Eating big on Friday....

It has been 7 days since I lost a pound.  I need do something to step it up.  I am not really sure what to do.  Maybe I need to take a few calories off each meal.  I don't understand how people can eat 1200 calories in a day.  I am so continually hungry and I am eating 1800 calories on the average.  I am eating a ton of fruit and veggies.  I have cut my carbs back as far as I can.  I am eating way more protein than I need.  I drink a pitcher of crystal light every day.  I am trying to keep a positive attitude but sometimes it is so difficult.  I just want to be on the losers bench with the others.

Snack: waffles and blueberries.  I skipped the walnuts so that brings to total down to 210 calories..  But that also eliminates my healthy fat...hmmm....I don't know that that is a good thing.

Lunch: 2 cups Veggie soup; spinach, tomato and cucumber salad with fat free dressing;  tuna melt made with toasted sandwich thin, canned tuna and 2 slices melted jalapino soy cheese.  350 calories

Snack: chicken, spinach and asiago cheese sausage; apple; NSA cocoa 250 cal.

Dinner: 2 cups veggie soup; 4 oz. cooked lean beef, sandwich thin, tomato and spinach 375 cal.

Snack:  1 cup rice and an apple 300 cal

Saturday breakfast: sandwich thin and peanut butter 200 cal

total: 1685 cal

Even non WLS diets don't go higher than 1,200 calories. Why are you eating so much? I eat between 500-800 and lose weight just fine. Also don't forget that fruit is high in carbs. I would stop eating bread/waffles too. To me it looks like you are simply eating the wrong things.

I tried that for years and years and I just can't do it.  I really have quite a sweet tooth and found when I don't substitute recipes I go off the deep end and eat the real thing too often.  I do have my recipes on my profile page if you care to check them out.  Although "waffles" sound bad they are almost all protein and use buckwheat flour which is a berry not actually wheat.  Good new is that I lost a few more pounds since I wrote this so I think it is best to just keep on chugging along.  I used to weigh 276 lbs. years ago and dieted it off over 15 years.  I just want to get down to 165 again.  My clothes fit and I feel great even though I am still "overweight".  That is only 17 lbs away.  At least my RNY cured my diabetes...I am very grateful for that.  I will get there by Christmas.  I am afraid to go down to those low calorie diets because I will go off the deep end and REALLY overeat in a rebound.  That is how I got up to 276 lbs. in the first place...dieting!  I am glad everything is going so well for you.  You should hang out on the "successful surgery" board because you are doing to well to possibley consider yourself a WLS failure.  Daisy