I need some advice or thoughts
I am 10 months out and lost 105 pounds, I still have a bmi of 31. I want to be in normal range. I have only lost 7 or 8 pounds in 43 days. I eat about 90-120 protien a day or more, carbs less than half of that. I do have a couple glasses of wine a couple times a week, but still my calories never go over 1200 even with that and mostly hang just under 1000 or so. I dont eat sugar or white flour ever!! I workout intensley 5 day a week vigorous weight training and cardio. I also play with my 4 kids, own a restaurant where I work on my feet and do all the cooking(helper on weekend) lift, walk bend constantly. I drink the water, take my supps and have a great attitude, feel great, happy and all is good, skin and muscle tone looks great, have not lost any hair( had a bit of loss a few months ago, but nothing really!! Why am I losing this last 35 or so sooooooooo slowly????
Wow, you are doing a fantastic job of taking good care of yourself.
The one flag that pops up for me is is the alcohol. Regardless of the calories, alcohol is well known to be a weight-loss stopper. You might consider experimenting with that and remove the wine for a couple of weeks and see if that makes a difference. Every body is different. I couldn't tell from your profile what kind of surgery you had but if you had any kind of bypass, the effects of alcohol are seriously different than when it moved through your stomach.
Alcohol is a corosive. When a non-bypassed person drinks alcohol it goes to the stomach where acids digest much of it, dilute the alcohol before it hits the intestine where the alcohol is actually absorbed into the blood and does its thing.
When we are bypassed, there is no stomach for that to happen. Our pouches do not have the same properties. So the alcohol hits the small intestine and is nearly completely absorbed into the blood at its full strength. This is why it's easy to get drunk on just a tiny amount and also why the buzz doesn't last very long. Unfortunately you also get the full amount of sugar.
Alcohol also very easily can cause erosions in the pouch and small intestine (because it doesn't get diluted by the stomach acids) over a period of time. A good friend of mine just spent 45 days in the hospital because of this. She was 3 years out from surgery and had to have two surgeries back to back to stop the bleeding from her intestine and to repair her pouch.
I don't want to scare you or anyone else reading this but alcohol can be deadly for those of us who are bypassed.
Of course, if you are banded, you can tolerate the alcohol without any of these serious side effects but it still may be stopping your weight loss.
Anyway, it's worth a try for a few weeks to cut it out and see if it helps get you off the plateau.
The one flag that pops up for me is is the alcohol. Regardless of the calories, alcohol is well known to be a weight-loss stopper. You might consider experimenting with that and remove the wine for a couple of weeks and see if that makes a difference. Every body is different. I couldn't tell from your profile what kind of surgery you had but if you had any kind of bypass, the effects of alcohol are seriously different than when it moved through your stomach.
Alcohol is a corosive. When a non-bypassed person drinks alcohol it goes to the stomach where acids digest much of it, dilute the alcohol before it hits the intestine where the alcohol is actually absorbed into the blood and does its thing.
When we are bypassed, there is no stomach for that to happen. Our pouches do not have the same properties. So the alcohol hits the small intestine and is nearly completely absorbed into the blood at its full strength. This is why it's easy to get drunk on just a tiny amount and also why the buzz doesn't last very long. Unfortunately you also get the full amount of sugar.
Alcohol also very easily can cause erosions in the pouch and small intestine (because it doesn't get diluted by the stomach acids) over a period of time. A good friend of mine just spent 45 days in the hospital because of this. She was 3 years out from surgery and had to have two surgeries back to back to stop the bleeding from her intestine and to repair her pouch.
I don't want to scare you or anyone else reading this but alcohol can be deadly for those of us who are bypassed.
Of course, if you are banded, you can tolerate the alcohol without any of these serious side effects but it still may be stopping your weight loss.
Anyway, it's worth a try for a few weeks to cut it out and see if it helps get you off the plateau.
"When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge." -Tuli Kupferberg
Way to go! I think wine is in the top two things I miss the most that can't be substituted. The other is Ben and Jerry's. There is no FF, SF ice cream that will ever take it's place. LOL
Also, while I was in the shower I was thinking of you (don't get creeped out, LOL) but what came to me was... I'm wondering if you keep a food journal. In my group, we are encouraged to record every BLT (bite, lick, taste) that goes into our mouth to see where we might be glossing over how we are eating. I might suggest doing that for the same two weeks and see how that works as well as going back to carefully weighing and measuring everything.
When I hit a long plateau, I try to return to the things I was doing during rapid weight loss that truly worked with consistency.
I assume I will have to return to the strict basics every so often just to stay at goal.
Also, while I was in the shower I was thinking of you (don't get creeped out, LOL) but what came to me was... I'm wondering if you keep a food journal. In my group, we are encouraged to record every BLT (bite, lick, taste) that goes into our mouth to see where we might be glossing over how we are eating. I might suggest doing that for the same two weeks and see how that works as well as going back to carefully weighing and measuring everything.
When I hit a long plateau, I try to return to the things I was doing during rapid weight loss that truly worked with consistency.
I assume I will have to return to the strict basics every so often just to stay at goal.
"When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge." -Tuli Kupferberg
Have you had your body fat tested? Granted the caliper/ pinch test may be off a little bit because of loose skin. But I'm guessing that you have a higher than usual bone mass from carrying around an extra 100# for years, and then have a great muscle mass because you work and play so hard.
BMI is NOT accurate for weight lifters and other people with higher than average lean body mass. You may be selling yourself short. You may be BETTER than normal.
BMI is NOT accurate for weight lifters and other people with higher than average lean body mass. You may be selling yourself short. You may be BETTER than normal.
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Believe it or not the loose skin is not bad at all, the only place i really have any is my belly and upper upper thigh and its really not bad. I am noticing that I am getting defintition in my calfs and upper body but I still wear a size 12 and a good size for me I think would be 6 or 8. I freakin love the weights!!
I'm in the same exact boat... I have decided to get off the scale, and hire a personal trainer. I am going start looking at how my clothes fit and my body looks in the mirror instead of that damn obsessive, over powering, controling scale.. Ughh hate them!
And I also was having a glass of wine once in a while. I recently switched to a Skinny ***** (diet coke and vodka) only 8- calories as opposed to over 100 in the wine. I only have a glass or two every other weekend (when my son is at his Dad's), so I have limited it. It seems to be working. My clothes are getting looser and I stick my tongue out at the scale every time I pass it. (which is often cause I keep it in my kitchen...)
Good Luck Hun!
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