The six month stall

Hello Everyone..... I had surgery in July, so most of you are about 2 months ahead of me in your weight loss. It seems as though the majority of people on the July board (myself included) are experiencing a major stall in our weight-loss. Have you experienced this? Is there light at the end of the tunnel?? Help!!

Monica, I have been stalled since about the end of November. I am only 5 pounds from goal and I think my body has selected this as my goal weight. I don 't know if that helps or not, but good luck! Sue

Hi Monica! Congrats to you and the rest of the July Team! Thinking back two month I'm sure that was the time of my four-week Christmas stall. I went up and down the same two pounds for about four weeks. Unfortunately for me, it took a MAJOR dumping episode to move the scale. lol Hang in there! I've lost 10 pounds since that stall and am happily 3 pounds under my surgeon's goal and just 2 pounds from mine. Tell everyone to hang in there, keep exercising and keep sipping. That light will shine through!!!! Good luck! * Cyndi *

Wow, I thought it was just me. I have been stalling since the holidays and I am SICK OF IT!! I am starting to wonder, "Is this going to be it for me?". So I started looking at what I am doing and I know I should be working out more. I also know I have been grazing on a couple hundred more calories a day then I should be. I also have been going back to my mug of coffee in the morning and I'm feeling guilty about that, too. I eat real good all day until I get home from work in the evening. Then the hunger hits me like a Mack truck and I start snacking while I make the family dinner. Then I eat and am too bloated to exercise. I stay up too late doing work for my job, wake up early the next day and then I'm exhausted. That is my daily/weekly cycle. I'm too tired to exercise, to weak to refuse those hunger urges in the eveing and then I graze about at night. I have been stuck at 240 pounds since Christmas. Yesterday I woke my pathetic butt up early and decided I should try to do my exercise in the mornings since I am too tired at night. Maybe this will kick my out of the late night habits I have been in. I excercised to a new workout DVD (Turbo Jam, bought it off the TV from an info-mercial). I did it for about 15 minutes, felt fine and got ready for work. Then at lunch time I felt energic and decided to go for a walk...perfect for me, I'm really making a turn-around! Last night the muscle pain and back ache started. I am sooooo sore today. I'm really hurting. I don't want to move today. Any suggestions anyone? Who has been through these types of cycles and how do I break out of this???