Ok so I was super loose for 3 months due to some medical stuff. I got a good size fill on Thursday morning (4th). I have been on liquids ever since with one mushy meal a day. It is now tuesday (9th) and I have not dropped ONE pound. Usually after a fill I drop 4-5 lbs. Am I under eating? I'm prob eating arounf 700-800 cals a day. Only carbs Im eating are from daily and fruit. Im so nervous about calories. How many calories should I be eating a day? I'm going to start slowing getting back into food and I'm nervous. I work out 5 days a week pretty hardcore with a trainer. I have my last 50 lbs to go and that was my last fill, which i think did the trick. I need to jump start this thing. I would appreciate some advice on calorie intake please!!!

First of all - HI! I'm from Bakersfield, too! Why aren't we friends?!? LOL!

Could be that you're undereating...how many calories are you getting? I'd suggest upping your calories 200 to see if that helps give you fuel. It's weird to think that we have to eat MORE to lose weight, but if you're working out as hard core as you say you are, your body probably isn't getting enough fuel to burn and is holding on to what it's got. I know that I have to play around with my calories when I start seeing a stall...in the beginning, I was proud of myself for eating less than 1,000 calories a day, but soon found the scale at a plateau. Once I jumped to 1,300-1,400 calories per day, voila!

I'm only 6 weeks post op but i'm averaging 1300 calories a day and losing over 4 pounds per week.

I track my food on thedailyplate.com On there you can put in your height, weight and activity level and then choose how much you want to lose per week. I put 3.5 and it says I can consume 1436 calories per day. 1400 is alittle hard for me to reach but 1300 has been pretty do-able.

Hope that helps!!

with the workout that you are getting, it is entirely possible that you are losing fat but gaining muscle...which could account for the scale not moving.

with the workout that you are getting, it is entirely possible that you are losing fat but gaining muscle...which could account for the scale not moving.

This is probably the case.

Chele- I have an APP on my iphone called Lose It that does the same thing. I never use it, but started this morning. I think I am under eating big time. I am going to up my cals to 1000 a day and see if that makes a difference. If not, Ill go a bit higher.

Thanks for advice guys! Keep it coming!