Exercise, Nutrition, WLS, and Cooking Q & A - 2/27/2014

Hi Keith

First I want to say THANK YOU for being such an inspiration. I first started coming here in October 2012 and I remember seeing your posts then. I think you were pre-op or just recently sleeved. I stopped coming for a while and when I returned there you were looking AMAZING and having more information that I thought humanly possible!  So here is my question. I do NOT like to exercise but I have committed to walking a mile a day for the last month. I have been enjoying it and can see adding more walking soon. I am one of those people who will lose well for a few weeks and then hit a stall. I am in a stall (nothing lost this week) and today I am going for my quarterly cortisone injections in my knees so my dr will tell me to take it easy for the next 5 days and I am worried about losing my momentum and causing  the stall to be prolonged. So what can I do to 1) help break a stall when it happens and 2) exercise when I shouldn't.

Hey Keith,  I know this is a day late but hopefully not a dollar short.  I am finally losing weight again, thank you thank you.  I do have a question for you about the orthostatic hypotension.  I think I read a post from you about our veins needing to get back in shape again after such rapid weight loss, and this makes total sense to me.  Do you have any idea how long this takes?  Again- thanks so much for all your advice.  You are so knowledgeable about this stuff, its amazing.  Kathy

I am not sure I can answer that fully. I still from time to time experience it and I am almost a year and half post op and at a fairly stable weight. That being said it happens to me about once a month and almost always after a strenuous exercise session has ended and I am resting. But I would say it was mostly stopped by 9mos to 1 year post-op, but I would also assume it has to do with how much you lose total. I lost over 180lbs but if someone only lost 100 I would expect it to go away sooner than later.