Hi All,

So for months I have been reading all of the posts on this board, rolling my eyes at the many three-week stall posts. I am 3 weeks tomorrow and I only lost about 1lb since last tuesday. I am anticipating that I won't lose much this week after being about 19lbs down since surgery! I just wanted to put out there that I am sympathetic to the stall thing. It is really hard especially the first time - you fear the weight loss will never pick up again. Funny, I don't remember this happening with the lap band for me in 2007...

Hah - yeah I thought that was weird too before it happened to me. I was recently annoyed by a fitness specialist type who said that "they" knew how to get around that. That one should decrease what you're taking in and increase output... I was not impressed by this idea at all given that at the time I was relying on low calorie Protein drinks and almost nothing else as I was having so much trouble with nausea that I was trying to get in one actual serving of soft food but barely managing and was probably fairly consistently under 600 calories and at that level barely had the calories to function on. I've only started losing again in the past couple of days and that was after I finally pushed past the nausea and started getting significantly more food and calories in. Which was what my nutritionist said would probably happen when I did so, so I'm trusting her a lot more than the fitness specialist just in general atm. There are all sorts of reasons given (liver replumping with glycogen, actual food fills the digestive system which has weight though not specifically being "your" weight, blah blah blah) I don't actually care at this point. It happens. It doesn't last forever. I'm good with that.

If you're still losing it's not a stall. A stall is when you will see no loss for a week up to several weeks.

If you're still losing it's not a stall. A stall is when you will see no loss for a week up to several weeks.

I get that. I don't mind a stall. It is all good. I am wearing a dress I haven't worn since last summer today

My point was that I understand how frustrating it is to go through your first stall because you have the added fear that the surgery won't work for you!

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Yup. I've felt that way many, many times!

My surgeon warned me about the 3 week stall and said he found that many times it was due to you having too few calories. Being newly sleeved we tend to not get enough nutrition the first month due to several factors such as pain, nausea, fear of weight gain, etc and we tend to only get about 500-600 calories in our daily intake. He says that the bare minimum the human body needs for survival is 600+ calories, and when you stay below that mark, your body will go into starvation mode and will reduce its ability to lose weight as a protection measure. His advice to all his patients is to up your caloric intake to the 800 range if you can handle it.

So true. I am op. My stall was over after 2 weeks. Coincidentally upped my calories to about 800 at 5 weeks.