Need help from the vets

I have always heard the last 10 pounds are the hardest to lose. Any advice on speeding up the process? Things are very slow and I am not eating any more than ever.

I reset my personal goal to be more realistic. I am 47 years old. When I was 20 i could drop 20 in 2 weeks. I looked at old photos and reevaluated my goal.

 

Hope that helps

Are you logging your food?
Weighing and/or measuring your food?

Up your protein and liquid, but you know that!!! I have a comfort zone, 143 - 146.5. If I wake up and weigh 147, I know it's time to 'adjust' things a little. I cut back calories by 100 - 200, within a few days, I'm back down a couple of pounds. You can try that, I am sure it will kick start things again!

Good luck!

Thanks for the advice. I do log daily on MFP.

Looks like you already made your surgeons goal for you, Congratulations!

I have moved my goal down three times over the last five years and three surgeries.  I have it now set at "normal"  which wasn't ever a goal for either of the surgeries by the surgeon.  I am now wondering if I have set mine to low as I see bones where I don't want to.  Now if the last 15 would ONLY come off my butt I'd be good with the goal.

I had to up my protein, but leave my calories the same, which meant a few less grams each of fat and carbs each per day. Took me almost two months to lose the last 11 pounds. You can do it!

Keep in mind that a lot of people would kill to lose 11 pounds in 2 months...  That's STILL 1.4 lbs per week!  That's actually a very fast rate, compared to most situations.

I'm not quitting till I'm there! I am just NOT the most patient person in this world! Ha. I will try upping the protein. Thanks!

I am with you there.. my last 15 are just not budging...I think that it is a combination of several factors. Perhaps our goals are somewhat unrealistic given that we are setting them to normal BMI but without really taking into account age and various other life events like children and what not. I don't know too many 50 year olds who look like 20 year olds.. In all societies and by all measures people do tend to gain weight as they age. It doesn't have to be like that but on the whole, it is. 

Also as we lose weight and the further we get out from our surgery date, our body adapts to the lower caloric intake and becomes more efficient at keeping whatever we do take in. We also tend to let in a few extra calories as time passes. I know I certainly am guilty of that. So all that adds up and that impacts the last stretch. 

I don't really know - apart from Elina's and Frisco's suggestion of eating only that which we can log with certitude and upping water, protein and exercise - if there is another way of speeding it up. If I find it or if you find it - let me know - I will be hitching my trailer to that wagon in a jiffy!

Ughhh!  I am feeling it too -- I've been bouncing for TWO months -- but this is the lowest weight I've been as an adult.  I expected to stall at about this weight, but man, oh, man -- it's time for battle.  It looks like it will take me as long to lose the last 20 as it did the first 80!

We'll just hang in there!