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Dear all, I wanted to ask if anyone of you faced what I am facing these past 6 months, I have been on regular 1500 CAL diet and doing 3-4days workout and 5K,10K as cardios plus lot of weight training but I am not able lose weight and I dont know why? Then, recently I did HCG Diet which was basically throwing my money away as I lost Zero pounds from that but since beginning of this program they recommend you go through blood test and I found out that I was becoming anemic which deitan said its normal for lap-band including hematologist thus got my Iron infusions through I V now my iron levels are back to normal including Ferritin levels ( Iron gas tank measurement in your body). I was in an impression since my body was carrying less oxygen to my muscles hence I was not burning enough calories thus slower metabolism. Since iron levels are back I would thought I should be seeing some natural weight loss like I used to see before but I am now going into depression and I don't know what I am doing wrong I need help so badly. so, now I am back stuck at 305 lbs as my weight I am 6ft in height. I started with 410 lbs 3 yrs ago. when I talk to my doctor he thinks I am not working hard enough or I m not following the diet which is not true. Also as per his experience and my age he thinks I should have lost 150 lbs by now. I am thinking of going into 1-2 week liquid diet as I really want to drop some 10-20 lbs to break this barrier. Can anyone recommend if I am doing this right because my wedding is in 4 weeks and in my last adjustment for my lapband I requested doctor to open it up and since then I am eating little larger portions of salads etc.. but I am trying to act natural as he said it will be good way for me to learn and see if I can maintain my weight longer term without lapband as tool. I will be highly appreciate if I can get some advice one this. Thanks for your time and looking forward for reading some answers soon:)

Dear All, I am in the same situation, I was 410 lbs when I started and banded @ 390 lbs reached 295 lbs 4 months and went back to 315 lbs now my current weight is 304 lbs with 3 weeks of stick diet and 2-3 hrs workouts hence I have only 3 months left for my wedding and I want reach 250 lbs by that time hence I am starting HCG Diet next week and will post soon about everything I will go through. FYI, I can now do 5K, 10K and shit load of cross-fit, I am one of the healthiest person @ work in terms of heart rate, flexibility and endurance. I have 30 % body fat left hence my target of 220 lbs its reasonable considering BF leftover by that time should be 10-15%. After talking to couple trainers and dietitian they believe that my metabolism is not working fast as it should be due to prolonged low-cal diet my body has adjusted to live on low-cal diet of 1000-1500 hence I should try this to re-boot my metabolism so now spending $795 for HCG diet which comes with regular visits to dietitian and body compositions measurements etc.. which they say can help reboot my metabolism through HCG hormone ! Lets cross fingers and see if this last resort helps as otherwise my surgeon told me to have skin surgery for loose skin as I and my family are not in favor of going under a surgery for skin at this point.