I am 7 weeks out from surgery and for the last almost 2 weeks my scale is stuck a 238... I have lost 60 lbs since my journey began in January(29 of those post op) but now I am stuck, and scared that my fat body is stuck being fat forever. When I was on one of my millions of diets before this was always the weight that I got stuck at. I am so frustrated, I have been getting all of my water in and exercising 5 days a week. I have been eating right, and getting plenty of rest. I am just so afraid at this point that I am going to be a size 18 the rest of my life no matter what (the size that I have been since high school). I have this irrational fear that the surgery did not work on me, and I will never make it to Onederland

Edited March 26, 201412 yr by SoonergirlLayla

Onederland is waiting for you! You can get here! Do you use MFP and track everything? Could it be that you are not eating enough given your exercise routine? I say talk to a nutritionist to get yourself over this hump. My thought would be to slow down on the exercise and go back to Protein shakes for a while to see if that might shake your system up a bit. But then again, I am not a nutritionist.

You Can Do This!

That's the weight your body remembers and because it's emotional for you the stress doesn't help. It may take a little while for your body to lose this fight but just stick with your plan and your body will soon give up and you'll start losing again. I experienced lots of stalls in the beginning but they all broke eventually. At 7 weeks you're no where near done losing. Try not to stress out at every stall. Instead think of it as a gearing up for another rapid period of loss. Your body needs to re-group.

Stalls happen. Some can last for a month or more. Keep calm and carry on! You will get through this. Weight loss is a stair step, not a continual line of progress.

Thank you all for your encouragement. I'm really hoping that this will end soon. It didn't today, so hopefully tomorrow I will see a difference. I just have this pressure on me to lose the weight(all self induced of course) I especially feel it because My husband and I agreed that if this would make me happy that he would pay cash for the surgery(My insurance wouldn't cover it). I know I need to just be patient (I'm driving my poor husband crazy) but I cannot look him in the face if I do no lose this weight knowing that he just spent all of this money on me.

Stalls are frustrating. Just remember they are common as most patients will go through several of them in the first 6 months. One thing I notice in my stall was that my body kept burning fat. I could see me waist getting smaller even though I was not losing weight. Sure enough after about 3 weeks, bam the weight started falling off again. I am currently in my second stall but working hard on kickstartingmy metabolism to start losing weight again. I would also suggest using my fitness pal to track your food and exercise as stated above. Good luck and don't give up.

It's not a stall unless you have loss no weight or inches in over 30 days.

Have you measured? My guess is no.

Relax key your body do it's thing