Hibernation/starvation mode

Hi everybody: Please explain hibernation/starvation mode to me. I understand your body does not want to give up its fat, so you plateau and do not lose as expected. However, no matter what you do, don't you eventually HAVE to lose weight. As someone pointed out to me, if hibernation mode lasted forever, no one would ever be in danger of starving to death. I know that so many on here do everything right, like myself, and still cannot manage to maintain a steady weight loss. Yet others can, no matter how much or little weight they started out to lose. I understand RATES of weight loss, being younger, more active, etc., should probably increase the rate of weight loss. What I do not understand is no weight loss. The reason that WLS can never be compared to conventional diets, is that if I were on a conventional diet I would have been so disgusted by now, I would have probably pigged out. However, with WLS you cannot do this and just have to wait it out. Early, long plateaus are so discouraging. No one undergoes all that is involved with WLS, expecting this to happen. Is there a maximum length of time that you can be on a plateau so early in the game? Thanks guys.

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