Just looking for support

I am a year post op. I am down 70 pound ( I started out @ 249lbs ) Everything is going pretty good. I am at a plateau thought and I am starting to get discouraged. I have been @ 170 for the whole month of November. Thanksgiving was a little rough, but I made it. I am also looking for a support group in the metro-atlanta area, if anyone knows of one. please recommend. Thanks for listening. Cynamon

Cynamon, Sorry, to hear that you have been having a hard time this past month. Just keep plugging along and hopefully things will turn around and the weight will start coming off again. I will be a year out tomorrow. I started at 358 lbs and on my surgery date I was down to 286, now I'm around the 170 lbs range. I have also been on a plateau for quite a while a month or more I will lose a few and gain a few. This is getting very frustraiting. I have been having a hard time since buying Halloween candy, and eating some of the left overs, Had to finally take the rest to work just to get them out of the house. Then it was Thanksgiving and the pies, and more cookies at work. I now know I can't have any of these near me or I will eat them... even though I get a little queezy with the sugar I still want them... So, starting tomorrow it's back on my routine, with limiting my carb and sugar intake. I have about 15 more lbs to go so I can finally say I lost 200 lbs, so that is my next goal. Wish me luck!!! ps Anytime you need to talk just email me. Thanks for letting me vent a little too. The support you can get from this site is amazing. Sometimes I just have to remind my self of how far I have come since I first started this wonderful journey (358 lbs to 170 lbs). There are so many things I can do now that I could't before. I'm so glad I had this done. Terri

Terri, Thanks for the encouragement. It gets so discouraging, but I guess we have to just keep plugging away. I am trying very hard to make the right choices,but w/ the holidays and finding out that I can actually eat small amounts of things w/out dumping, it gets me into trouble. I am trying up my protien intake , working out and drinking like I should, but I have problems know how many carbs and how much sugar and how much protien I should have. I am just trying to figure this whole thing out. With everything said, I do not regret my surgery and I am so excited about how far I have come. I guess those are the things I need to remember. Thanks for listening again..... Cynamon

Hey Cynamon! We will fight obesity our whole life, BUT, the beauty of WLS is that we now have a tool to fight it with. If you haven't visited www.fitday.com go there sometime and record your food. It's amazing what you will discover about food and your choices. Your day should consist of mostly protein with some carbs and next to no sugar. WLS makes us malabsorb fat, unfortunately the same is not true for sugar. We absorb sugar right from the moment it hits our tongue! The other thing is that eating sugar/carbs will make you crave sugar/carbs so the less the better!! I had found that if I didn't take in enough protein, I would stall with weight loss. I started doing a minimum of 40g supplement per day plus high protein diet and things would move on the scale again! Good luck and don't give up the fight! Carole

thanks I am going to try both of your suggestions. I did not have a lot to loose in the first place...not as much as others but a personal goal is 140 lbs which means I need to loose another 30 pounds. I am trying to get there by June when I go home- to California- my family has not seen me since the wls. Cynamon