A plateau? Already??

Jul 07, 2015

** I did research, apparently this is called the "three-week stall". I am not alone, so that's comforting! 

I am 5 weeks post op and for the last 2 weeks, according to the scale, I haven't lost anything!  I knew there would be plateaus, but so soon?

Thinking about it, I was pretty immobile for the first few weeks after surgery and I am SURE I lost muscle. Now that I am mobile and much more active, perhaps I am gaining muscle back.  I know that a little piece of muscle weighs the same a a huge piece of fat, and I can still see my body changing, but what a mental blow.

The numbers shouldn't really matter, I get that.  It's hard to go though surgery and everything leading up to it, to be at a plateau 5 weeks out.  I mean, that's what the struggle was a lifetime before surgery.  Doing the work and not seeing the results.  I feel like I am not seeing the results.  I can SEE them physically, but I can't tell people that when they ask "how much have you lost"?  When the answer is the same over and over, it's discouraging me.  It's WAY too soon for that!

I guess it's time to do some more reading up on plateaus.  Is this common?  Is something wrong?  It IS frustrating.....

I need to continue to think positive.  This one is hard.

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