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I had my surgery March 25. I feel like I've been doing everything right. But I am not losing weight like I did the first couple of months. For the past three months I have been lucky to lose 5 pounds. I started at a gym about a month ago, and have been going almost every day working my butt off (I wish) and I still am not hardly losing anything. Since my surgery I think I've lost about 45 pounds. From what I've read from others I think I should have lost more than that. I am watching what I eat, drinking my protien drinks, exercising more than I ever have and I'm getting no where. It is really starting to depress me. Is anyone else having this problem? Does anyone have any suggestions?

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It sounds like you are building muscle, which weighs more than the same amount by volume of fat.

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Make sure you are getting in enough calories and your Protein. Good luck and keep moving forward.

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Are you counting calories and staying away from the carbs?

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what about measurements ? are you losing inches. Don't live and die by the scale (sorry for the turn of phrase) but seriously, sometimes the scale stays the same but you lose inches. I haven't been sleeved yet but I lost 60 pounds once and I used to weigh myself every Wednesday morning. I went to the gym several times a week and yet sometimes I lost nothing on the scale but I still lost inches. And remember, muscle weighs more, if you are going to the gym all the time you will be building muscle. Don't panic and don't be down, you are winning.

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I am getting my Protein, keeping my carbs down. I am losing inches. I am using the program myfitnesspal which tracks everything. It just seems that the weight should be going down. A pound of fat is the same as a pound of muscles with the exception that a pound of muscle takes less space hence the loser clothes and muscle burns more calories than fat otherwise a pound is a pound. I was on a low carb diet in 2010 and I was taking in between 960 - 1050 calories a day and I lost weight just about every week. I am eating about the same except smaller quantities, as I was then and I'm just not losing. Is this normal?

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Drop all sodium possible for a week.... keep working out but switch to more aerobic less anabolic. (weights/strength) up Water if you are borderline. You will see a difference on the scale.< /p>

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Drop all sodium possible for a week.... keep working out but switch to more aerobic less anabolic. (weights/strength) up Water if you are borderline. You will see a difference on the scale.< /p>

Sorry I'm no expert but have a daughter very active in MMA which weight is of utmost importance.....this is one strategy.

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