has anyones weight s...

has anyones weight slowed down at this five month mark. i lost eighty pounds and need to lose about 70 more any ideas how to do this. karen

Yes, I haven't done very well this month, but there was a cruise, lots of time away from home, and the devil called ice cream. I am adding more exercise and planning meal times better, cutting out fatty foods that were always my downfall. We can do this Karen!

Yes this month has been the slowest.

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Yes I think we all are seeing this slow down but one thing I did was I stopped thinking about the scale and I said to myself....Ok now lets say that this 80 lbs is it that is all you will lose are you happy with this?....and I said yes because I know in time I will lose more,, but as soon as I said that I was happy with this 80 lb. loss then I stopped worring about the scale slow down.... All I can say is try to make good decisions and it will happen.

I have hit a major slow down over the past month or so. I was stuck around 180 for over a month going up and down up and down. I have really started watching what I am eating and doing a bit more excersize. I am going down again but very slowly. I want to be at 100lb loss by my 6 months from day of surgery which means I need to loose another 12lbs by October 10th. I am now starting to doubt myself because things are going so slow. If I can hit that mark I will be very happy and not care to much if I have more loss then that. My advise would be to monitor what you are eating and change your excersize a bit to see if that helps. It's what works for me.

My scale won't budge either...and I have only lost 62 since surgery. It is very frustrating. I still have 88 to go. I tell you, for anyone out these that thinks WLS make it easy...listen up. Its is hard work and sometimes still dissapointing

Oh yeah, mine's slowed way down! This is normal though-the weight loss isn't over! I find that if I'm not careful I can graze on cookies or granola or crackers way too easily, so I had to stop buying them. If they're not in the house I can't eat them, right? Don't give up-most RNY people keep losing for 12-18 months, and some for more than 2 years.

My weight loss has slowed down big time. I've lost 78 pounds, but I'm only losing a pound or so every couple of weeks. (I started out as a relative light-weight, though, so I didn't have as much to lose as others.) However, I'm happy. I got off of insulin, which was a major goal, and I'm happy with my current size. I could probably exercise more often than I am, but I'm not always able to do so now that summer is over. It's nice to know that a lot of A-teamers are experiencing slow downs. Must be normal 5 months out. Marcia

add me to that list as well! I know mine is definately from lack of excersice however. When I hit the gym last week, I broke my plateau and dropped about 4 lbs. Carbs has also been a major road block for me. I have two kids, and have resorted back to picking at thier left overs. This was something that my therapist kept harping on me before surgury. Looks like I have to be even more dilligent now. Those old habits are starting to creep back in......