anyone else with a slow loss?

I feel like my losing has REALLY slowed down and I am not a "lightweight". I have a total of 210 pounds to lose. I've lost 88 so far but only 4 in the last 3 weeks. I guess I just need some reassurance today from my April buddies. I plan to pick up my exercise this week since I only got in 3 days last week. I did get all my protein, vits, and water though. Although Saturday I didn't have many calories at all. How many calories is everyone getting in now ballpark? Love ya'll Denise

I try to switch it up. Some days I get around 800, some days around 1200. If I keep my body confused, it is less likely to think its starving and hold on to every pound. I need to work on getting more water though, especially on the weekends. I'm awful! How are you doing on water? Can you up it and see if that helps?

Hey Jenn, yes I will try that. Right now I get around 10 cups per day. I may try to switch my calories around too. I think my metabolism is resisting.

Wow, you must be a mind reader! I was going to post someting similar to this. Yesterday my son and I went to the movies. At the theatre, they had a digital scale and since I've not weighed myself since I was at my surgeon's office, I popped in a quarter and stepped on. I had thought I'd lost more, but it shows a 4 lb loss. Now that's not really bad considering that it brings my total to 96 lbs. So why does this upset me? On the one hand, I've been doing the gym 5-6 days a week since the end of July and I know I've lost because I've gone down a pants size already. And I know that muscle weighs more so in actuality if I wasn't exercising, I'd probably have lost more weight. Since I still have half my weight to lose, I felt depressed about the minimal weight loss. It started me thinking that I only have so much more time before my "honeymoon" period is over and other kinds of toxic thinking. Although I feel great and except for my stomach, I look pretty "normal" nowadays, so my vow is to not weigh myself any more until I go to the my surgeon again. I can feel my weight loss in my clothes. What happened to me yesterday is precisely why I don't weigh myself on a regular basis because I'd become a slave to the numbers. Like I need another compulsion in my life! Good luck to you, Denise and thanks for starting the thread. Sue

I was thinking about this same thing. My 6 month surgeon appt is on Thursday. I have lost 95 lbs. But I lost 71 in the first 3 months so I have only averaged 8 lbs per month for the past 3 months. How strange is that. I cant excercise yet becuz I need cardiologist clearance and i see him tomorrow. My calorie intake is pretty minimal as I dont excercise. I average about 600 per day.

OH Boy... my weight loss has slowed too... I'm 5 mos out and I've only lost 8lbs in the last month... YIKES!! I've kicked up my exercising and I'm not eating anything off program, I take my vits and calcium... I am shrinking in sizes so that makes me happy. I don't want to get hung up on the #'s but I'm sooo close to being under 200 and it's just not happening as fast as I would like. This week I vow to take in more water.... exercise everyday.... & concentrate on protiens first...

I just chugged a glass of water after reading the last reply Sometimes I feel so spoiled when I post something like this because I am very happy so far but it helps when you know others are feeling the same thing. I guess it's killing me to get to 100 and I am SO impatient. I will kick up my exercise this week!!!!!! Denise

I stall and then loose in spurts. I've lost 106 buthave just over 200 more to go so I'm definately looking at this for the long haul. I do try to vary calories a bit and , since I have quite a bit of back pain- am not able to walk/ move as much as I would like. I still try to walk 20-30 minutes a day. I went about 8 weeks with NO loss very early on and, to keep my sanity, have been able to put things into perspective, I can controll what I put into my mouth and when. I can controll how much I exercise. I CANNOT control the numbers on that fr***in scale. I can only do what I can do and the rest will happen as it will. Those thoughts keep me sain MOST of the time. I also find that if I make short term goals of things I want to do " again" - even if I don't see the numberson the scale change, I can "mark" progress in my mind bu the new things I can do. I have had to focus on feeling good and doing things again as opposed to the number on the scale. Eventualy the scale does move. Here's to seeing less of all of us!!! Cathy

Thanks for the reality check Cathy. You are so right, I need to focus on all the good things instead of the blankety blankety number Everyone here is doing so well and I am so thankful for the support. Way to go April Denise

I am having the same issue. It seems that around this time your body needs to play 'catch up'. I figure as long as it keeps comming off, it will start back up again. Not as fast as when we first had the surgery, but it will start dropping off again. I have read a lot about these plateaus and I figgure that this is just one of them. Cindee