**HELP 3 week stall 2 months post op!
I wish I could make a pill out of how I'm feeling it would have saved us a lot of pain!!!!!!!!!!
My husband can't believe I'm not losing weight I'm sure he thinks I must be making secret runs to McDonalds or something. I don't!!!!!!!
Any suggestions would be appreciated
Thanks
Hi Jan!
This is perfectly normal! Seriously, a 3 week stall 2 months post-op is almost textbook in its normalcy. So don't worry about the weight loss a bit. It isn't officially a stall til 4 weeks with no loss, but at that point it's still perfectly normal.
Your body needs time to adjust. You may, or may not be losing inches right now. But either way, no one's weight loss is a straight line down the chart. There will be stalls and starts, and that's all just part of the process.
Now, you do need to eat some protein, every few hours. Think of it as medicine, and non-negotiable. It's not about appetite, and you don't need to eat much, but you definitely need to eat.
Congrats on 50 pounds lost!!
on 9/1/08 9:28 am - Stuck in Traffic, MD
You are doing fine!!! Don't push yourself to eat more at a time, but eat a little something every couple of hours. 50 lb in 2 mos is PHENOMENAL!!!! Your body needs time to catch up to all that it is going thorugh. Believe me, one day soon you will wake up and be down 5 lbs or more. Don't fret about this stall Get used to it!!! They will happen...and often!!! But the weight loss will happen too! Just keep on doing the things that you know you need to do.
Good luck!
Marcia
As the old saying goes, "this too shall pass" (and stay gone FOREVER!
Hang in there and congrats on the 50 lbs. ! :)
SW 308/CW164/ GW 140
Courtesy of Diana Cox:
A "stall" at this point is inevitable, and here is why.
Our bodies use glycogen for short term energy storage. Glycogen is not very soluble, but it is stored in our muscles for quick energy -- one pound of glycogen requires 4 lbs of water to keep it soluble, and the average glycogen storage capacity is about 2 lbs. So, when you are not getting in enough food, your body turns first to stored glycogen, which is easy to break down for energy. And when you use up 2 lbs of glycogen, you also lose 8 lbs of water that was used to store it -- voila -- the "easy" 10 lbs that most people lose in the first week of a diet.
As you stay in caloric deficit, however, your body starts to realize that this is not a short term problem. You start mobilizing fat from your adipose tissue and burning fat for energy. But your body also realizes that fat can't be used for short bursts of energy -- like, to outrun a sabertooth tiger. So, it starts converting some of the fat into glycogen, and rebuilding the glycogen stores. And as it puts back the 2 lbs of glycogen into the muscle, 8 lbs of water has to be stored with it to keep it soluble. So, even though you might still be LOSING energy content to your body, your weight will not go down or you might even GAIN for a while as you retain water to dissolve the glycogen that is being reformed and stored.
