Feeling frustrated

Stay off the scale for a few days. Keep on tracking. 

Don't freak yourself out. I know that is easier said than done. The weight will come off. 

I know I got freaked out and I was worried that the surgery didn't work since I felt great after. I am down 143 pounds since surgery. That was three years ago yesterday I didn't exercise till about two years ago. 

Give it some time. Watch your calorie intake. I would also post daily on " Whats on your menu" It does help reading what others are eating. 

Come here also and read and post. It does help and keeps us accountable. 

If you still are not losing I would contact your doctor. 

I'm seven weeks out from RNY and I stalled out from week 3-last Friday, then dropped four pounds all at once. So our weight loss is comparable (I'm down 22.5 lbs in seven weeks). My clinic's program manager said that will happen, where you hit weeks where you don't lose, and then all of a sudden it starts up again. It's emotionally bruising and frustrating and you feel like losing hope but she told me it WILL start again as long as I'm tracking, managing my food, water and protein according to the plan, and she's right.

It will start moving again. Put the scale away, and focus on being healthy and happy. 

Oh, and if you haven't, get your thyroid blood work done again. I had to, as I wasn't absorbing my synthroid at the same rate and needed a large adjustment between malabsorption and the weight I'd lost on the pre-surg diet and after the diet. I have to go in every 4 weeks for re-testing now.

People who have a significant loss prior to surgery tend to lose slower. 

Also, everyone loses at a different pace. Stay on plan and you'll get there.  

I would rethink the toast-and maybe the peanut butter for now. I know finding things that agree with us can be difficult, but bread is just empty carbs.. no benefit to eating it at all. 

Like others, I recommend avoiding all bread/flour/rice/grain products. Early on here, someone pointed out that yogurt is loaded with carbs. Carbs, at least for now, are the enemy and turn what little you do eat directly into fat and not muscle and I think this is especially true when the calorie count is very low. Your body recognizes you are starving it and will work that insulin to really grab everything that comes in and tries hard not to let it go.

You may also still have a lot of swelling (read water retention) due to the surgery. Oddly enough, drinking MORE water and not less and watching the salt seems to be the secret there. When I stall or feel like things are just creeping along, I try to push the water more. (And I need to follow my own advise this week because I'm in a stall).

And at risk of sounding crazed, I also found that sometimes a little bump (about 50 calories) up for one day then back to task was enough to satisfy the body for a few weeks and I'd start losing again. The trick is not to use this trick too often.

Interesting about the yogurt.  It actually doesn't sit that well with me, so I'll try to find a substitute.  I completely understand about the bread/rice/etc - just wasn't coming up with a better idea to combine with the peanut butter - but maybe I should avoid that too.

Someone suggested limiting the cheese.  Cheese has been a good source of protein for me, so I am a bit hesitant to give that up. Especially since protein shakes are pretty much a no go for me.

I know... MORE water!!  I was never a water drinker (or drank much of anything) before my pre-surgery weight loss.  Since surgery, I am not drinking as much as I was pre-surgery, but little by little it is getting easier. 

So - maybe more meat protein and more water will be where I concentrate for the next several weeks to see if I notice a positive change.

Thank you!!

Check the calories in cheese.  I understand you don't want to give it up, but the baby bel cheese original has 70 cals in 1.  If you have 4 a day that is almost 300cals just in cheese with only 24 grams of protein. 

Depending on how much and what kind you could be eating 500 or more calories from just cheese. 

Don't get me wrong I love cheese all kinds of cheese, but I also limit myself.

I've come to like a teaspoon of peanut butter off of a spoon ever now and again. But would rather just eat the nuts themselves as the added fiber helps with the elimination issues. I do eat yogurt but in very small quantities. I will eat raw fermented veggies to get some good probiotics in me. And don't be afraid to try unusual combinations like a dab of peanut butter on Turkey Jerky or made into a sauce for steamed veggies.

Definitely get in your minimum of 64 ounces of water a day. I add the fruit flavored, sugar free Torani flavors to my water for variety. My current favorite is raspberry. but they have a bunch of them: Lemon, Lime, Mango, Peach, Strawberry, and others.

I like cheese, too. Buy the best quality you can afford and learn to enjoy the stronger flavored, aged cheeses and you will find you can be very satisfied with less while still getting a nice dose of protein. Some drier cheeses I think have less fat.

Oh, I forgot. Before I switched over to the vitamin patches, on days I was feeling worn out by the afternoon, I gave myself a small dose of B-12 liquid sublingually. In about an hour, I usually felt much perkier. Watch out though, you can get too much B-12 and then you get lovely hot flashes.

Cheese is mostly fat, and right now you are not absorbing a lot of fat, so those xalories aren't adding up. But malabsorption of calories for RNY starts going away from day 1 on. Before long, you will be absorbing most of those calories, and they'll bite you on yhe butt. Same thing with nuts. We can eat a billion calories of nuts and cheese.

If you can truly control portions and calories for nuts and cheese, they are ok. But if we could really control those portions long term, we wouldn't have ended up on the operating table.