alexandrazk

I'm only 11 months post-op and I've been stalled since Christmas. I haven't lost a single pound my entire spring semester and this week I even gained a couple back. I had short stalls here and there in the first 7 months, but they quickly resolved when I upped my water or salt intake. Now I have been tweaking my diet, my exercise, my protein intake, my water intake for 4 months and NOTHING HELPS. I'll admit the last month or so I haven't been a star bariatric patient with my carb and sugar intake, but I think that only started because of how frustrated I was with how long I'd been stalled despite doing everything I needed to be doing. I've always been the kid who constantly tried to eat healthy and exercise and could never lose the freaking weight and now I just feel like I'm right back there the way I was pre-op. I keep going to my surgeon and nutritionist and do what they are telling me to do and it still doesn't work. I recently added a weekly cheat day for the sake of my mental health and I found it helps keep me on track during the week. Every Saturday I eat to my heart's content with no guilt in the hopes that it will shock my metabolism a little bit. However, despite being completely clean during the week and going to the gym at least 3 times a week the scale is not budging. I try not to count calories because my surgeon always advised against it and I think it's a little unhealthy too. And before anyone tells me to restrict my calorie intake, I have TRIED and I just get shaky and lightheaded throughout the day and feel like I'm starving myself. I'm over here trying to build a healthy relationship with my body, not trying to starve it. If anyone has any words of advice or crazy outside-the-box tricks that got them out of a long stall, I'm all ears.

Sorry, the end of the semester has got me scrambling so I wasn't able to respond sooner! But I completely agree, it's so hard to stay motivated when there are no results. I don't have hypothyroid or pcos that I know of, but I actually have been having extremely heavy periods lately (the normal to bleed during a period is 10-35 ml, I bled 135ml on my last period) so I'm wondering if there's a hormonal imbalance happening that might be at least partially to blame for the stall. I'm planning on getting that checked out soon. I know a lot of people say it could be something as small as not enough protein or water or too much carbs, but I have jiggled my diet and exercise so much I'm convinced there must be an underlying cause out of my control. You stalled very quickly though, I can't imagine how much more frustrating it is for you. I'm nearly 1 year out, by 7 months I had lost 75 pounds and then stopped. My starting weight was 271 and my current weight fluctuates between 190-200.