6 months out and frustrated

[Kindle 8,667]

Are you still on PPI's or antacids? I am only a month out and am on 40mg Omeprazole daily, but have started feeling hungry during the day. I've read so many posts about acid acting like hunger pains, so I tried taking Maalox when I felt hungry and the hunger pains went away immediately. Don't know if the same rules apply when you are so far out.

[Jazzy2010 0]

I feel like I can not lose and I eat light most days. I mainly eat salad with grilled chicken for lunch everyday. What do your daily menus look like? I need help I'm getting married on August 30. I am currently in a size 18 from a 26 but I want to be a 14 at most the day of the wedding! HELP HELP!

[shadylady_57 54]

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[XXShelXX 346]

I understand what u mean. I'm two months out but always hungry too. I make sure I track everything in my fitness pal. I also eat about six times a day but I make them very small meals and mostly Protein. For instance I may have a sugar free Cappuccino for 60 calories when I get to work. Then an hour later I'll have a activia yogurt for another 60 calories. Or one day I will have a Quest bar for under two hundred. Then it's lunch time so I try to keep that under two hundred as well. Then maybe a snack like a cheese stick. Then whatever for supper which is mainly protein and then a small snack. I average about 800 calories a day. My loss is still a little slow. But I eat often because of the hunger. Next time u feel hungry eat just maybe half of whatever it is. U will probably notice that was enough to take the hunger away. When it hits again a couple hours later eat the other half. It doesn't take much at all to not be hungry. I don't think your window is closing. Track what u are eating most importantly cause that helps sooooo much!! I hope that helps. It should really help get the calories down so u can start losing again. Good luck ! We are all struggling at one time or another in this journey.

[scootergirl 118]

I feel your pain. I have lost only ~5 pounds in the past four months. I am exercising like crazy and getting into pretty good shape/fitness. I would be crazy discouraged by now if I had not been keeping track of my measurements. I continue to lose inches even when my weight seems stuck. I hope you are tracking inches as well as pounds. There may be good (if still frustrating) news in what otherwise feels like a l-o-n-g stall.

If hunger is still a big problem for you be sure it is not your under treated allergies. I could not understand my post surgical hunger until I realized I was not treating my post nasal drip and it was creating the same "hunger pangs" I had had for years before. An antihistamine later and my hunger was back under control.

I would never recommend violating your doctors orders but I have safely taken ibuprofen from time to time since my surgery. My intensive exercising has left me in pain which only goes away with a dose or two of ibuprofen. So far it has not been a problem for me. And, by the way, I have to take a daily aspirin, in addition, due to cardiac issues. I have not tummy trouble with it either.

Good luck.