Stuck..anyone else???

Yes, yes, yes. I think it is probably of my own doing....I haven't been exercising like I should, and I have been a little too creative with my food choices. However, this week I have started to work out again, and I am using fitday.com to keep up with my food. It's all about accountability with me. It's so easy to let the exercise slide and "just this once" eat wrong food. Here's to a run to the tape for the Marchers!! Dorothy 350/240/?

Let's see...No weight loss in 3 months? Yes that definately counts as being stuck. Up one pound, down 2 up 3. You get the picture. I am almost scared to go back to the surgeon in April and that is months away!! I am so worried that I will not lose any more I don't know what to do. Working in my akery/cafe is REALLY not helping. I have also grown to hate the taste of meat. Cottage cheese is my friend. That and protien bars. I just wi**** was as easy today as it was 10 months ago.

Add my name to that list please! I've been doing a lot of thinking about this lately (you can probably smell the overheatid lube oil and hear the gears grinding from where you are!!). All kidding aside gang........I think that we are all thinking as Morbidly Obese dieters when we are no longer at that point. We are so used to being huge that we can't understand why the weight doesn't come off at the same rate that it always did during our years of yo-yo dieting. I agree with Connie. I am coming to realize that I'm not at a standstill, I'm just losing at a frustratingly slow rate. I know that I was just complaining about being at another plateau, but now I'm not so sure. It seems like every time that I'm about to totally give up, I notice a subtle change for the better. Guess what folks, I think that we are experiencing what "NORMAL" people do when they try to shed a few pounds!!! Every pound is a much higher percentage of total body weight than it used to be. Also, I think that our little slip- ups are much more important than they used to be. That little bit of extra starch which was nothing when I weighed over 350 lbs. is amplified quite a bit at 212 with a pouch instead of a stomach. I really think that we really need re- adjust our whole outlook on these issues. Well, maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree, but this is my theory of the week....what do you all think??!! Mike

Gosh Mike I think you might have hit something there! I know that I am scale obsessed only because I am still sure that this is all a dream and tomorrow the scale wiil say 294 or something similar. I think NOW, well crap no wonder all my skinny firends complained about loosing 20 pounds IT IS HARD! When I was 300 pounds it was like what ever you have 20 stinking pounds and I have 150 quite your complaining! LOL I know that since I took the "easy" way out (that still yanks my chain@) I have to work at this for ever or until it is habit! OK folks we have anniversary dates quickly approaching...lets get busy and stick to the rules! I think I can I think I can I think I can I KNOW I CAN!!! hugs, Nic 291-165-145

Donna, Hey hang in there. I was stuck just like you for about 3 months and I felt like oh man what a waste what I could have done with those 3 months. I joined a gym going 5 days , 3 classes and cardio 2 days and really drinking alot of water. Someone posted the other day to watch the calorie intake. My eating before was getting bad. Hopefully I am back on track, I have been at the gym 4 weeks and finally 4 lbs. Good luck! Rhen

Dear Donna: I am right here with you, I am 10 months out and stuck at 206 pounds started at 347 the day of my surgery so I have lost 141 pounds total, but have 54 pounds to get to goal weight. I made a new years resolution to have it all off by March 15th of this year my 1 year post op anniversary, but I am feeling a little discouraged at this point. I have been drinking my protien about 75 grams a day, and eating right, but I am not getting the exercise like I was when it was warm weather. Its frustrating, but the good Lord willing we will break this plateau soon. I see from reading this we are by no means alone in our struggle. It will be a glorious day when I can get under that 200 mark. Good luck on your journey and remember this too shall pass. God Bless.

Let's all try something?? Let's set a goal for a week. Have any of you been watching celebrity fit club on VH1? Well anyways they set 1 week or 2 week goals. Lets all try for 2 lbs in one week and all check back in here next Monday night? Lets make a game of it? I'm going to get one of those excersize balls and try that. I so badly want to be at 200 or under come March 15th. We can do this!! Let's get motivated gang!! Let's stick together on this, we can over come this slump. Donna Beck 344/219 and stuck but on a mission