Chammer

I have been beating myself up because I was only 1 week after my surgery and I stopped losing weight. I lost a total of 20lbs since before surgery, so of course when I stopped I got very upset. I am happy that I am not the only one that is having this problem. I said why did I do this to myself? Reading your letters has made me understand that I'm not alone and that I need to work hard and keep my spirits up, because eventually the weight will come off. I will stay off the scale. I have my first doctors and dietician appointment tomorrow and ready to start on a different diet. Thanks again for all the support.

I have lost 36 pounds and had my surgery July 14...but like Susan said, my loss has come to a standstill this past week. I'm almost through my 2 weeks on mushies and go to soft foods on Wednesday, so I'm hoping my body will figure it out soon and the scale will move. When I say it hasn't moved in a week, I mean it has been the EXACT same weight every day, not even a slight change! Weird!

That is really hard to say. Your BMI is not as very high. People who have a higher BMI lose faster because they have more to lose.

I can tell you when I weighed 235 when I had my band surgery, I lost 22 lbs in the first 4 weeks while on the post op diet.

I didn't lose anymore for quite awhile though, because your body sometimes trys to get used to it's new weight and stalls for awhile.

Let's see what everyone else thinks!