DrewzWife

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I was stalled for a month also and was doing everything right. What did help me was to eat more of my Protein from actual fish or chicken & to back off on the protein drinks.

When I did this the scale moved in about 3 days. I will admit, I remember dreading a liquid diet during the pre-op stage. But after a while you get used to it & realize it's so much easier to grab a protein drink & go. Now I'm back to planning what I need to cook.

Hi Susan I love the Protein Shakes because it's easier to get all of my protein in that way. As for fish I only like it fried baked is just not good to me. And I'm completely burned out on chicken. I'm just lost right now.

Is it ok to put fat free Creamer in coffee? I love coffee but I have been putting vanilla Protein Shakes in my coffee but I'm craving the creamer

Your body is really, really smart. Oh, it went along with your plans in the beginning, dropping off weight and depleting fat cells. It cooperated with your new diet and allowed you to carry on at the gym, sweating out pound after pound. But your body is not a bank account where you make precise withdrawals and deposits of calories. It is not a checkbook or a cost-benefit analysis. You can't put in exercise tokens and expect specific results (or any results, your body has a way of eating your bills and spare change).

Your body has adapted to doubling its Fluid volume during pregnancy to sustain a baby/blood loss. It can adapt to eating a diet of no meat in the remote mountains of asia, or a diet of all-meat if you're an eskimo living on seal meat/whale blubber. It can adapt to long periods of affluence and lots of greasy foods, packing on the pounds to sustain you in lean times, and it can slow down your metabolism when the nutritional pickings are slim.

You are a miracle of evolutionary adaptation. Your body is an achievement of nature (or God, or intelligent design, whatever your existential preference).

So just take a breath. Stick to your nutritional plan. Weight loss doesn't happen in a straight line, it has lots of dips and valleys, plateaus and gains and tons of frustration. There is no secret or magic trick. Exercise, Protein, Water, enough calories so you don't screw up your metabolism in the long term. Talk to your doc about your current caloric intake/level of exercise and see if you need to bump it up.

Your body is smart. It will do what it wants. Just keep doing what you're supposed to, and you'll convince it to follow along.

Thanks Barry Sue

I use bariatric fuel and I love it. I will have my six month labs on Thursday and I will know if they are working for me. My doctor is Dr Bledsoe in Alexandria, La and he is the founder of these Vitamins. They are also currently running a special on the bariatric fuel website.

I'm six months out and I have stalled three times. I'm currently stalled now and it's driving me insane.

I'm 6 months post op and I've been at a standstill for over a month. I'm doing everything I should do but at times I feel like this is just not working and it makes me want to eat whatever. I get all of my Protein in, I go to the gym and I don't eat over 800 calories a day. Can someone please tell me how I can deal with this? Has anyone else experienced this?

Are you 6 months "post op"? You put this in the Pre-op forums. (Just FYI) I also have experienced stalls. I believe we just need to ignore them and just keep following the plan.

Thanks for letting me know I didn't realize I was in the wrong forum. I was too busy trying to vent.

I have to agree, it makes no mathematical sense, but I found that at about 6 months out, I started losing faster when I ate 1000 calories per day than when I ate 800 calories per day.

eta: be sure you are getting a full 7 hours of sleep each night. Lack of sleep is a huge factor in weight stalls and even gains.

I work some nights and when I get home in the morning it is so hard to get seven hours of sleep. I have to do something because this stall makes me want to give up.

I understand, I'm in a stall too. The only suggestions I've gotten from people/my NUT - increase Water and Protein, add HIIT to your workouts, and just relax. Maybe you should try getting to 1,000 calories a day? I'm only 6 weeks out and my nutritionist wants me to eat between 700-1,000. Also, I was told that if you're doing the same intensity/type of work out, your body can get used to it and that could have an effect on your stall/plateau. Hope this helps! We'll get through this! Oh, I've also stopped weighing myself and am only measuring myself once a week. That helps with the mental aspect of it.

Thanks Yerawizaedamy. I only weigh once a week but I guess I'll start weighing once a month.

Almost everyone experiences it. I had a 6 week stall at 6 months out. I think you need to increase your calories, especially if you are working out. This is what worked for me:

I increased calories from 800 to 900-1000.

I increased my Protein from 60-70 grams to 80

I increased my carbs a little from under 50 to 70-80 to match my Protein grams.

You will need to make sure you are tracking everything and not winging it so you know exactly where you stand on those every day.

Good luck!

Thanks Babbs! I track everything that I eat but I will try increasing my protein.

I'm 6 months post op and I've been at a standstill for over a month. I'm doing everything I should do but at times I feel like this is just not working and it makes me want to eat whatever. I get all of my Protein in, I go to the gym and I don't eat over 800 calories a day. Can someone please tell me how I can deal with this? Has anyone else experienced this?

I started taking 2500 mcg daily about 3 months prior to surgery, so for about 8 months total. I also have a dose of Biotin in the Multivitamin I take. Originally, I used to be on the "more is better" bandwagon & took huge doses of anything I could get my hands on, since the idea of losing hair was my worst nightmare. However, GB limits the amount of anything we can process from what we eat, so I don't know that it really makes a difference- kind of like protein- from what I understand, if you try to eat/drink more than 30 or so grams of Protein in a sitting, it just passes on through, since your body can't process that much at a time. Best of luck to you!

Did you end up losing any hair?

Registered Nurse for 13 years????????

What's it called?

I am almost 5 months out and I haven't lost any hair either. I'm praying that none of mine comes out because I sure don't want to cut my hair. I take 20,000 mcg of Biotin daily and A/G Pro supplement that helps with Hair growth. I started taking the biotin long before I had my surgery because I was so afraid of losing my hair. I just hope I make it through the next couple of months with no Hair loss.< /p>

I am almost 7 months out and have not noticed any loss at all.

I am almost 5 months out and I haven't lost any hair either. I'm praying that none of mine comes out because I sure don't want to cut my hair. I take 20,000 mcg of Biotin daily and A/G Pro supplement that helps with Hair growth. I started taking the biotin long before I had my surgery because I was so afraid of losing my hair. I just hope I make it through the next couple of months with no Hair loss.

I was the same way and friend recommended I get a Fitbit and it has helped me so much.

I'm currently taking Bariatric Fuel Multivitamins, zinc, Biotin, CVS calcium chews and B-12.

August 8 here. Down 115 pounds, although for the past week the scale has been going up and down the same one pound. I swear it's laughing at me!

Have donated 16 trash bags of clothes (including a couple of bags of clothes that my kids have outgrown). Still shopping out of the stash of clothes that I always refused to get rid of, thinking "maybe someday." I did go out and buy shoes, as my old ones are too big, and a couple of nice tops to wear to work.

Wow 115 pounds what are you doing? I've only lost 65 had my surgery August 25th.

Way to go you guys.

How are all of my August 2015 sleevers doing?

Have you experienced this?

I understand where you are coming from but I'm not flaunting it at all. Wouldn't you be happy if you reached a goal that you set for yourself? Well anyway I don't need people like that in my life. And besides that's not a friend that gets mad at you for losing weight.

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Sorry I posted on the wrong forum!