CindyWinFlorida

Hi everyone, I am 51 and struggling a little bit. I started at 270# on surgery date and am down to 220# today. My surgery was on 2/16/15 and I had RNY. I've had no complications and exercise 2-3 times a week. I get my Protein and Water in every day but my weight loss has been slow all along but extremely slow the last month - I've lost 6 lbs since May 20th. THATS IT! I am getting about 1000-1100 calories a day. Is the 4 month mark a common time for a serious plateau? how long does it typically last? I want to loose another 60-70 pounds but I am worried that I wont. Thanks for all your advice, reassurance and help!

Hi everyone, I am 51 and struggling a little bit. I started at 270# on surgery date and am down to 220# today. My surgery was on 2/16/15 and I had RNY. I've had no complications and exercise 2-3 times a week. I get my Protein and Water in every day but my weight loss has been slow all along but extremely slow the last month - I've lost 6 lbs since May 20th. THATS IT! I am getting about 1000-1100 calories a day. Is the 4 month mark a common time for a serious plateau? how long does it typically last? I want to loose another 60-70 pounds but I am worried that I wont. Thanks for all your advice, reassurance and help!

I am so glad to hear that your loss kicked in at 6 months. I am 5 1/2 months and have lost a total of 57lbs since the day of surgery. I've lost 13 since my 3 month check up. I am so discouraged and depressed about this. I have continued to eat right and exercise. I am a post menopausal 51 year old woman who was HOPING to lose my 50% by my 6 month check up. This Friday I have that appointment and I will be at 42% of my excess weight. I find myself crying almost daily obsessing about reading this board and other boards looking for other people who have not done well so I can at least "explain" why this has happened. Please dont misunderstand - I am thankful for the loss just really stumped as to why its been so slow - especially the last 2 1/2 months. My daughter also had RNY and lost 120 lbs in the first 9 months. Happpy happppppy for her - was hoping I could have good results too. I am dreading my appointment on Friday because I dont want the surgeon or nutritionist to think I am not eating right or exercising. You see, I worry about silly things but I hope and pray that my weight loss will kick in like that SOON..... best of luck to you! Keep up the great work.

My weight loss phase lasted around 7 months and then I leveled off and went into a maintenance phase. I am over 2 years post-op RNY and my weight is stable and very close to my bottom weight. Around half way through my weight loss phase, I plateaued. I looked at my calorie intake including my Protein shakes and thought I could cut back a little. That was because I was gaining more Protein from my meals since my meal volume increased. So I went from 3 Protein Shakes a day down to 2. I began to lose weight again. It was midway in my weight loss journey. As time went on I dropped down to 1 Protein shake a day and then none. The protein requirement is the amount of protein derived from meals combined with the amount of protein from supplements (protein shakes and protein bars). If you concentrate on eating high protein meals, it diminishes your need to consume calories and extra protein supplements.< /p>