Highest weight: 265

Preop: 254

Surgery: 244

Current: 204

Yep, you read that correctly. I have only lost 40 pounds. And that was in the first 3 months. I have gained and lost the same 5 pounds in the last 3 months.

I am into clean eating - no packaged food ( other than Designer whey Protein powders) or artificial sweeteners. I am eating healthy, but I know I am eating too often. I can eat about a cup of food at a time, but I am always hungry! Not just head hunger (although I have plenty of that, too).

I take 4 Zumba classes a week and zumba at home. I have been doing that for more than a year. I just started a pilates/strength training class and hoping that might help things start moving again, but I am starting to panic. I know the losing window starts closing at one year and I am halfway there.

I never expected this to be easy, but I didn't expect it to be so hard and still not lose weight!!!

I'm sad and frustrated!

I feel like I can not lose and I eat light most days. I mainly eat salad with grilled chicken for lunch everyday. What do your daily menus look like? I need help I'm getting married on August 30. I am currently in a size 18 from a 26 but I want to be a 14 at most the day of the wedding! HELP HELP!

Haveh

I understand what u mean. I'm two months out but always hungry too. I make sure I track everything in my fitness pal. I also eat about six times a day but I make them very small meals and mostly protein. For instance I may have a sugar free cappuccino for 60 calories when I get to work. Then an hour later I'll have a activia yogurt for another 60 calories. Or one day I will have a quest bar for under two hundred. Then it's lunch time so I try to keep that under two hundred as well. Then maybe a snack like a cheese stick. Then whatever for supper which is mainly protein and then a small snack. I average about 800 calories a day. My loss is still a little slow. But I eat often because of the hunger. Next time u feel hungry eat just maybe half of whatever it is. U will probably notice that was enough to take the hunger away. When it hits again a couple hours later eat the other half. It doesn't take much at all to not be hungry. I don't think your window is closing. Track what u are eating most importantly cause that helps sooooo much!! I hope that helps. It should really help get the calories down so u can start losing again. Good luck ! We are all struggling at one time or another in this journey.

I feel your pain. I have lost only ~5 pounds in the past four months. I am exercising like crazy and getting into pretty good shape/fitness. I would be crazy discouraged by now if I had not been keeping track of my measurements. I continue to lose inches even when my weight seems stuck. I hope you are tracking inches as well as pounds. There may be good (if still frustrating) news in what otherwise feels like a l-o-n-g stall.

If hunger is still a big problem for you be sure it is not your under treated allergies. I could not understand my post surgical hunger until I realized I was not treating my post nasal drip and it was creating the same "hunger pangs" I had had for years before. An antihistamine later and my hunger was back under control.

I would never recommend violating your doctors orders but I have safely taken ibuprofen from time to time since my surgery. My intensive exercising has left me in pain which only goes away with a dose or two of ibuprofen. So far it has not been a problem for me. And, by the way, I have to take a daily aspirin, in addition, due to cardiac issues. I have not tummy trouble with it either.

Good luck.