I can so totally relate! I've been told all my life that it was me and I must be lying about what I'm eating because (and this is the kicker) "no one came out of Belsen fat". I mean, how insensitive is that? The worst thing is, now I have the band and I'm so confused as to whether I'm eating too much, too little and what to do to speed it up. Every once in a while I go on that five day pouch test, in order to give myself a little weight loss boost, but I'm sure that isn't great either.

And I'm sure you all have family who get sick and lose ten pounds in a couple of days. We get sick and don't lose a pound, even though we didn't eat either!

I even bought a new diet book recently, which I had hoped never to have to do again once I was banded. It is called "Crack the Fat loss Code". It claims to get your metabolism all sorted so it doesn't ever go into starvation mode. Trouble is, it is so complicated that I managed the first really restrictive week and then totally fell off as I couldn't figure out what to eat! I didn't want to have to worry about this stuff once I got the band!

My clinic isn't much help and neither is my own family doctor. I wanted to go for a metabolic rate test and neither of them will refer me! I don't know what the big deal is, but I thought it may help me to figure out how to raise my rate of weight loss. I'm already exercising and can't eat that much, but after fourteen months, I'm starting to get really discouraged.

Anyone else get past this?

Mary

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Op date: Nov 8/07
Start date and weight, Oct 27 - 293
Start/current/goal
293/218/170