What is the longest you have ever stalled?

I feel like I've been on a stall for 2 weeks or a bit more. It is driving me crazy! I wish I could force my scale to move. Whats the longest any of you have stalled earlyish on?

Close to surgery I actually never stalled. I am always the red headed sleeve stepchild there, though.

My bariatric team warned me that I'd have trouble after a year, and I did. My weight loss crawled to a very slow drudge at about 13 months out. This was a combination of the fact that I had already lost several hundred pounds by that point, my thyroid is currently undergoing death throes finally, and I work like 60-80 hours a week and am under constant stress. I also have BED and major depressive disorder, both of which are utterly horrible when it comes to not eating crap. When people think they have a bad metabolism, they haven't met me. ;)

Even with all that various hubris, I wound up losing 140-145 since surgery (the last five fluctuates). Most people with my history have regained by now, but I have never experienced regain.

However, because of my history, now that my guts are healed, I am able to revise to the DS this year.

I must also be redheaded because I haven't had a single week without a loss yet (knocking on wood over here!). I've had weeks with as little as .4lbs, but never a true stall!

I'm hoping I hit maintenance before it gets hard.

When I was in my losing phase, I stalled for a few weeks at most. Eating more fat always helped me get over the hump. Maybe try adding avocado or walnuts to add more good fats.

Hang in there.

Maybe I will try that. I do love avocados and walnuts both.

To me a stall is "I haven't lost any weight for a month and I don't know why." I can honestly say I have never stalled. Anything shorter than that just seems like normal fluctuations and loss patterns - sometimes we lose consistently, other times we don't. Stair step loss patterns are normal and it seems that way especially for women who menstruate.

I did, effectively, not lose weight my second year post-op, but this didn't fit my definition of stall because I knew exactly why I wasn't losing weight.

Unfortunately, I have no idea why I'm not losing since I am working out and following the plan. I guess I am just impatient and need to calm down. I was just wondering how longer others spent with theirs. Though perhaps mine has broken since the scale moved this morning.

Well, remember my definition involves "a month or more." So I wouldn't worry about it at 2 weeks :)

Are you weighing and tracking everything you put into your mouth with something like MyFitnessPal? Are you getting 64+ ounces of fluids a day? Did you just start working out in this time period? (Oftentimes people will stop losing for a bit immediately after they start exercising, but the loss starts up again.)

And, of course, remember that it's unlikely you put the weight on in a consistent daily gain pattern - there were probably "stalls" on the way up too... we just didn't notice them or care about them! So it's unlikely that we'll all lose in a consistent daily pattern :)

If you stick to the plan, get your protein and water, you'll reach your goal eventually. And, thankfully, you'll get to the point where you forget about those annoying 2-3 week periods when the scale didn't move at all. (That's my hope at least!)

Yeah, MFP has become my best friend and to me I have a lot of fun logging. I have started a really heavy workout plan, 5-6 days with a mix of strength/cardio with 4 hours of yoga a week. I have always been a worrier, it's always been my biggest issue.

Gwen suggested www.trendweight.com to me. It will integrate with a scale, but you can also manually enter. It's really nice to see things smoothed out and know you're going in the right direction even if loss is stopped/slowed.