When I Don't Lose For A Week Or So....

[MikeC 4]

Ok, let me first say I am no dietician. When I would lose weight before, I had a system by which I would just have a big cheat day on Sundays. I was working out and watching my diet extremely close during the week, and this seemed to keep my sanity. I always had success on diets. Just couldn't keep them up forever. I have lost 100#s several times in my life always to gain it back. I can't eat enough to be on these kinds of diets now. I was sleeved on 11/14/11, and have lost a decent amount of weight. Since surgery, I am down 46lbs, and 67 from the start of the pre-op(103 from highest weight). I don't have the time like I used to to get to the gym, so my workouts haven't been great. I need to change that. All that being said, I feel like I have been losing slow over the last couple weeks. I went ahead and ate bad yesterday. I had small quanities of ice cream, some chips and dip, some high calorie trail mix and a mexican pizza from a particular fast food restraunt. I dropped several pounds over this weekend. This always seemed to work for me to get things moving again. You have to be in control enough to get back on though. I did this as more of an experiment than as a keeping my sanity thing. I really don't view food the same as I used to. I think my caloric intake has been too low and my body was hanging on to everything. We'll see.

[bikerchick519 202]

My loss also seems pretty slow to me and I only eat about 700 calories a day. I have a pretty good week and then nothing lost for a week, and the cycle goes on and on like that. I've been thinking about increasing it to see if that helps. I'm just afraid of increasing the calories and getting used to eating more only to find out it doesn't help and then I'm just eating more and used to it.

[Isabel 0]

I was told to change my caloric intake daily so that my body doesn't become accustomed to the same amount of calories every day. This has worked for me and haven't had a stall yet!

[Ms skinniness 3,003]

Ummmm. I have been in a stall for about 3 weeks and have increased my calories yesturday to a little over 1000 and I actually gained over a pound. This is real scary to me. My NUT told me I should be eating 1200 calories and I have heard that anything under 1200 is starvation mode. I am so confused right now. I am starting a fitness program to strenthen my core with a personal trainer and hoping the triggers a weight loss. Not sure what to do.... Can anyone give me any advice? Thanks

[BettyBoop 28]

I think we all go through the dreaded 3 week stall.

Stay with healthy foods and what you can eat comfortably. I myself wouldn't even try to eat junk food anymore. Why set myself up for those bad habits again? I'm not quite 3 months out. I was at a stall for what seemed like weeks, right after surgery. It was driving me batty! I even thought I did better on my own with the weight loss I had lost before surgery. I still only get in 400-800 calories a day.

Then boom, the scale started moving. Looking at my tools on MyFitnessPal, I had lost 10 pounds in 20 days. That is on average a half a pound a day!

You're going to have stalls. You're body is just rearranging it's self. While you stall, you lose inches. Once that is done, the scale starts moving again.

You didn't gain all your weight overnight. You're not going to lose it over night.