, and lots of water.
You have to find what works for you because we're all different.
Janet in Leesburg
DS 2/25/03
Hazem Elariny
-175
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?
dehydration can cause nausea, so I would really work on that.
I didn't have any stalls because I ate an extremely low carb diet while in the losing phase. I mean low like 20 gms or less a day.
when carbs are eaten, the body must sthold several Gallo s of watervto process the carbs. ThAt process takes about a week. If you are eating carbs often you will keep that wTer weight I definitely.
If that was truly all you were eating, you would weigh about 100 pounds. In order to maintain 164 pounds, you must be eating another 640 calories a day. Track everything you are eating every day.
It takes 10 calories to maintain one pound of weight. Your fish and salad are 1000 calories combined. To stay at 164 you need about 640 more calories a day.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
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.
