Be patient....it slows down the closer you get to goal. I am struggling with the last 10 - 20 myself. You may want to kick up your exercise a bit or change your routine. Sometimes our body needs a jump start because it gets used to the same routine....you will get there...keep working the program!!!

More protien usually kick starts it. Also, when I am stuck, I do just protien shakes for a day or two and it helps me get back I. Track and make better food choices. 10/31/12 will be one year post op for me and I've lost 160lb. You will have stalls, try not to let them get you down, you'll get past it.

As you get closer to your goal weight it comes off much slower. Same thing happens to our non-surgical weight loss pals. I've got about 30 pounds to go to goal and I'm lucky to lose 5 pounds in a month now and I'm only 5 months post op. My nutritionist says it's normal and that you must be careful as you can eat more to not start falling into old bad habits; my fitness trainer just says to change things up, trick the body, get a new routine.

I'm still having some trouble with Digitalreactions post and can't decide if he is trolling, my apology in advance if he's not and I've simply misunderstood something but here goes. My surgeon had me on a 1200 calorie diet before surgery and he probably wouldn't have recommended I have the surgery if the goal was just to get to 1200 again and stretch the pouch as soon as I could. I'm 5 months out and am still only able to eat 1/2 cup to a 1 cup serving of something depending on it's density and at 3 meals a day that doesn't come anywhere near 1200 yet. In another post from yesterday digitalreaction said he eats out 3 times a week, this is exactly the kind of habit my surgeon wanted me to break before surgery and there is no way I could have done it 3 months post. So while being able to maintain our weight on a "normal" caloric intake is all of our goals I don't know if I would rush into taking his advice, especially without talking to my surgical team. Also be very skeptical of people who have reported having surgery and think starvation mode is real because they have somehow missed the point. Can eating a calorie deficit for an extended period of time slow your metablisim, yes, will you stop burning fat stores, no. Eating more does not in and of itself increase metabolism or we would have never gotten fat in the first place because we'd have super awesome metabolisms.

Thank you. I think I will try the increase in exercise--walking an additional day or two. Patience has never been one of my strong points!

do you have an iPhone/Blackberry/Android? There's an awesome app called Endomondo that tracks all your exercise for you from walking to canoeing. You just choose the one you want, press start and it tracks duration, speed, length, etc. It's a handy little app and I use it from my walking and hiking so I know when I've walked/jogged my daily 5km! And it's FREE!!!!

My weight loss slowed to a crawl after about 5 months. I found that increasing my calories a bit and increasing my protein helped sort of kick start me again.

Thank you. I think I will try the increase in exercise--walking an additional day or two. Patience has never been one of my strong points!

do you have an iPhone/Blackberry/Android? There's an awesome app called Endomondo that tracks all your exercise for you from walking to canoeing. You just choose the one you want, press start and it tracks duration, speed, length, etc. It's a handy little app and I use it from my walking and hiking so I know when I've walked/jogged my daily 5km! And it's FREE!!!!

You can now also sync this app up with MFP