I am a week away from my third week and am bracing for the dreaded stall! How long was your stall or did you not have one? I am doing a very unscientific study!! Please share!!!

My 3 week post op stall lasted 3 weeks and my 8 week stall is a week so far!

I am a week away from my third week and am bracing for the dreaded stall! How long was your stall or did you not have one? I am doing a very unscientific study!! Please share!!!

My "3 week stall" actually occurred at week 5. It was 13 days long. My weight loss pattern between month 1 and month six was basically lose for 2 weeks, stall for 2 weeks, repeat. It was frustrating at first, but got used to it after a while.

Let me start with a little personal history. A lot of my weight dropped month 1 and 2, with mostly walking. Month 3-5 dropped about 1/2 rate with mostly ellyptical. Month 5-7 dropped a little faster with mostly running. Now trying to improve fitness and gain back some lean muscle with cross fit, incline running and yoga as well as supplements.

One suggestion to limit stalls is to eat more good carbs, lots of Protein (120+ and plenty of Water (100+ oz) during weight loss period. I did eat a lot of quality protein and drank a lot of water, but did not eat good carbs until recently and really leaned out in upper body, mostly due to hard running. There are some supplements I have learned about recently that might help preserve lean muscle such as BCAA (amino acids) and catalyst so your exercise does not eat all your lean muscle during loss.

I had one for the whole second week and then things picked back up in week 3. Only a month or so out so we will see how it goes from here.