How DO YOU BREAK STALL
This is from a post I made a couple of days ago. There is no real way to break a stall. Mostly a stall is your body's way of catching up and doing some house cleaning. First and foremost stick to your plan. That being said here are some things that I do when I stall:
Keep your calories in the range of 600 to 800, don't be afraid to hit 800, particularly on days you exercise.
If you are trying to get into ketosis, stop eating fruit all together. Even though you are low on your carbs, the sugar you get from the pineapple or whatever will stop that process. Ketosis is where you burn fat. Also you may have a tougher time with this than others because you are on metformin. It looks like in your labs you blood glucose was only 86, why does your doc still have you on it? Or was it only 86 because of the metformin? But the problem with diabetes drugs is they actually make your body produce insulin in an untimed way so you are basically telling your body to store you fuel as fat right away. If you are post op I would think you should be able to safely get off the metformin. Talk to your doc about and see if maybe he is ok with trying it out. I think you will see a big result.
Increase your fat intake. Get healthy fats from salmon, olive oil, flax oil, flax seed, avocados, almonds, etc. You can keep your saturated fats lower but the unsaturated and polysaturated fats you can increase. Saturated fats from coconut oil is good too. This will help support you in ketosis and give your body fuel to burn and it when it runs out it will turn to body fat. Increased fats will also help to balance hormones. If you hormones are not balanced, you will stop losing weight.
Make sure you are getting AT LEAST 100oz per day of water. Water flushes your system.
Make sure you are getting at least 30 minutes of walking or other movement in each day. You will burn no fat without some form of exercise. The less you move the slower your metabolsm will become.
Great advice Keith!! Thanks
Sarah 5'3" VSG 9/27/12 KC Bariatric Center. Find me on MFP! Sarah829522.
Fit..how far out are you? it doesnt say on your profile...and I don't see signatures by choice sorry
Can't break the 3 week stall...least Ive never seen ANYONE be able to break it in the 5 years Ive been here. I think dietary and physical restrictions have alot MORE to do that major MINDF*** so soon after surgery too!!
the 3 month, the 6 month and the 9 month stalls on the other hand...yep much more easy to break tho...and you don't have "stick with your plan" and ride it out...prolong em...ya don't have to be in ketosis either....
Depending where ya are...check out STALLS and PLATEAUS blog might be some kinda info of interest to you.
Make sure you are keeping YOUR measurement logs on yourself. HEAD TO TOE...foot width finger width...those measurement logs those numbers ....will indeed SAVE YOUR SANITY...durin stalls ok.
on stalls as unbearable as ya think it is, best to memorize and repeat daily, on the hour if ya need to until it breaks...
THIS TOO SHALL PASS!!
breakin a stall isn't life or death urgent, the scream that needs silencing like we make it out to be....ya got VSG for LIFE now sugar....calm a noise a tad...ya got lots of time NOW.
oh and from one cap lover to another....even the frequency with which I use caps...ANNOYS the **** outta hypersensitive PC/CC folks. consider takin it DOWN a notch ,-) EMBRACE the changes!!
Caps lock on while texting is the virtual way of shouting. Insulting people trying to help you is rude.
With that being said, stalls break themselves. You can't force your body to lose weight. It will happen if you are on plan. Think of weight loss as a stair step and not a continual slide. It pauses and starts and then stops for a while then starts again.
Be sure to stay on plan and everything will be alright. I know it sucks when it's you but we have all had stalls.
Good luck
800 calories and less than 20 net carbs is the shizzle
