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If you have been successful, albeit slow at the weight-loss journey, can you please tell me how many calories you took in each day (roughly) in order to be successful. I am lucky and I mean LUCKY if I lose an average of maybe one pound per week and I'm only 21/2 months post op. I would like to know your formula for losing. How much H2o you take in etc...thanks so much in advance

Try not to sweat it - some lose slow - like me! I can go 10-14 days and not show any loss, then the next day I will be down two pounds. Then another 10 days or so and nothing and bam down two pounds. That averages out to 1 to 1 1/2 pounds per week. Not 3-4 lbs like some other folks. I am learning not to "freak" out about it. I am only out 10 weeks (I think) and that is how it has been for me since the day I came home from the hospital. But I look at it this way, I am not gaining! I am losing, just slowly. And without the sleeve, if I didn't lose weight after a week, I would have quit and gone back to overeating and then gaining. Now I don't. I only eat about 750-900 calories per day and little to no carbs and that is still my slow loss. So hang in there because it all adds up

Good Morning - It's Thursday and I appreicate hearing that others are in the same position as I am, although I feel bad for everyone. so last night before bed I took my prescription priolsec and was scared as hell to swallow it, but I did anyway and I didn't die! LOL. Then I let a gasx strip melt on my tongue, as I swallowed it little by little I felt pain between my breastbone radiating to both sides and thought omg what did I just do, but it passed and then the gas feeling got better. I went to bed an slept five straight hours! This morning I walked a bit to the mailbox and back and started sipping grade frost Isopure from a shot glass and took two tylenol with sips of Water. Now I'm sitting watching TV and everywhere they are talking about thanksgiving food. I feel better today, weak, but better than yesterday. Not to be personal but has anyone had a bm? My last one was last Friday! Crazy. Please keep posting how you are all doing my fellow sleevers this week - it helps me to read about your progress and helps me to know that I am not alone in all of this! Your'e the best group of online people

Try not to sweat it - some lose slow - like me! I can go 10-14 days and not show any loss, then the next day I will be down two pounds. Then another 10 days or so and nothing and bam down two pounds. That averages out to 1 to 1 1/2 pounds per week. Not 3-4 lbs like some other folks. I am learning not to "freak" out about it. I am only out 10 weeks (I think) and that is how it has been for me since the day I came home from the hospital. But I look at it this way, I am not gaining! I am losing, just slowly. And without the sleeve, if I didn't lose weight after a week, I would have quit and gone back to overeating and then gaining. Now I don't. I only eat about 750-900 calories per day and little to no carbs and that is still my slow loss. So hang in there because it all adds up

I hear ya. I was around 246 or so pre op. Went on the liquid diet for two weeks prior to surgery (VSG on 11/28/12) and got down to about 238. I am currently at 214 and I have been there for what seems weeks (probably 2 anyway). I have tried upping calories, decreasing calories, increasing fluids, etc etc. Nothing is working.
It is so frustrating!!! When will this stupid scale start to move down again???

Yup slow slow slow! I think I posted it at least 100 times I'm 10 weeks out and I've lost 19 pounds I have lost inches I know my body changing but it's so frustrating. I hate the &$&?!@ scale. Hoping to get out of this rut soon! I moderate what I eat using fitness pal but I don't exercise enough I don't Drink enough Water and I don't eat enough Protein so what do i expect. Right?! Lol

