HOW CAN I BREAK MY PLATEAU? OFF SUBJECT.....

[Guest guest]

I KNOW THIS IS OFF WHAT THE BOARD IS ABOUT BUT IM SURE THERE ARE GASTRIC

BYPASS PATIENTS IN HERE THAN CAN HELP ME SOME. I STARTED OUT AT 362LBS AND NOW I

AM STILL STUCK AT 220-226LBS? I HAD SURGERY NOVEMBER 12TH 2002 SO THAT MAKES ME

A LIL OVER A YEAR OUT OF SURGERY. AM I DONE LOSING WEIGHT OR AM I JUST STUCK

AT A PLATEAU? IF IM AT A PLATEAU HOW CANI BREAK IT? IVE BEEN STUCK HERE SINCE

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER. WHAT IS A SURE WAY TO BREAK IT?

[Guest guest]

One thing to realize is that your hormones have been bouncing up and down

quite a bit recently. This will cause you to stall out on weight loss,

especially when you've been pregnant and then had a miscarriage, etc. It

could be a few months or more before you start losing again. This is

assuming you're not still actively trying to conceive... the stress of

monthly up-and-downs, combined with the surging hormones you'll get if you

actually do conceive again... well, it's not exactly conducive to weight

loss.

Another thing you can do is to re-introduce protein shakes (if you have

stopped doing them) and use one or two as meal replacements. Make sure

they're sugar-free, or it won't do much good. Be sure you're drinking plenty

of water, and that you're taking your Citracal (or Caltrate or whatever kind

of calcium citrate you can find -- not calcium carbonate) because adequate

calcium seems to have a major impact on weight loss.

Sometimes it just takes a " shock " to your system in order to trick it back

into a weight loss mode. Doing a major change in what you're taking in, can

sometimes do the trick.

Hope this helps...

-Kris

on 5/6/04 11:09 PM, Ndeatopanga@... at Ndeatopanga@... wrote:

I KNOW THIS IS OFF WHAT THE BOARD IS ABOUT BUT IM SURE THERE ARE GASTRIC

BYPASS PATIENTS IN HERE THAN CAN HELP ME SOME. I STARTED OUT AT 362LBS AND

NOW I

AM STILL STUCK AT 220-226LBS? I HAD SURGERY NOVEMBER 12TH 2002 SO THAT MAKES

ME

A LIL OVER A YEAR OUT OF SURGERY. AM I DONE LOSING WEIGHT OR AM I JUST STUCK

AT A PLATEAU? IF IM AT A PLATEAU HOW CANI BREAK IT? IVE BEEN STUCK HERE

SINCE

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER. WHAT IS A SURE WAY TO BREAK IT?

[Guest guest]

I lost weight up until I was 20-21 months post-op. I really didn't do

anything to break any plateaus. I do know that when I started drinking 8

glasses of water daily I dropped like 5 lbs and speedwalking helped too.

HOW CAN I BREAK MY PLATEAU? OFF SUBJECT.....

> I KNOW THIS IS OFF WHAT THE BOARD IS ABOUT BUT IM SURE THERE ARE GASTRIC

> BYPASS PATIENTS IN HERE THAN CAN HELP ME SOME. I STARTED OUT AT 362LBS AND

NOW I

> AM STILL STUCK AT 220-226LBS? I HAD SURGERY NOVEMBER 12TH 2002 SO THAT

MAKES ME

> A LIL OVER A YEAR OUT OF SURGERY. AM I DONE LOSING WEIGHT OR AM I JUST

STUCK

> AT A PLATEAU? IF IM AT A PLATEAU HOW CANI BREAK IT? IVE BEEN STUCK HERE

SINCE

> NOVEMBER-DECEMBER. WHAT IS A SURE WAY TO BREAK IT?

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