14 Weeks Out and major stall

[ShayLove 40]

I had my surgery 2/18/2014. I have been stalling for the last 4 weeks. I'm down 42 pounds since surgery. Has anyone else stalled this long before? What should I do?

[DestinClair1983 72]

Maybe try to drink more Water, exercise more. Make sure you're keeping accurate track of all that you're consuming. It could just be your body adjusting, maybe you're still losing inches even if you're not losing pounds, which I know firsthand how frustrating that is. If all else fails, what I have done and has worked for me is to eat more calories for a few days, for me It was anywhere from 1200-1500 calories, and then go back to 600-800 calories daily, and the scale would start moving again. Of course I would gain a pound or two initially with the upped calories, but when I would go back to the 600-800 range, I'd lose those few pounds easily and them some, and then continue to drop steadily...until the next stall hits lol. Good luck!

[LivingFree! 478]

You are three months+ post-surgery. Your body is definitely not finished losing weight. It knows what to do. It is not programmed to lose the number of pounds that WE think we should be losing each week! If you continue to follow your Bariatric Eating program, and work on building those new lifetime habits, your results will be what is to be expected of WLS.

After so many years of battling our weight, of course it's natural for us to want to see those pounds drop off "overnight." But, we all would be doing ourselves a huge favor by focusing less on that number on the scale and worrying so much about STALLS, and instead focusing more on how we are doing day-to-day on getting ourselves into the habit of eating healthy and ditching our wants and needs for all those unhealthy foods that got us in this mess in the first place. Yes?

Keep up the good work. . .