RozzieJ

Oh man, there are SO many things I won't miss......
From not having to buy bras engineered by German structural engineers to not sweating at the slightest movement to not being called Princess Fiona or Pixie-Anne Wheatley (you have to be an Aussie to get that one )
But the big one for me at the moment is not feel shame every time I have to weigh in when travelling on the small planes I have to fly on for work purposes. They run on a weight-fuel ratio, so all passenger and luggage are weighed and then you're allocated a seat accordingly - which happens to always be the back seat of the plane.
So, I'm looking forward to a) not being the fattest on board and being stuck in the fatty-boom-bah seat and not getting evil looks from the guys who are really tall and envious of my leg room by the back door!!! My dream to get seat 1A!!!! Keep an eye on those pilots - make sure we don't become and episode of Air Crash Investigation!!!
Bring on Wednesday, 22/10.

Oh man, there are SO many things I won't miss......
From not having to buy bras engineered by German structural engineers to not sweating at the slightest movement to not being called Princess Fiona or Pixie-Anne Wheatley (you have to be an Aussie to get that one )
But the big one for me at the moment is not feel shame every time I have to weigh in when travelling on the small planes I have to fly on for work purposes. They run on a weight-fuel ratio, so all passenger and luggage are weighed and then you're allocated a seat accordingly - which happens to always be the back seat of the plane.
So, I'm looking forward to a) not being the fattest on board and being stuck in the fatty-boom-bah seat and not getting evil looks from the guys who are really tall and envious of my leg room by the back door!!! My dream to get seat 1A!!!! Keep an eye on those pilots - make sure we don't become and episode of Air Crash Investigation!!!
Bring on Wednesday, 22/10.

Oh man, there are SO many things I won't miss......
From not having to buy bras engineered by German structural engineers to not sweating at the slightest movement to not being called Princess Fiona or Pixie-Anne Wheatley (you have to be an Aussie to get that one )
But the big one for me at the moment is not feel shame every time I have to weigh in when travelling on the small planes I have to fly on for work purposes. They run on a weight-fuel ratio, so all passenger and luggage are weighed and then you're allocated a seat accordingly - which happens to always be the back seat of the plane.
So, I'm looking forward to a) not being the fattest on board and being stuck in the fatty-boom-bah seat and not getting evil looks from the guys who are really tall and envious of my leg room by the back door!!! My dream to get seat 1A!!!! Keep an eye on those pilots - make sure we don't become and episode of Air Crash Investigation!!!
Bring on Wednesday, 22/10.

Oh man, there are SO many things I won't miss......
From not having to buy bras engineered by German structural engineers to not sweating at the slightest movement to not being called Princess Fiona or Pixie-Anne Wheatley (you have to be an Aussie to get that one )
But the big one for me at the moment is not feel shame every time I have to weigh in when travelling on the small planes I have to fly on for work purposes. They run on a weight-fuel ratio, so all passenger and luggage are weighed and then you're allocated a seat accordingly - which happens to always be the back seat of the plane.
So, I'm looking forward to a) not being the fattest on board and being stuck in the fatty-boom-bah seat and not getting evil looks from the guys who are really tall and envious of my leg room by the back door!!! My dream to get seat 1A!!!! Keep an eye on those pilots - make sure we don't become and episode of Air Crash Investigation!!!
Bring on Wednesday, 22/10.

Muscle does not weigh more than fat, it just takes up less space. A pound is a pound. The drastic inch loss shows that you are doing what you're supposed to be doing and the scale will eventually catch up. I think you're doing great.

I'm looking forward to just general respect - something that is sorely lacking when you're on the plus size.
Of hopping on the train during peak hour and not feeling like a terrible person because I go over into the other seat a little bit.
Of being able to fit in a plane seat & travel.
To have a man look at me across the room & smile cause he thinks I'm pretty and not because he and his mates are having a joke about my weight.
To wear pretty bras again and show off my cleavage (thought it might be a bit saggy!!!).
To maybe finally feel worthy of love, success, anything!
Of not feeling ashamed of myself anymore for nothing more than being fat.

I'm looking forward to just general respect - something that is sorely lacking when you're on the plus size.
Of hopping on the train during peak hour and not feeling like a terrible person because I go over into the other seat a little bit.
Of being able to fit in a plane seat & travel.
To have a man look at me across the room & smile cause he thinks I'm pretty and not because he and his mates are having a joke about my weight.
To wear pretty bras again and show off my cleavage (thought it might be a bit saggy!!!).
To maybe finally feel worthy of love, success, anything!
Of not feeling ashamed of myself anymore for nothing more than being fat.

