I had my surgery on 11/11/14. The first week was rough. I had terrible back pain, i felt the 'fullness' pain with every single tiny sip of anything, and had terrible heartburn and nausea. I am happy to report that I have none of those issues now! I can eat 1/4 of a cup of food. I can drink larger sips...thank God. And i barely ever get any kind of pain. So far I have tokerated everything Iv tried although I have noticed some changes in how things tastes as far as what I love now. I love unsweet tea for one and before I would have spit it across the room. My starting wait before pre-op diet was 267. I was 260 day of surgery. I lost 17 lbs the first week post op and have been on a stall the last two weeks. I was getting so disheartened. I just kept coming here and looking at old stall threads so I could read their tickers and see how they all got past those stalls. Well the last two mornings I have dropped a pound so Im thinking the stall has broken! so 19 lbs down since surgery. Hope to hit 25 down by12/11 on my one month marker.

Edited December 4, 201411 yr by mhugueley

Awesome! Great work hanging in there and breaking through!

that is great! I have been on a huge iced tea kick too. keep it up

Great work. I have had the unfortunate pattern of lose for two to three weeks then stall for 8 to 10 days almost my entire post op experience. When I lose its a decent amount however. My body is reluctant to let go of... itself errr its extra luggage. We can do this.

Yay for the stall break!

I had my surgery on 11/11/14. The first week was rough. I had terrible back pain, i felt the 'fullness' pain with every single tiny sip of anything, and had terrible heartburn and nausea. I am happy to report that I have none of those issues now! I can eat 1/4 of a cup of food. I can drink larger sips...thank God. And i barely ever get any kind of pain. So far I have tokerated everything Iv tried although I have noticed some changes in how things tastes as far as what I love now. I love unsweet tea for one and before I would have spit it across the room. My starting wait before pre-op diet was 267. I was 260 day of surgery. I lost 17 lbs the first week post op and have been on a stall the last two weeks. I was getting so disheartened. I just kept coming here and looking at old stall threads so I could read their tickers and see how they all got past those stalls. Well the last two mornings I have dropped a pound so Im thinking the stall has broken! so 19 lbs down since surgery. Hope to hit 25 down by12/11 on my one month marker.

I also had my surgery on 11/11/14 and after surgery I was dropping 2 lbs a day. I was loving it. I lost 25 lbs since surgery. But then it all stopped. I haven't lost anymore in the past week. I am totally bummed. I mean...is this it? How did you get through the stall?

Its terrible!!! I lost that 17 lbs that first week and then my scale did not move for 2 weeks and one day....It was really hard! I just stayed positive bc all of my clothes are getting loose. I searched stall threads on here and see that everyone goes thru it. Some people stall for a month!!! But if you look at peoples tickers you see that they obviously surpassed their stalls bc they had met goal by now. So I just kept with the program and it finally broke. Im sure there will be many more along the way.

From what Ive read your body has to play catch up to the rapid weight loss and caises the stall. I felt like I was still losing inches during my stall...just not pounds.. it will pass!

This is an encouraging thread. I think I stalled already. And I just had my surgery two weeks ago on Nov. 21. I was 215 day of surgery and dropped to 202 -- 13 lbs -- by day 10 but have been sitting there and it is day 15. I thought the stall was supposed to hit on the third week, not the second. Frustrating. I am still tired from the surgery and wondering if I am not moving enough. Also, getting my full 800 calories a day has proven to be a challenge.. but I get very close.

I have to say I'm ok with stalls. I want my body to properly adjust so I am very patient with myself. I even stopped checking my weight every day lol, it was making me paranoid lol

Sarina- I hir my stall after just one week!! So I was very scared. But logically I knew that the low amount of calories that I qas eating qould eventually lead to more loss. So I just tried to think of other things and wait it out.

MrsBailey- I think I kept my cool pretty good. I think it will be a lot bettwr from here on out since Im past my first one and know that they do end eventually.

Thanks.. I think I am going to stop weighing every day. Also, working to make sure I hit the protein mark every day. Very difficult, I find.

My first stall post-surgery (which started at the infamous week three) lasted almost a month. As long as my weight continues on a downward trajectory, then I'm cool with a stall, but it can be demotivating so soon after surgery.

Hang in there and the weight loss will start again!