Hey Pals!

Check out my Walk from Obesity interview on Turn to 10! I hope you can make it to our event tomorrow, October 8, 2011! 10:00AM registration!

http://www2.turnto10.com/lifestyles/2011/oct/06/health-check -walk-obesity-ar-773783/?referer=http://www.facebook.com/l.p hp?u=http%3A%2F%2Fturnto10.com%2Far%2F773783%2F&h=pAQDLiScz& shorturl=http://bit.ly/omB5VD

See you there!

Jules

I just broke through the longest stall in history....6 weeks the scale didn't move. The good news is it didn't go up either. I'm not sure what broke the stall, but I think it is becasue I added some calories to my day. I was eating 600 - 800 and now I'm up to 800 - 1000/day. This week I lost 5 lbs.

I felt the same way. A FAILURE! I was beating myself up over this. Have faith that if you do everything right it will come off. It is easy to get discouraged when you are not seeing the scale move, but keep the faith.

Ladies & Gentlemen,

Last chance to join in the OH Fashion Show at the NY Conference October 22nd! 

Anyone interested in participating in the fashion show for the Long Island, NY OH conference on October 22, 2011 please contact me to provide information and photos at [email protected].

The OH Fashion Shows are open to anyone who wants to participate. After having surgery and working so hard to stay on track, you deserve to show off a bit!  We ask that you send high resolution "before" photos and a brief blurb stating your surgeon's name, surgery type, starting weight and current weight (your choice). OH will put them all together to be shown on a large screen while you strut your stuff on the catwalk to music! This starts at 8pm on Saturday evening and we ask that you provide the outfit that you would like to be photographed in! To keep with our schedule, you may be asked to join the other models by 7:45pm that evening to coordinate the lineup.

Upon submitting your photo, you are giving ObesityHelp your permission to use your likeness on our website or in our magazine.

Any other questions? Just ask!!!

Thanks girl!

Love the encouraging words.. much appreciated.

It's good to know that you went through this too... so I'm not alone!

KAILA!!!  What up girrrl??? 

Ok, so here's the post I post for all the newbies early out that are stalling.  I was one of those early stalled newbies and I received this reply and was immediately feeling better once I read it.  No, you are not doing anything wrong.  You can't let anyone talk down to you (even if it is your parents).  Here it is:

"At last month's support group meeting, I only spoke for a half an hour to intro the group and do the "round robin" around the room. But I let something slip that got a lot of reaction in the room. I can't even remember WHY I said it but it was like an "a-ha" moment across the room. It slipped out for the tiniest reason but hit home with a lot of the newbies in the room.

I keep forgetting that so many people go into surgery not knowing as much as I did when I went into surgery. I need to remember this and remind the members of things that they might not know in the future.

When I was going through surgery, I was ready for and expecting the inevitable 3rd to 7th week stall. I often forget that some newbies don't know to expect it. They should. You should be expecting it when it happens so you know that it is coming and you are mentally prepared for that period when the scale doesn't budge early out.

(and don't forget to take your measurements every week early out too so that you have something else to measure yourself by other than the scale).

When your body first goes into surgery, it knows shortly afterward that it is starving. It needs food but you are taking in such little nutrition after surgery that it tries to sneak your glycogen stores. Glycogen stores are the "quick energy" stores that allow you for instance to run out quickly if a mouse is on the floor. It's your "instant energy" in your body.

So your body thinks "hmmm...it's just a little hurdle, I'll get my energy from the glygogen stores".

Well after a few weeks of this, your body realizes that this is not a short term thing anymore. It realizes that using energy from your glycogen stores isn't very efficient and very long term. So it has to THINK a bit.

(This is where the stall comes in).

Then it says "A-hah!!!!". It realizes that it has a lot of fuel on your body - your fat stores, so it's going to start burning some energy from there and shrink those fat cells.

Then the body will resume into full burning mode and guess what? The scale will start moving again.

This is a GREAT things when it happens. Although it sucks that the scale doesn't move, it means that is going to start burning the stored fat you have (especially the stuff in your butt! LOL!).

So be happy about that inevitable stall - it's fat burnin' season!

Dawn"