Please don't feel bad about posting a popular topic again. I was in an 11 week stall. I did everything I could think of: increased Water, increased Protein, increased exercise. I lost 14 lbs on pre diet and lost 10 lb is 17 days post op. I thought this is great! Then I hit the wall and didn't lose a pound my next visit or my next visit. I was almost 3 months out and had only lost 24 lbs. To say I was depressed and upset is putting in mildly especially when you read on here about "pounds melting off" or people losing and "not exercising yet". I read all about stalls and wondered "will I be the one that this doesn't work for"? I think we all feel that sometimes. I reevaluated my diet and dropped my carbs and most importantly RELAXED. Then I stepped back and looked at what I have accomplished. All total I have lost 45 lbs and havent gained it back. I went thru Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years and didn't gain. I have more energy, I feel better, some of my clothes feel looser, I am in a pair of pants with no stretch a size down from a pair that had stretch, I am eating healthy and exercising which will extend my life, and I see changes in my body-definition, less fat when pinched, my wrist is smaller and I can feel my collar bones. Sometimes we get so caught up in reaching the finish line that we miss the changes along the way. It will happen! It has to if you are eating less and moving more. All bodies are different and sometimes we are rabbits and sometimes we are turtles but we will all win the race. Best of luck and Relax. Stressing about it can and will cause your body to hold onto the weight.

If you have been successful, albeit slow at the weight-loss journey, can you please tell me how many calories you took in each day (roughly) in order to be successful. I am lucky and I mean LUCKY if I lose an average of maybe one pound per week and I'm only 21/2 months post op. I would like to know your formula for losing. How much H2o you take in etc...thanks so much in advance

I am right there with you! my weight loss is extremely slow by others standards. It seems like my scale will not budge for like 14 days and then overnight there is a loss of 2lbs. then another stall for another week or so, then a loss of 1.5lbs. when you add it all up I have only lost to date approx. 21lbs since date of surgery which was 11/12/12. I'm just plugging away at it and now I know that it will take me much longer to reach my goal of 150lbs than other folks - so I have accepted it and try to feel happy with my little successes...do you feel better now that you know you are not alone

I lose pretty slow. Sleeved 12/5 and am down 22 pounds. Coming up on 8 weeks postop tomorrow. Some weeks I lose nothing, some I lose 1 or 2 pounds. I did find that when I upped my calories and good fats (like avacado or nuts) that I broke my stall. I drink about 60 - 70 ounces of Decaf tea a day because regular Water doesnt go down as good. I prefer a warm beverage. I usually dont have any sugar and very low carbs. Im happy with slow and steady though. As long as the scale goes down and not up right?

I bake for a living. It's so hard now- I have to taste. Thankfully I'm fine with just a small bit and ok that's good it's the way it's supposed to be and I'm on my way- but I just didn't even think of it until I was making my boyfriends birthday cake 2 weeks after surgery. Then we did a joint birthday party for our 3 kids the following weekend and Christmas baking. I will say- I haven't had any of my actual baked goods- seriously big shock! Even my breads I have made.
Good luck!! And congrats on your loss so far!

Fiinally started losing again - per the scale. Down 5lbs since two weeks ago. I hope it keeps moving downward! slow but happening...

Fiinally started losing again - per the scale. Down 5lbs since two weeks ago. I hope it keeps moving downward! slow but happening...

A real stall is three weeks or more at the same weight. I had two of them and both were nine weeks long. Both started out as "natural" stalls, something you should fully expect post VSG. But like many of us, after about a month at the same weight I fell back into bad habits and had to address the bad behavior before I could get back on track.
It is perfectly normal to have stalls and it is perfectly normal to have a less than perfect journey. If we had all of the tools we need to lose weight effortlessly, we'd skip the surgery and just join Weight Watchers again. The sleeve is that extra tool that helps us do the head work to overcome. So, expect stalls and expect some measure of frustration and expect that you will need to put effort into adopting new habits permanently for long term success.
As for what month you stop losing there's no such thing.
Really. I'll say it again: NO SUCH THING.
Your sleeve is just about as large as it will get at roughly one year post op. Your capacity afterward is tiny compared to pre-op, even if it is considerably larger than immediately post surgery. We're talking about fitting in between 3/4 to 1 and 1/2 cups of food somewhere between one and two years post op. And that's it - forever - unless you try your very hardest to stretch your sleeve (though pain and real effort) what little it will stretch.
So what does all of that mean? It means that there is nothing stopping anyone at one, two, three or even seven years post op, from picking up the pieces if they fall into bad habits and regain. The sleeve was and will remain a restrictive tool to help you lose weight and maintain that loss if you make the right food choices.
Expect that the lower your body weight and the closer you are to your body's happy place, the harder it will be to lose weight. So yes, weight tends to come off more quickly in the beginning and to come off more slowly the closer you get to goal. That does not mean it's more difficult to lose weight. You'll use the same exact techniques and tools to lose. It's just harder for your body to give up those final pounds. I was six months to lose the last twenty. That's a bit excessive, maybe, but I was a slower loser from the start. But everyone slows down near the end - it's natural when your body has less to give up.
And in my experience, people need to feel in control so they fiddle with their diets any time they don't see a drop on the scale every day. If you're tracking your food and you're not eating an extra four hundred calories a day all of a sudden, it's doubtful that your diet is the culprit. Everyone's body reacts differently but in more cases than not, the thing that shakes a real stall is upping the calories and carbs in your diet, not slashing them. Or you could just wait it out. Because with time, it'll pass and it's part of the journey.
~Cheri

