How much are you eating / exercising each day? - 12 months + postop

Just wondering, how much are most guys eating at around 15 months post op.  I havent had much movement on the scale in  2 months.  I work out 5-6 days a week, alternating ellipitcal, treadmill, and weights.  Usually burn in the 1000-1200+ range.  My gross intake is anywhere from 1200-1800 calories lately.  My protein, fat, and carbs are all within the acceptable %'s.  I still have 40 lbs of weight to lose, goal is around 190.  Seems like with the exercise load I am carrying and my average intake where it is, I should be losing something, but its not budging.  I've had stalls before but this one is by far the worst.  Any ideas, do I need to up my calories?  I did a BMR calc and it says I need to eat 3300 cals to maintain my current weight and to lose 2 lbs a week, I need to cut that intake by 778 calories a  day, so gross should be somewhere around 2500 per day.  Does any of this make sense?  Being post bariatric, do the normal rules and science of losing weight still apply or is it different for us since our plumbing has been reconfigured?  I know the further we get out from surgery, the more normalized our systems should become.  Would like to hear any advice you all can offer, especially tips on getting that scale to move again.

Thanks much....Dalton

Normal rules do and do not apply because they do not take into account any malabsorbtion. In general, to lose weight, you need to burn more calories then you intake. If you have a short common channel like a DSer (or distal RNY) you can eat far more calories then a normal person, and still lose weight because the calories you eat are not all absorbed. I can maintain my weight eating 5000 calories a day, i was exercising regularly for a long time, but not so much these days. I don't have any practical advice other to say that if you are not losing weight, increase you protein intake, and decrease your carb intake.

Scott

 increase you protein intake, and decrease your carb intake.

Scott

Took the exact words out of my mouth.  Esp the carbs.  If you can cut the carbs to almost nothing (esp the breads, pasta, cereals) you should start dropping again.  Brian  PS Are you cheating on sugars too??

I always suggest you start at the beginning. 

Write down everything you eat and when you eat it for a week.  Also write down all your exercise and when you do it each day for a week.  Take the journal to your NUT and discuss what you are eating and when you are eating it.  Your Nut is a professional and will be able to give you the best advice.  It may be as simple as eating more smaller meals or like for me, my Nut told me to drink a glass of milk before a work-out because I was getting plenty of protien, but I didn't have enough simple carbs in my system when I needed them to help burn calroies and fix muscle.

You are at the point in your weigh loss where the easy part is over, my doc calls it the honeymoon.  Now you need to pay very close attention to everything you do to get rid of the last 40 pounds and then figure out a maintenance diet that works specifically for you.  Please use the professional help at your disposal before it's too late for an easy fix.

The guys here in the locker room have some very good general advice, but you need to get down to specifics and you need a professional for that.