In a stall

HI Everybody! Hope all are well, especialy Jenni R who is down with the CRUD! I've been in a stall lately. No loss in 5 or 6 days. Someone on the chat line said I needed to increase cals because I have gone into starvation mode. So the past 2 days that's what Ive been doing. But it's very hard to increase cals. Sure seems like I'm eating a TON of food. Even my DH looks at me and says, "you're going to eat all that?" I have raised my cals from 500 to 700 per day, but also ended up with an increase in carbs because of my limited food choices right now. There is a part in my head that can't help but wonder if this is going to be all the wieght that will come off as I am down (according to home scale) 29 pounds. I had a personal goal of -40# by 8 weeks. When I went to my 2 week Dr. appointment, my home scale showed me at -25#, but the Drs scale only showed a -19#. I blame this on the fact that at home, I'm naked, its first thing in the A.M. and there is no excess water in my system. By the time I got to the Dr, I was dressed, with shoes, breakfast and 16oz of fluid in the system. I can't believe how much anxioty I have now that MANY days have passed with the scale stalled. I pray it will move again. I got myself a sitter for the support group meeting on Saturday in Topeka, so I WILL BE THERE! This is only the 2nd one I will be attending. Its the FIRST one other than the manditory one. I just really need to see Dr. Stewards patients to make sure there are some as skinny as what I want to be. I also got my Medical ID bracelet yesterday. It's not a Genuine one, but it has the RED symbol, the fact I had Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, No NG Tube, and Tallgrass Surgical with phone number. It has a beautiful crystal and silver bracelet too. I purposly didn't put my name or any personal informatin on it because IF I should happen to shrink out of it, I can sell it to ANY female RNY patient of the Tallgrass Surgical Group who may want it. (Smart thinking huh?) See you at the meeting!

Hi Debbie, Thanks for your good wishes. I'm among the living now! I still am not near 100% but I did work both yesterday and today and am feeling better each day since Wednesday. Take a big deep breath.....that stall is one of the most expected things that could happen at this point! As much as you hate to hear it, I hate to tell it but it is soooooo normal. I go on the main board quite a bit (OK, daily, OK...several times a day, OK sometimes for HOURS on some days) and I see it over and over and over.......somewhere between 2 and 4 weeks, a disgusting stall hits and it is esp. distressing at that point cuz you are so used to dropping quickly the first week or two. My first stall was also my longest one......about 10-12 days, don't remember exactly and I was freakin' out....but I sure didn't stay there so I now know it was nothing to worry about....but I DID worry at the time! ANd the other bad news is, that for many of us, even if we do things right, we continue to have them over and over. I now actually "plan" to have 6-7 day stalls after a significant loss of a few pounds in a few days....I KNOW with about 95% certainty that a stall is next. It's easier when you expect it, I've found. Then if it doesn't happen, you get a pleasant surprise! I do wish I knew how often Dr. S's scales are calibrated. Actually, I weigh 4-5 lbs. less on HIS than mine. My PCP's more closely matches mine. Therefore, I get my "official weights and losses" from my own scales (digital) instead of Dr. S's but I have no idea which one is right. My starting weight came from the hospital and I have no idea which one it matched more closely, but I suspect is was more in line with mine and with my PCP's....just a guess. I have also had personal goals of so many pounds in so many weeks....that's just how I operate, but have had some suggest to me that there's a lot of this we just don't have control over so maybe we ought to set those goals within a "range" of weeks. I have had a long-term goal of being down 60 lbs at 3 months. I have 2 lbs. and 6 days to do it, (but I think I just started a new stall) but have decided that I'm going to set the next goal a little differently cuz there is just too much of this that depends more on my body than my effort. Like.....I want to get to -75 sometime within the next 6 weeks.....OK, deep down, I want it by my 4 month anniversary...but I feel like saying "within the next 6 weeks" (after my 3 mo. anniversary) that gives me a more reasonable time and doesn't tie me to an anniversary. Just my thoughts! Jenni -58 lbs. since lap RNY on 12-18-03 PS- wish I could be at the meeting tomorrow! Just isn't going to work again....will try hard for April.