Weigh your food on a kitchen scale, and log every bite you eat on MyFitnessPal. Be precise, and be accurate. We are used to eating a lot of food, and are terrible at approximating. Even something like "1 egg" is much to vague. There is a lot of size difference. Slices of cheese I got from the deli today weighed more than 50% more than they did the last time I bought cheese. That's why you have to weigh.

I would bet my house you are eating more than you think. I'm sorry to say, there really is no other magic answer.

My Fitness Pal is a great app.  It would allow you to bring in print outs to your Dietitian and DE also.  It really gets everything down to numbers even I can understand.    Just because you haven't lost anything for a long time doesn't mean you are done. 

Sadly, one of the surgeons whose support group I attend says simply, the surgery doesn't work for some people. I sincerely hope this is not the situation in your case. Best of luck to you. 

Thank you for your reply

This is the response I have gotten from my surgeon, dieticians, diabetes educator, and primary.

None of them expected it to happen to me since I am uber compliant with all my medical stuff.

I've adopted a saying - Accept what is. And keep moving forward.

We're all different, and there is no one-size-fits-all form of WLS. If you are uber compliant yet are not losing weight, then perhaps the Sleeve is an inadequate surgery for you. You may have been born with a super-efficient body, one that's able to get more energy out of food than the average person does, and can use than energy more efficiently.

Have you researched a procedure called the Duodenal Switch? It has a Sleeved stomach plus an intestinal bypass, and makes a dramatic, permanent change in how your body metabolizes food. It has the very best long-term, maintained weight-loss stats of all the current forms of WLS. Since you already have a Sleeved stomach, you're half-way to having a DS. Perhaps you should seriously consider finding a DS surgeon and adding the Switch, in order to change your metabolism to one that's less efficient. (*grin*)

Thank you for your reply

I read several of your posts last night in the conversion forum - you are insightful & kind

How about "not accepting", putting on your boxing gloves, throwing out the rules, and cutting your calories and upping your exercise. You didnt get the surgery to fail. You got the surgery to be normal sized. How to get there then? If you are still in your honeymoon, eat way less , and take advantage of the decreased hunger and increased fullness.

This is not meant to sound snarky. It is meant to be motivational. You got an extreme situation going on, you may have to go extreme too!

This is terrible!  I really felt surgery was the last resort for me..and I assume it would be to others.  To just be written off like that...

As Laura said, 1100 calories is maintenance for many of us.  Some clinics are experimenting with having post-surgery patients eat a lot of calories.  When they do not lose, they try increasing the calories with no success.

From my experience our bodies learn how to hold on to calories more efficiently after weight loss surgery.  I can lose on 900 calories a day, but it is a pound or less per week.  Your clinic and medical advise is not working for you. 

Weigh and measure every bite and get yourself down to 800 or 900 calories a day.  That WILL work for you. 

I dont even think this makes academic sense. If it really is a calories deficit game (which is what they tell us) having us eat more calories is dumb as our deficit would be less.  Then when one doesnt lose on increased calories to further increase the calories is even more stupid.

How about not treating the obese as little lab rats?  We are real people with real emotions, goals, hopes and dreams.  Clearly, the OP is confused, baffled and maybe even disappointed.  And she should be!  To give her 1100 calories and tell her she is "good" when she is NOT losing is NOT GOOD.

I am so mad FOR her, I got to leave this site for the rest of the day. I am so angry on her behalf