Stalled and Terrified

[SoonergirlLayla 52]

I am 7 weeks out from surgery and for the last almost 2 weeks my scale is stuck a 238... I have lost 60 lbs since my journey began in January(29 of those post op) but now I am stuck, and scared that my fat body is stuck being fat forever. When I was on one of my millions of diets before this was always the weight that I got stuck at. I am so frustrated, I have been getting all of my Water in and exercising 5 days a week. I have been eating right, and getting plenty of rest. I am just so afraid at this point that I am going to be a size 18 the rest of my life no matter what (the size that I have been since high school). I have this irrational fear that the surgery did not work on me, and I will never make it to Onederland

Edited March 26, 2014 by SoonergirlLayla

[Teachamy 1,042]

Onederland is waiting for you! You can get here! Do you use MFP and track everything? Could it be that you are not eating enough given your exercise routine? I say talk to a nutritionist to get yourself over this hump. My thought would be to slow down on the exercise and go back to Protein shakes for a while to see if that might shake your system up a bit. But then again, I am not a nutritionist.

You Can Do This!

[Seela 1,187]

That's the weight your body remembers and because it's emotional for you the stress doesn't help. It may take a little while for your body to lose this fight but just stick with your plan and your body will soon give up and you'll start losing again. I experienced lots of stalls in the beginning but they all broke eventually. At 7 weeks you're no where near done losing. Try not to stress out at every stall. Instead think of it as a gearing up for another rapid period of loss. Your body needs to re-group.

[NMJG 1,266]

Stalls happen. Some can last for a month or more. Keep calm and carry on! You will get through this. Weight loss is a stair step, not a continual line of progress.

[SoonergirlLayla 52]

Thank you all for your encouragement. I'm really hoping that this will end soon. It didn't today, so hopefully tomorrow I will see a difference. I just have this pressure on me to lose the weight(all self induced of course) I especially feel it because My husband and I agreed that if this would make me happy that he would pay cash for the surgery(My insurance wouldn't cover it). I know I need to just be patient (I'm driving my poor husband crazy) but I cannot look him in the face if I do no lose this weight knowing that he just spent all of this money on me.

[fishingaaron 11]

Stalls are frustrating. Just remember they are common as most patients will go through several of them in the first 6 months. One thing I notice in my stall was that my body kept burning fat. I could see me waist getting smaller even though I was not losing weight. Sure enough after about 3 weeks, bam the weight started falling off again. I am currently in my second stall but working hard on kickstartingmy metabolism to start losing weight again. I would also suggest using my fitness pal to track your food and exercise as stated above. Good luck and don't give up.

[ASKSARAH - Sleeve 256]

It's not a stall unless you have loss no weight or inches in over 30 days.

Have you measured? My guess is no.

Relax key your body do it's thing