Not losing enough...really

I am a year out and have lost like 70#...what the heck is going on. I wonder if I picked the right surgery or if I should have done it at all. I am tired of people asking "oh so how much have you lost so far" and I feel like lying because I am ashamed. I did the work out like crazy thing for about 3-4 months and nothing changed, the scale didn't go down neither did my pants size. I am a veggie tarian...kinda...I don't eat animals with faces, such as pigs and cows. I do choke down chicken and tofu burgers but that and salads along with my morning greek yogurt. Less than 1000 calories a day and still NOTHING. Am I a failure? I am so ashamed I won't go to my 1 yr post op check up. Please be gentle and give any advise.

Thanks!
Deb

You are not a failure! You have lost a lot of weight. 70 lbs is nothing to be ashamed of. Please go to your post op appt. Your surgeon may be able to help you. You need to have your labs drawn. The only suggestions I could make would be to make sure you are drinking a lot of water and up your protein. I am sure you have probably heard that. You started out a lightweight so your weight loss will be slower. My weight loss has slowed down a great deal. Like you I only want to lose about 25 more lbs. So if I lose 2 lbs a month it will take me a year. I can live with that. Hang in there and please see your doctor.

Really a failure?  By far!!!!  You made tthe choice to change your life and 70 pounds is huge.  The thing is we all loose differently.  I lost way to fast and have the constant vomiting....I would rather be lingering on to 23 pounds to hit my goal weight and eat some of the things you do than to be sick after almost everything I eat. 

You are a brave person for taking the step you have!  As long as you feel better that is what counts the most and that you are healthy.  Hang in there it will come off and will be less likely to come back with you doing it the right way!

Hi Deb,
You are certainly not a failure, 70 lbs is huge.  I also have the same surgeon but am  little further out than you.  We also have the same surgeon.  I attend a support group in Solon and we meet once a month, I  find it very helpful.  Many different thoughts and opinions to help you on your journey, the leader is also a vegeterian so that might be good for you.
Message me and I will give you the info
Susan

you are not a failure everyone looses at a different rate 70 lbs in a year is good.
#1 you are a lightweight  if you were over 400 lbs then you would have lost more it is your % of weight loss  that matters for example if you wanted to loose 100 lbs then you have  lost 70% of your excess weight  a person that weighs 400 lbs and wanted to go down to  150 would have had to have lost 175lbs to be @ 70% weight loss. you can still loose it doesnt stop after a year there is no time limit on this. in my first year i lost 65lbs and I was al a  little discouraged when u eat like a 2 year old. and now I am almost 4 years out and I am down 105 lbs and I am thrilled had a lot of plastics so now I have to really watch my weight cant go up or down or I can  mess up all this work I had done.
call your nutritionist maybe u r not eating enough calories and your body thinks u r starving it.
 I NEVER WANT TO GO BACK
Susan

I am 13 months out and only have lost 70 lbs.  I went to 12 months check up and dr. wants me to lose twenty more lbs so I will not be in the "obese" range.  I have been struggling with the same five lbs for several months now.  I am exercising aerobically but have not done weight training yet.  I am going to have to get back to protein basics.  I wonder if I indeed had the right procedure done.  The good news is that I am happier, able to be more active, and loving shopping. 

Muscle weighs more than fat. Let weight be an indicator that suggests rather than the absolute measure. How do you feel physically and mentally? Fitness level, activity level, are as important an indicator, I think, as the scale any day. 

Also I would submit that a failure is someone who has had this surgery and died 200 pounds over weight from choking on donuts. So unless this happened to you today, maybe you could let go the idea you're failure. This journey is fraught with new struggles that replace old ones we have triumphed over. So consider yourself a fighter, not a failure. 

I am at a 63 pound loss and have been stalled for 3 months. I am wondering if I am done too. I have increased my excercise to 1 hour/5 days a week and I eat 1200 - 1500 calories a day. I really would like to lose another 30 lbs. It gets very frustrating when I step on the scale and it just will not move. I feel like a failure. Some days I am ok and I look at how far I have come in this journey but I guess it is like everything else, I find myself wanting more. I started at 240 so I would be considered a lightweight also. Do lightweights slow down sooner? Is there anything else we can do (healthy)  to get that weight off?