I'm feeling discouraged as I've only lost 64lbs I've been stuck at 174.

I eat right and exercise daily.

This is is frustrating. any tips?

Hw. 240 Sw. 225 Cw 174

Yeah this is very discouraging as I'm only four months out and have stalled over a month but I'm not exercising daily and spent the last week consuming to much wine but I was stalling prior.

hello I'm 4 months post op and been stalled over a month next week on the 29th will be 2 months stalled , how much have you lost so far, I'm so discouraged

Yeah that's it I'm pretty good about it I just miss days but keep up when I actually put the time in to log it

How tall are you? 174 isn't big at most heights unless you are really short. If you are 5.4ish, remember, those last 15 - 20 are slow going.

I'm 5'0

Try to reduce your carbs. They were the highest pie piece in your graph. I'm over a year out and still stay under 50g per day. For me, carb control was key to my weight loss. Sw 311 CW 151. 5'10

You can do this !!

1,000 calories a day seems to much. My NUT set up MyFitnessPal with the following.

Protein-60 plus

Carbs-Max 60

Fat-Max 20

Calories-700

My nut doesn't take calories into account. (I thought 'That is crazy!') Only protein, carbs and fat. I read that you eat fruit everyday? How much fruit? In my our class we learned that's a big source of carbs that will kick you out of ketosis or fat burning. We were told to eat berries if we really wanted fruit. Other foods to steer away from were root veggies like potato and carrots, corn is a no no, as is onion. Its all about the makeup of the food. I'd love to share the whole list with you if interested.

Talk to your dr or nutritionist. I was having the same problem and found that I wasn't getting in enough calories. I was eating around 1000 to 1200 calories a day. With my height weight and daily exercise I should have been eating 1500 to 1700 depending on how hard I worked out. So I embraced it (it was really hard to eat that much, physically and psychologically) upped my calories and the weight started falling off again. I think we spend so much time focusing on low cal diets while we're heavy that we forget that we need to adjust our lifestyle for our new bodies. Good luck! Don't give up

1,000 calories a day seems to much. My NUT set up MyFitnessPal with the following.

Protein-60 plus

Carbs-Max 60

Fat-Max 20

Calories-700

What the what? How far out from surgery are you? Only 60 grams of Protein and only 700 calories? That is nuts if you are like a year out!

1,000 calories a day seems to much. My NUT set up MyFitnessPal with the following.

Protein-60 plus

Carbs-Max 60

Fat-Max 20

Calories-700

At 6 or 7 weeks out like you, 700 calories is acceptable.

At 1 year out, 700 calories is NOT acceptable.

1,000 calories a day seems to much. My NUT set up MyFitnessPal with the following.

Protein-60 plus

Carbs-Max 60

Fat-Max 20

Calories-700

What the what? How far out from surgery are you? Only 60 grams of Protein and only 700 calories? That is nuts if you are like a year out!

This Wednesday I will be 5 weeks out.

I have a nut meeting in 1.5 weeks and will go up to 70 grams of protein then.

I am by no means a nutritionist, but if the poster is having issues losing weight it might be too many calories.

1,000 calories a day seems to much. My NUT set up MyFitnessPal with the following.

Protein-60 plus

Carbs-Max 60

Fat-Max 20

Calories-700

What the what? How far out from surgery are you? Only 60 grams of Protein and only 700 calories? That is nuts if you are like a year out!

This Wednesday I will be 5 weeks out.

I have a nut meeting in 1.5 weeks and will go up to 70 grams of protein then.

I am by no means a nutritionist, but if the poster is having issues losing weight it might be too many calories.

Ah, okay. That's relief. The OP is a year out so NO WAY should she be on only 700 calories a day. At 5 weeks that makes MUCH more sense!

Having never been a year out I am obviously not in the know here...

That being said, what is the difference in caloric intake between 5 weeks and one year if you are still trying to lose weight?

The issue is the impact long-term, massive calorie deficits have on the endocrine system. Think permanent thyroid hormone dysregulation...resistance to satiety hormones...super-efficient energy storage. Our bodies aren't stupid. If you starve them long enough, they fight back. They'll take energy from all kinds of places we don't want them taking it to preserve essential functions - like breaking down muscle tissue to preserve energy stores. Can be a pretty big deal when the muscle tissues that are left include important ones like the heart.

Having never been a year out I am obviously not in the know here...

That being said, what is the difference in caloric intake between 5 weeks and one year if you are still trying to lose weight?

At 5 weeks, you are still healing and, presumably, aren't doing any intense exercise. At 5 weeks I wasn't even on solid foods yet, so it would have been impossible for me to get 1000 calories even if I wanted to. I remember working very hard after I was on solid foods to try to get up over 800 calories so I could start exercising.

At a year out, you are fully healed, living a full life, and hopefully exercising several times a week. In order to sustain that level of activity, you need to get enough calories. If it was as simple as fewer calories equals faster weight loss, why not just eat 240 calories a day, since that's all you need to get 60 grams of Protein? There's a whole lot more that goes into it, especially long term. You need to care for and fuel your body, otherwise your metabolism will just shut down altogether.