Stall Breakers

So I always thought the whole up protien levels to break stalls didn't have any real validity but I'm a total believer!!! I've been stalled for the last two weeks, yesterday I made myself drink two additional protien shakes (I got the majorly unhappy surgeon lecture yesterday at my 5 month appt) and today the scale was down two pounds. Of course it means that I hardly eat anything because I'm full of protien drinks so maybe that's what does it but whatever...it worked!!! Yippee!!! Corinna Q

What did your surgeon lecture you about? You've done so well.

Well...protien was one of them, I also hadn't done my 3 month blood work (and it was my 5 month check up), and am not exercising as much as I was. Mostly he was concerned about the bloodwork which I had just completely forgotten to do. I'm determined to do better now though Corinna Q

What was your protein before and what did you increase it to?

to be perfectly honest I was getting perhaps 40-50 grams a day between protien shakes and food. It was pretty bad. And he wants me getting 80-100 of which 80 should be from protien shakes alone. I've gotten myself up to 70 and have managed that every day since my appt. But it means I eat at most one meal a day because I'm always full of protien shakes. But he'd rather me do that than eat so I guess I'm following his plan. I just have to tell myself when I get hungry to have a protien shake first, eat later if I"m still hungry. So I'm doing two shakes a day and one south beach diet protien bar (10 grams of protien) and usually a meal which I try to make mostly protien. Technically the protien bar should probably be another shake but I just can't force down three a day. Corinna Q