I know some of you post very helpful information about stalls. And it has really helped me but at the moment I'm feeling somewhat desperate and worried!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After over 30 years of trying to lose weight now that I have had surgery, I am 24 days post surgery and of those 24 days I have only gone down on the scale for six of those days in the beginning. I am so worried that this is not going to work or that I will not lose. I am following everything perfectly. I have read a lot about the three-week stall. My stall started on day 12 and has continued now until day 24. Mostly, when people lose weight they lose mostly in the beginning and then start tapering off. Is this really because of the surgery and how many of you have had such a long stall so early in the process? (I have tried to not get on the scale every day but I just can't keep away from it and it is really worrying having a two-week stall so early in the process. I am almost one months post surgery and have only lost 12 pounds eating tiny amounts of food every day.

SORRY to bring up this subject again but for those of us going through it for the first time it is very daunting and depressing!!!

Not to worry. I lost 23 pounds pre-op and then gained back 12 while in the hospital from IV fluids. It took me two weeks to lose that and then I hit that third week stall for about two weeks. Geeze o pete! So, I really was fully past my first month before I actually made progress at all, when many people are down 30-40 pounds already.

But now I am just three weeks away from being two years out and am very close to goal. It just takes some of us longer. Hang in there, kiddo.

I know that when you are in it, it is so hard to hear other people say things like "just hang in there" and "this happens to everyone", but you really need to HEAR it. There is nothing wrong with you. Your surgery hasn't failed. Everyone's body reacts differently to surgery and drastic changes in diet. This is your body's reaction for right now. You have to remove the word "only" from your vocabulary. It will drive you insane. I was in your shoes after my surgery. I "only" lost 14 pounds the first month when other people were losing 30-40 pounds. And then I "only" lost 8 pounds the second month. And then I "only" averaged about six pounds a month for many months after that. And then I was "only" losing 2-4 pounds a month. And you know what? Eventually all of those "only"s got me to my goal weight! I've been maintaining (and even losing a little more) for the past three months and life couldn't be better!

I think for me, how I learned to deal with stalls is the biggest difference from before the yo-yo dieting pre-op.

Pre-op, when I hit an inevitable stall, it was easy to throw up my hands and give up. Often with my appetite urging me to do so.

Now, not only have I learned how normal, natural, and necessary the stall is in the process of losing large amounts of weight, I have the evidence to prove that if I do what I am supposed to do and use the sleeve as a tool in the way it is intended, then I will lose weight (because of the stalls, not in spite of the stalls imho). If I didn't allow my body to do the important work it does during the stalls, my body would not be able to efficiently shed all this weight.

Everyone stalls if they intend to lose a lot of weight.

Just follow your program and stay off the scale.

Make sure to get in all of your Protein and fluids, take all of your Vitamins and supplements as instructed, exercise and stay off the scale.

Embrace the Stall!

http://BariatricPal.com/index.php?/topic/351046-Embrace-the-Stall

You guys are awesome !!!!! Really needed to hear those things today. THANKS !!!!!!!!!!!