Venting. Weight Loss. Soccer.

Sooooo, I am now about a week and a half away from being 4 months post op.  I have lost 53 pounds since surgery, and now weigh 170!  I honestly am very proud of this, but I have recently come to a hault in my weight loss, and I can't help but feel a bit down.  For the past two weeks i havent lost basically anything at all. I exercise everyday.  I am playing on two diffrent soccer teams and the workouts are amazing.  But thats why I cant seem to figure out why i'm not losing.  This is the most I have been exercising all summer, and it suddenly seems to stop! 

One of the soccer teams I have been playing with is my University's soccer team (George Mason).  They are hosting summer practices before the try-outs which happen on the 27th and 28th of august.  I originally wasn't going to try out.... because I hadn't played in 2 years because of my weight.  But when I went to the first practice, I got some confidence in myself and have kept it going.  But I constantly get the urge to just stop going because I am so afraid I wont make it because I'm still not at my ideal weight, and I still feel judged when I play because of my weight.  Ugh I dont know what to doooo. I want to play, and I feel that I am good enough to be on the team.... but I am so afraid of being rejected. 


Advice? Pity?

Thanks guys, hope everyone is doing well!

HUGS.  This is just a guess but maybe because of how much you're exercising, you're burning a ton of calories.  If you're not eating enough to fuel that, your body may think it's in starvation mode.  That will bring on a stall, sometimes.  You could try upping your calories while you're exercising so hard and see if that breaks the stall.  FWIW, I just finally broke a 5 week stall and have no idea how, lol.  Our bodies are very strange machines.

I know exactly how you feel about the try outs.  I've shown livestock all my life... and being heavier in a class of tiny blondes with hot sheep... I worked even harder to prove myself.  But, ya know what, I did it.  I kicked butt and made sure the judges saw me as a competitor and not my weight.  Yes, now that half of me is gone I show a whole lot better, but the struggles before only helped me today.

So get out there and try out!  You're going to have fun no matter what, right!?

:)