The dreaded STALL...

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I consider a stall for me if I go past 10 - 12 days without the scale moving at all! When I follow our plan to the letter....I do see a slow down when I work harder at the health club! What building muscle at age 64? Lol

Edited January 23, 2014 by Birthsjourney

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A few days is probably too early to "call" it a stall but perhaps that really isn't important. Follow your plan. Regardless of what your weight is doing. Rapid weight loss - follow your plan. Slow weight loss - follow your plan. Weight stubbornly refusing to move - follow your plan. Trust the process and allow your body to find its own way in its own time. There is not a bariatric team in the world that recommends stress and worry as a weight loss tool. Your journey will be so much easier and so much less stressful if you do everything you can to focus all of your attention on one thing - follow your plan.

You're gonna love the new you!!

You make a great point. What is a stall? Is it not losing any weight for a day, a week, a month? It is such a relative term. For me I consider my self in a stall if I go more than two weeks without the scale moving but doing everything right. I'm curious what others define a stall as because I have seen people who didn't lose every day say they are in a stall but I don't agree. Frankly even my two week rule is arbitrary and probably not close to a scientific explanation.

If there is a scientific definition of a stall I've never seen it. For that matter, I've never seen a scientific explanation of exactly why stalls occur. Both are actually quite interesting questions. We all certainly know that just about everyone gets them but the what and why - may not have been answered yet.