Lapband song and dance...

[Jim1967 3,569]

Curious if anyone else experiences the mental game.

I will be going along losing then all of a sudden for like two or three weeks, sometimes longer then there will be no scale movement at all and NSV's just don't seem to be there either. It sets me off thinking maybe I've reached the end of the line with my weight loss and my band (which I know is just a tool) has reached is maximum potential.

Anyone else ever feel like that?

I have lost a very large amount of weight but still 45 pounds from my personal goal. Even when I hit that personal goal of 220 I will still be with a high BMI. I am only 5'6.

I can only imagine what it will be like to hit a real plateau...which will come like it or not.

[ADJL 685]

I play that game with myself all the time. I still have 100 pounds to go. I mentally have to talk myself into the idea that I can do that. When I met with my nutritionist a few days ago and he told me I'd lost 31% of my excess weight he told me that was right about where people STOP losing. Freaked me out...so I'm determined to keep working hard.

[AZ Gary 149]

I tend to get stuck on the scale from time to time. Seems like a week it doesn't move and then it will be a pound a day for several days in a row. Just monitor it from a big picture of the overall loss. If you need motivation use myfitnesspal to record your weight and zoom the graphs to 3 months.

[sapcat54 76]

I hit a 2 month stall when I thought I would be loosing faster. I work for a school office and was a lot more active during the summer. I finally started loosing again. a friend who was banded 3 yrs ago told me that happens and to just do what you need to do and the scale will start moving again. The week or two is normal. Your body fluctuates fluids and then balances out.