Some encouragement for stalling...

Hi Everyone. I had my surgery on 12/31/08. 

I've been on this stall for about a week and a half and was reading and reading about stalls and when they happen. I was kinda depressed about it, but after everything I read, I pretty much chalked it up to what was normal and figured I would wait it out.

I weight myself last night and I was at 272. I'd been hovering around that and 274 for about two weeks.

I weight myself this morning and it said 269.

 

So, I hope the stall is over. I hope this offers some encouragement too to anyone else who might be in a stall. What they say is true. just stick to what you're supposed to be doing, and it starts to move again.

 

 

Great news! Congratulations!  

I struggled with a stall a couple of weeks ago, too.  Then, all of a sudden, I lost 9 lbs. in a week!   I spoke with a friend who had RNY a couple of years ago and she swears by once-a-month weigh ins.   She said that if you stall and only weigh yourself monthly, most of the time the scales have gone down over the entire month.  I may start doing that instead of weighing myself weekly.  

Someone else told me that too. I was in the chat room and they said once a month weigh-ins are the best. Must.. fight.. the urge.... I like my scale though. It beeps at me when I've lost weight.. lol

I ignored the urge to weigh myself this morning since I weighed myself last Monday.   I'm really going to try to stay away from the scale.

Glad you're gtetting beeped at again!

I actually had my husband hide my scale so I won't get on it until the 1st of March.  I had been stalled for almost 3 weeks and was getting so depressed and thought "this sucks - I don't even want to know what I weigh".  It's much better NOT to know.  I do know that I must be losing because I went shopping Saturday and had dropped 2 pants sizes.  So, that made me happy!

I've vowed to stay off the scale from 2/1 -2/28. So far so good.  Am looking forward to a nice drop by month end. I'm sick of not seeing losses, drives me nuts!  BUT!  I've lost 2-3 pant sizes and 2 ring sizes. Just bought myself a new (fake) pretty to get me until goal when I can have my wedding rings re-sized.

 I stalled for about 3 weeks.  I am post-menopausal, so weight loss is not steady,  However, weight loss is happening.

I was 263 the day of surgery on 12-22-08 and 235 today.  I am over 80 pounds down since September.

Hang in there.

Hi all,
I read somewhere about stalls.  They compared our wt. loss to climbing flights of stairs.  When you first start out, you have the energy to climb, then you get up to the first landing and have to catch your breath, (small stall)  Then you proceed up the stairs to the next level, another stall and so on and so forth.    Stalls are a definate part of losing weight.  Kind of makes sense that after a good loss, our bodies have to rejuvinate, before they can start up again.  Hope this helps instead of confuses. 
     Hugs,  Donna