I'm looking forward to just general respect - something that is sorely lacking when you're on the plus size.
Of hopping on the train during peak hour and not feeling like a terrible person because I go over into the other seat a little bit.
Of being able to fit in a plane seat & travel.
To have a man look at me across the room & smile cause he thinks I'm pretty and not because he and his mates are having a joke about my weight.
To wear pretty bras again and show off my cleavage (thought it might be a bit saggy!!!).
To maybe finally feel worthy of love, success, anything!
Of not feeling ashamed of myself anymore for nothing more than being fat.

Thanks for the feedback everyone.
I think I might try the calorie increase too and see how I fare. My dietician didn't really give me a guide on calorie intake. Just lists of foods that I could eat and to ensure I stick to about 1/2 cup per serving. As a consequence, I've felt like I've been floundering.
So I jumped on the recording of calories from the comments I've seen here - which is great because last night after I did a 4km walk which I recorded in my app, it showed that I still had about 3000KJs remaining for the day. That kinda made me sit up and go "oh, maybe I'm not eating enough calories". So I guess it's worth a try upping the calorie intake for a bit and seeing what happens.
I appreciate all the replies - it's so helpful to hear others experiences and to learn from them.
I know I'm an eager beaver for this to stall to bugger off, but I guess that's just human nature. Taking a huge step like this, you expect to see the weight drop off. And to be fair, my doctor never said anything to me about stalls. He did say that once I lost about half my weight, it will become harder and harder to budge the weight. So I did go into this operation ignorant of a lot of these types of issues.
But this forum has been fabulous at helping highlight issues and solutions as traverse this new territory.
Thanks for all the words of wisdom and the advice. It's muchly appreciated.
Cheers
Rozzie J

I'm looking forward to just general respect - something that is sorely lacking when you're on the plus size.
Of hopping on the train during peak hour and not feeling like a terrible person because I go over into the other seat a little bit.
Of being able to fit in a plane seat & travel.
To have a man look at me across the room & smile cause he thinks I'm pretty and not because he and his mates are having a joke about my weight.
To wear pretty bras again and show off my cleavage (thought it might be a bit saggy!!!).
To maybe finally feel worthy of love, success, anything!
Of not feeling ashamed of myself anymore for nothing more than being fat.

Rozzie ... chill, my dear. You're just experiencing the dreaded three-week stall. Happens to almost everyone. It will start moving again VERY soon.
FYI, for those who love to compare, yesterday was my three-month surgiversary. I'm 5'5" (or 5'4", depending on whose ruler you believe) and 68 years old. Here are my stats:
I lost 19 pounds pre-op (11 on my own and 8 on the surgeon's two-week pre-op diet). Post-op I've lost:
Month 1 = 10.4
Month 2 = 11.8
Month 3 = 8.8
... for a total of 51 pounds.
I'm very, very happy.

I stalled early on and then spent a month losing .5 pounds a week. I finally talked to my nurse practitioner and she said I was eating too few calories. I was eating 500 -800, when I increased my intake to around 1,000 I started losing again. I'm eating around 1,000 now and losing between one to two pounds a week. Not a lot,but slow and steady. I've now lost 40 pounds since surgery in July and seventy since last March.

Hi Everyone
I've been doing some great reading around the forum of people's issues with stalls, in particular, the dreaded 3 week stall.
I'm now 4wks post op today, have healed really well and in all ways feel great.... BUT I've been stalled the last two weeks with my weight loss. It's gone up and down by 1kg in the past two weeks (sorry folks, I'm in Aus and we're metric, so don't know the imperial conversion!!).
Anyways, I'm consuming approximately 800 calories a day and I'm doing 2-3km walks everyday to every second day.
After reading a number of posts by the veterans, who have mentioned increasing calorie content and Water, I'm curious if that could work for me - given I'm already at the ideal calorie intake & doing really well getting my water in.
I'm using an app on my phone to record what I'm eating so it tells me how many kj's, how much Protein, fat, sugar, carbs etc are in. As of yesterday, I've finally managed to get to 60grms of protein, but my carbs are 66grms. Which seems to mostly come from having a glass of milk, which my dietician suggested I take to get in protein.
As I'm quite terrified the stall is permanent (despite reading comments that it does start again - I don't have much faith it will!!), I'm wondering what the next step is.
If I'm in starvation mode but increase my calories, is that going to bugger things up making the body thing "woo hoo!! Foood!!!!" and then gain weight because I've given it more calories?? And on days that I exercise, should I also increase calorie content??
It's almost like a maths equation or a science project!
I did ask my surgeon last week, but his only comment was "weight is hard to lose". Which I'm sure most of you would agree with my response of "no shit sherlock"!! (I didn't actually say that to him, but I'm sure he read it on my face!!!).
I know I'm probably being an eager beaver. And I'm also committing the cardinal sin of comparing my progress against a friend who had it done in June and I know week for week, she's progressed better than I have, so am having feelings of failing at this.
Sorry for the 20 questions folks. I'm just really keen to kick this stall to the curb and get with the losing of weight again. I'm just so bummed it's not changing!!!
Cheers
RozzieJ

