Plateau: any advice how to overcome this?

[pascui19 8]

Hi everyone!

I'm so happy I had my surgery, I was losing weight steadily but suddenly it stopped!

Any adviced? I had the surgery on July 18 and two weeks ago I got stuck and it just doesn't want to go down

I'm not sure what to do! I've been doing my excersises but Because of a back problem I can't be so intense!

Please help I still have 17 kg to go and I don't want to get stuck in the middle!

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[James Marusek 5,244]

I had RNY gastric bypass surgery 3 years ago. One thing to do now at this stage is to assess your Protein intake. Your Protein requirement is met by a combination of the protein from your meals combined with the protein from your supplements (Protein shakes, protein bars). Since your meal volume is beginning to increase, that also means that the amount of protein from meals is increasing, especially if you concentrate on consuming high protein meals. Therefore you could be able to reduce your reliance on supplements and the calories they contain. I went from 3 Protein Shakes a day, down to 2, then 1 and finally zero when my meal volume increased to 1 cup per meal at a year and a half. This helped to break my stalls.

[Djmohr 6,965]

Stalls are a part of the process and they will happen regularly. It is your body needing time to adjust. If you stay the course everything should be fine as long as you have been sticking to the plan.

I know that at 4 months post op i hit my worst stall and that actually required me to eat more an excercise less. (Beleive it or not)

I was stalled for a month. As soon as I added more calories and reduced from an hour of cardio a day to 30 minutes my stall broke and i continued to lose with shorter stalls in between. I finished losing at 18 months post op.

[pascui19 8]

Thanks so much!

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[gerbrared 7]

I had RNY gastric bypass surgery 3 years ago. One thing to do now at this stage is to assess your Protein intake. Your Protein requirement is met by a combination of the protein from your meals combined with the protein from your supplements (protein shakes, protein bars). Since your meal volume is beginning to increase, that also means that the amount of protein from meals is increasing, especially if you concentrate on consuming high protein meals. Therefore you could be able to reduce your reliance on supplements and the calories they contain. I went from 3 Protein Shakes a day, down to 2, then 1 and finally zero when my meal volume increased to 1 cup per meal at a year and a half. This helped to break my stalls.

Do you measure all your meals in a cup? I never know what I should be eating... Doctors say I'm losing too quickly and to maintain my weight but I hardly eat so it's hard.

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