So ive lost near 5stone.... i would like one more, stalled for 3months, is this normal?

How do you feel now? If you feel good and energetic, maybe you're okay. You certainly look fantastic and a whole lot healthier.

Edited November 3, 20178 yr by BlackCatMatt

How do you feel now? If you feel good and energetic, maybe you're okay. You certainly look fantastic and a whole lot healthier.

Feel much healthier, really enjoy the gym but still feel like another stone wouldnt hurt. Just need to be patient maybe, not my strong point lol [emoji23]

Would like more replies on this topic because I have been stalled for 2 months myself. Well, to explain further, I am almost a year out from surgery and I have been bouncing between 200-206 pounds for 2 months. My starting weight was 312 on Nov 14, 2016. I am wondering the same thing as you, am3ie, and wondering if my body is done losing weight. I am 25-30 pounds from my goal.

Tracking what I eat every day, getting 1000-1250 calories a day with 100 grams of protein and 30-40 grams of carbs for the last 4-5 months and prior to the past 2 months, the weight was falling off. Anyone got an idea/ experience with this that is near a year out? Anyone, anyone? Bueller?

When was your surgery, am3ie? You look great by the way!

Edited November 8, 20178 yr by mylighthouse

How much do you weigh ? What is your height. And how long did it take you to loose that ? You look fab

On 11/8/2017 at 3:49 AM, mylighthouse said:

Would like more replies on this topic because I have been stalled for 2 months myself. Well, to explain further, I am almost a year out from surgery and I have been bouncing between 200-206 pounds for 2 months. My starting weight was 312 on Nov 14, 2016. I am wondering the same thing as you, am3ie, and wondering if my body is done losing weight. I am 25-30 pounds from my goal.

Tracking what I eat every day, getting 1000-1250 calories a day with 100 grams of Protein and 30-40 grams of carbs for the last 4-5 months and prior to the past 2 months, the weight was falling off. Anyone got an idea/ experience with this that is near a year out? Anyone, anyone? Bueller?

When was your surgery, am3ie? You look great by the way!

1250 is a very high intake for most people ( females) so it's not suprising you have stalled. You may have lost on that at first but maybe you should receive evaluate.

Edited November 13, 20178 yr by dreamingsmall

6 hours ago, dreamingsmall said:

1250 is a very high intake for most people ( females) so it's not suprising you have stalled. You may have lost on that at first but maybe you should receive evaluate.

Yes, I think you might be right. Had seen several posts where people were not in maintainance yet but close to a year out and they were getting around 1200 a day and still losing. It is no longer working for me, and so starting today, I have planned out my meals for the next 3 days on myfitnesspal and I have lowered my calorie intake for each day to not exceed 1050 calories. I have also lowered my carbs to 20-30 grams per day. We will see how it goes. I may even find that 1000-1050 calories per day is a little too high.

Thank you for your help.

59 minutes ago, mylighthouse said:

Yes, I think you might be right. Had seen several posts where people were not in maintainance yet but close to a year out and they were getting around 1200 a day and still losing. It is no longer working for me, and so starting today, I have planned out my meals for the next 3 days on myfitnesspal and I have lowered my calorie intake for each day to not exceed 1050 calories. I have also lowered my carbs to 20-30 grams per day. We will see how it goes. I may even find that 1000-1050 calories per day is a little too high.

Thank you for your help.

No problem I'm no expert. Only 4 months post. I've seen that too.. I stay under 800 and weight loss is rapid. But you will find what works. I don't do any excersise. Perhaps I'd need more if I moved more. You can do this.

What will your meals be ?

At 206 I would say your body is not done losing ( I don't know your height but I was feeling quite big still then as I'm only 5 foot 2. But you have lost so much your body needs to catch up. So give it time

Thanks, I appreciate the encouragement and agree that I can do this! I also agree that I am not done losing. I see my surgeon regularly because of other problems and he told me a couple of weeks ago that he thinks a good goal weight for me is 175 pounds. He said it might take me another year to reach that. I believe the reason he said it could take that long is because like you, I don't get exercise. Not by choice, but totally unable to do a whole lot other tham arm exercises and occasional short walks. I guess if I got exercise then I would still be losing with my calories up in the 1100-1200 range, who knows. Oh, and I am 5'7".

I have actually tweaked my menu plan on fitness pal a little more since I replied to you this morning. I am going to continue to keep my protein grams at 100 or a little more per day, because it has always worked well for me. I think my carbs for today were around 26 grams. Got my calories for today around 960.

Can't open myfitnesspal at the same time I am typing this, so going to try to remember my menu for the day.

Breakfast

6am: 11oz premier protein shake

1/4 c 2% milk

10am: 1 hard boiled egg on 1 piece low carb double fiber wheat toast

1 tsp hemp seed oil

2 T psyllium husk

Lunch-noon

3 oz homemade hamburger chili with green peppers and onions

3:00pm:

2 oz baked chicken breast on 1 piece low carb wheat toast

Dinner 6pm

3 oz baked chicken breast mixed with 2 T mayo and with diced celery and onion (homemade chicken salad) served on top of raw spinach with cucumber

1 t hemp seed oil

After dinner snack if hungry:

1/2 fuji apple

I think that is about it, if I remembered correctly. For drinks, I do regular coffee in the mornings and start my water drinking early. Decaf coffee in late afternoon or evening if I feel like it and water all day up until bedtime. I am the type of person who can eat the same foods regularly without really getting tired of them.