Hi Everyone
I've been doing some great reading around the forum of people's issues with stalls, in particular, the dreaded 3 week stall.
I'm now 4wks post op today, have healed really well and in all ways feel great.... BUT I've been stalled the last two weeks with my weight loss. It's gone up and down by 1kg in the past two weeks (sorry folks, I'm in Aus and we're metric, so don't know the imperial conversion!!).
Anyways, I'm consuming approximately 800 calories a day and I'm doing 2-3km walks everyday to every second day.
After reading a number of posts by the veterans, who have mentioned increasing calorie content and Water, I'm curious if that could work for me - given I'm already at the ideal calorie intake & doing really well getting my water in.
I'm using an app on my phone to record what I'm eating so it tells me how many kj's, how much Protein, fat, sugar, carbs etc are in. As of yesterday, I've finally managed to get to 60grms of protein, but my carbs are 66grms. Which seems to mostly come from having a glass of milk, which my dietician suggested I take to get in protein.
As I'm quite terrified the stall is permanent (despite reading comments that it does start again - I don't have much faith it will!!), I'm wondering what the next step is.
If I'm in starvation mode but increase my calories, is that going to bugger things up making the body thing "woo hoo!! Foood!!!!" and then gain weight because I've given it more calories?? And on days that I exercise, should I also increase calorie content??
It's almost like a maths equation or a science project!
I did ask my surgeon last week, but his only comment was "weight is hard to lose". Which I'm sure most of you would agree with my response of "no shit sherlock"!! (I didn't actually say that to him, but I'm sure he read it on my face!!!).
I know I'm probably being an eager beaver. And I'm also committing the cardinal sin of comparing my progress against a friend who had it done in June and I know week for week, she's progressed better than I have, so am having feelings of failing at this.
Sorry for the 20 questions folks. I'm just really keen to kick this stall to the curb and get with the losing of weight again. I'm just so bummed it's not changing!!!
Cheers
RozzieJ

And here I was self-flagellating because I thought I must be either eating too much or too little or just generally have a body that doesn't want to lose weight. I'd never heard of the three week stall, but I'm in the midst of it. I'm 4wks post op tomorrow and I've fluctuated between losing and gaining a kilo in the last fortnight.
That said, I do notice tiny changes in my body ie my sports crop top that was once nearly cutting me in two is now comfortable bordering on being too loose.
I'm glad I kept scrolling through this and thank you to the original poster for posting this!!! I just hope my body gets a grip on itself and starts to pull the finger out. I've ramped up my cardio and plan to start weights this weekend (baby weights, not Arnie weights!!!).
You all have given me hope that I'm not going to stay this weight. Yay!
Cheers
RozzieJ

RozzieJ-
I hope you don't mind if I give you my input. I hit that dreaded stall at week 3 and it lasted about 3 weeks. Just stick to your program. Make sure you get your fluids and Protein in each day. The scale will move again. It is extremely frustrating, but it will be worth it. Our bodies go through shock. I am almost 4 months post op and I have had a few stalls. What has helped me is to just keep going. We are creating healthier habits. I am not sure if this helped. ????

You are approaching the famous 3 week stall. Happens to everyone. The best advice I can offer is to stay off the scale. I only weighed like 3 times in the 1st month postop. Eating healthy and creating new habits are more important than the scale at this point. Just concentrate on AT LEAST 60g of Protein, 64oz. Water and your Vitamins. I've never counted calories, so I can't help you with that silly "numbers game".

Oh man, there are SO many things I won't miss......
From not having to buy bras engineered by German structural engineers to not sweating at the slightest movement to not being called Princess Fiona or Pixie-Anne Wheatley (you have to be an Aussie to get that one )
But the big one for me at the moment is not feel shame every time I have to weigh in when travelling on the small planes I have to fly on for work purposes. They run on a weight-fuel ratio, so all passenger and luggage are weighed and then you're allocated a seat accordingly - which happens to always be the back seat of the plane.
So, I'm looking forward to a) not being the fattest on board and being stuck in the fatty-boom-bah seat and not getting evil looks from the guys who are really tall and envious of my leg room by the back door!!! My dream to get seat 1A!!!! Keep an eye on those pilots - make sure we don't become and episode of Air Crash Investigation!!!
Bring on Wednesday, 22/10.

