I have been at a standstill for the past 2 months, with 35 pounds to reach my goal of 150. Does anyone have suggestions of how to kick-start my body into loosing again? It really has been a nightmare. I'm going to the gym at least 3x a week, ~1000-1200 calories a day and 100g protein. HELP!

So you are 35 lbs away from a goal of 150 and you surgery was ~ 5 months ago............

All I can say is you are making some killer progress, closing in and are sure to make it.

Thank you!!! It was March 28th. I started at 240, I'm down to 185 just really struggling ever since I went on vacation last month. Trying to figure out if I can do more - or if I just keep on doing what I have been and hope the scale eventually moves again

So you are 35 lbs away from a goal of 150 and you surgery was ~ 5 months ago............

All I can say is you are making some killer progress, closing in and are sure to make it.

Well....look at it this way.....you are getting your Protein in.......eating low calorie but not silly low......exercising frequently.....all good strategy.

About the only thing you may consider is to closely track your carbohydrate intake and maybe flirt around with ketosis for a while......shake things up a bit.

Daily calories definitely look lower than what your body should be burning. It's possible you've just hit a point where your building muscle at a high enough rate that the fat loss doesn't show. What do you work on at the gym?

I just do cardio for now.. not sure if I need to start weights. but even so I don't really know where to start, and cant afford a personal trainer at the minute. any suggestions?

I just do cardio for now.. not sure if I need to start weights. but even so I don't really know where to start, and cant afford a personal trainer at the minute. any suggestions?

Yup......don't do like I did, lol.

Once I lost a bit of weight (a few years prior to my wls & the regain that occurred ) I transitioned from cardio to lifting hard on free weights. I simply went back to the routines I'd done in high school with some added isolation work on certain muscle groups.

I was overly enthusiastic and soon had the injuries to show for it.

My form wasn't strict and it was dangerous. The isolation work....on top of the other lifts....were a very bad idea. I should have stuck with a basic 5x5 routine and gradually built from there......gradually.

My advice is to use the machines for lifting. Use a weight that allows you to get at least 10-12 repetitions of each and limit it to 4 sets per.

The machines have the safe range of motion built in...so long as you properly adjust it for your height. Form us virtually assured.

Keeping the rep count up will mean that you are not overloading yourself with too high a weight.

It is very important to go at this smoothly and with long term vision. You want to allow your tendons and connective tissues time to develop and strengthen....if you shortcut this just to get the "muscle pump" feels....then you run the risk of serious injury.

Long term vision.

I lacked that....and dumbly thought I'd simply pick up where I left off.....25 years prior. Bad strategy. Hernias, wrist damage and torn rotator cuff in shoulder were resultant. Now having to work around injuries because I didn't go about it carefully in the beginning.