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My doctor said once you get to the 100s either you will go into a long stall or lose weight rapidly. Just curious if anyone else has ever heard this or experienced. I've been at 202/201 for a couple of Weeks. I'm not really frustrated cause I feel great and the clothes are falling off. Just wondering how long your longest stall was? I'm exercising every day but right now trying to increase the calories hopefully that will make a difference.....

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Honestly - that doesn't even make sense. Your body has no concept of numbers. To your body there's no difference between 199 and 200 other than a pound of something, who even knows what. You could poop and go from 202 to 199, and I doubt that's going to trigger something in your brain that will cause either a stall or rapid loss. I'm sure your doctor said this for a reason but there's nothing in metabolic or body science that affirms it, that I've ever read (but I'm not a Dr). :)

With my band I stalled for 18 months. My calories and food ratios were good, I was exercising, and just not losing weight OR sizes. That was my longest stall. So far with my sleeve it's been stall city. About 3 weeks post-op I stalled for about 10 weeks, and am just recently seeing movement again.

My doctor said once you get to the 100s either you will go into a long stall or lose weight rapidly. Just curious if anyone else has ever heard this or experienced. I've been at 202/201 for a couple of Weeks. I'm not really frustrated cause I feel great and the clothes are falling off. Just wondering how long your longest stall was? I'm exercising every day but right now trying to increase the calories hopefully that will make a difference.....

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I guess in lucky! I am 9 week out and I have yet to hit a stall!! I lose 2-21/2 lbs a week. It's slow, but it continues to move.

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I think he migh meant not so much the passing into Onderland as much as he means that you are getting very near your goal weight usually once you are lower than 200 - and that means that yes, lots of people slow down. This is not as much of a roll the dice type of thing as it seems. Even in a stall you create the outcome. Your body still builds, maintains or loses muscle and definition and you feel and act in direct relation to how you are dealing with your emotions and such.

This is a very good time to look at your habits. If they have not really, truly changed drastically, they need to do so at this time.

FYI - I say this in the middle of a MAJOR stall :/

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I think he migh meant not so much the passing into Onderland as much as he means that you are getting very near your goal weight usually once you are lower than 200 - and that means that yes' date=' lots of people slow down. This is not as much of a roll the dice type of thing as it seems. Even in a stall you create the outcome. Your body still builds, maintains or loses muscle and definition and you feel and act in direct relation to how you are dealing with your emotions and such.

This is a very good time to look at your habits. If they have not really, truly changed drastically, they need to do so at this time.

FYI - I say this in the middle of a MAJOR stall :/[/quote']

This, makes a lot of sense. I try to look at it as being all down hill from here. That's what I'm doing right now really watching my calorie n,protein intake and switching my exercise around. Have to just wait but I am dying to get in the 100s.

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With such a drastic difference in those two outcomes, it's possible he said that to ease the inevitable anxiety that comes once Onderland is reached when many of his patients probably begin to stress over being so close to goal. It could be more of a mental thing than a physical thing.

That being said, I hit Onderland last week after about 4 weeks of basically no progress, and I've been holding stead at 198 since Sunday, but we'll see what Saturdays "Official" weigh in brings...

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Think of your weight like an onion. The layers of an onion are about the same thickness. But the more you take off, the more difference they make. The first few layers - the onion may look about the same. The last few - each layer makes a tremendous difference.

IME weightloss is much faster in the beginning. Closer to goal, I've had to work that much harder for each and every pound. I've not seen many people fly through, say, their last 30 and reach goal with relative ease. (It prbably happens, just not with the people I have visibility to)

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