7months post op and Freaking Out

Ok, as of yesterday I was 7 months post op, I'm down 70lbs and loving life.  The down side, in all of this time I have never hit a stall, I have lost every week, even if it was a lb. Then all of a sudden this week, nothing, didn't move at all and that scared me so bad. I started second guessing everything, did I eat something wrong, too many calories? Did I not exercise enough or hard enough? I hate feeling like I'm going to fail at this too. I do keep logs on my fitness pal of what I'm eating, but to be honest, I don't know at this point how many calories or carbs I should be limited to. I usually take in 1000-1200 calories a day. Any advise would be great cause I'm freaking out over here!!!

~Megan

My dietitian said a 1200 calorie diet is what I should consume (but no morethan that) once I get further out and forever. I read about stalls a lot. It will pass, be patient

My advice is to change nothing.  It's a stall - they happen - and it will pass.

It is amazing that in seven months, you've lost something every single week.  It's very normal not to lose every week.  Stalls are normal, too, when you go a month or more without losing.  If you get this stressed out, I would stop weighing yourself so often.

We eat about the same but the last month due to my gastritis i am eating more like 700-900 calories on a good day. Most of my calories come in from protein bars and shakes though. We are surgery buddies only 2 days apart and i think it's cool especially the fact that we are both down 70 lbs! I feel like i was left in the dust with all these people down over 100 lbs already glad to see someone around my weight loss for 7 months out. I am sure your dealing with water retention or just a week or simply not losing. I have lots of those. Last week i lost about 3 lbs and the week before a pound.

Your nutritionist should give you guidelines of what you should be taking in, you should not be guessing. 

Megan,

You are doing fine. To figure your daily calories for life, multiply your goal weight by 10. If you want to stay at 130, then you will end up sticking to 1300 for life. You can eat less now in the losing stage, but 1300 is your final goal.

Many days you might not want that much to eat. Carbs are something you will learn on your own. Many keep their carbs low. Dr Atkins preached low carb since the 1970's. He said low carb gave you a 10 percent advantage over high carb. So for the same time frame, a person eating low carb would lose 10 pounds but would lose 11 pounds if they stayed under 100 carbs a day.

Hi Megan,

Here is the info provided to me when I visited the Nutritionist in Ottawa:

At least 90g of Carbs, 14-25g of Fibre and 60-90g of Protein each day.

Aim for 900 cals on non-exercise days and up to 1200 cals on exercise days. If you have a really hard work out, you may want to increase your carbs a bit too and be sure to eat at the higher end for protein.

Hope this helps :)

You may want to confirm what is good for you with your centre.

Thank you all for your replies!!!

 

~Megan