Make a post about a stall!  ugh!  I know I know!  Who wants to read another freaking post about a stall when we all know that they come and we all know they will eventually break, but this is the worst one I have had and NOW I finally understand what everyone have been complaining about.  

All of Sept I have pretty much stayed between 177 and 173 and I jump up and down day by day.  It has been over 2 weeks and I am just stressed out.  I did the upping your protein, lowered my carbs, more water.

Remind me that it stupid to stress over this and it will break eventually and to just hang in there.  I need some encouragement cause I am going a bit nuts with this feeling like "I'm never going to lose again" and I know that is so stupid to think this way!  Ugh!  STALLS SUCK!! 

It's stupid to stress over this and it will break eventually.  Just hand in there.

Did that help?

Seriously, stalls are normal.  They happen, and they pass.  Stay off the scale for a few weeks.  Just focus on what you're supposed to be doing.

Maybe that's a magic number, because I stalled at 174 for... well, what SEEMED like forever.  it was probably about two months. 

Then, eventually the scale started moving again.  I'm now stuck right around 144 - 147.  I have been for a month or more.  Maybe I'm done?  Who knows?  =]

I will tell you on the way down for me I would stay at a weight I had been in the past for awhile. Like my body was.."yea..I remember this weight!" 274 was a number I looked at for a long time.
You did not gain your weight overnight. Breathe and take a break from the scale.
Deb T.

 I am 4 weeks post op, went to my one week check up and have not weight since.  I go back to the docs the 29th and I do not plan on weighing until I see him. I don't even own a scale.  I will get one when my visits go to every six months. I know I will lose weight. I have never been one to own a scale, because I would rather go by how my clothes feel. So if I am having a stall....I do not know and i like it that way :-)

I'm right there with you. I'm bouncing around between 173-176. Maybe it is just a magical number. I dunno. lol I'm working on upping my calories and protein to see what happens.

 Maybe it's time to increase your calories? I was at a stall for two weeks up and down the same 4 lbs.. I was eating 800 calories .. I upped it to 1200 and I dropped 6 lbs in a week.  good luck!

I, like you was not going to get on here and talk about my stalls, yes, I have had a few.  I am right with you though.  6 months out and the month of September has been back and forth from 171-173 mostly hanging on to the 173.  I'm not worried that I am going to stay there and if I did, I can accept that. I've lost 98 pounds in 6 months, goal would only be another 10-13, which I would have liked because of "bounce back" weight.  So posting stalls does help out, for one it got me to smile and say....Yep, I am one of those in the 170's going through exactly what you are going through and a couple others posted as well.

Keep on the ride, don't jump off yet because from what I have learned...truthfully we are not done yet.

I hear ya. I am 6 1/2 months out and I have weighed 180 for about four solid weeks now. Just 180. It doesn't jump, it doesn't change, it doesn't tease me with 179.5, lol.

I griped before when I only lost 8 lbs in a month and when I didn't lose for two weeks....I think this is my first "true" stall. And I am only 25 lbs to goal so its super frustrating.

I know it will come off. I don't want to stop weighing in because I really believe it makes me accountable and I feel like I have to know if I am gaining weight. Just going to keep doing what I have been doing and hope it comes off.

I have been exercising more - I logged 12-13 hours of exercise the last two weeks - in preparation for a karate test. So I know that affects your weight loss (as you build muscle and hold onto water for healing) and I am trying to remember that. hang in there!

Can I join the club? I have been stuck at 172-175 for a month and I am going nuts! I upped my calories and thats when it started to stop. BUt I keep telling myself I am not done I am only 5 months out. That my body is just being difficult like normal and all will be ok soon. Right?