I am three months out of gastric bypass surgery and have just hit my first stall. Of course I am super worried, any advice about how to get past this?

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Three months....I'm 4 weeks and I think I'm in a stall. I think I weigh myself to much which is one of my problems.

Good luck!!!

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Your daily Protein requirement is met by a combination of the amount of protein you obtain from food combined with the amount of protein from protein supplements (Protein shakes, protein bars). Right after gastric bypass surgery, the volume of food you are restricted to is minuscule (2 ounces) per meal. But as you get further along, the meal volume increases. Therefore if you concentrate on consuming high protein meals, you have a very important option available to you. You can start to reduce your reliance on protein supplements. I went from 3 protein shakes per day in the beginning, down to 2, down to 1, and then when my meal volume increased to 1 cup per meal at a year and a half, I was able to completely offload my use of protein shakes.

This is important because protein shakes contain calories. If you can reduce your caloric intake, then you can end a stall. At least that was the approach that I used and it worked for me.

My advice is... breeeeeathe. Stalls are normal and actually necessary. If your body never took a little break from the rapid loss, you would probably be really sick. It may be normal to lose this much with wls, but it's not normal at all for our bodies to lose this fast. Your body thinks it's in full-on starvation/dying mode. Keep getting in your protein/water/vitamins, exercise regularly, and the weight will come off. You just have to let your body do it at its own pace now. We put ourselves through an enormous trauma with the surgery, so having a little rest every now and then is only good for your health.

That being said, I wasted SO much time worrying about stalls. I would often spend like 3 weeks a month losing absolutely nothing, then rapidly drop pounds in a week. Even with all of those stalls every month, I'm still down 172 pounds since surgery less than a year ago. It adds up, and in a year you'll realize that it was silly to worry so much about this. Not to mention stress and worry are generally terrible for your health, and improving your health is the whole reason we're here, right? You'll get there! Hang in there!

Thank you so much that advise really helps!!!

Cut carbs after 4pm and drink lots of Water. The carbs you do have before 4pm should be limited to about 30g. Burning fat and not carbs is key.

Focus heavely on protien, and healthy fats.

Be careful with the fats, they have a bit more than double the calories per gram when compared to protien and carbs.

And relax! You will get through this!

Good luck!

Weeks out: 15

SW: 365

CW: 287

WL: 78lbs

Embrace the Stall

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