Edited November 13, 20178 yr by mylighthouse

If you can stand it, get rid of those two pieces of toast. I'm still losing (slowly albeit) at 14 months out and it comes off much easier if I avoid the carbs altogether. Try changing up your fitness routine as well - that might shock your system a little - do something different at the gym than what you are doing.

I stalled for about 3 months from 10-13 months, and dropped a few more pounds last month. Now, I'm on a sixty-day fitness challenge at my gym - I am realizing that I'm not going to lose a lot more in pounds because at this point, I'm putting on muscle and getting rid of a little bit of fat. I think I'd like to get down to 150, but I'm not really sure. To be honest, I'm pretty pleased with how I look right now.

33 minutes ago, mylighthouse said:

Thanks, I appreciate the encouragement and agree that I can do this! I also agree that I am not done losing. I see my surgeon regularly because of other problems and he told me a couple of weeks ago that he thinks a good goal weight for me is 175 pounds. He said it might take me another year to reach that. I believe the reason he said it could take that long is because like you, I don't get exercise. Not by choice, but totally unable to do a whole lot other tham arm exercises and occasional short walks. I guess if I got exercise then I would still be losing with my calories up in the 1100-1200 range, who knows. Oh, and I am 5'7".

I have actually tweaked my menu plan on fitness pal a little more since I replied to you this morning. I am going to continue to keep my Protein grams at 100 or a little more per day, because it has always worked well for me. I think my carbs for today were around 26 grams. Got my calories for today around 960.

Can't open myfitnesspal at the same time I am typing this, so going to try to remember my menu for the day.

Breakfast

6am: 11oz Premier Protein shake

1/4 c 2% milk

10am: 1 hard boiled egg on 1 piece low carb double Fiber wheat toast

1 tsp hemp seed oil

2 T psyllium husk

Lunch-noon

3 oz homemade hamburger chili with green peppers and onions

3:00pm:

2 oz baked chicken breast on 1 piece low carb wheat toast

dinner 6pm

3 oz baked chicken breast mixed with 2 T mayo and with diced celery and onion (homemade chicken salad) served on top of raw spinach with cucumber

1 t hemp seed oil

After dinner snack if hungry:

1/2 fuji apple

I think that is about it, if I remembered correctly. For drinks, I do regular coffee in the mornings and start my Water drinking early. Decaf coffee in late afternoon or evening if I feel like it and water all day up until bedtime. I am the type of person who can eat the same foods regularly without really getting tired of them.

That menus does sound lovely! I would have ditched the toast perhaps. But sounds really nice

Thanks, Diana. Not sure how I feel about cutting the 2 pieces of toast. Each piece is 7 grams of carbs each. My main carbs for today will come from the 1/2 apple and the toast. My NUT says I should be getting 50-70 carbs a day but no, I know better than that. I feel that some carbs are good, so that's why I am doing the toast. That said, if cutting the calories down to under 1000 doesn't help over the next couple of weeks, along with keeping carbs between 20-30 grams a day, I will most definitely drop the 14 carbs a day from the toast. I mean, gosh, if the scale still won't move in a week or two, it just might be worth dropping more carbs. I need to see some weight loss!

As far as the exercise goes, man alive! I am so sick and tired of being housebound. I have had 3 major open abdominal surgeries and 2 laproscopic in the past 2 years and I suffer with horrible pain that keeps me in bed. I am able to get up on my own to go to the bathroom and I try to take short walks in the house, but I have to move slowly. If I still weighed 334 pounds, I would either be dead by now, or much worse off health wise. So there you have my exercise dilemna.

I am so glad for your success and it's awesome that you can go to the gym. Also, thank you for the carb suggestion, I will definitely drop the toast if the scale doesn't move soon.

Edited November 13, 20178 yr by mylighthouse

14 minutes ago, dreamingsmall said:

That menus does sound lovely! I would have ditched the toast perhaps. But sounds really nice

Yes, it sounds yummy!

I see you are for ditching the toast like Diana also suggested. I am keeping this in the front of my mind.

Thank you.

27 minutes ago, Diana_in_Philly said:

If you can stand it, get rid of those two pieces of toast. I'm still losing (slowly albeit) at 14 months out and it comes off much easier if I avoid the carbs altogether. Try changing up your fitness routine as well - that might shock your system a little - do something different at the gym than what you are doing.

I stalled for about 3 months from 10-13 months, and dropped a few more pounds last month. Now, I'm on a sixty-day fitness challenge at my gym - I am realizing that I'm not going to lose a lot more in pounds because at this point, I'm putting on muscle and getting rid of a little bit of fat. I think I'd like to get down to 150, but I'm not really sure. To be honest, I'm pretty pleased with how I look right now.

I just replied to your reply. I guess I forgot to quote your reply. My answer is above.

1 hour ago, mylighthouse said:

Yes, it sounds yummy!

I see you are for ditching the toast like Diana also suggested. I am keeping this in the front of my mind.

Thank you.

You know what. If you like toast have it. Those carbs won't stop you from dropping. I was only saying I'd ditch it. As then I can save the calories as it doesn't do much. But you need to enjoy life too lol. I'm not doing low carb and I've lost over 50 lbs in 3months. I don't intentionally do low carb. But they are not high. You need to do what is sustainable for you that's important. I used to eat alot of bread. So it's shocking I don't eat it now even though I'm allowed lol

How are you coping after your surgeries? I said on another post if be dead at almost 400lbs. Due to the health issues I already had at 200+ apparently that's offensive to those nearly 400lbs. But that's my truth. I was already on my way to a stroke and I was only 250 at hieghest. My body was under alot of stress. I don't feel I'm meant to be large. I just forced it but my body couldn't take it lol.