Your Experience with Plateaus - Early Out (2 months here)

Hello All,

I'm two months out from surgery, and have had really good results.  I had a one month liquid diet prior to surgery and including the pre-op diet and the time after surgery, I've lost a little over 70 pounds.  Pretty good for a 38 year old man who started at 325.  For the past three weeks, I've only lost about 5 pounds though.  I'm eating right and last week I really picked up at the gym.  Logically I know it's probably my body adjusting to my weight loss, but emotionally I'm a little discouraged.  Any words of advice or sharing your experience may help.

Thanks,

Danny

From week 3 to week 5 I lost ONE pound. It is definitely your body adjusting, and these 'stalls' will happen from time to time throughout your weight loss. They are perfectly normal.

Just keep working your plan and the scale will start moving again! 70 pounds so far is awesome! You are doing great!

Hi Danny,

Don't sweat the stalls... mine were long stalls... lasting over three weeks each time. I've been loosing for the past two years... a year prior to surgery and a year after. I've lost over 200 lbs. Whenever I stalled.... I realised that it's just my body catching up to itself.... I soon realized that after dropping a chunk of weight, my body would stop loosing, but would start loosing inches.

Watch how your clothing fits, watch how you can do small things that you couldn't before.... look for all those NSV's and it will tell you that your body is loosing inches and catching up to your weight loss...

I know the stalls are discouraging... but keep with it.... and watch the inches fall away... measure yourself now.... and when you stall... measure again and I bet you'll see a loss..

Good Luck and Keep your spirits up...

Melody

I'm right in your boat- I lost 40 lbs from new years day to
my surgery date 7-05-11, 35 lbs since- 10 lbs the first
week, 5 the next, three the next, then almost nothing
for a week and so on.. then all of a sudden it will be down another 3 lbs overnight. Thats how it goes-
i'm just sticking with the program and that's all you can do-
besides being patient!

I was and still am feeling very discouraged at how much I have lost, or not lost.  I hate that feeling.  Finally after about 3 weeks my scale went down a half a pound and I felt better.  Needless to say, my husband hid our scale so I can not check obsessively.  Its helping because now all I have, is to have faith that I am doing what I should be, and increasing my activity every day.  Now, I will wait to see what the doctor says when I go in October.  I am going to try really hard not to check all the time.  This surgery has to work... right ???