Please help! Haven't lost weight in 6 months!

You got a lot of reply messages already. Just to add, some wrote do not expect just exercising to change your stall. That is correct.

For WLS, you have to follow the rules, and the more WLS is just a tool. There are lots of sites and here to use bariatric style recipes for eating the bariatric way.

Water, protien, vitamins are things you got to do every day. If you are adding dairy, you got your body working through the simple sugars that are in there too. Protein like lean mat and dense veggies are the foundation to a good bariatric nutritional source.

Weight loss is not linear, and some times your body is changing which you will have to keep a log of weight measurements and food intake to really understand what you and your new post op body is going through.

The less body fat you have to loose the longer it takes. It is not about how fast you loose but about how healthy you are and how long you can maintain a goal weight.

Exercise is awesome for your overall health, but it is not the way to lose weight - that requires diet. You need to start by measuring/weighing and tracking/logging every single thing you put into your body using a kitchen scale and something like MyFitnessPal. That's the only way you'll know what you're consuming and what you need to change.

You've gotten such great replies (I knew you would) that I hope you can feel a little more optimistic. The weight thing - it will always be a challenge. I know it's been a full year for you and it might feel like the losses are over. But I lost well into my second year. And a couple of years ago when I had some regain to take off I went a little farther and got down to my lowest post-op weight ever. I was over SIX years out.

So it can be done and I'm glad you are open to suggestions. It quite frankly sucks that in general we will always and forever be watching what we eat. But I'll take that over my size 28 jeans anytime.

Glad you are here and hopefully you'll get to stick around. Someone is always around if/when you get stuck or discouraged and that is a huge help in itself.

Thank you. That's very encouraging! In total, I'm 95lbs lighter than I was last year. I lost some of that weight even before pursuing surgery. I'm frustrated that I can't even seem to be losing the 5 lbs that'll make it a solid 100 lbs

You've gotten a lot of good advice & I hope you'll take their suggestions to heart.

If you've haven't lost weight in 6 months, & you haven't gained, then you've stumbled into maintenance. Often while I was working my way down, I've had to switch up my protein, water, calories & carbs ratios.

If you're getting hungry, it could be too many carbs overall. For me eating the dense protein first followed by a small amount of carbs from veggies kept hunger at bay, or you just might need a ppi.

Don't avoid followups out of embarrassment. Your Dr/team works for you & wants to help. They can't help what they don't know & you cheat yourself in the process.

Use exercise if it makes you feel good & because its good for your body. Just don't expect it to speed up your weight loss. Plenty of people have lost & kept the weight off without a exercise routine.

It sounds like you're a lightweight. Often lightweights take a bit longer to lose the weight since there isn't much to lose to begin with. Weight loss slows as you get closer to goal, so don't be discouraged!

Definitely look into therapy. Forcing yourself to eat to the point that you're throwing up sounds like an eating disorder to me.

Diet fatigue can undo a lot of your good work. Go to the What are you eating threads or the World according to egg face for food ideas. This is work, sometimes you've gotta switch it up to keep it interesting.

Good luck!

You're right. thanks. I'll make an appointment with the clinic for follow up.

I wish I were a light weight. I need to lose at least 50 lbs to be a healthy weight. Otherwise more. But we'll start with 50.

My iches are going down. Even if I measure two weeks apart, there's always an improvement there. That is one of the things that keep me going. That and the fact that I never give up. .. on anything

Hi and Sorry posting so late to this...

The Nuts and mayo even on a low carb diet add waaaaay too many calories. As others said, its about the calories and carbs. I love nut but they don't love me on the scale. I gave up mayo and use miracle whips and add about a teaspoon to my chicken. I am still in active weight loss so my daily intake is less than 700 calories. I know that when I exercise, I get hungrier so I keep a protein source around me after a workout. Right now, I have been eating a bag of Quest protein chips after a workout and drink copious amounts of water.

Thanks for your comment. WHat do you eat on a typical day in your under 700 calorie diet?

Hi,

I post my menus here most days. But it is pretty much the same everyday.

Breakfast: Isopure protein banana 25 grams protein 0 carbs 0 sugar 110 calories plus ff fairlife milk (2 oz)

Lunch: Egg beaters, ham, slice of low fat cheese or some sort of meat (3-4 oz and a 1/2 cup of low carb veggie (less than 200 calories) and 25 grams protein

Snack: Cheesestick

Dinner: Some form of low fat high protein meat and a vegetable or small salad

Dessert: Low carb yogurt or protein pudding ( I buy SF pudding mix and add unflavored ISOPURE) plus ff fairlife milk loaded with protein

Total protein 80-95 grams carbs (less than 20) tons of crystal lite watered down, 700 calories or less for active weight loss

Thanks for this

you must have one-off those small pouches. I starve all day when I eat like this