more exercise = stall??!!

hi all,
i am close to my 3 month mark and about 2 weeks ago i added to my exercise routine.. before i was just walking outdoors, but 2 weeks ago i included 30 minutes on the elliptical trainer... since then i havent lose a single pound!!! this is really depressing me and i dont kow what i am doing wrong! i didnt expect to stall so soon after surgery...

i am having 80 grams or so of protein a day. i wasnt counting my calories so far, but am beginning to do so now. any help would be really appreciated.. thanks!

Hi!!
I am 2 months post op. Started exercising about 2 weeks ago. And my nutritionist said that it is normal for your body to be in shock once you start exercising.. that there would be a stall for a couple of weeks, maybe even a month, but for me not to worry about it, that she didn't want for me to even get on the scale for a couple of weeks so I wouldn't get discouraged. that even if the scale didn't move, that i would be losing inches, and that she's very interested in including exercise. So, that's something that I've been doing... and she says after 3 or 4 weeks, I'll start losing again.

keeping my fingers crossed!

Hi sweetie, I was a slow loser, so I just want to encourage you to stick with it and you will get there!

Stay Strong

dont freak out. it happens and you are doing great.
stick with it and you will see the benefits soon enough.

best of luck and keep exercising

scott

I swear I lose more weight when I don't have time 2 workout...my weight will hold between 215- 218 when I workout 5-6 days a week. The past 2 weeks not much time 2 work out due 2 my job( I'm a crane operator) last week I lost 3 pounds-212 and this week I lost 2 more pounds 209...I don't understand.

I hear ya, it doesn't make sense. When I got back from vacation, during which timeI didn't do any "formal" exercise but walked a lot and swam in the ocean -  the week or two following that I was swamped trying to catch up in my business. I still exercised, but not every day and not as intensely, and lost 10 lbs. in three weeks after having stalled for months, during which time I had been working out 5-6 days a week. I dunno...I think when they re-route our guts science stops applying to us! I know exercise is important for maintenance and good health, so of course I'm going to continue, I'm just not doing it quite as intensely until I get to maintenance. We'll see how that plan works out!

Jenny

Could part of it be that we are building muscle which weighs more?  I've noticed that although the numbers are not going down, the clothes are falling off.  I'm almost a week away from surgery, but I have lost almost 50lbs so far (depends on the day).  I've been on the liquid diet for 2 weeks now, exercised almost everyday and have gained weight according to the scale.  How that's possible is beyond me comprehension.  My clothes are fitting better and my endurance 1000 times improved since I began the exercise.  I'm hoping its just muscle building up.  I've found muscles that I had forgotten even existed.  Right now I'm averaging 800 calories a day, but I swell a lot so it could be water weight too (time of the month is due any day now).  Don't get frustrated.  It's not the numbers that count, its the improved health and well being.