Oh man, there are SO many things I won't miss......
From not having to buy bras engineered by German structural engineers to not sweating at the slightest movement to not being called Princess Fiona or Pixie-Anne Wheatley (you have to be an Aussie to get that one )
But the big one for me at the moment is not feel shame every time I have to weigh in when travelling on the small planes I have to fly on for work purposes. They run on a weight-fuel ratio, so all passenger and luggage are weighed and then you're allocated a seat accordingly - which happens to always be the back seat of the plane.
So, I'm looking forward to a) not being the fattest on board and being stuck in the fatty-boom-bah seat and not getting evil looks from the guys who are really tall and envious of my leg room by the back door!!! My dream to get seat 1A!!!! Keep an eye on those pilots - make sure we don't become and episode of Air Crash Investigation!!!
Bring on Wednesday, 22/10.

Oh man, there are SO many things I won't miss......
From not having to buy bras engineered by German structural engineers to not sweating at the slightest movement to not being called Princess Fiona or Pixie-Anne Wheatley (you have to be an Aussie to get that one )
But the big one for me at the moment is not feel shame every time I have to weigh in when travelling on the small planes I have to fly on for work purposes. They run on a weight-fuel ratio, so all passenger and luggage are weighed and then you're allocated a seat accordingly - which happens to always be the back seat of the plane.
So, I'm looking forward to a) not being the fattest on board and being stuck in the fatty-boom-bah seat and not getting evil looks from the guys who are really tall and envious of my leg room by the back door!!! My dream to get seat 1A!!!! Keep an eye on those pilots - make sure we don't become and episode of Air Crash Investigation!!!
Bring on Wednesday, 22/10.

Oh man, there are SO many things I won't miss......
From not having to buy bras engineered by German structural engineers to not sweating at the slightest movement to not being called Princess Fiona or Pixie-Anne Wheatley (you have to be an Aussie to get that one )
But the big one for me at the moment is not feel shame every time I have to weigh in when travelling on the small planes I have to fly on for work purposes. They run on a weight-fuel ratio, so all passenger and luggage are weighed and then you're allocated a seat accordingly - which happens to always be the back seat of the plane.
So, I'm looking forward to a) not being the fattest on board and being stuck in the fatty-boom-bah seat and not getting evil looks from the guys who are really tall and envious of my leg room by the back door!!! My dream to get seat 1A!!!! Keep an eye on those pilots - make sure we don't become and episode of Air Crash Investigation!!!
Bring on Wednesday, 22/10.

Oh man, there are SO many things I won't miss......
From not having to buy bras engineered by German structural engineers to not sweating at the slightest movement to not being called Princess Fiona or Pixie-Anne Wheatley (you have to be an Aussie to get that one )
But the big one for me at the moment is not feel shame every time I have to weigh in when travelling on the small planes I have to fly on for work purposes. They run on a weight-fuel ratio, so all passenger and luggage are weighed and then you're allocated a seat accordingly - which happens to always be the back seat of the plane.
So, I'm looking forward to a) not being the fattest on board and being stuck in the fatty-boom-bah seat and not getting evil looks from the guys who are really tall and envious of my leg room by the back door!!! My dream to get seat 1A!!!! Keep an eye on those pilots - make sure we don't become and episode of Air Crash Investigation!!!
Bring on Wednesday, 22/10.

Thanks Sweetcheeks!! Luckily, my body seems have given up begging me for food and only really grinches when it's really hungry. So that's a good little win!
Good luck to everyone who is being sleeved on the 20th. Next Wednesday cannot come quick enough for me!!!

Hello all! I love the topic so this will be my first post
I will not miss NOT being able to fit my calves into knee high boots, especially the "Wide Calf" ones that zip up half way and then taunt you
I will not miss my daughter asking me why I'm always so tired
I will not miss the shin splints I get walking two city blocks to my job

i FOR SURE don't miss anybody asking me 'when are you due" (this was especially hurtful after 2 years of failed IVF treatments)...
i don't miss looking down and seeing a large stomach that caused me physical and emotional distress all day
i don't miss my thighs rubbing and chaffing
i don't miss having to stop half way up stairs and sucking wind like crazy
i don't miss my 3 chins
i don't miss having to constantly buy bigger sizes
i don't miss sneaking third and fourth portions of dinner after my hubs goes out to the barn for chores
i don't miss not participating in games/activities with my kids
i don't miss knowing that i would be dead in the next few years
i don't miss paying hundreds of dollars for prescriptions every month SIMPLY due to being fat
lastly, i don't miss ANYTHING about the former me. not one thing. i was fat, sick, depressed, sad and lonely. no more!