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hello everyone. I haven't been on here in quite a while but I'm going through something and I need some support and advice. I am a year and a half post op and I am down 158 lbs from my highest weight. The problem is that I still have over 100 more to go and recently I have started gaining. I stepped up my exercise and just recently started back on green protein shakes. I am terrified of getting back to where I was. I weighed 450 lbs and could only walk 20 steps without resting. Now I walk for an hour or more and I swim for an hour and a half 4 days a week. Today I walked around a local lake which has been one of my goals to make it all the way around. When I came back I weighed myself thinking I might have gone down a lb and that would give me an emotional boost to keep going. It was so frustrating when I found I'd gained 2 lbs. I hadn't eaten anything between then and the last time I weighed. I have been getting compliments on my appearance and I am able to get around and do more things, plus...I now have neck bones(something I've never been able to see or even feel before), but why does the scale keep going up? How do I know if I'm gaining muscle, and if it is muscle, shouldn't it be helping to burn off more fat? It took me like4 or 5 months to lose 10 lbs then only a couple of weeks to put it on. I am so frustrated!!!!!! Anyone have an;y advice or suggestions? Or just words of support?
Did you say you weighed after you walked around the lake???? Weighing after exercise is not a good idea. you will weigh more as your body holds onto fluid to keep from dehydrating and lactic acid builds up from the exerrtion.
Weigh yourself once a week. Same type of dress or undress. Same time of day. (preferably in the morning when you weigh the least). That's it! Your body will fluctuate in weight by a couple of lbs in a single day from morning to evening, after you go to the bathroom, if you ate a lot of salt the day before you will weigh more, hormone fluctuatins etc. all will affect what you weigh..........Weight fluctuations are perfectly normal.
Plus if you are building muscle your size may go down when your weight doesn't as a lb of muscle is smaller size wise than a lb of fat. It is much more dense. As you are exercising you will go down in sizes.
YOu are doing well. Keep up the good work. Don't sweat the small stuff . And 2 lbs is small stuff compared to the 158 lbs you lost! Keep eating what you are supposed to eat, keep exercising and it will come off!
Laura
You have done the AMAZING in losing a 158 lbs don't discount your achievement to date. After all it took you how long to put on this weight???
Diane
And congrats also on your commitment to exercise. It sounds like you have that down pat!
The next thing I'd suggest, if you aren't already doing it, is to keep a food diary, to weigh and measure everything, and to make certain that you are getting adequate protein and water every day.
You obviously know how to lose the weight, so I'd bet that you'll be able to lose this last 100 lb. as well. Hang in there, and stick with us. Studies show that people who participate in support groups have a greater long-term success rate than those who don't. Plus, I'm sure we all can learn from your experiences!