I am so happy to be on this journey to a healthier me! RNY on Nov 18th...lost 45# as of today. My question is how do we get past the stalls I have had . My surgeon says NO WORRIES..be patient. It is normal to have them at one month and 6 weeks out. Your body is learning to adjust. Yes, I did move past both of these now but the first one lasted 2 weeks. Anyone know a trick to help move past it? Please share for us Newbies following your vast knowledge we search for! Thanks ,Dyan from Toledo area in Ohio

A few days is probably too early to "call" it a stall but perhaps that really isn't important. Follow your plan. Regardless of what your weight is doing. Rapid weight loss - follow your plan. Slow weight loss - follow your plan. Weight stubbornly refusing to move - follow your plan. Trust the process and allow your body to find its own way in its own time. There is not a bariatric team in the world that recommends stress and worry as a weight loss tool. Your journey will be so much easier and so much less stressful if you do everything you can to focus all of your attention on one thing - follow your plan.

You're gonna love the new you!!

You make a great point. What is a stall? Is it not losing any weight for a day, a week, a month? It is such a relative term. For me I consider my self in a stall if I go more than two weeks without the scale moving but doing everything right. I'm curious what others define a stall as because I have seen people who didn't lose every day say they are in a stall but I don't agree. Frankly even my two week rule is arbitrary and probably not close to a scientific explanation.

If there is a scientific definition of a stall I've never seen it. For that matter, I've never seen a scientific explanation of exactly why stalls occur. Both are actually quite interesting questions. We all certainly know that just about everyone gets them but the what and why - may not have been answered yet.