Angelina_Ballerina

Let me preface this by saying that I knew this wasn't going to be a walk in the park, and there would be times I'd have to fight for my weightloss. I NEVER though I'd be fighting right outside the gate, though. I am almost 6 months post op, and have only lost 8 pounds since NOVEMBER 7th. Right around post op month 2, my weightloss pretty much tapered off. I never had the relief from hunger that my surgeon described; my stomach growls and pangs with hunger so loudly it's embarrassing. I found it extremely difficult to stay under 1000 calories from about 3 months and on. My diet hasn't been *perfect* but I'm doing all the things - protein first, watching my carbs, NO SUGAR and no more liquid calories AT ALL. The few treats I've had were halo ice cream or maybe popcorn (I know, not the best choices, but it was a treat.) My biggest fear is that I literally cut out my stomach to lose 40 pounds. Regain is a fact, and if this is all the weight loss I'm going to get and then I REGAIN from here, I'm going to absolutely cry. I don't know what I'm doing wrong and it's driving me nuts and causing major depression and remorse at this point. I'm absolutely disgusted with myself and feel like a total failure. To ice the cake, my husband also had the vsg a month after me, and is pretty much refusing to even try at all and has hardly lost anything. I'm not looking forward to my next follow up at month 6 with my surgeon :-((( Any advice? Anyone in the same boat and always on the #hungrybus ?

Its been 3 weeks. 14 pounds is great. And yes, hunger does come back but you will see that you can only actually eat a very small amount before coming full. Don't forget to eat slowly. You're doing great!

I'm running 1000-1200 calories right now and still feeling hungry at that. I walk minimum 5000 steps per day but haven't started weight training or anything yet due to my work and home schedule. I hope to carve out we time for that. The last 3 days I've cut my carbs down to 20 net to try and get the carb hunger the heck out of my body.

What part is interesting?

I track everything using my fitness pal app and I weigh and measure every morsel 95% of the time. I started at 250 HW and was already down to 215 by surgery day, so in 6 months after actual surgery I've lost 40 ish pounds. I follow dozens of VSG'ers and my weight loss pace for same - framed people seems slow and I haven' heard too many people saying they never felt full or lack of the hunger pangs my surgeon advertised like a sales tactic lol. This isn't my first weight loss rodeo, previously lost 90+ on my own to gain it all back , that's why I chose surgery . I was told it would be a tool and it isn't holding up to what they claimed so far:-(