I'm not about counting calories or fat either, but if his original suggestion isn't working, I would cut out those items next (bread, corn, potatoes, rice, couscous, oatmeal, tortillas-flour and corn). Again, protein and green and yellow veggies...whole fats and cheese.

Duly noted. Thanks!

Hey My NUT said dont count calories either. Just eat for 30 minutes putting the fork down and chewing or waiting for 30 seconds at a time. It has been about 2 days and the scale hasn't moved a fraction. Still 163.4 lbs. I am going to give the NUT's advice a week. But if I haven't lost any weight, I am going to have to go pack to what previously worked, tracking portion sizes.

And if that doesn't work, I am going to have start tracking calories regardless of portion sizes. Which may make me sad and hungry.

:(

Since i am your accountability partner, this is what is on my mind.

Jes noting : DS is VERY different from rny long term. You eat like a DSEr as an RNY er you're risking cancer from meat toxins and will gain huge amounts of weight probably from uncontrolled fats : but find out for yourself - I'm curious too :)

The doctor was partly correct. After weight loss surgery our metabolism is great, but gets slower every year.

A normal woman can eat 10 calories for every pound of weight maintained. So to stay at 150 pounds, she will need 1500 calories a day.

I found at 10 years out from weight loss surgery that has dropped to 9 calories a day for me. To maintain 136 pounds I need 1200 calories a day.

To lose one pound a week, cut out 500 calories a day. For me that gets it to 700 and is too few for me, so I drop 1/2 pound a week at 900 calories a day.

To lose 20 pounds would take me almost a year.

The sad truth is that the less you weigh, the less you get to eat.

EXACTLY.

I'm a contrarian ( not because I want to be but because I live how I post and it works at least for me ) . I eat WAY more than 1500 calories a day .

I I tried journaling my food and adding it up a while ago - I apparently eat between 3500 and 4000 Cala a day to maintain 135 lbs. This is probably because I never dieted and have a background a serious child athlete.

There is no reason though in my professional opinion as a certified personal trainer that any of us can't rapidly build up calorie burning ( at rest) muscle mass ( which is also very traditionally attractive and skin tightening) and by doing so lose fat long term by burning it up slowly through having a higher basal metabolic rate .

That is indeed sad, and pretty depressing. I've already started cutting back on carbs--but am gettig depressed as I have been trying for a long time now to get this weight off. Thanks for the response.

The only other option is to accept the extra weight

Yeah, I get that.