Hi Crishell,

I know too well how you feel. I'm not giving up but I wrote my message above yours in March and I had been at a plateau since November and I am still at the same weight. I'm getting stronger, and firmer, but have not lost any further weight. I really hoped that I would have lost all my weight by now, a year and a half after my surgery.

I think the problem is, for all the research in obesity and books and doctors saying that they know the answer, no two people are alike and we don't fit in the conventional pegs they try to put us in. I was never someone who ate at fast food restaurants and my problem wasn't that I couldn't stop myself from eating, but rather I would diet for a couple of months, see no results and just start to eat regular food again. Which would see the weight go on nice and quickly! No fairness in that.

I'm trying to find a personal trainer to see if I can change my routine in order to jump start this process.

Do you have any weight lifting in your routine? I've found that while I still am not losing, I am feeling more able to do every day jobs because the new muscles and love the muscles in my arms.

I have no answers as I am in the same boat as you. As I said, I bought that book "Crack the Fat loss Code" and then after that bought a book about clean eating called "Ultra Metabolism" by Mark Hyman. It's a great book too, but after two weeks when he said people often lost 10 pounds, I still hadn't budged.

If I find something that works, I will certainly tell you, as I hear what I think in what you have said.

I stopped looking at some of these forums because I was so tired reading about people who said "oh I went to party and ate a lot more than I should have, but when I got on the scale I still managed to lose 2 pounds this week". It just doesn't seem fair.

Keep your chin up!

Mary

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