Started the 6 month on 1/14/16 at 268.9 Surgery was 7/6/16 at 232.4 Since surgery lost 36.2 lbs at 196.2. It is so slow that there is almost no change week to week. What are some of the things you all are doing daily that IS working for you? Like how much exercise do you do each day, how long, how many days a week etc. what are your daily meals like? For example: Snacks, lunch dinner etc. are you weighing everything?

Thank you in advance for any suggestions and meal samples and such.

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Following nut plan of small meals with light or slow burning carbs after Protein every 2.5-3hoyrs for five meals a day

Walking for nearly an hour or more sliwly.. had surgery two weeks ago and now have a strained abdominal muscle.

One to two of my meals are Protein Drink

I dobt have loads of experience at all but that's the plan for now

Try not to get discouraged, everyone loses weight differently.

I am 5 1/2 months out from surgery and I usually eat around 600-750 calories a day and get between 50-80 grams of Protein. I track everything on my fitness pal and I definitely weigh and measure everything. If I'm going out to eat I will even bring my food scale with me.

Everyone has different diets they are recommended by their surgeons and what they choose is the best option for them. I've found if I eat foods I like just in small portions I lose weight just fine. I get a lot of lower fat recipes from www.skinytaste.com www.emilybites.com and the weight watcher 5 ingredient magazine (the current weight watcher regular magazine has a great section on Thanksgiving and gives a bunch of interesting lower fat/calorie recipes to try) Be careful while looking at these recipes though and pay attention to serving size vs calories.

Here are some sample days of meals I've had the last few days:

Day 1

Breakfast-chobani simply 100 lemon meringue crisp

Lunch-Fage 2% Greek yogurt with peach

Afternoon snack: 11 oz Premier Protein vanilla drink

Dinner: 1/2c Dina's tossed mushrooms from Skinny taste website with

2 oz chicken breast baked with some fat free Italian dressing

Total calories: 537

Protein: 68

Day 2

Breakfast: chobani simply 100 blueberry cookie crumble

Lunch: 2 oz thin sliced boars head buffalo chicken

3/4 oz white American cheese

1/2 a slice potato bread

1 oz pickle spear

Snack: siggis raspberry yogurt

Dinner: 1/2 delicata squash stuffed with chicken sausage and mushroom (from skinnytaste.com)

After dinner snack: 1 square dark chocolate with spicy caramel

Calories: 720

Protein: 62

Day 3

Breakfast: Siggis raspberry yogurt

Lunch: 1 package heated up chicken Soup dumplings from Trader Joe's

Snack: 11 oz premier protein vanilla

Dinner: 1/2 cup chicken in red coconut curry with

1/4 cup jasmine rice

Calories: 732

Protein: 74

I don't really exercise at all right now. I'm looking to get started but am still healing a bit from my gallbladder removal surgery and before that I was sick for months and never really got into a routine. I am planning on going to the gym more as I heal more.

HW: 540

SW: 480

CW: 352

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Edited November 12, 20169 yr by Dashofpixiedust8

Put the scales away for a month and even though its really hard don't focus on the weight showing up on the scale. I was a scale freak and ended up having to get my husband to hide it as it was driving me mad !

Keep a couple of outfits out which are a little snug on you and try them on every weekend and see how your body is changing. I had photos taken of myself nude, front, back and sides and every two months had new ones done and boy did I see a change even if the scale wasn't.

If you are sticking to the rules, drinking enough Water, weighing everything you eat and moving during the day, it will work. It's disheartening when you see others weight dropping off but we are all so different and what works for one won't for another. Be kind to yourself

You are doing just fine. I also started in January. 303 lbs. My surgery weight was close to yours and my surgery date was July 28. I am 5'3". I have lost about 30 lbs since surgery. My doctor said that since i lost enough prior to surgery to significantly lower my BMI that my weight loss would be slower. He is well satisfied with the average of 10 lbs per month as am I.

I go to the gym at least 3 times a week and get about 800 calories a day, and stay active as much as possible throughout the day.

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