Kimyana1

Hi, I need help! I had the sleeve in March of 2015. About a year ago I started gaining weight back. I've gained about 25 lbs back. I recently got a personal trainer and have been working out consistently for 2 months. The problem is the scale hasn't moved. My trainer focuses on strength training. So 4 of the 5 days we workout we are lifting and 1 day is cardio for about 30 minutes. He wants me to eat more because of this but physically I can't ( you guys can relate). He wants me to eat more than 1200 calories a day but I'm only getting in about 600. Maybe 700 or 800 on a good day. I just need advice. I don't know if I should cut back on the strength training or revamp my eating (which I don't know what I should do with my eating). I just want to lose the weight I gained so that I can feel better in my body like I did year 1 and 2 after surgery. Any advise who would! Thanks in advanced.

Hi, I need help! I had the sleeve in March of 2015. About a year ago I started gaining weight back. I've gained about 25 lbs back. I recently got a personal trainer and have been working out consistently for 2 months. The problem is the scale hasn't moved. My trainer focuses on strength training. So 4 of the 5 days we workout we are lifting and 1 day is cardio for about 30 minutes. He wants me to eat more because of this but physically I can't ( you guys can relate). He wants me to eat more than 1200 calories a day but I'm only getting in about 600. Maybe 700 or 800 on a good day. I just need advice. I don't know if I should cut back on the strength training or revamp my eating (which I don't know what I should do with my eating). I just want to lose the weight I gained so that I can feel better in my body like I did year 1 and 2 after surgery. Any advise who would! Thanks in advanced.

Well I’m meaning back to the basics before I allowed myself to get back to my normal before surgery. My life changed when I moved to another state away from family and friends. It put me in a depression that caused bad eating behaviors which is how the weight got on.

I appreciate that. I am definitely going to do something different. Going back to what I was doing before and getting results.

It's not tough for me. Since working out I have only being eating OMAD and a protein shake. Granted I have stopped doing that over the last week and have been making myself eat and drink throughout the day. I keep busy especially now working from home it's easy for me to get caught up. In addition to the OMAD and protein I was ding intermittent fasting hoping that would make the scale move as well. I have been on google but its hard when you're so far out of your surgery to get advice which is why I came here. I appreciate your input though.

I definitely understand that. When I started with my trainer I started cutting back. But I didn’t realize that i had cut back so much. I was literally eating OMAD and a protein shake after my workout. Now I am being more cognizant about what I’m eating. I am now using my fitnesspal to track my food. And now that I’m wfh it’s easier to tell myself hey you haven’t eaten anything in about 2 hours grab some fruit or something. So over the last few days I can say I have upped my calorie intake. Today I ate about 1400 calories but that’s because I was making sure that every other hour I was eating. Whether it was fruit or yogurt. After reading some responses I truly think I haven’t been eating enough and with working out 5 days a week my body was going into starvation mode and hanging on to the food.

I think i will. I’m going to try doing the reset diet to jump start it. If that doesn’t work then I am definitely going to reach out to him.

I am 5’2 and weighing at 195 lbs.

Also the 600 calories has only been since I’ve been working out. So over the last 2 months. Before I wouldn’t eat often but i would eat the wrong things. Mainly fast food because my job is so demanding.

Hi, I need help! I had the sleeve in March of 2015. About a year ago I started gaining weight back. I've gained about 25 lbs back. I recently got a personal trainer and have been working out consistently for 2 months. The problem is the scale hasn't moved. My trainer focuses on strength training. So 4 of the 5 days we workout we are lifting and 1 day is cardio for about 30 minutes. He wants me to eat more because of this but physically I can't ( you guys can relate). He wants me to eat more than 1200 calories a day but I'm only getting in about 600. Maybe 700 or 800 on a good day. I just need advice. I don't know if I should cut back on the strength training or revamp my eating (which I don't know what I should do with my eating). I just want to lose the weight I gained so that I can feel better in my body like I did year 1 and 2 after surgery. Any advise who would! Thanks in advanced.

Also the 600 calories has only been since I’ve been working out. So over the last 2 months. Before I wouldn’t eat often but i would eat the wrong things. Mainly fast food because my job is so demanding.

It didn’t happen over night. It’s been over the last 2.5 years. I know I said a year but I’m counting the time since I moved away from home. Eating all the wrong things. Not being active at all. I’m sure before i was eating more than that but I’ve cut back to eating about that over the last few months. My job keeps me so busy that if I don’t intentionally make myself eat i won’t eat. But I’m going to start back meal prepping because that seems to be the way I can eat when I’m supposed to and get my calories in.

It didn’t happen over night. It’s been over the last 2.5 years. Eating all the wrong things. Not being active at all. I’m sure before i was eating more than that but I’ve cut back to eating about that over the last few months. My job keeps me so busy that if I don’t intentionally make myself eat i won’t eat. But I’m going to start back meal prepping because that seems to be the way I can eat when I’m supposed to and get my calories in.

I was thinking that as well. Thanks for that confirmation.

I truly appreciate this feedback. Yes I have been eating about this much since year 1. Some days I eat more but it's mostly 600-800. I tried eating more and it was an interesting day. I honestly don't get enough fluids and I know I'm probably not getting enough protein. I think I need to get back to the basics. Thank you so much again. I think I'm going to reset and then start here and see what happens