6 Weeks Out, Total Of 84 Lbs Down...

[sleeve 4 me 910]

Congrats!

[eazye 151]

Eazye are u on my fitness pal if so friend me so I can see ur food logs my name is conner4ever..thanks

Janette, no, sorry I'm not on it. I'll. Check it out though. And if it looks to be useful I will get it and friend you.

[eazye 151]

Ok, I am 15 weeks out of surgery and as of today, I'm still losing, But, i'm now down to about 2-3 lbs per week, not the 5-6 lbs like before.... I am not disappointed though since I fully expected the slow down. I am down to 211 lbs from 317 when I started the whole process earlier this year. I could not be happier with the progress, experience, and with how I feel, no doubt! I have had no issues at all and felt geat within 1-2 days after surgery, I am LUCKY I guess.

At 211 I am 26 lbs from my goal of 185, but I have had several people tell me to stop losing because I look fine as I am. I think I mentioned it in the past but I have very thick muscular legs so I can carry extra weight w/o looking like it. Either way, I am just a hair under 6 ft and I am comfortable wearing XL clothes (simetimes a bit too loose) and can wear L in some items if I want it to be a little tighter. Judging by that, I am very happy with where I am already and, again, could not be happier with the surgery and how well it has worked for me.

[eazye 151]

Oh, something I forgot to mention, I have run into the issue of slow loss but think I know what the cause is. It has been discussed here in the past but I feel I am not eating enough throughout the day to keep my metabolism as high as it was right after surgery. I recently started counting calories and realized I was only taking in about 900-950 calories a day. So, I started eating an extra meal a day starting this week and I dropped 2 lbs quickly. I am trying to take in about 200 calories every 2 hours starting at about 7am and ending by 7pm at night. If I can do this, I will get roughly 1200 calories which seems to be my "sweet spot" for keeping my metabolism really going. I drop down to 1000 or less, I seem to be hindering my weight loss.

So, any of you out a few months and struggling with slower than expected losses, try adding another 200 calorie Protein bar or yogurt, or something to your routine and go for a week or two, you may see your weight loss pace start to pick back up.

[eazye 151]

So I think it was a lack of enough calories that slowed my weight loss becasue all last week I started ramping up my calorie intake (with healthy calories) and I actually dropped another 2 lbs over the weekend. Im down to 208-209 now which gets me to 109 lbs lost since I started the whole process. I do feel like I am constantly eating but when it is 75-150 calories at a time, you need to constantly eat to get in the 1200 a day.

I am not doing a lot of solid foods, just lots of yogurts, Protein bars, string cheese, etc....but I do at least try to get a solid chicken or turkey meal of some sort in every day. Solids like that fill me up quickly and lasts a lot longer which is expected.... Only 24 lbs to go to goal and ony 3.5 months out, loving the surgery, thats for sure!