Hello August All-Stars,

It's been awhile since I've posted and I thought I'd check to see how everyone is doing. WOW I can't believe it's been almost 8 months now living with the band!! My weight loss has plateaued for the last two months and I wanted to see how everyone else is doing with their weight loss??? I've been doing lots of cardio/weight training and the scale is not moving, yet my clothes are fitting better, weird? I'm down 57 and am very happy, but wondering if this is an average place to be at this point? Anyone having a love/hate relationship with their scale? Have you hit a plateau and know how to help me kick it back into gear? Thanks!

Oh what everyone says is true. I was banded in Oct 08 and have plateaued 2 times. Major plateaues. Like a month at a time. As soon as I started journaling and exercising more, I started loosing. They are key!!

Oh I hear ya...been on a plateau for 3 months, same 3 pounds up and down a bit. Now back on track, my 5th fill seemed to kick in last week. I wend from 164 to 160 this week and am happy. I am making sure I eat my 3 small meals. And I do mean small and 2 Snacks so I have something every 4-5 hours. The steady small meal thing seems to work well with me. I do have a 6th fill in May and will go through with it..I need all the restriction I can get.

I still hope to be near my goal weight by August 7th. 30 lbs. to go.

It's a daily battle and sometimes you get really discouraged with the plateau. But eventually it gives. I find sometimes I eat more for a week...the go back to diet and the plateau goes away, you "fool" your metabolism and the hibernating thing goes away.

Good luck all

Pati

You definitely have to eat to lose! I've been going up and down the same few pounds for about a month. I decided to start tracking my food on The Daily Plate on 4/20. According to my height, weight and goal of losing 2 pounds a week, my daily calorie goal is 1625. :ohmy: And that's before the credit I get for my workout each day. During that first week of tracking my calories stayed below 1200 and come Friday I had not lost anything - my weight stayed the same as the past Friday. This past week, however, I've been getting between 1350 and 1450 each day, and today I posted a 1.7 pound loss. PLUS it's that time of the month. Needless to say, I'm happy. :thumbup: I'm going to stick to the same plan for next week and see how the loss goes, and depending on the results, I may add another 100-200 calories a day the following week to reach the calorie goal set by TDP.

I'm hoping by getting more calories I will break through this plateau and once more be on the losing track!

I plateau on and off too, I just try not to focus on the scale at those times. I think it's common.

Misty, good for you for breaking through your plateau. I HATE plateaus...they are demoralizing and depressing!!!

Mimi