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Any advice on stopping weight loss

laurelgurl26

By laurelgurl26, in Rants & Raves

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laurelgurl26    1

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I am 18 months out I have lost 170 pounds I weigh 157 I am 5'6" I am pleased where I am and if I eat more I'm afraid ill stretch my pouch I'm not sure on my calorie intake but if I had to guess I'd say about 1200 cal a day sometimes more I don't mean to complain because I wanted to lose weight but I'm ready to stop and my dr won't tell me anything because he says I'm not underweight so he is not worried but I'm ready to stop

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BBdoodle    483

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My sister went way below her goal weight where she looks sickly. She spoke to our surgeon and he suggested that she start switching to the regular yogurt non the fat free, and go with the regular and not the light or fat free on foods. She was working out and now has stopped... this has stopped her weight loss but everyone is different.

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IChatman    24

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I am 18 months out I have lost 170 pounds I weigh 157 I am 5'6" I am pleased where I am and if I eat more I'm afraid ill stretch my pouch I'm not sure on my calorie intake but if I had to guess I'd say about 1200 cal a day sometimes more I don't mean to complain because I wanted to lose weight but I'm ready to stop and my dr won't tell me anything because he says I'm not underweight so he is not worried but I'm ready to stop

Asr

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teresab9712    8

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I am 5 months post-op and just reached my goal.

Started at 220 and am currently at 150. Happy to meet goal, but very concerned about losing too much. I am 55 years old, so I don't want to be rail thin. Would love to hear suggestions about maintenance.

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erikaloftin    62

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Wow. I can't wait to have this problem! lol. Good for you guys!

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kristy3k    1,133

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Erika... your blog is really cool. Its very brave that you are throwing it all out there. I am proud of you. I think you will do really well with the whole process.

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erikaloftin    62

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Thank you! That's really nice to hear!

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laurelgurl26    1

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I am 5 months post-op and just reached my goal.

Started at 220 and am currently at 150. Happy to meet goal' date=' but very concerned about losing too much. I am 55 years old, so I don't want to be rail thin. Would love to hear suggestions about maintenance.[/quote']

I have actually finally stopped I took thee advice to try not eating all fat free some things I still have been eating fat free and I have finally stalled at 155 I am being extremely cautious not to gain any tho

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CA712    111

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Laurelgurl, congratulations on your weight loss, I hope I do as well as you have done. I am having my gastric bypass one week from tomorrow and I am scared. I read that you are afraid of losing too much weight and your surgeon is not too concerned at this point. I would take him at his word right now but if you continue weight loss and do not want to drop more weight I might suggest going to a dietition who specializes working with WLS patients. I already have one and she is great, she has become my right arm thru this whole process and I know I will be leaning on her more going forward. Do you have a local support group? Maybe they can help too. Good luck and congratulations again.

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laurelgurl26    1

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I am now down to 153 seems eating more only stokes my metabolism to burn more. I am just going to go with it I guess because I'm eating like a cow with several small meals a day. Yesterday I ate for lunch a Waffle House serving of grits sausage and eggs. I mixed it up and ate about half. Later I ate 1 piece of the raisin bread that came with it. For supper I had a concoction I came up with that had brown rice tomatoes cabbage sausage and corn in it and some cracklin cornbread. I would assume that is enough but I was down one pound today so who knows??? Lol I don't even care anymore if my dr is unconcerned then why should I be. I just never expected to lose so much. I feel I look like a skeleton. But anyway!!!!

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madenkorea    36

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I am 18 months out I have lost 170 pounds I weigh 157 I am 5'6" I am pleased where I am and if I eat more I'm afraid ill stretch my pouch I'm not sure on my calorie intake but if I had to guess I'd say about 1200 cal a day sometimes more I don't mean to complain because I wanted to lose weight but I'm ready to stop and my dr won't tell me anything because he says I'm not underweight so he is not worried but I'm ready to stop

not sure sorry. But i am happy that you met your goal.

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laurelgurl26    1

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Is your doctor looking at your BMI? It is surprising what a ''healthy" weight is on that chart.

He is looking at my labs and I'm not sure if he's looking at bmi or not but I'm so displeased I now weigh 145. I eat mainly what I want while watching fat and sugar that cause me to dump and my stomach only holds a little over a cup and I never stuff it. I just keep dropping weight. It's insane. But my dr assures me that I'm healthy. My husband gets upset when he hugs me because I'm starting to become boney. I would still have surgery if I had it to do over but I really wish I knew what to do to stop losing.

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