Bodybuilding, Calories & Stalls

[mwrarr 244]

Hi All! :}

I'm just curious if anyone else out there is doing regular bodybuilding/weight lifting, because I have recently started in the hopes that I could break this stall/plateau. BUT...it's not working. I'm not sure if I'm eating too much, too little, the wrong stuff... NO ONE in the traditional bodybuilding/personal training world can help me. They want me to eat like 2200 calories, but I am only 9 months out & still struggle to get 600-700 CLEAN calories in. (Trust me...I can do much more than that if I eat junk)

I also feel like when I go back to liquids - avoiding "real" solid foods - I lose again. Am I crazy?! I did the bootcamp diet after New Year's and dropped 6# in 3 days, but as soon as I had to add back the solids, that was it. And now that I'm lifting, I'm bouncing around another Lb.

It's ridiculous. I feel like this surgery has made me "skinny fat" (I've lost 97#, but my body fat has actually increased from 35% before surgery to 44% now) & no matter what I do, now that the honeymoon phase is over (about a YEAR EARLY according to *EVERYTHING* I was told/read beforehand--b/c I've been done losing since month 6, frankly), I can't win. I've tried dropping my calories down to like 400-500 again, but I just feel like I need to sleep all day in between those feedings. I just don't know what to do.

If anyone else out there has experience with muscle building & can help, I'd surely appreciate it! TIA! :}

[Tikvah 70]

I just want to know how you're measuring your bodyfat, because that is ridiculous.

Unless you are doing Hydrostatic Body Composition Testing or at the very minimum, a BodPod, I wouldn't believe that at all.

[Nate74 45]

First off congrats on the 136 lbs down that's a big accomplishment don't forget that. that being said your body needs time to adjust to the loss. at about six months i sat at the same eight for about 1-1/2 months . then started loosing again even though i didn't want to. I wouldn't gp by the BMI charts as there inaccurate as it currentlly says i'm 20 which is wrong as i'm 6'3 170 and at 205 out of bootcamp was 16 so i wouldn't put too much faith in charts. even when the scale doesn't show it ur body is still changing. try this take a pic of urself andthen in week or two take another and compare i bet you will see a difference even if scale stays the same. we are always our own worse critics and we don't see it but take a pic and you can see. Good luck on your journey and like i said congrats on the big accomplishment 136lbs down in 7 months is really good i know ppl that are 1 and a half years out at 80lbs so don't be down on urself everyone looses diff. btw my wife was sleeved a week after me and she was all about the bmi number as well so i understand she just now reached the 25% and she is all excited according to the chart even though i've been teling her for months that their wrong

Edited January 12, 2014 by Nate74

[Shells_Almost_There 357]

I'm curious if you've had the metabolic testing that some surgery programs have you do after surgery? I don't know a lot about it overall, just know that it gives the resting metabolic rate and helps with knowledge of caloric needs, etc. That might be something to help inform you of what's happening. You could also probably find a place to do the underwater body composition test, which is supposed to be super accurate. Good luck, I know this journey can be frustrating, but congrats on your success as well!