Only lost 7 lbs, anyone else slowed down?

I have lost 10-15 lbs a month until my last doctors visit and I only lost 7 lbs. I am so depressed about it, started feeling like I did pre-op when diets fail. I hoped to be able to live a normal life after surgery and eat like anormal person. I am so scared that I am going to go back to where I began, or not reach my goal. When I went to fitday.com I seem to be getting too much fat and too many calories. Around 1200 calories, so I am trying to watch it now and so now I feel like I did ona diet and I just hate having to track anything, the more I track it the more I want to eat. I am just so frustrated today and feel like crying all day. does anyone else know how I feel?

I have all but stopped! I have been so down hearted I could cry at anything. I have been slow to loose from the beginning and I have tries about everything. Fewer calories, more calories, more exercise, less exercise, more water, less water....the list goes on and on. I too feel like I did before surgery. Constantly in the diet funk. Counting colories, protein, water...I could scream! I am trying hard to stay positive but it is difficult when the scale shows a 1 lb loss for an entire month! Sorry if I seem to be whinning, but I am glad to know that I am not the only one out there who is feeling the "WLS blues"...as I have recently named it.

Hi, I feel just like the two of you do, I am a slow loser as well, and I have tried it all, I feel this way, as long as I am NOT GOING UP, then I try real hard to stay positive and stay with the program. It is so terrible hard and I too want to cry all the time, but I know that it will come off sooner or later. I just take it "one day at a time" Hugs, and Blessings Chrisy

One of these days, I upload a picture! Just had to put my 2 cents in on this topic. I had surgery on 11/06/06 and November and December were the ONLY two months that I've had double digit losses. I lost 22 pounds the first month, 12.5 the second and only 5.5 in January. What I discovered in January was that I was grazing. I'd eat a couple of crackers with cheese. I'd eat a few almonds but I'd eat them several times a day. When I would enter all in a software program, I found that the calories, carbs and fat grams were adding up. I lost a little more in February and March by cutting back on the carbs and making SURE I had all the protein I was supposed to have. I find it easy to use Any Whey unflavored protein powder mixing it with the Fit and Light Smoothies in my Magic Bullet. I also use a couple of other Protein Powders (Dymatize Elite Butter Cream Toffee seems to be easiest FOR ME to drink). Almost every single morning I eat a Fit and Lite Yogurt mixed with the Any Whey protein. Unjury unflavored is the same. But, no matter what I do, I lose only part of the month and then I maintain or yo-yo up and down in spurts. If you see a pattern, it's most likely hormonal - if you are doing all you can do! I lost 124 pounds on my own before regaining 67 and having the surgery. I kept detailed records and saw a definite pattern when my hormones were "acting up!" Even though I'd had a hysterectomy, I still had ovaries and they worked in overdrive about a week a month. I would gain about 5 pounds, get frustrated and eat more! I seemed to crave carbs during that time too. After that week was over, I'd drop 5 or more pounds in a few days. Now that I've had surgery, I still gain a few pounds during Hormone Week and I still drop 5 or more pounds. For instance, this past week, I've lost 7 pounds but the week before I was down in the dumps and just knew I had lost all the weight I was going to lose from the surgery. It's when we are stalled that we have to be strong. Being consistent when we aren't seeing results is what stopped us from losing ALL the weight before surgery. We have even MORE reason to be consistent now. Protein is vital to us as are vitamins. My primary focus right now to be remain positive no matter what the scale says! I'm sure all of us have read plenty of blogs on this site and almost every person thought at one time or another they weren't going to lose any more weight! Then, we keep reading and find they've lost 100 or more pounds just one year past their surgery date! Yes, we all want ALL the weight off NOW and we sometimes tell ourselves we are failures because we haven't lost 100 pounds in 5 months like others have. I know I've found myself wondering what I'm doing wrong if I'm not getting that kind of result but the fact is, we are each on our OWN journey. Just like no two fingerprints are alike, no two WLS journeys are going to be identical. I wasn't a fast loser when I lost weight on my own. I'm not a fast loser now but I know that it took me ONE YEAR to lose 50 pounds on my own and now after 5 months and 3 days, I've lost between 65 and 68 pounds (depending upon which starting weight I use). The second year I lost weight on my own, I lost 40 pounds. Then, it took me a couple more to lose the whole 124. I regained 67 pounds despite a literal addiction to exercise. You know how I did it? Mostly grazing and getting frustrated when the scale didn't go down!!! So, work your plan, keep track of what you are eating, exercise and stay positive! This new tool will demand that we always keep track of our protein, calories and vitamins. We owe that to ourselves and our bodies. We chose the surgery to help us do that but the surgery can't do the work for us, especially once our "honeymoon" period is over. There are many people *****gain lots of weight after surgery. I want to be a success story. I don't want to be ashamed of my body any more. Don't let the scale monster defeat you! You WILL lose this weight! We are doing it TOGETHER! CeCe

Sounds like a lot of us are getting discouraged. Let's not let it happen! Claim our success and let it happen! We can and we will succeed. If we get stuck in the negativity we will seal our fate of not making our goals. What can we do to help us be more successful? Would it be helpful to have a daily "What did you eat today" thread? That way we would be held accountable in public? What about an exercise thread? Maybe personal one-on-one success partners with daily check-ins so nobody gets lost? Let's put our heads together and come up with a plan so that WE ALL SUCCEED! It would break my heart for any of us to fail. It's time to start using our tool as a tool instead of a majic wand. We are over 4 months out and things are changing so we need to adapt.

I am all for a what did you eat today and excercise thread. Does anyone use fitday? I love it. Let's me know exactly the break down of what I ate. We could post our fitday food journal link. What do you think?

I've definitely hit my first plateau. I hit the 100 pounds lost mark a little over a week ago and have lost about a 1/2 pound since then. Usually I loose 1/2 a day. I think the biggest thing I noticed is that I had quit drinking my water. So I've been trying to make myself drink more. And I probably need to quit with so many carbs. I haven't been paying much attention to them and am getting too many I'm sure. And I'm sure it would help if I managed to get my butt to the gym. goodness...so many things I can do to kick start the loosing again...guess I better get with the program. But I guess I"m not too concerned...everyone hits plateaus...so it's my turn. Corinna Q