8 months post op & frustrated!
Hi, everyone!
I had my Lap RNY on 8/25/05. I've lost 112 lbs. so far, and I feel great! But I've noticed in the past month that I'm getting hungry more often, and I'm so frustrated because the scale hasn't moved in 2 1/2 weeks. In fact, I'm 5 lbs. heavier! I'm so upset. Now I will admit that I've been "picking" at the wrong stuff lately, but I've been exercising more too. I'm hoping this slight gain is just my body retaining fluid, but is it normal to retain fluid for a few weeks? I worry that my pouch has stretched, but my doctor keeps saying that I'll know when I've overdone it. Has this happened to anybody months after surgery? Any insight you might have would be greatly appreciated.
I know how you feel. I feel the same all the time like i am eating too muck and the I have not lost what I shoud have and then I get on the scale and it does not move. I get so pissed off thinking I am going back to my old ways I could cry. Then I will put on a pair of jeans that just fit or were too small and they are big I may not be loosing as much in numbers on the scale but the inches are just falling off. look at your inches and see. drink more water and work out 5 more mins. each time you do work out. this should help you it did for me. you are doing so GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! keep up the great job you are doing. Just look at it this way you have just lost 112 in 8 months that is great.
Lynn
381/255/???
I hear you, Tracy, and I am right there with you. I will admit, though, I haven't been as "good" about exercise as most people are.
I have a relatively sedentary lifestyle, I am a stay at home mom, Navy wife, and I play onlne games. Other than keeping my house clean (which DOES count as exercise, trust me, with a 2 year old!) and taking her to the playground, I have stopped exercising regularly. I got a Gazelle a few months back, and I loved it...until my daughter refused to let me do it alone! Since she doesn't nap, that made it virtually impossible to workout on it during the day (and with my husband in Iraq, it's a struggle to simply maintain a positive attitude once the sun goes down), and it got folded down a couple of months ago...and hasn't been back up since.
The result of this lack of exercise, I believe, is why I am losing slowly already. I am hitting about 5-7 pounds a month (which I guess is still average, for this far out?), usually right after my cycle. At 8 months out, I have lost 103 lbs and am wearing a size 12 (started at 311, in a size 26). It doesn't help that no one can give me a "goal" weight to shoot for, tell me what kind of body frame I have, or give me anything to really "compare" myself to, that is reasonable. I see others around me who have busier lifestyles who are losing faster, who enjoy exercise (I never have, other than the kinds I am about to mention)...and I beat myself up mentally about it, knowing it's my own fault that I am not losing any faster. I try and say to myself, "Well, you certainly wouldn't have lost 103 lbs. in 8 months any OTHER way!", but some days that's not even enough to not make me feel like a big slacker. I do great on food...high protein, low carb (and then usually only "good" carbs), plenty of liquids...I still have a very tempermental, small pouch (which in my mind is VERY GOOD, considering how I hate "organized exercise"). And...I have been losing a Pant Size a month, minimum, since surgery, so something is going right, somewhere. I have always been pear shaped, and now my jiggly stomach and thighs are starting to bother me immensely (not to mention my bat wings, which are my only upper body problem...never had a huge chest to begin with), I'd be wearing a size 10 jean if I didn't have this hanging skin on my stomach (granted, it still has some fat in it, and I think if I asked a PS about it, he'd say not yet...part of me wants to ask just to see what he would say, it bothers me that much).
On the plus side, the spring here is absolutely gorgeous in Virginia Beach, and I am about to buy myself a bike to do one of the things I truly enjoy and haven't had the energy to do in a long, long time...go bike riding in the early evening/late afternoon. My energy level is enormous, and I feel like an entirely different person in that regard. Plus, since I am a water baby, my pool opens on May 31st and I will be hitting that daily! I truly can't wait. 
I have to buy a new swimsuit, but every time I go to the store I can't decide if I should buy one yet or not. Maybe I am just stalling, lol.
Excuse me for going on, but these things have been on my mind the past couple of weeks and your post just really hits home for me. No matter how much I try NOT to compare, I have a whole Favorites folder dedicated simply to people's profiles that I found who I think have a body shape like mine, who started around the weight I started at, who are near my height, etc. I have the semi-constant (and I hear common) fear that I will suddenly stop losing and never see the 1's...which I haven't seen in my entire adult life, in fact, haven't seen since high school. I don't need people to "kick me in the butt and make me exercise", etc., because I am admittedly stubborn (redhead LOL) and that tends to just make me want to stick out my tongue at the well-meaning individual.
