Hi, I have been banded for 8 days now and lost 5Lb, I am on the liquid diet and think I am taking in around 400-500 cals a day. I'm gutted I have only lost 5lb! I'm more worried that when I move into solids my weight loss stops! How much did you all loose? I expected to have a boosted loss the first 2 weeks. In total I have 4 stone to loose. Thanks

You're fresh out of surgery and losing lbs/stones should not be your #1 priority at this point. Healing and readying yourself for the upcoming change in lifestyle is more important.

Keeping your caloric intake low is important but once you're healed and eating solids is when the challenges and real fat loss begins.

Most of the weight we lose shortly after surgery is simply Water our fat cells stored.

I saw someone say in another post that we shouldn't really check the scale for the first month - I agree! 7 days banded here. If you start looking to the scale for your happiness now you'll put yourself in a mess of emotions! (I do it too, am trying hard not to let it effect me.)

This is not about weight loss it's about a lifestyle change that is permanent. I have taken thirteen months to lose five stone and another three to go. I have learnt lessons on keeping it off for the future and to control my emotional eating. It's a daily challenge but you will get there . Good luck.

This is not about weight loss it's about a lifestyle change that is permanent. I have taken thirteen months to lose five stone and another three to go. I have learnt lessons on keeping it off for the future and to control my emotional eating. It's a daily challenge but you will get there . Good luck.

Thanks for the comment! But how can you say it's not about weight loss! I got banded for weight loss! That's the point. I do get you have to change the way you live to loose weight and keep it off. But it's all about the weight loss for me anyway.

Thanks for the comment! But how can you say it's not about weight loss! I got banded for weight loss! That's the point. I do get you have to change the way you live to loose weight and keep it off. But it's all about the weight loss for me anyway.

I think her point was, no lifestyle change, no weight loss?

Yes your going to lose weigh but it's about a new way of living and being. All of us have lost weight many times before and then put it back on. So we can all lose weight. I had the band because I could not keep the weight off not because I could not lose weight.