I am wondering and I bet a few others might be too but....

I have seen it common for a rather large group of us to experience the "three week stall" (right after surgery) - but are there any other common stall times that commonly occur during the post sleeve journey?

This isn't based on anything I've gathered, it's just anecdotal from my previous experience and 7 - 8 years on WLS boards...

Weeks 2 - 6

Weeks 10 - 12

6 months <- plateau, not stall

18 months

There also seem to be weight-related plateaus. Almost like our bodies are resistant to moving past certain weights, which makes zero sense, but anecdotally really seems to happen. There's a theory that it's related to the amount of time you spent at a given weight before gaining past it. I was at 250 for about 18 months.

My understanding of the plateaus is that the body and our metabolism get used to a certain weight range. When our bodies are shrinking following WLS, the metabolism can "deal" within that range, and once it realizes we're below a certain weight (which is really just a new Basal Metabolic Rate), it has to "recalibrate".

So in other words, we have "set points" that our metabolism can work within, and once we stray outside of that range (up or down), it takes a long time for the body to restore it's metabolic pathways to the most efficient model it was in before. That can take a short time or a long time, depending on the individual.

And there's no way of knowing what it is for each of us....until we go through it!

Frustrating, but scientifically, it makes sense to me.

They sound about right to me... I didn't stall or plateau at 6mths, but things really slowed down and since Oct I've been stuck bouncing between 164-169lbs regardless of what I do. I was this weight for a long time many years ago too... funny how the body works.

In my case, my body and mind are out of sync as I don't feel that I am at the 'right' weight at the moment and I can physically see that there is more fat left to get rid of. However, regardless of what I do, nothing is shifting at the moment!

Hopefully one day soon, my body will realise that it doesn't need these extra pounds and get rid of them!

So so so glad to read this. I am a little over 5 weeks post op and stuck at a 25 lb loss since about 2 weeks post op. I was just hoping I didn't go thru all this to only lose 25lbs when I need to lose 200. I can keep my head up now for a while. A friend of mine is going thru the same thing and I'll tell her too. Thanks for the info!

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