How long was your 3rd week stall?

So far mine is just over 3 weeks long.  :(  Its making me crazy, depressed, and frustrated.  I'm trying to remain positive but I'm starting to resign to the fact I might be broken and I will never get under 300 pounds.

I know this is extreme and most likely not the case, but its how I feel.  I am so heartbroken.  I know I was put through a lot, and that I am recovering more than most have to at this stage.  I'm charting my food daily, I sometimes miss my water but I make up for it quickly.  I am on PatchMD now for my vitamins.  I am not working out yet because of lack of energy, but i am going to start today even if it means I end up sleeping the rest of the day away.  

I just don't understand a stall for 3 weeks.  Yes, my period could be part of it.  It was supposed to start (and hormonally I started having issues) when the 3rd week after surgery hit.  today is my last day.  And I'm sure my hormones for the last 3 weeks have helped increase my depression.  But jeez, this is nuts!  I don't like feeling like this!  This is why diets didn't work in the past.  I just want to give up.

Mine lasted a long while, as well.  People say that those having revision surgery will lose slower, as well.   I struggle with depression and understand the frustration but many times we are losing inches when we are not losing pounds.  For me, I tell myself I am doing this to be healthier and in time (maybe a long time) the weight will slowly come off.  I encourage you to not be discouraged but keep up the good work and this too shall pass.   You are not broken.  Starting to exercise is a good thing and can help with your mood.  You can do this!!

Thank you.  I know it all, but I need to hear it.  And i am glad to know I am not the only one dealing with a super long stall.  My husband is having a hard time understanding why I am depressed, and keeps telling me to just stop getting on the scale.  I can't do that.  I'm addicted to the scale, even when it makes me cry.

Amy, you have been through a LOT!  Mine lasted a few weeks and honestly, I thought it was never going to break!  in addition, post-surgery, I had gained 14 pounds of water weight from the surgery so it took me about 10 days to start losing beyond the 14 lb. gain, THEN I had about 14 days of loss, then the stall.

You WILL get through this.  Don't be tortured about it.  I, too, thought that I was going to be the one for whom the surgery just didn't work because dieting never did long-term.  You WILL see the payoff.  Just don't stay focused on doing everything right and everything will work out.  Have faith and trust in the process!!

I am keeping the faith.  I have to keep reminding myself that I have been through a ton.  I guess the part that is hard is that I feel good, I just don't have energy.  So I don't have a ton that reminds me that I have been through a lot.  I just expect it to work.  LOL

I think I'm on a stall also and it's driving me crazy :( for the past 3 days I haven't lose any weight and I'm on liquid diet! (With milk and yogurt). 😔

We will get through it.  :)

Hope so!! 

Mine lasted 4 weeks but I did loose inches.  It helps not to weigh every day if you can.  I had a lot of trouble with that.  I finally hid the scale for a while.  When I brought it out I decided that I could weigh daily if  I wanted but only document weight once a week.  That helped some.  It just seems like it will never come off but it will. 

When I posted about this, I was told that I was not that special and that it was impossible not to loose on what we are eating at that point.  Once I thought about that I knew it was true.  Just follow your program and it will happen.

Good to know someone else had a stall last a long time.  I can't put the scale away.  I have tried, but its not going to happen.  I have resigned to that fact, and I understand that I am the way I am.  As for being impossible, I know!  That is what is killing me!  When we are taking in under 1000 calories a day, and a lot of that is not getting absorbed because of how we are now wired it makes no sense how one could stall for so long!