Question:
lost anymore? My surgery was oct 7, have lost 40 pounds and the scales haven't moved
in 3 weeks! Please, some of you that have experienced this, write me at [email protected] I have tried to write some of you back, but the web site always says in can't insert, try back, then when I do, it tells me I have sent too many e-mails. Please help me, I am doing all the protein and water and barely eating. thanks, kim — KIM B. (posted on December 14, 2003)
December 14, 2003
you need to really examine your exercise. I find that I will stop loosing
when I slack off on my exercise. Try adding some cardio activity to your
program. I find when I really get moving on my exercise I get the scale to
move again.
— ChristineB
December 14, 2003
We have ALL gone thru this. You are on the dreaded plateau you have heard
us ALL complain about. Also, you say you are hardly eating. This may be
the problem . If you don't eat and many people don't thinking they will
lose more, your body goes into the "starvation" mode. We have
all posted on this too. Your body thinks you are not going to give it
anything to eat so it wants to hold on to the fat it has. Pick up your
eating and watch the weight start coming off again. Don't be discouraged.
Good luck.
— Delores S.
December 14, 2003
Kim,
My surgery was Oct 7th also. I have lost 46 lbs. I went through the
dreaded scales not moving. But I think it also has to do with your monthly
cycle. It seems that right before the cycle begins the scale started to
move again. This is my therory. Still 40 lbs is still awesome. Good luck
to you.
— shbama
December 14, 2003
First of all, plateaus are common. After I had my first platea, which
happened at just 2 weeks post-op, I got rid of the danged scale and stayed
off of it for weeks at a time until I got to goal. If I "snuck"
a peek at the scale earlier than planned, invariably, I'd notice a plateau.
By routinely staying off of it for weeks at a time, I avoided the tendency
to expect the weight to fall off smoothly, regularly, and lickety-split
fast. It doesn't work that way.<P>Second, you don't want to be
"barely eating." By 2.5 months post-op, you should be taking in
between 600-800 calories a day. By 3-4 months post-op, 800-1000 calories a
day is good. (That's a personal opinion; obviously, checking with your
doctor is best on what's expected). Cutting back to less than that will
not make you lose faster, and it won't get you on the road to learning how
to eat to keep the weight off in the long run. Nobody can eat like a bird
forever.<P>Third, once you eat more, and are doing better, work on
the exerise -- increase it over time. The more you lose, the fewer
calories you expend at rest or exercising, so you gotta push the exercise
harder the further out you are.<P>Good luck, and hang in there!
Stay off the scale.
— Suzy C.
December 14, 2003
Sounds just like me! I am doing fine now. 85 pounds lost in 5 months.
— mrsmyranow
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