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This stall I'm having is approaching the 3 week point. I'm getting all my Protein in, all my Water & Vitamins & exercise. I do feel like my body is deflating & shrinking but I just wonder how long this stall can last. ????

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8 long weeks. It was right around my one-year anniversary too. I stalled from October to December (my surgery was on 11/3/14).

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Edited to add: I love your picture. Also, I notice inches coming off or skin tightening up during my extended stalls.

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Good morning Susan66,

My name is Theresa. I am 5 months out. My last stall lasted about 7wks. I had thought my sleeve was deflated. Now, I have to be very careful..BOT on, but, the stalls are awful... Good luck

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I am two years out. I have been stalled for over six months, but I am very close to goal. My health has continued to improve all along. Going into my third year, I am concentrating more on fitness instead of the scale and focusing on strength training. From month six to seven I stalled for four weeks. Apparently 1,000 calories will be maintenence for me. Overall, I can't complain.

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mine usually last a couple of weeks (3-4). I am currently in one now and was hoping to make a goal of a 6 lb loss by 12/31...didn't happen. I also went up 2lbs! That was different for me, I usually just stall but the 2lbs is a new thing for me.

I have had numerous comments about the weight loss in last few days so I am going to try on my size 12 jeans.

NSVs are the best!

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I have been about the same since Nov 21st

Dont stress the stalls...its your body adjusting

as long as you are exercising and eating right the weight will come off!

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Stalls are a normal, natural, and necessary part of the process. Does it really matter how long it last of you are doing what you are supposed to be doing?

I think those who treat stalls as separate and apart from their progress rather than an integral part of it experience much too much anxiety.

Embrace the Stall!

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

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Going back through my spreadsheet from my weight loss phase, it looks like the longest stall I had was 5 weeks at about 7 months post-op. To be fair though, that stall was at a weight I had been at for well over a year a couple of years back and I have read that your body has "set points" where it "remembers" having been at a specific weight for a long time and when you get to that weight, it tries to stay there for a while.

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although I am only 2-months out, I have experienced I think 2-4 stalls.. my NUT said I should start to see them after week 6 but I saw them week 5.. long story short, I have seen them last as short as 2 days to as long 7 days.

during my stalls i change my habits, walk a bit more and I check the scale less...(sorry i am a scale checker) prior to surgery I cared not for a scale, post sleeve I like to see the progress both physically, mentally and by the numbers.

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although I am only 2-months out, I have experienced I think 2-4 stalls.. my NUT said I should start to see them after week 6 but I saw them week 5.. long story short, I have seen them last as short as 2 days to as long 7 days.

during my stalls i change my habits, walk a bit more and I check the scale less...(sorry i am a scale checker) prior to surgery I cared not for a scale, post sleeve I like to see the progress both physically, mentally and by the numbers.

2 days of no change on the scale is not a "stall".

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I'm in the dreaded 3rd week stall I think. It's been a few days since I've lost any weight. I'm upping my Protein and fluids...hopefully that will help!

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although I am only 2-months out, I have experienced I think 2-4 stalls.. my NUT said I should start to see them after week 6 but I saw them week 5.. long story short, I have seen them last as short as 2 days to as long 7 days.

during my stalls i change my habits, walk a bit more and I check the scale less...(sorry i am a scale checker) prior to surgery I cared not for a scale, post sleeve I like to see the progress both physically, mentally and by the numbers.

2 days of no change on the scale is not a "stall".

I know, right. I read that post and I was like WTF?!?!?

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although I am only 2-months out, I have experienced I think 2-4 stalls.. my NUT said I should start to see them after week 6 but I saw them week 5.. long story short, I have seen them last as short as 2 days to as long 7 days.

during my stalls i change my habits, walk a bit more and I check the scale less...(sorry i am a scale checker) prior to surgery I cared not for a scale, post sleeve I like to see the progress both physically, mentally and by the numbers.

2 days of no change on the scale is not a "stall".

I know, right. I read that post and I was like WTF?!?!?

:) it is in the mind of simpleton who was seeing number rapidly reduce themselves.. then suddenly stop... hence one could see it as a stall.. the numbers stopped moving as they once where.. the duration my not realistically meet the traditional sense of what one might call a stall, but to me it was

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Thank you all for your responses.

I was sleeved 12/10, starting with a BMI of 40.2. I'm doing everything possible to be accountable. One thing that keeps me from tears, is the fact that I do continue to notice my body parts reducing in size. I have a love/hate relationship with that darn scale.????

I will take the advice to switch up my exercise routine & see if that helps. I want that euphoric feeling back of when I see that # on the scale move again. Thank you again everyone your support & suggestions are much appreciated.

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Stalls are a normal, natural, and necessary part of the process. Does it really matter how long it last of you are doing what you are supposed to be doing?

I think those who treat stalls as separate and apart from their progress rather than an integral part of it experience much too much anxiety.

Embrace the Stall!

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

Kind of hard to embrace the stall when it's been about 3 weeks and I'm only 5 weeks post op.

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