I was sleeved 6/21/12 and am very near my 6 month mark. I started at 197lbs and a huge number of health issues and am at 167lbs now with a smaller number of health issues. I have been VERY slowly losing weight and have hit a month long stall. I also just finished reading "Eat it Up!", which needs to be a MUST READ for every post bariatric person. At first I thought the author was smoking crack, but I began to realize that the stall was directly related to what I was NOT doing more than what I WAS doing, which raised a lot of emotions, from high highs to low lows. My number one realization is that

I NEED TO WORK TO MAKE THIS WORK. ok-so I am a slow learner :-) I was waiting for the melt......no melt, well, slow melt and stall. What the book made me think about was all of the things I already knew about my body and sort of conveniently "forgot" while waiting for the miracle. So with a new commitment, I am ready to work now and sort of mad at myself that I wasted the prime 6 month window for the greatest loss. Actually I am really mad at myself. Any one else out there experience any thing like this?

Thanks for sharing the book and your hard won lesson.

Yup, and I really wish I could elaborate, but I am at work!

Good post - I will look at the book!

What us the biggest issue you learn you need to do but are not? Tx for the post. I will check out the book.

I understand this completely. I've been hoping for my last 19lbs to just magically drop off for a couple weeks now and still nothing. I've been eating right but I haven't been working out at all and i kno I shud be smh

Just got it on my kindle. Thanks for sharing it!

smaller number of health issues. I NEED TO WORK TO MAKE THIS WORK. new commitment, ready to work now and sort of mad at myself that I wasted the prime 6 month window for the greatest loss.

nmouatrich

congrats on losing 30 lbs

health issues improving - how wonderful!!!

your commitment - determination shine through - "I need to work to make this work" - well put!!!

you shouldn't dwell on the past, and what you wish you had done.

the only time you are now wasting - is thinking about the past and what you can't change

future is right in front of you..........see it with the "welcome" sign on the path.

i can see it in your eyes, you got this, you know what to do

here's to the next 6 monts,and the next and the next for the rest of your longer, healthier ,happier life

good luck to you

happy holidays

biggest issues were commitment to exercise and not eating sugar :-)