Sandra_Baby87

Heres mine..im 4 months post op (surgery day:May 10th)
started out at 325...now im 235. im 5'8 and 25 yrs old.
very first pic is halloween 2011. last pic in the dress...just last week. hope it helps!

Heres mine..im 4 months post op (surgery day:May 10th)
started out at 325...now im 235. im 5'8 and 25 yrs old.
very first pic is halloween 2011. last pic in the dress...just last week. hope it helps!

Heres mine..im 4 months post op (surgery day:May 10th)
started out at 325...now im 235. im 5'8 and 25 yrs old.
very first pic is halloween 2011. last pic in the dress...just last week. hope it helps!

Heres mine..im 4 months post op (surgery day:May 10th)
started out at 325...now im 235. im 5'8 and 25 yrs old.
very first pic is halloween 2011. last pic in the dress...just last week. hope it helps!

Heres mine..im 4 months post op (surgery day:May 10th)
started out at 325...now im 235. im 5'8 and 25 yrs old.
very first pic is halloween 2011. last pic in the dress...just last week. hope it helps!

Heres mine..im 4 months post op (surgery day:May 10th)
started out at 325...now im 235. im 5'8 and 25 yrs old.
very first pic is halloween 2011. last pic in the dress...just last week. hope it helps!

Heres mine..im 4 months post op (surgery day:May 10th)
started out at 325...now im 235. im 5'8 and 25 yrs old.
very first pic is halloween 2011. last pic in the dress...just last week. hope it helps!

Heres mine..im 4 months post op (surgery day:May 10th)
started out at 325...now im 235. im 5'8 and 25 yrs old.
very first pic is halloween 2011. last pic in the dress...just last week. hope it helps!

Heres mine..im 4 months post op (surgery day:May 10th)
started out at 325...now im 235. im 5'8 and 25 yrs old.
very first pic is halloween 2011. last pic in the dress...just last week. hope it helps!

Heres mine..im 4 months post op (surgery day:May 10th)
started out at 325...now im 235. im 5'8 and 25 yrs old.
very first pic is halloween 2011. last pic in the dress...just last week. hope it helps!

Heres mine..im 4 months post op (surgery day:May 10th)
started out at 325...now im 235. im 5'8 and 25 yrs old.
very first pic is halloween 2011. last pic in the dress...just last week. hope it helps!

A real stall is three weeks or more at the same weight. I had two of them and both were nine weeks long. Both started out as "natural" stalls, something you should fully expect post VSG. But like many of us, after about a month at the same weight I fell back into bad habits and had to address the bad behavior before I could get back on track.
It is perfectly normal to have stalls and it is perfectly normal to have a less than perfect journey. If we had all of the tools we need to lose weight effortlessly, we'd skip the surgery and just join Weight Watchers again. The sleeve is that extra tool that helps us do the head work to overcome. So, expect stalls and expect some measure of frustration and expect that you will need to put effort into adopting new habits permanently for long term success.
As for what month you stop losing there's no such thing.
Really. I'll say it again: NO SUCH THING.
Your sleeve is just about as large as it will get at roughly one year post op. Your capacity afterward is tiny compared to pre-op, even if it is considerably larger than immediately post surgery. We're talking about fitting in between 3/4 to 1 and 1/2 cups of food somewhere between one and two years post op. And that's it - forever - unless you try your very hardest to stretch your sleeve (though pain and real effort) what little it will stretch.
So what does all of that mean? It means that there is nothing stopping anyone at one, two, three or even seven years post op, from picking up the pieces if they fall into bad habits and regain. The sleeve was and will remain a restrictive tool to help you lose weight and maintain that loss if you make the right food choices.
Expect that the lower your body weight and the closer you are to your body's happy place, the harder it will be to lose weight. So yes, weight tends to come off more quickly in the beginning and to come off more slowly the closer you get to goal. That does not mean it's more difficult to lose weight. You'll use the same exact techniques and tools to lose. It's just harder for your body to give up those final pounds. I was six months to lose the last twenty. That's a bit excessive, maybe, but I was a slower loser from the start. But everyone slows down near the end - it's natural when your body has less to give up.
And in my experience, people need to feel in control so they fiddle with their diets any time they don't see a drop on the scale every day. If you're tracking your food and you're not eating an extra four hundred calories a day all of a sudden, it's doubtful that your diet is the culprit. Everyone's body reacts differently but in more cases than not, the thing that shakes a real stall is upping the calories and carbs in your diet, not slashing them. Or you could just wait it out. Because with time, it'll pass and it's part of the journey.
~Cheri

Heres mine..im 4 months post op (surgery day:May 10th)
started out at 325...now im 235. im 5'8 and 25 yrs old.
very first pic is halloween 2011. last pic in the dress...just last week. hope it helps!

Heres mine..im 4 months post op (surgery day:May 10th)
started out at 325...now im 235. im 5'8 and 25 yrs old.
very first pic is halloween 2011. last pic in the dress...just last week. hope it helps!

Just wanna share with everyone i had surgery july 10th.day of surgery i was 254.i am down to 194 this morning woohoo finally in one der land.i have worked out a couple times but mainly want to focus on my arms right now. I wish i could post pics but it wont let me from my phone :-\
Anywho congrats to everyone else on their loss also :-)

Heres mine..im 4 months post op (surgery day:May 10th)
started out at 325...now im 235. im 5'8 and 25 yrs old.
very first pic is halloween 2011. last pic in the dress...just last week. hope it helps!

Heres mine..im 4 months post op (surgery day:May 10th)
started out at 325...now im 235. im 5'8 and 25 yrs old.
very first pic is halloween 2011. last pic in the dress...just last week. hope it helps!

Heres mine..im 4 months post op (surgery day:May 10th)
started out at 325...now im 235. im 5'8 and 25 yrs old.
very first pic is halloween 2011. last pic in the dress...just last week. hope it helps!

Heres mine..im 4 months post op (surgery day:May 10th)
started out at 325...now im 235. im 5'8 and 25 yrs old.
very first pic is halloween 2011. last pic in the dress...just last week. hope it helps!

Heres mine..im 4 months post op (surgery day:May 10th)
started out at 325...now im 235. im 5'8 and 25 yrs old.
very first pic is halloween 2011. last pic in the dress...just last week. hope it helps!

Heres mine..im 4 months post op (surgery day:May 10th)
started out at 325...now im 235. im 5'8 and 25 yrs old.
very first pic is halloween 2011. last pic in the dress...just last week. hope it helps!

Heres mine..im 4 months post op (surgery day:May 10th)
started out at 325...now im 235. im 5'8 and 25 yrs old.
very first pic is halloween 2011. last pic in the dress...just last week. hope it helps!

Heres mine..im 4 months post op (surgery day:May 10th)
started out at 325...now im 235. im 5'8 and 25 yrs old.
very first pic is halloween 2011. last pic in the dress...just last week. hope it helps!

Heres mine..im 4 months post op (surgery day:May 10th)
started out at 325...now im 235. im 5'8 and 25 yrs old.
very first pic is halloween 2011. last pic in the dress...just last week. hope it helps!

Heres mine..im 4 months post op (surgery day:May 10th)
started out at 325...now im 235. im 5'8 and 25 yrs old.
very first pic is halloween 2011. last pic in the dress...just last week. hope it helps!