40 more pounds...

I'm frustrated. Please know that I'm so proud of everyone here and this rant is just totally about me... I will be a year out in a little over 30 days.. and I still have 40 lbs till my goal. At this rate it will take me another year to loose it. Do we keep loosing after a year out? I keep hearing we don't because the 'honeymoon' stage is over. I made all these grand goals and failed them all. I'm STILL not under 200lbs (like I wanted to be by December) I feel like I'm never gonna get to a 'normal' weight. I've been playing with the same 6-10 lbs for months now. 222 down to 210 down back up to 215.. down again to 208. I'm sure I could do stuff to help with this. I'm just loosing my motivation. Please someone help me slap myself and wake up.. I could gain weight back too.. that's my BIGGEST fear. I know I am not above that. Anyone else feeling this way? My cals are around 1100-1300 a day. I'm pretty active, though I havn't worked out since January.. I've let carbs creep back in. I have said to myself that it's no big deal because I'm only eating a tiny bit... but I've noticed my 'tiny bit' happens all through out the day!!! sheeeesh! I'm still loosing inches though, My waist went from 40" around to 36" in the last 2 months with little to no weight loss. I guess that's good.... but I don't expect it to continue if I keep feeling discouraged and loose motivation. Thanks for listening. -Shakeira

Move over and pass me an oar, cause we are in the same boat! I feel like I am not going to lose any more either. This morning I am down to 197....again. I was down here like a few months ago, and then I spent quite a few weeks not losing anything. Even though I was not losing I did notice that my clothes were still getting too big on me. I have to say that I do take what I have gotten from this surgery as a gift. That 150 that I have lost is that much that I no longer need to cart around with me. I am healthier and much happier. Don't get me wrong I am 30 pounds from my doctors goal and 50 pounds from my personal goal. I don't know that I will ever reach goal, but I am grateful for what I can now do as opposed to what I used to think about doing before. Stay strong and everything will be the way that it was meant to be.

Please let me on board!!! I am still wearing 22 and 20 I am still 242! I started around everyone else but everyone else has lost more than me and are in way smaller clothes! frustration is this f**king stomach that is at least 20 pounds of hanging skin. I can't run or jump or it hit my legs which is SO embarrassing so I just don't do it or it pulls my under ware down. I am seeing things like I can cross my legs at a booth table where before I couldn't sit in a booth. I am SO much further from the steering wheel then before with my tummy and I can wrap a beach towel around me. BUT when will I feel smaller when will I be in smaller clothes? I didn't do like anyone else on here and keep dropping through all their sizes I started at a 28/30 pants and now I am in a 20 and they are snug in the belly and baggy on the legs is this from the hanging skin???? OK sorry about my rant on easter but I figured you knew what I was going through as well. I am going to try to put of my 1 year visit till middle may so I can have an extra month to lose weight!I feel like a half a failure (only half because I have lost weight) OK I am going to go pout and then work out!

I will join in with you all. I am 216, I hoped to be under 200 by the one year mark but with having a complete hyster. on April 8th I know I won't make it. I am still very slowly losing so I will hang on to the hope that I will still get to my goal, it will just take a little longer.

I am with you all too... I am almost a year out and I am 80 from my goal...I am please about the weight already loss, I expected to be further along as well.. You guys are so encouraging... I don't feel so alone when my progress doesn't match up with my expectations... I also just have to accept that this is going to take longer than I expected... one more year to go!