Stall?? Busted!! (I hope this helps someone else too)

klcovington

So...I have dealt with many stalls during my new journey since my sleeve on 9/18/14. This latest stall lasted weeks and was making me very discouraged. In all honesty, at the same time, I was traveling, dealing with the holidays, and testing my limits (trying out foods that were not on my surgeon's approved list, eating too many carbs/slider foods, etc.)

I found an exercise program that I started on Sunday and since that time, I have finally released 5 pounds! I am so psyched. Better yet, I am not having to spend hours at the gym. I am working with high intensity intervals and I change them up each day (60/60, 20/10, or 30/30 --- which is 60 seconds of pushing myself, 60 seconds of recovery and so forth). I do those for eight cycles. Then, I move to slow-and-steady cardio x 15 minutes. For the "high intensity" portion, I just push myself as hard as I can (I either increase my speed or increase the incline on my treadmill for instance).

I hope this helps someone else who is stalled. I know personally how frustrating it can be. But I have found that by returning to my surgeon's food guidelines and this HIIT exercise program, it is working for me.

lenac87

Awesome! Sounds like you are doing great!

aylajane

Awesome! Congratulations. THat is wonderful.

One of the things I learned at the end of my first year was that what broke stalls in general was "change" itself. One stall, changing exercise did it. The next, changing food. The next adding water. The next better sleep.

Basically if you stall, take a look at what you could do better and change *something*. It may not always be the same thing that your body has gotten used to.