I m 24 weeks post op and I have lost 50 pounds and now my weight is stuck big time, I have been on a stall for 3 weeks now and no matter whatever I seem to do its just not helping and when I scales not tipping I get upset and end up eating more carbs. On eating more carbs I still manage to still within my calorie limit and I burn up to 800cals a day and make sure my Water intake is sufficient. Now what is the problem?

There was a phase where around 2 years back I was working out and on a low carb diet and I came to this weight and then reversed back. Does that mean my body can only go minimal to this and never below this weight? Like I have always been 199 pounds since 15years of age and never lower than this.... That's 15 years of having this weight on me!!!!!

Ok I m messed up! Please help! But it's truly upsetting the weight not budging since 3 weeks now????

Any guidance and kind words would be truly helpful at this time. Thank you????

Take a deep breath and repeat after me....this stall will not last forever... They happen. I just finished a two month period where I lost a total of 3 pounds. 3 measly pounds. Stay on your plan and trust your body.

BTW...after the above mentioned 3pounds I dropped 8 the next month...

Hi. Before having the surgery on 8/17 I was losing weight on pre-op diet and I got to a weight where I plateaued. I was stuck on the same weight for about 5 weeks. My nutritionist asked me if I had been that weight before for a period of time and I had. He called it a "set point" weight... A weight our bodies had been comfortable at. I was able to break through the plateau by kicking up the exercise. I had been walking, so I mixed it up with kickboxing. Getting my heart rate up really helped with moving the scale. Don't be discouraged. Try some different things. Do yourself a favor and stop the emotional eating though. I can't do kickboxing now And probably won't be able to for another 4 weeks but I'm looking forward to getting back to it.

Never respond to a stall by eating more carbs, or eating more of anything, really. At a certain point, it becomes very difficult to lower caloric intake any further than we already have, and the only way we can up the ante on weight loss is by ramping up the exercise. The release of endorphins has a therapeutic effect, one that for me, in the past, has cancelled out hunger, even before surgery. That does not work indefinitely, and eventually you'll need your recovery meals, but chances are your body will be ordering much higher quality food (i.e., protein, beneficial fats) following quality workouts than it will when you are sitting on the couch lamenting an unsatisfactory pace of weight loss. Just my two cents!

I've been stuck too. I just decided to lay off the scale for a while and keep doing what I know it right knowing that eventually the stall will end! I'm trying to stick to no-scale-September. We'll see how that goes! I keep telling myself over and over again that stalls CAN'T last forever. Weighing every day will drive you nuts when you're not losing lbs. Hey maybe you're losing inches and not lbs right now?? I'll take that as well. Good luck to you on your journey! Hope your stall (and mine) break soon!

I'm feeling your pain, I'm at 6 months post-op and I haven't moved on the scale for 3 weeks; starting to panic myself. I have upped the exercise and trying to eat more Protein, but nothing is moving. My paranoia is blaming the birth control but apparently this is a common time for people to hit stalls as mentioned before you hit your 'comfort' weight. Before I gained lots of weight, I was ALWAYS stuck in the 180s; here I am trying to break it. I wish you the best of luck! Try to stay calm, stress only makes it worse.