Had sleeve surgery 12-18-18, started losing slowly, I am 65 years old. After a few weeks, started losing weight easily, at my 3-month appointment I had lost 44 pounds, total of 70 from my highest weight (I started trying on my own during the time that I was going through all the preop workup, which took about three months). But after the follow-up appointment (which was 3-20-18), I haven't lost any more! I don't think I have been eating any differently, well, maybe introduced a few no-no foods, like a packet of those short little Pringles cans (haven't eaten but a few and always eat only a few of the chips in the can. I kept thinking that my plateau would end. I haven't increased my number of calories, still average about 700-750. I do have a habit of eating a little quickly, but I have never stopped charting everything and making sure that I don't go over my caloric limit. So two weeks ago I decided to go back to kind of square one, with more fruits and vegetables, substituted about five meals a week with the 27-gram protein shakes, made sure I was drinking all my water (I always have drunk a lot of water), and the scale hasn't budged but a pound. I have always (and never stopped) doing strength training, swimming, and aerobics in the pool (need a knee replacement and have a bad back). And the past month has been warm enough to swim EVERY day. I have always swum as much as I could, but in January and February it ended up being about four days a week due to weather, but since in March it is EVERY DAY. And even since I have been being super careful for about a month and making my calories around 700, I am still not losing! Can't think of what else to do. I am experiencing being more hungry than I was at first. Several questions: 1) Could I have stretched my stomach by eating too rapidly even though I haven't increased the amount of food that I eat in a day? 2) Can anyone think of sure-fire methods of breaking a plateau? If I have unknowingly stretched out my stomach some, can I get it to shrink back down some and continue to lose well just by following all the parameters of the eating plan just like before? I feel like if it HAS stretched any, it hasn't been much, because I still can't eat much food at the time and my intake has been the same all along. My next appointment (6 months - June 20 with labs), is in about a month and two-thirds, and I plan to discuss this with him. But I simply CAN'T go in there without having lost at least 10 or 15 pounds! I will take any advice and really would like to know if anyone has had the same experience, how it worked out after that, and what you did to get the losing to start again. I was very large to start, and I really need to lose another 70 or 80 pounds at least, before I am small enough to have my knee replacement and have it be a success. I am feeling much better, and am now non-diabetic and on no Metformin, and my daily blood sugars are about 100, and A1C is 5.4. So I'm very pleased all in all, but want to find out what I can do to get the ball rolling again. Please give me your best advice, but even after making ABSOLUTELY SURE I am following everything to a tee, my loss is just not happening in spite of following the right diet and exercising even more than I did at first. HELP! Thanks for any answers you can give.

Just my opinion, but your calorie intake is extremely low. You should be consuming 1,000-1,200 calories a day. I was like you too, stuck in a plateau for 5 weeks... my nutritionist had me send my food logs and he told me I was not getting near enough calories that my body thought it was starving. So I upped my calories and the weight loss has started again.