Can't lose the weight! Help!

[Jachut 487]

While I appreciate some of the blunt responses, as many people need to be honest with themselves, there are many of us strugglers who are doing EXACTLY what they should be and still not losing.

I have not lost an ounce in over a week. I drink my Protein shakes, eat my small meals, avoid empty calories and carbs, log my intake TO A T, and maintain less than 1000 calories a day. I exercise 5 days a week (only cardio right now, as I'm not cleared to do weights yet) and I am exactly where I was at my one week followup.

Granted, I have lost 14 pounds in a month, since I began my pre op diet, but 9 of that was the week before surgery, the other 5 in the week following, and not an ounce since.

It's a little disheartening to hear people say "It's hard to believe you are doing everything right and not losing" but I AM. It does happen unfortunately.

I have faith that it will eventually start coming off, but for those of us that are struggling, it's more upsetting to know we made this huge life changing decision and others that have been there think we aren't trying hard enough.

But not losing anything in a week is not a problem! Its entirely normal for that to happen.

Seriously, people need to have realistic expectations. Weight simply does not come off in nice little 2lb increments each and every week. You are going to drive yourself nuts expecting to see this. You WILL plateau out, sometimes it may be months long. It will happen.Nothing you do will appear to break it and then suddenly, boom, 6lb will be gone overnight.

14lb in a month is a lot of weight, it is absolutely normal for your body to say whoa, I'm just going to hang on a bit here, maybe rehydrate a bit, till I see what's happening. To panic over that and say I'm doing everything right but I'm not losing weight is not accurate, and its just needlessly stressing yourself out.

Do what you should be doing for six months or a year, and see where you are. Whether its 50 lb gone or 25, is not entirely within your own control but its only after that long that you know you're really on track. True fat loss is not a week by week proposition that you can judge in that way, its something you can only take real stock of over long time periods.

I know you made the point that you are realistic about that, I'm more just using what you' said as an example. There's a lot of panicking going on.

Edited December 8, 2009 by Jachut