I've been stalled a month! Please help.

[DrewzWife 65]

I'm 6 months post op and I've been at a standstill for over a month. I'm doing everything I should do but at times I feel like this is just not working and it makes me want to eat whatever. I get all of my Protein in, I go to the gym and I don't eat over 800 calories a day. Can someone please tell me how I can deal with this? Has anyone else experienced this?

[BarrySue 602]

Your body is really, really smart. Oh, it went along with your plans in the beginning, dropping off weight and depleting fat cells. It cooperated with your new diet and allowed you to carry on at the gym, sweating out pound after pound. But your body is not a bank account where you make precise withdrawals and deposits of calories. It is not a checkbook or a cost-benefit analysis. You can't put in exercise tokens and expect specific results (or any results, your body has a way of eating your bills and spare change).

Your body has adapted to doubling its Fluid volume during pregnancy to sustain a baby/blood loss. It can adapt to eating a diet of no meat in the remote mountains of asia, or a diet of all-meat if you're an eskimo living on seal meat/whale blubber. It can adapt to long periods of affluence and lots of greasy foods, packing on the pounds to sustain you in lean times, and it can slow down your metabolism when the nutritional pickings are slim.

You are a miracle of evolutionary adaptation. Your body is an achievement of nature (or God, or intelligent design, whatever your existential preference).

So just take a breath. Stick to your nutritional plan. Weight loss doesn't happen in a straight line, it has lots of dips and valleys, plateaus and gains and tons of frustration. There is no secret or magic trick. Exercise, Protein, Water, enough calories so you don't screw up your metabolism in the long term. Talk to your doc about your current caloric intake/level of exercise and see if you need to bump it up.

Your body is smart. It will do what it wants. Just keep doing what you're supposed to, and you'll convince it to follow along.

[Inner Surfer Girl 12,015]

I'm 6 months post op and I've been at a standstill for over a month. I'm doing everything I should do but at times I feel like this is just not working and it makes me want to eat whatever. I get all of my Protein in, I go to the gym and I don't eat over 800 calories a day. Can someone please tell me how I can deal with this? Has anyone else experienced this?

It is entirely possible that you may not be eating enough, especially if you are exercising regularly. 800 calories seems really low this far after surgery.

What does your NUT advise?

Embrace the Stall!

http://BariatricPal.com/index.php?/topic/351046-Embrace-the-Stall

[DrewzWife 65]

Your body is really, really smart. Oh, it went along with your plans in the beginning, dropping off weight and depleting fat cells. It cooperated with your new diet and allowed you to carry on at the gym, sweating out pound after pound. But your body is not a bank account where you make precise withdrawals and deposits of calories. It is not a checkbook or a cost-benefit analysis. You can't put in exercise tokens and expect specific results (or any results, your body has a way of eating your bills and spare change).

Your body has adapted to doubling its Fluid volume during pregnancy to sustain a baby/blood loss. It can adapt to eating a diet of no meat in the remote mountains of asia, or a diet of all-meat if you're an eskimo living on seal meat/whale blubber. It can adapt to long periods of affluence and lots of greasy foods, packing on the pounds to sustain you in lean times, and it can slow down your metabolism when the nutritional pickings are slim.

You are a miracle of evolutionary adaptation. Your body is an achievement of nature (or God, or intelligent design, whatever your existential preference).

So just take a breath. Stick to your nutritional plan. Weight loss doesn't happen in a straight line, it has lots of dips and valleys, plateaus and gains and tons of frustration. There is no secret or magic trick. Exercise, Protein, Water, enough calories so you don't screw up your metabolism in the long term. Talk to your doc about your current caloric intake/level of exercise and see if you need to bump it up.

Your body is smart. It will do what it wants. Just keep doing what you're supposed to, and you'll convince it to follow along.

Thanks Barry Sue