Well it looks like we are moving past this stall. I am down another 3 lbs and I am only 8lbs away from away from 100lbs lost! I hope to reach it by my son's birthday in September. It will be nice to reach that 1st goal. Continue success for everyone here!

How's that stall going? Has it broken yet? Mine finally did! YAY ME! I hope to hear that yours did too. Sandi 2/21/08 RNY 258/180/130

Um, yeah I have been the exact same 192.5 for 4-5 weeks now-that is down 58 lbs from my 2-12-08 surgery. I walk/jog 1-1.5 hours every day. Some days I also go for a bike ride. I am getting very angry at the scale! It is very discouraging!

WTG..my scale also moved 3 lbs last week....lets keep it up!!!!!!!!!!...how about everyone else...are you moving yet?????

I know exactly how you feel. I had surgery on 2/25/08 and I spend 90% of my time on stalls and 10% making progress. I dropped 30 pounds before surgery and have lost 45 since surgery. In five months, that's about an average of 8 pounds a month -- but I actually lost 15 my first week out of surgery then stalled for about a month, so the weight loss has been nowhere near steady for me. My surgeon changed my plan to include two protein drinks a day back in May. It worked for a week, I lost 7 pounds, and then stalled again. Everything I try works for a week and then stops. It's beyond frustrating. I've been sitting at 236 for almost two months myself. I got down to 231 about ten days ago, but I was eating VERY VERY little to try to shock my system. As soon as I changed up, though, the weight FLEW back up to 236 and has stayed. I got discouraged about 3 weeks ago and stopped exercising. I was getting SO stressed -- the water, the protein, the vitamins, the calories, the carbs, the exercise. I feel like I have to be absolutely PERFECT to get any results. It's getting to the point where my doctor is like, "Well . . . maybe you're a slow loser?" This leaves me feeling like there is no hope of any answers. I'm measuring faithfully and CAN say that I've lost an inch in my waist and hips in the last two weeks, so that's good, I guess. It's just maddeningly slow for no reason. I'm going to look into the biotin -- not for my hair necessarily, but for my metabolism! My surgeon did run a TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) test, but it came back normal. However, my other doctor (the one who administrates the bariatric surgery program in So. CA), apparently suspects hormone issues, because he's ordered a different thyroid test for August 4. So we'll see . . . Until then I wait, cry, hope, and then wait some more.