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March 9 will be 3 months since sleeved, total weight lose 48 lbs... Starting weight 246, day of surgery 230... My problem is the past 3 weeks I've lost 2 1/2 lbs... Not sure what I'm doing wrong I'm doing the shakes , having the right foods, the only thing I'm not doing is exercising since freezing and tons of snow ( excuse) would that be why I am stalling?

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Add some exercise at home. My house is tiny, less than 900 sq feet and I walk in the living room. I do four steps forward forward four steps back for thirty minutes or more. Do you have weights or resistance bands at home? Do you have planet fitness near your home it is really cheap and has everything you need. I really think increasing your activity will help. I know it is the only thing that helps me. I have lost 83 pounds since the fourth of July 2013 and most of it was exercising at home.

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March 10th will be 2 months for me and I've already experienced 3 pretty significant stalls. I don't recommend this but I can tell you what worked for me. I actually ate MORE and within a day or so, the scale started to move again. I didn't eat unhealthy foods because that would be defeating in the purpose but I ate MORE Protein and lean meat, a little bit more salad, Beans, etc and it has gotten me out of my stalls every time. I got the idea from another post on here where she said during stalls she would eat 5 meals a day instead of 3. I don't know why it works, but apparently there's something to it. Once I'm past the stall, I go back to eating normally.

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It has happened to me as well - stalled for about 2 weeks and I am almost 3 months out. It is very discouraging, but it starts back again. I was even still exercising. Have lost 55 since surgery 9 December and a total of 78 from preop. Hang in there!

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You could always walk stairs, if you have them in your home. Kind of boring, but it works. Start with 10 up and 10 down--it will get your blood pumping. Good luck!

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Are you regular? I had a stall as well... it lasted about 2 weeks. It dawned upon me that I had not had a BM in about a week or so. I started Miralax (per doctor) and Fiber Gummers ( 2 twice a day) last Monday and once things got moving the scale started moving. I have lost 7 lbs in the last week. Prior to the Miralax and Fiber gummies I was around 231... now I am 224. For ME... I believe my stall was due to constipation.. it may or may not be your case.

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I agree with Bronco0605.

I have the video Walk Your Belly Flat by Leslie Sasson, which is speed walking in place, with added arm, leg and waist movements that engage every muscle in the body. It can be done standing in place holding on to a walker if you have to.

I also do strength training, one day with small handheld bar bells, and a second day with body resistance (wearing ankle and wrist weights) - things like: pull ups, push ups,squats, elbow crossed over to knee crunches, and lunges holding a gallon of laundry soap in each hand. Even Pilates kicks my butt. Sometimes, I even dance to the music for half an hour. My form stinks but it is improving. There are a lot of things you can do in a small space.

The human body needs to move or we crystalize with inflammation and arthritis. Between the sleeve and exercise and losing halfway to my goal weight, my health and energy are improving exponentially. Exercise actually feels good now. Who'd a thunk it? I can't wait for weather nice enough to be outside. It is 14 degrees in Chicago today. Brrrrrrrrr.

Also, I broke a stall when I quit eating so much cheese (one of my slider foods).

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Here's something I copied from ButterTheBean (a veteran sleever). It helped me a lot:

If your weight loss has stalled, read THIS.

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Karen, tell us more about yourself. You may not lose as fast as others. Your loss rate is similar to mine. Age, starting BMI and gender play a big role.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

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        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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