Depressed :( I'm Not Losing Weight

Hey Kalina ~ Thanks so very much for responding . Out of all the reading I've done before the WLS . I havent heard of anyone staying the same weight for a 2-3 week span ,this is why i was a little discouraged . Im now about 198 so the weight is coming off slowly but coming off .

2013-05-21 Hello everyone: I, too, am very depressed and disappointed in myself. Some of you who have expressed these sentiments are not alone! I had a sleeve gastrectomy in Sept 2012, top weight was 256 and now, 7 months later, I seem to be hungrier and stuck at 210. That's not even a full 50 lbs.! It seems as though my metabolism has stopped completely at zero, and I am 48 years old. To tell you the truth, I have given up. Somebody talk to me, please and I hope it's someone out there reading and responding right now rather than 2 years ago. :-)

After every major surgery, I've gained a lot of weight (from 132 to 140-something), but managed to bring it back down. It took me many, many months, but I did it. It took a lot of discipline, but I think the following has helped me: 1. I eat until I burp. The moment I first feel the burp, I'm done. No more eating. Why? Because that's your body telling you you're full. 2. I occupy my mind with lots of things other than eating. I watch TV, movies, take classes in sewing, jewelrymaking, etc. Anything to get my mind off of food. The more you learn, the better you feel about yourself. 3. I do lots of walking and stretching exercises. Compared to most people who drive in their cars to get to the corner grocery store, I'm an Olympic athlete (kidding). There is certainly a benefit to walking half a mile to my bus stop every day and half a mile back and walking about five miles every day through my office buildings. Most people who do computer work like I do are much more sedentary. I want you (and everyone) to know... YOU CAN DO IT. You can lose weight. You have to accept yourself as a good person, build up your skills in many different areas to increase your confidence in yourself, and just have a good attitude in life. I know a few people who've had lipo and stomach stapling and noticed that IT DOESN'T ALWAYS WORK because these people don't care about themselves or their bodies. They are generally not happy with themselves so a temporary slimming isn't going to fix that.

I had rny surgery on 4/7/14 and have only lost 12 lbs.; I completely understand! During the two week follow-up appointment it was ridiculously difficult to hear how much weight the others had had (some upwards of 30 lbs., but most were around 20 lbs.). Please feel free to email me vir9inia @ yahoo - I would love to hear how you're doing now.

So, where are you at now?

I had another surgery in July of last year and it happened again... I gained some weight again. I was up to 139. No matter how much exercise I did, I couldn't get below 139. I was beginning to think that it's just my fate to be at that weight. I'm 46 and at my age, it's just frickin' difficult to weigh what I did when I was 30. Oh, how wrong I was. I started Bikram Yoga in January and slowly but surely my weight got down to 127. I could weigh anywhere from 127 to 133 at any point in a day and this range is sustained! I've completed 116 Bikram classes since mid-January. I'm also eating a lot better foods now, such as more veggies in my diet. For me, these two things are the secret to weight loss.

Thats awesome!!!

My numbers aren't really up and down (just the same, the same, the same.....then down 1. My surgery was 12/17 and I've lost 30 lbs. I'm very pleased with the 30 but it's soooooooo slow. I've added more exercise and gone back to the basics, and nothing seems to budge. Any suggestions? I really expected it to be faster. At this rate, it will take me a year to lose the rest of my weight.