I had my surgery June 11,2013. I've done really well. I've lost 40lbs. It came off so fast in the beginning and now it just seemed to stop. I can't break the plateau. I began working out 5 days a week. 2 days with a personal trainer. 3 days cardio. Maybe my body is in shock and is storing the fat?? I think it's pretty normal to slow down. Any advice on how to kick start things again? I can see my body changing but it just scares me. Is this all I will lose??

There's some advice on thread staying stuck that may help..

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Take a break Dee!!! Your pushing your body so hard it hasn't had a chance to catch up to you yet!

Your right on the $ your metabolism has hit the pause button waiting to see if you are dying or not it doesn't know you are choosing to do this to it, or that there is plenty of food around. All it knows is that you had trauma (surgery) you stopped eating all the rich food you were eating before and now your pushing it to race around and it's holding on to those fat stores in case you need them to live!!!

Ease up for a day or two lighten the load, and see what happens.

oh but you ARE

if you are losing inches, you are still great and losing weight..the scale may not show a (loss or be going slow)

but you exercising and eating great means to me you are losing.

keep going forward and forward.

CGirl is right. Losing weight vs losing fat are two different issues. You can lose fat and replace the fat with muscle. It won't show on the scales but it will show in how your clothing fits.

And, the vast majority of weight we lose immediately after surgery will be fluids our body stored. It can't really be a plateau unless you go at least 4 weeks with no "fat loss".

Watch this video, it explains it very well:

I broke a plateau by boosting my protein by 20g a day, after the third day the scale started moving again.