Question:
lost anymore? My surgery was oct 7, have lost 40 pounds and the scales haven't moved

in 3 weeks! Please, some of you that have experienced this, write me at [email protected] I have tried to write some of you back, but the web site always says in can't insert, try back, then when I do, it tells me I have sent too many e-mails. Please help me, I am doing all the protein and water and barely eating. thanks, kim    — KIM B. (posted on December 14, 2003)

December 14, 2003
you need to really examine your exercise. I find that I will stop loosing when I slack off on my exercise. Try adding some cardio activity to your program. I find when I really get moving on my exercise I get the scale to move again.
   — ChristineB

December 14, 2003
We have ALL gone thru this. You are on the dreaded plateau you have heard us ALL complain about. Also, you say you are hardly eating. This may be the problem . If you don't eat and many people don't thinking they will lose more, your body goes into the "starvation" mode. We have all posted on this too. Your body thinks you are not going to give it anything to eat so it wants to hold on to the fat it has. Pick up your eating and watch the weight start coming off again. Don't be discouraged. Good luck.
   — Delores S.

December 14, 2003
Kim, My surgery was Oct 7th also. I have lost 46 lbs. I went through the dreaded scales not moving. But I think it also has to do with your monthly cycle. It seems that right before the cycle begins the scale started to move again. This is my therory. Still 40 lbs is still awesome. Good luck to you.
   — shbama

December 14, 2003
First of all, plateaus are common. After I had my first platea, which happened at just 2 weeks post-op, I got rid of the danged scale and stayed off of it for weeks at a time until I got to goal. If I "snuck" a peek at the scale earlier than planned, invariably, I'd notice a plateau. By routinely staying off of it for weeks at a time, I avoided the tendency to expect the weight to fall off smoothly, regularly, and lickety-split fast. It doesn't work that way.<P>Second, you don't want to be "barely eating." By 2.5 months post-op, you should be taking in between 600-800 calories a day. By 3-4 months post-op, 800-1000 calories a day is good. (That's a personal opinion; obviously, checking with your doctor is best on what's expected). Cutting back to less than that will not make you lose faster, and it won't get you on the road to learning how to eat to keep the weight off in the long run. Nobody can eat like a bird forever.<P>Third, once you eat more, and are doing better, work on the exerise -- increase it over time. The more you lose, the fewer calories you expend at rest or exercising, so you gotta push the exercise harder the further out you are.<P>Good luck, and hang in there! Stay off the scale.
   — Suzy C.

December 14, 2003
Sounds just like me! I am doing fine now. 85 pounds lost in 5 months.
   — mrsmyranow