Omg this is a very good post!!!Awesome and informative, very honest thinking i am impressed ladies...
Right on! I stall, and I go on because I knew it was going to happen! That is why this forum ROCKS! If you do your due-diligence you will know that at 3 weeks you probably ARE going to stall, and you just need to deal with it and go on. No panic...just breath...and keep on keepin' on!
Thank Goodness for all you sleeve sisters who have gone before and documented in this forum so that we can all learn, and hopefully accept. It's all good.
I COULDN'T AGREE MORE!
I see so many posts where people complain about stalling, and when I open the thread it will say something like 'I'm 3 wks out and have only lost 62 lbs and I've had 3 long stalls I'm so frustrated please help' and I just think to myself "???" and back out of the post. I don't even know how to respond because it makes no sense to me!
Thank you for this topic.
I think that after many years of the diet yo yo merry go round, and finally getting the sleeve, when a 'pause' (stall) happens, the tendency to worry that this time is the same as others and is failing can make a person panic. I too have had weeks worrying that I won't lose the weight, even though my clothes are falling off me and I KNOW that the weight will NEVER be back. The scale can be a great tool to encourage or a great weapon of discouragement. I come and read all I can on this site when I am feeling unsure and without this place to express and see how others are feeling I would be trapped in old patterns of expectation and fail. We all feel a little defensive (I know I am, it comes with being the 'big, chubby, fat' one) and sometimes words written don't truly read as intended. I agree we need to retrain ourselves to be patient and accept that what took years to occur may also take years to reverse. Keep up the positive vibes and give yourselves the break you need to be the persons you want to be, whatever and whoever that is. So lets call the 'stall' simply a pause to catch our breaths, ready for the next step. Love to all (and I mean that, sisters and brothers)
I've been dieting a long time and am used to reading the word as "fluctuation" which makes more sense. I also wish people would take a deep breath and do some research on this site, which has a wealth of info, before freaking out. If you do that prior to getting a sleeve (hell, weight loss of any kind, the sleeve is not unique in this aspect) you'd understand that fluctuations, when they happen, are very normal and part of the process. Dr. Alverez's book is especially helpful on this subject, but even if you don't have his book you can search (there's that research thing again!) for his Utube videos.
OMG, too funny Trustin, because that's exactly how the posts are worded! It's like really? So, let me get this straight: you are obviously obese like the rest of us, because you have to be to even qualify for the surgery. But now, since you have the sleeve, losing like 75 lbs in 3 months or less than a year-that isn't fast enough? Not good enough for you? WTH? You aren't jumping for joy and celebrating your success? I don't get that perspective and outlook at all.
I will say that my last semi-successful weight-loss program I did, about 11 years ago, called them plateaus. HOWEVER!! They never gave me a reason as to WHY they happened!! They always just said to change things up or that I was doing something wrong. They never once told me that this is when the body catches up to the weight-loss and that I'd lose INCHES instead!! I mean they did measure us once a month, but it was so disappointing when I'd weigh and they'd look at me like I failed. I am SOOOO GLAD that I now KNOW that a stall/plateau/pause/fluctuation is perfectly normal. That they can last for extended periods of time, AND that IN FACT your weight-loss will resume!!
THANK GOD I LEARNED ALL OF THIS BEFORE MY SURGERY so when it happened to me I didn't freak out and just say screw it, I'm eating ice cream. Thank you all on this wonderful, INFORMATIVE forum!!
I've heard the term plateau as well, but explained as your body trying its damndest to hold on to what fat stores it has left. It's the caveman brain talking. I didn't read any of this as the person in question's fault, just to wait them out, they would break eventually.
BUT
There is a big difference between the ordinary joe trying to do this on their own and those of us w/ the sleeve...we are very lucky. The average Joe has more hormones saying feed me feed me feed me than we do and more room to do damage. Again, we are lucky.
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