Discouraged

[KristenLe 5,979]

I too am discouraged, I'm using a scale which gives weight, bone mass, %Water, and %of body fat. I'm using a fitbit, and meeting my goals. I track my calories and Protein, I've scaled back to 550-650 calories a day. I drink plenty of Water, and I gained 1.6 pounds this week. Since September 2 I have lost 4.8 pounds. I feel like the surgery is no help. If I had the discipline to restrict the foods I eat on a long term basis I would never have become fat. On September second I weighed 239.8, today 235.0! Ugh!

I eat plain fish, tuna with mustard, and maybe celery and onion, chicken breast, and egg whites. I also eat diet Soup, rarely a diet mango smoothie, Protein Bars, and Protein chips all from Bariatric Pal. I add garden salad mix, zucchini, Greek yogurt, sparingly ketchup, Morning Star Farms vegetable meat subs, and once some peanut powder stuff.

I don't eat bread, cake, Cookies, the stuff that contributed to my obesity, also no crackers, chips, croutons, candy, and not even costco samples unless they are packed with protein, and low in fat.

I use Costco's incarnation of Miralax, and laxatives.< /p>

I'm scared. I can eat a lot. I don't dare mix things up too much more, if I play with food choices, just a bite of chocolate, crumbs from a muffin,, just to taste, or anything and I could be 280 again, maybe more. I had my surgery in July. My pre op diet helped me lose 15 pounds in three weeks. Post op nine weeks and my total loss is thirty pounds.

I don't seem to effectively communicate how distressing this is for me.

@@happy2bjcox You are losing weight - maybe not as fast as you would like but you are losing. It appears that you started at 280 and now weight 235 - there's absolutely nothing wrong with that rate of loss. If I am 235 lbs 3 months after my surgery I'll be thrilled. Your body needs time to adjust. Starving yourself is not going to help - 550-650 calories a day at 3 months out is very low. You don't mention how much protein you are getting but based on what you indicated you are eating - I would be surprised if you're meeting a protein goal of 60-80 gms. Be careful of sugars/carbs - check to make sure the smoothie and protein bars don't have a high sugar content / high carbs. Someone else mentioned the importance of getting enough sleep - which is absolutely true. As I'm sure you have heard - stalls are normal. I think if you increase your calories with more protein - you'll find you lose faster. Change things up a bit. Stay strong - you can do this!!! 45 lbs are gone - and you won't see them again if you stick with the program!!!