I’m 8 weeks post op and have been stalled for almost 2 weeks. I’m starting to get frustrated. Just wondering what your longest stall was? Or is two weeks average or no? I know that everyone is different but would love a little advice from Veterans!! Thank you ?

My longest stall was five weeks or so. I *may* not have been entirely on point with my program during that time, but I was still eating relatively few calories and finding it frustrating that the scale didn't move. Eventually, however . . .

I'm 10 weeks and it keeps going and coming with the stalls. What I have noticed also is lack of going to the bathroom happens around the stall times. Once I take a laxative or Linzess which my doctor prescribed for me, after I use the bathroom, I lose the weight from the stall and keep going.. Until the next one!

What is considered a stall? Absolutely zero weight loss? Or just slowed weight loss.

I've been anticipating stalls of no weight loss, but I'm currently riding a streak of 32 consecutive weeks of losing weight at my Friday morning weigh in. That's a combination of 12 weeks pre-op and now 20 weeks post-op. I've been tracking for 45 weeks now with a weekly weigh-in, and I've lost weight 43 of those 45 weeks. My last non-issue week was on 9/15/17 where I recorded a gain of +0.6 that week.

Now, I have had a few weeks on this journey where I only lost 0.3 or 0.5 lbs at the weekly weigh in, but hey, a loss is a loss. I'm at the point now where I lost usually 2-3lbs per week. Surgery date was 12/11/17.

About 2 and a half weeks but I always find a way to break mine. I'm still losing and I'm a year out almost.

Hw-273
Sw-226
CW-125
GW-130
Size- 2, Small in sweats. Small in shirts. depends on how it's cut or made.
Bra Size- 34C

Surgery Date- April 26th, 2017
RNY
"Only those who try will become" FFX

I’m not able to eat very much yet. About 4 bites at a time. I’m not eating many carbs at all. Probably less than 20g a day. But this stall is stuck. I haven’t lost any thing in almost 2 weeks.

Today is 15 days in for this stall and I’m seriously about to cry ?

One of the Facebook groups I belong to is running a 100oz-of-water-a-day challenge to break any stalls. I've been pretty slow at losing this past two weeks so I'm going to give it a try. I've also realized that I may not be eating enough. Have you been monitoring your protein/carb/fat/fluid intake? I hadn't been and I think that may have been one of the reasons for my stall. Not being hungry (EVER!) I tend to forget about eating.

I can’t drink protein shakes so I put genpro in my water with some crystal light. I get right about 64 oz of fluid in daily. I work in prek and I’m so busy during the day that I don’t eat much. I’ve been counting around 300-400 calories a day and less than 20g carbs. Tried to up my carb intake and I got really bloated and felt gross. But the scale hasn’t moved at all seriously. Not a single pound and it’s been 16 days now ??

i was sleeved on april 2nd & am dwn 30lbs since the wk before that but i also feel like im at a stall already.im ready to throw the scale out the window.i hope i am loosing in inches.my ? is once a stall breaks do u loose a big chunk of weight at one time or very slowly lb by lb consistantly or what?im praying for a big drop when it breaks but not sure what to expect.

Just out of curiosity, I googled "three-week stall" and got more than 7 million results. I'm sure if you search that expression on this site, you'll get quite a few, too.

Once a stall breaks, you may see a sudden drop or it may just go back to slow and steady, a pound every day or two--everyone is different. Please, please, just go with this variation in the program. You didn't put the weight on one pound a day every day; you are NOT going to lose it that way, either. But if you follow your program, it will come off.

Some doctors and other advisers will tell you not to weigh yourself for the first month or two. I wanted to keep track then, and I still do, but think about why they would say that.

Yes, you are very right! I have googled and googled stalls and how to break them. I just don’t want my surgeon to think that I’m not following the program because I most definitely am!! And of course, it’s so disheartening to get on that scale each week and see it the same. I do feel like I’m still losing inches though, just not sure why that scale isn’t moving! I appreciate your positivity though!! Thank you ?

On 4/28/2018 at 8:23 PM, Yadifan said:

Yes, you are very right! I have googled and googled stalls and how to break them. I just don’t want my surgeon to think that I’m not following the program because I most definitely am!! And of course, it’s so disheartening to get on that scale each week and see it the same. I do feel like I’m still losing inches though, just not sure why that scale isn’t moving! I appreciate your positivity though!! Thank you ?

I'm in the same boat -- for 3 weeks now. I saw some downward movement and thought the stall was over, but it was only temporary. Today I weighed one pound less than 3 weeks ago, and I am oscillating between about 194 and 198, with daily weight variations up to 2#. I weigh my food/measure my food and track every bite, so 2# swings are clearly just water.

I think we just need to stick with the program and count on it to work. And, have realistic expectations about what we will reasonably lose every week. But man, this month's looking like a hot mess! Right now, I've lost 1#!!!!!

Edited May 1, 20188 yr by Apple203

My stall has finally broken. At almost exactly 3 weeks. I am down as of this morning 3lbs!!!! Not a lot but it’s finally a movement in the right direction. I had to eat more!!! Literally force myself to eat more often to get in more calories and it finally stared dropping again. Hallelujah

59 minutes ago, Yadifan said:

My stall has finally broken. At almost exactly 3 weeks. I am down as of this morning 3lbs!!!! Not a lot but it’s finally a movement in the right direction. I had to eat more!!! Literally force myself to eat more often to get in more calories and it finally stared dropping again. Hallelujah

Yay!!! How much more are you eating calorie-wise?

Edited May 1, 20188 yr by Apple203

I was only eating around 300 calories and less than 20g carbs a day. My surgeon wanted me to eat 3 meals a day but wasn’t able to eat enough to get any calories or carbs in!! So I had to start eating small meals several times a day. Now I eat at breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner and snack. I’m getting around 600 calories and closer to 30 or 40g carbs a day. The first day I did it, I felt like I was eating way too much and worrying about bad habits by eating several times a day. But that’s what it takes to be able to increase my calories and carbs and get the scale moving again. My stall was exactly 3 weeks long. A very long 21 days.