Weight stalls and inch loss

This was posted on the main RNY bopard. I thought you guys may be interested in it. Is this the truth?? I don't know, but it sounds reasonable. What do you think? Now, my analogy uses cheese. We start by having fat that is like cheese... solid and it adds inches to our bodies. Then we have WLS, and our body needs more energy than we are supplying it, so The Body sends out for some energy from the Energy Bank (our fat). While it's taking fat from the Energy Bank, we're steadily losing weight. Our fat goes from looking like a block of cheddar cheese, to a block of swiss cheese. Really holey. Then The Body says "I'm sick of this Energy Bank stuff, I want real food." And/or the Manager of the Energy Bank says "We can't stay open 24/7, we gotta close for maintenance"... one or both of these things happen, and we go into a stall. While we are stalling the Manager of the Energy Bank gets his little minions to clean up. He doesn't like the Fat Bank to resemble Swiss Cheese, he Prefers the nice neat order of Cheddar Cheese. So while the body is not checking out fat from the Energy Bank (thus it is not losing weight) the Energy Bank is consolidating it's resources and compressing all those swiss cheese holes into nonexistance. When the Energy Bank is open for business again, the cheese block is no longer holey, and it's not nearly as big as it was. So you lose inches, but not weight. Then you lose weight but not inches, and vica versa. The first picture is before WLS, the second is what your fat looks like while you are actively losing (notice, you don't change size right away), and finally during a stall, you lose the inches but not the weight. Okay, so it's a cheesy example. Thought I would share anyway. ~Lady Lithia~ First goal... BE COMPLIANT

pICTURES DIDN'T PRINT 1ST PIC.....WHOLE CHEESE 2ND PIC....SWISS CHEESE (DURING STALL) 3RD WHOLE CHEESE, SMALLER IN SIZE.

I must be made out of alot of swiss chesse then LOL Does make sense..I use to be very hard packed now I feel all squishy like bread Just wished I flatten out like the redeaming values bread has when some one mashes it flat Lisa

I think there is some truth to that. These last 2 months, I have not lost at all. I mean.. I go down 6 lbs, up 8 lbs.. loose 4, go back up 6, loose 7, etc etc. I end up around 205-210. But I just put on a top that back in Febuary was too tight on me. It fits perfectly now! And a pair of jeans that I could never dry all the way (you know what I mean) now I can wear comfortably right out of the dryer. I also bought some sexy push up bras on ebay in December that where smaller around then the tag claimed. I bought extenders for them but rarely wore them. I put one one yesturday just to see... and it fit wonderful.. WITHOUT the extender!! So.. yes, inches are falling off.. no matter what the scale says.. we are getting healthy! -Shakeira

I agree with this analogy. In the last 3 months i've lost only 5 pounds but over 10 inches. And sometimes I feel like I am swiss cheese Inky

LOL Inky yes I feel cheesy sometimes and I think some people might agree....thank you Shar for sharing this. It helps out alot