stalled and overly emotional. aka - it's been a rough week

[Daizymoo 4]

For two weeks ( from week two to nearly week four) I lost absolutely NOTHING. I too, thought I was going to be one of the minority that this surgery did not work for. To make it more puzzling....I had to be consuming less than 500 calories a day....I am carrying 100 lbs of excess weight around......I couldn't figure out how I wasn't dropping like three pounds a day!! I had also announced my sleeve surgery to everyone and I could see them studying me to see if they could notice any loss. I felt like a failure!! My husband finally got tired of the lamenting and hide the scale. Best idea ever!!!

It really was just a stall. When it finally broke, I lost like four lbs. Since then, it has been pretty steady since. I believe it is just your body adjusting. You undergo major surgery......then your calorie count is dropped to zilch. Your body says "Wait a minute!!"and starts to conserve. But you must remember, if you follow the program, eat as you should and exercise, it is nearly a mathematical impossibility that you will NOT lose.

Drink as much Water as you can...keep up your Protein and lightly exercise. I promise, it will break eventually.

This is par for the course. I don't like stalls, but at least I know now that they are part of the journey and they do break eventually!! :

Hide that scale!!

[mistysj 1,940]

It was nice to see your happier thread from today.

[makemyownluck 785]

Thank you, thank you, thank you so much to everyone who responded here. I've read mannnnyyyyy posts on this forum about stalls, but I didn't expect to have such an emotional reaction to it when it inevitably happened to me!

In the past few days:

- my period ended

- the tears dried up

- I lost 2lbs.

Now, I don't know if the stall is necessarily broken, but I am hoping to see a loss. I've decided to limit myself to weighing in only once per week! I think I'll be happier than if I check it every day. I

It's ironic - pre-op, I didn't ever own a scale. When I bought it, I didn't weigh every day. It was only when I was on that pre-op diet, I started weighing every day. It's not a good habit, so I'm gonna cut down!!

I appreciate all of you that took the time to offer encouragement. It's so nice to have people who understand what I'm going through! Good luck to us all!

[Chris R 217]

It seems like I stall for 1-2 weeks each month (always including the week Aunt Flo is visiting, going up and down 3-4 lbs that week), but I've pretty consistently lost an average of 16-18 lbs each month. I've decided it's just how my weight loss works.