Yea I know what you mean about the slowest loser me too but they say the less you had to lose the slower you will go.

LOL...I keep thinking they're going to call me to be on Good Morning America as the slowest weight loss after having had gastric sleeve!

well my story outa make you feel better about yourself. sleeved on 11/12/12 weight day of surgery about 222. Today I am only at 209. you do the math - 13lbs. That's it! over christmas weeks I lost nothing. I ate a little less mindfully and had a few Lindt candies, but still nothing. So this week I hit everything on target - 72oz Water, Protein protein protein. little to no carbs - what do you know? I stepped on the scale this morning and it is STILL 209. I'm gonna continue and then weigh myself in a few more days, and if still nothing - I'm going back for a refund! LOL. Could I possibly be the only sleeved patient that never loses any more weight? Dear god I hope not...

you look fabulous! Very handsome My new "life" starts Monday at 7:30am - hope it goes as well for me as it has for you. Good Luck

All the best. You are doing really great. At week 3 I had a 3 week stall and felt sooooo discouraged. Your weight loss is terrific and while you may not be experiencing a stall I can tell you that this is definately the BEST thing that I have done for myself. I'm 6 months out now and have had a couple of stalls BUT the weight is coming off. I have nearly lost 100 lbs!! I feel terrific. You've made a decision that is life changing... hang in there - it is totally worth it!!

ok folks - Water is the key! at least 72oz a day. I have been doing that for the past 2 full days and viola! the scale has begun to move in the right direction! not a lot, but it is moving and I'm convinced it is because of my water intake not to mention I feel so much better being properly hydrated. Tried more scallops today and they are stuck at the beginning of my stomach - I had three today as opposed to two from yesterday and three was one too many. So much to learn about ones new situation now isn't it! BTW Your urine should be almost clear. If it is not, then you are not drinking enough - at least that's what my nurse friend told me and she was right. For all of us "slow losers" lets hit the water this week adn report back in next week on progress good luck

3 months before surgery
   current pics of me. the lose is slow but im going to get to goal, i pray i will.

it was a good 2 months for me, felt like crap then gradually didn't.
Start light exercise (with the docs approval) and drink plenty of Water. You are in ketosis and burning off fat reserves, this takes a while to get used to and really upsets some peoples well being.
It will pass.

I was pretty wiped out at three weeks. Your still healing and still dealing with the swelling from surgery. That makes getting the liquids in difficult. (Disclaimer.....I have no medical degree , just my humble vsg experience!). My nausea wasn't too bad, but. My dr gave me a prescription for a patch behind my ear and also a suppository. I never opened the suppository and only used three Patches. But nausea is common. It will get better.
Just focus on sipping your liquids. I know it's tough and the last thing you want to do. I was sleeved 10/22/12 and I can usually take a whole swallow or two at a time now.
The hardest part of healing is behind you now , at least it was for me at three weeks. I do have pain on my right side sometimes. Before long you won't believe how good you feel. As for feeling " normal", you're gonna have a whole new normal! Hang in there, and get ready to feel great!........mendy