More great encouraging info I have learned. Stalls arent so bad :P Look forward to your stalls and watch your sizes change during that stall. Your stalls will be the time when your shape catches up to your weight. I am not much of an expert, but I lost my weight and kept it off over the past 17 months since surgery. I feel great - REALLY great! I look good. I feel good. Read every label. Treat sugar like it's poison. If there's more than 5 grams of sugar in a serving - DON'T EAT IT! if you are able to successfully split something in half to make it 5 grams or less of sugar, cut it, eat it and then forget the other half until tomorrow. Every stall I had, I lost a size. Totally! The 3 weeks of my first stall was exactly when every person in the world started noticing that I lost weight. It's really kind of eerie. Tell me your experience with this. Next best piece of information and stick to it!!! MAKE ONE DAY TO WEIGH. Only 1 day a week. Saturday morning after peeing, before showering - once a week ONLY. If you are compulsive, get someone to keep your scale for you. I promise you will feel mentally better and won't be a "scale-ho" like I was. The scale will make you nuts. Even when the scale doesn't move, your body readjusts. YAY!!!!! I love this!

My salvation has been to start the morning with either water or decaf coffee. Slowly sip for about thirty minutes, then wait about thirty then eat. It kinda gives the pouch a little while to "wake up" before I go assaulting it!

Betty do call your primary or surgeon. This sounds like lack of circulation or a blood prssure issue. Do at least call and request the dr. calls you back when he is out of office hrs. Cissy

I have decided I am going to up my protien so that my body doesnt think it is starving. I read protien actually tricks your body into thinking you are eating regularly so it wont go into the "starvation" "shock" mode. and on top of that, lots of water!!!! I will let you know how it works. Also take note that the shorter stalls last approx. 2-4 weeks normally from what I have learned. Please let me know when you start losing again I am curious to see if there is a pattern with these stalls. Seems to me the first 3 weeks is very common for a stall. Hang Tight and Good luck -

I am 6 wks out and I am keeping track of everything that I am eating. I track the number of calories, protien and my liquids that I consume each day. Doing so helps me realize that I am not overdoing it. I am supposed to eat 70 grams of protien and generally that omes out to about 600-700 calories per day. I started eating cooked veggies yesterday and find that I can eat my required 3 oz of meat and have room for veggies. If I wasn't journalling and counting calories, I think I would be unsure and feel guilty at times. I have lost 33lbs to date, but have hit a plateau in the past week. I need to be more commited to daily exercise.