I'm on a 5-pound yo-yo roller coaster diet and I want off!!
loveshoe
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Hello All,
I was sleeved 2/2/15 and I would consider my surgery, weight loss, and maintenance a success except for now I feel like I'm a 5-pound yo-yo diet. I gain 5-pounds, lose 5-pounds. I totally understand this isn't my previous 50-100 pound yo-yo diet but I'm afraid one day I won't have a handle on the 5-pound gain.
I feel like I've tried everything to stop the 5-pound gain. If I eat a normal diet of 1,200 calories a day then I have to get in 2 hours of the treadmill to prevent any gain. I can eat 800 and get in an hour of exercise with no gain.
This 5-pound gain/loss started around the 2.5-year post surgery mark. For a year after getting to goal I was okay with around 1,200 calories and 10K steps per day. My weight would toggle between 3 +/- my goal weight
This week I'm returning to my weight loss 800 calorie per day diet to get the 5-pounds off yet again. I'm a calorie counter regardless of what I eat and I like counting calories. It's worked for me in the past so I'm not willing to just wing it on a clean eating diet or letting my stomach tell me when I'm full. I still use food scales for portion control. It's not something I'm willing to change. Without counting and food scales I'm afraid I would be on the 10-pound yo-yo diet.
What happened to my body at the 2.5-year mark? Has this happened to anyone else?
I was sleeved 2/2/15 and I would consider my surgery, weight loss, and maintenance a success except for now I feel like I'm a 5-pound yo-yo diet. I gain 5-pounds, lose 5-pounds. I totally understand this isn't my previous 50-100 pound yo-yo diet but I'm afraid one day I won't have a handle on the 5-pound gain.
I feel like I've tried everything to stop the 5-pound gain. If I eat a normal diet of 1,200 calories a day then I have to get in 2 hours of the treadmill to prevent any gain. I can eat 800 and get in an hour of exercise with no gain.
This 5-pound gain/loss started around the 2.5-year post surgery mark. For a year after getting to goal I was okay with around 1,200 calories and 10K steps per day. My weight would toggle between 3 +/- my goal weight
This week I'm returning to my weight loss 800 calorie per day diet to get the 5-pounds off yet again. I'm a calorie counter regardless of what I eat and I like counting calories. It's worked for me in the past so I'm not willing to just wing it on a clean eating diet or letting my stomach tell me when I'm full. I still use food scales for portion control. It's not something I'm willing to change. Without counting and food scales I'm afraid I would be on the 10-pound yo-yo diet.
What happened to my body at the 2.5-year mark? Has this happened to anyone else?
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When you were at your heaviest, did you ever think that 5 pounds from goal would get you so frustrated? You look amazing, you are active, and you eat very few calories. Maybe your body is telling you that your original goal was too low? I admire your conviction to maintain your loss though! You are an inspiration to me and many others!2
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I'm between year 3 & 4. The statistics provided by my doctor was that if I could lose the weight and keep it off for 5 years I had a 100% chance of keeping it off. That is why I'm fighting so hard to hold on to the weight loss and keep my weight below 140.
When I was at my heaviest (267) I would have been satisfied to just be under 200 pounds. Never in my wildest dreams did I believe that I would weigh 135. Honestly, it just didn't seem possible that I could get below 150, which was my initial goal. I actually lost to 129, purely by accident. I gained 5 back and was not thrilled but was satisfied at 135. It's when I see that 140 show up on my scales that I freak out. It also seems like it's getting harder and harder to drop back down to 135. I'm afraid if I don't then 140 will eventually be 145, then what?
I never thought it would be easy to keep the weight off from previous experience but I didn't think it would be this stressful. Honestly, I'm just afraid.2
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