You say you're on par and that your team are happy with your loss then in that case what's this thread about? if you want us to say you're doing great Gary and don't worry about it it will happen, then; you're doing great Gary and don't worry about it it will happen.....maybe
If you want some advice from someone who has reached goal then I'd say you need to change what you're currently doing because its stopped giving you what you say you want
Ladies do lose weight more slowly and tend to have more stalls than us guys. Their fat deposits are distributed differently and they carry a higher percentage of essential fat anyway, its a girl thing
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I thought you had been sleeved Gary sorry, that would have been a possible reason for a stall as sleevers tend to lose slower than us but lose right out to two years, where as the bypass tends to bottom out after just over a year. After a year the weight loss is down to us rather than the bypass
It was meant to be support though you know me I don't wrap stuff in cotton wool LOL, but exercise is a vital part of the process and you really do have a year tops to maximise your lifestyle changes and weight loss. Once you are through the honeymoon period it really does get tough, if you haven't made the most of it by then with diet and vitally by exercise it might never happen
My cycling was only for fun really and I only did around 45 miles on a Saturday morning once a week, Saturdays were my only day off from the gym where I did three spin classes and three days on the weights. The fitness instructor will hopefully be able to kick start a programme that may get you back on track, but again there is no way you will lose your target of another three stone unless you take regular effective exercise, it really is key.
I've never counted a calorie post op. I concentrated on getting in the required 130g of protein I needed to facilitate my high level of exercise and only after that did I take in some complex carbs. I am not advising you to ignore the advice from your NUT but it kind of flies in the face of what at least four NUTs have said to me in my post op life. Yours knows your case so they might be giving you the very best advice for you, but it would not have worked for me. Three meals a day means bigger meals and long intervals between meals where your hunger increases and the risk of over eating or grazing is greatly increased. I still eat at least six planned small meals a day spread throughout the day. This means my pouch is not overstretched, and my metabolism is super quick. I don't snack because I just eat planned meals of good protein rich food. Like I say you should go with your providers advice but its not working for you at present.
My weight is taken every week at the hospital and perversely I get praised if I've gained weight
go figure them apples, but if it wasn't I'd still weigh myself at the same time every week. I would want to be in control not to find out I'd gained a significant amount of weight after the fact. Like I say once you're a year out its like losing weight was before your op, tough. Once your appetite returns with a vengeance and your intestines develop ways to increase the absorption of calories from the food you eat you will find out how hard it is to maintain. Unless we change our relationship with food and exercise we are at risk of regain.
That's why I cringe when I see you making sugar free deserts. Because sugar free today leads to balls out proper trifle tomorrow. Trust me I've seen it many times over the last three years. Its a behavioural thing Gary, unless we change ours we can slip back into the dark days. Again I'm talking from experience. I've seen probably the most switched on WLS patient ever who started making SF sweets and cakes, she called them protein cakes and for a while laughed at me for refusing to eat them. However after a while when she had failed to reach goal then to her horror realised she was regaining she worked it out that she was eating more and more of these sweet things and worse real sugar too. She admitted she should have listened to me a year earlier before it was too late.
Good luck with getting to whatever goal you're on a par and happy with x
