Help Stalled

Nellybell83 · September 14, 2010

Help,

I don't know if it is too early to say this but I feel like I have stalled and am not losing weight. I am 19 days out from my surgery and am down 22 pounds (10 preop). And I can't seem to get past this hump, I am on the treadmill 30 minutes a day and feel like my calorie intake should be low enough for weight loss. Any suggestions on how to get pass this hump??? Any and all are welcomed.

Tiffykins · September 14, 2010

shake things up, increase your Fluid intake, add 50-100 calories per day for a few days. Did you take pre-op measurements? You could be losing inches, and the scale won't reflect those changes?

Stalls happen, and most of the time your body just needs time to adjust. Our bodies can't continue to lose a pound a day so the weight loss will slow down after the initial post-op period.

Hang in there, maybe try weighing once a week. I weighed every day, but it doesn't work for everyone else.

a.walker · September 14, 2010

The evil 3-week stall. It really sucks, but it happens to a lot of people. I stalled for about 2 weeks at that time, and of course I panicked a little bit. Everyone around here helped me through it, told me to calm down because it happens to lots of people! After 2 weeks, I started losing again, without changing anything. I lost 5 lbs in the first week after the stall. It will work itself out. Try to make sure and get all your Protein in, and maybe a little bit extra for a couple days. Push the fluids. Keep up the good work with the exercise! Hopefully you'll barely remember this stall in a few weeks!

thinoneday · September 14, 2010

Help,
I don't know if it is too early to say this but I feel like I have stalled and am not losing weight. I am 19 days out from my surgery and am down 22 pounds (10 preop). And I can't seem to get past this hump, I am on the treadmill 30 minutes a day and feel like my calorie intake should be low enough for weight loss. Any suggestions on how to get pass this hump??? Any and all are welcomed.

Don't mean to throw any wrenches into the cog, but i was stalled for 3 1/2 months! Yup sure was! hated it but know what? I put away the scales and did what was expected of me, eat properly as per doctor orders, exercise daily, and drink my fluids 64oz +. . . as soon as i stopped worrying about it, 5 lbs just dropped off. . . I asked my doc about it, and she said that what has to happen is that you need to change things up. . .exercise for 45 minutes instead of 30, don't snack, don't obsess about the weight, just be you. . . good luck!

JanePatrick · September 14, 2010

I am 26 days out and the first 11 days I lost 29.2 pounds...and then it stopped and I actually gained 2 lbs back, how that happens on less than 500 calories, and walking is one of the many mysteries in my life.

I have been trying to keep up a good mindset about it because I know tons of people hit this same sort of 2-5week stall, but it is disconcerting.

The past few days I have been able to get in 500-700 calories with more Protein than before.

Last night I did a bad thing and ate a small slice of pastry that my partner had sitting out on the counter, which had been staring at me and calling out to me all day .

This morning, I grudgingly got on the scale thinking that would put me up, but low and behold I finally lost again, 3lbs...in 1 day...after eating a baddie...go figure, not that I condone bad eating, but maybe the sugar jolted something in me. Hopefully I will never resort to that again, as I have been awesome about staying away from empty crap foods.

Our bodies are weird and do weird things, especially when they have gone through some trauma like losing 85% of the stomach.

I am sure you will come out of it and start dropping again.