No one said this was easy. Anyone who tries to claim that it is, I will debate to my dying day that it's not. Just because it's effective, doesn't make it simple...no matter what anyone says.
In short, I hear ya girlfriend, hang in there...we feel it too.
~Stacy
I have to buy a new swimsuit, but every time I go to the store I can't decide if I should buy one yet or not. Maybe I am just stalling, lol.
Excuse me for going on, but these things have been on my mind the past couple of weeks and your post just really hits home for me. No matter how much I try NOT to compare, I have a whole Favorites folder dedicated simply to people's profiles that I found who I think have a body shape like mine, who started around the weight I started at, who are near my height, etc. I have the semi-constant (and I hear common) fear that I will suddenly stop losing and never see the 1's...which I haven't seen in my entire adult life, in fact, haven't seen since high school. I don't need people to "kick me in the butt and make me exercise", etc., because I am admittedly stubborn (redhead LOL) and that tends to just make me want to stick out my tongue at the well-meaning individual.
No one said this was easy. Anyone who tries to claim that it is, I will debate to my dying day that it's not. Just because it's effective, doesn't make it simple...no matter what anyone says.
In short, I hear ya girlfriend, hang in there...we feel it too.
~Stacy 
You're definitely not alone on this one Tracy. I had my surgery 8/30 and down 105 thus far. This week the scale wasn't kind to me. No loss, just stalling. I'm hungry more often and just getting so frustrated about it. I haven't gained weight, but I can see it coming at some point. This last week I've been eating more, and at times have been eating too fast that I get nauseous and my tummy hurts. This is something I shouldn't be going through almost 9 months out, only rookies that are out a few months get nauseous! But, I'm worried about stretching it or overdoing it, but I think it's just me being frustrated at having to double think things and constantly ask myself "have i eaten too much?", "should i eat this or not?", "im hungry AGAIN?!" It gets me frustrated because i know these are questions we battled with early on, and shouldnt be worried about now. I think its the overal a frustration stage because things are finally as normal as they will be and we're so used to it being a restrictive lifestyle thus far. That we are now getting somewhat comfortable with our food choices may be a reason that we automatically are getting paranoid and just see ourselves are eating too much,etc. I definitely don't plan on ignoring my paranoia. I am very much worried about stretching my pouch and have been making very bad choices in my intake. I'm embracing my paranoia! lol.. This weekend I pretty much got mad at myself for not being as cautious of what I eat and eating too much. I plan on exercising more to not have this wondering mentality of "if i only had exercised...i would have lost more"...also taking my water and sticking to the basics as much as possible. I recommend we all do. Even if our appetite is a little bigger, as long as we stick to the healthier choices, we can just ride this out and see if our body responds to it and see the outcome. Cmon, we've kept sane (or as close to it) thus far, let's just stick to the basics and not sabotage our progress thus far. 80,90,100 lbs lost in 9months...!!! If that's not an accomplishment, what the heck is!!! ...
But, I'm worried about stretching it or overdoing it, but I think it's just me being frustrated at having to double think things and constantly ask myself "have i eaten too much?", "should i eat this or not?", "im hungry AGAIN?!" It gets me frustrated because i know these are questions we battled with early on, and shouldnt be worried about now. I think its the overal a frustration stage because things are finally as normal as they will be and we're so used to it being a restrictive lifestyle thus far. That we are now getting somewhat comfortable with our food choices may be a reason that we automatically are getting paranoid and just see ourselves are eating too much,etc. I definitely don't plan on ignoring my paranoia. I am very much worried about stretching my pouch and have been making very bad choices in my intake. I'm embracing my paranoia! lol.. This weekend I pretty much got mad at myself for not being as cautious of what I eat and eating too much. I plan on exercising more to not have this wondering mentality of "if i only had exercised...i would have lost more"...also taking my water and sticking to the basics as much as possible. I recommend we all do. Even if our appetite is a little bigger, as long as we stick to the healthier choices, we can just ride this out and see if our body responds to it and see the outcome. Cmon, we've kept sane (or as close to it) thus far, let's just stick to the basics and not sabotage our progress thus far. 80,90,100 lbs lost in 9months...!!! If that's not an accomplishment, what the heck is!!! ... Most Active
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