1st stall

[jccanada 314]

Gish, I'm 15 days post open and have lost 24 pounds up until 4 days ago. Now I'm stuck!! I know they say no to weigh often but that's so hard. How do you get past these stalls?

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[catwoman7 11,211]

Just stick to your plan - it *will* pass. And try to stay off the scale! My three-week stall lasted for two weeks, but it did end!!

[yami17leth 62]

I'm now 3 weeks post up and i've been stuck since 1 1/2 week post up hope this ends soon and I start loosing again

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[jccanada 314]

Sure hope so.. it's discouraging

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[Cervidae 2,389]

you lost 24 pounds in 11 days? you lost over 2 pounds a day and you are worried about a stall?!

I think you could benefit from taking a step back off the scale and looking at this objectively.

Can you recall what two pounds of meat feels like in your hand? Or a two pound weight? Your body has lost that EVERY DAY for 11 days. A stall is not only normal, but necessary! Right now, your body thinks it is starving and dying. It's in panic/survival mode. It's also dealing with the enormous trauma of major abdominal surgery and the loss of parts of your digestive tract. Give the poor thing some time for a breather!

I was here worrying and posting about stalls too. Most people were at one point or another. But do yourself a HUGE favor and don't allow yourself to obsess about this. If you lost two pounds a day for months without a break, you would be incredibly sick, maybe even so sick you'd need to be hospitalized. It may be normal for wls patients to lose quickly in the beginning, but it is in no way normal for our bodies to be losing weight like this. Obsessing about it is not only not going to change the fact that stalls happen and they need to happen, but it's also detrimental to your emotional (and by extension, physical) health. Did you do this just to lose weight or did you also want to get healthy? I'm betting you really care about your health. We did not become obese in a few months and we sure as hell aren't going to become "normal" in a few months.

So don't sweat the stalls, embrace them! It means everything is working correctly. I stall for weeks - sometimes close to a month - every single month around my period, then have rapid loss for a few days, then go into another stall. Yet, despite all of that, here I am less than 9 months later and down 143 pounds. It all adds up, it all evens out, and in a few months you're going to feel silly for worrying about this. Trust me! Get in your Protein and Water and Vitamins and all the other good stuff will follow. Hang in there!

[jccanada 314]

Point well taken, thank you. Im just do anxious of can't stand it. My husband asks me every day, "how much have you lost now?" He looks for numbers... I think or at least hope it's because he wants to be proud of me. I don't know. I get what you're saying though, I know you're right.

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[yami17leth 62]

What I have noticed during this last 1 1/2 week is that although i'm going through a stall, my body has gotten smaller. I feel it and i've noticed it when I look in the mirror. I read on another post that your body might not be loosing weigh during a stall, but it is shrinking during that time. I also read that it's a good idea to use a measuring tape during this time instead of the scale. It does make sense that ones body needs time to shrink; however i'm 22 days now and i've only lost 17 pounds. Yes I did loose it in the first 1 1/2 week, but I hope my body surprises me after this stall

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[jccanada 314]

That does make sense as well. I notice myself getting around better and bending better too.

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[YumiMumi 29]

Im on same timeline and have stalled too... in fact i was half a pound heavier this morning :-(.

Gonna stay off the scales for a few days or a week if i can do it!!! Will drive myself insane otherwise....

[yami17leth 62]

Thats what was happening to me I was at my lowest 217 then 218 then 219

Then again 218 or 219

And a week later the same thing was happening, but like I said before I do see a difference when I see myself in the mirror

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@@jccanada

Perhaps it's time to suggest to your husband that he ease up on the inquiries. You can assure him that you appreciate his efforts to support you while letting him know that it's not the healthiest of ideas to keep you so focused on the number on the scale.

I know I've had a few people in my life that had to be updated on my loss every time they saw me, and it was making me feel bad about myself when there was none to report. Hence I simply stopped reporting, explaining to those who asked that I need to be more focused on HOW I'm losing than on how MUCH I'm losing.

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@@yami17leth

My weight fluctuates within a few pounds when I'm stalled as well. I'm pretty sure that's normal.