I'm 18 days post-op and still on liquids (full). I lost 12 pounds in 12 days post-op, and then hit a wall. I figured it was a hormonal thing and it would pass and I'd get back on the WL train. Well it should have passed by now, been 6 days, but weight is not budging. I'm getting in my protein, vits, fluids and about 600 cal. a day on liquids. So I have to ask: WHEN does this weight start coming off? I figure the 12 pounds was likely just retained fluids from after surgery, etc. I'm starting to feel I could do this without surgery; what's the answer? I'm not even on mushy foods yet.:biggrin2:

Normal....my wall was about three and half weeks. Then it magically jumped again. This happened with the band and with my sleeve. It started about three weeks out.

So we will all likely say the same thing....this will pass.

I did keep loosing inches then!

I've heard many who have had a stall last several weeks to a month, then one day the scale starts moving again. While I know it's frustrating, continue doing the right things & the scale will once again move...probably with a large loss.

Thanks, guys, I knew I could count on you to tell me something encouraging! Love you!!:biggrin2:

I'm having the same issue, AJW. I'm 17 days post-op and the scale hasn't moved much in over a week. I'm stuck at 20 lbs lost. Not that I can complain much for 20 lbs. :svengo: I figured it was an adjustment period for my body and it would start again soon enough. Yet here I wait... Anyway, I checked my waist measurement and sure enough it's down another inch, so there's progress. I guess this will teach us not to rely on the scale as much as we have in the past. But it is hard to resist. :biggrin2:

Let us know when it starts moving again for you, and I'll do the same.

Thanks, Lisa, will do.

April

3 weeks seems to be a magical number for that stupid brick wall. I hit it about that same time and it was about 3 weeks before it went away. I lost a few more lbs and hit another wall, lost a few more and again a short wall. I average about 1 to 1.5 lbs a weeks nowand may not be as much or as fast as some and I do get very impatient at times but I am losing and not gaining. I didnt gain it overnight although sometime it felt that way, so I wont lose it overnight either. It probably has a lot to do with being post menopausal but who knows.

I'm curious about this "stall" thing, being the kind of person who likes to know how things work. I have a new scale that shows %water and % body fat, as well as weight. After I have my sleeve, I'm going to track all of those parameters and just see if maybe the water weight is going up when I stall. If muscle mass goes up from increased exercise, I think %water weight might go up too...but am not sure. Since many of you are recording continued loss of inches during a stall, it might just be that you are losing fat and gaining muscle during that time. Any expert physiologists out there have a clue?

sometimes our bodies just want to get used to the new weight. I always lost a few then hit plateau, then lost a few again. I never lost every single week other than the clear liquid stage.

I know quite a few people who have had the surgery and most of them told me that they didn't start to see significant weight loss until 6 weeks out. Not so sure about the reason, and I am not that far out so I can't say from my own experience if that's the case, but maybe that can help?

I'm on day 21 after surgery and the scale has not moved for 7-8 days (except to gain a pound :-(. I called today to make an appointment with the nutritionist to maybe get some hints on how to change things up and get the scale moving, but I think I'll cancel it and just ride this out.

Wishing us all patience!

I stalled at 3 weeks too for about 2-3 weeks and then it moved again, then I stalled again for 2 weeks and it moved again ... and it's been moving since so I am hoping that exercising is helping it to keep moving -- it's not a lot, but the numbers are going down and not up so I am happy with that.

Movement on the scale this morning, down .6 pounds and .2 yesterday, so that's good. Now I'm back to where I was on Aug. 22nd, that's how long the stall lasted. I'm not even on mushies, technically, until tomorrow. A food you can have on full-liquids is watermelon in small pieces, so that's great to have the texture in your mouth. It mushes down to only liquid so it's easy going down. I have a small bowl as a mid-morning and afternoon snack between protein servings. Anyway, wanted to share that the scale is once again my friend and hopefully I see more movement this week!

I'm still waiting... :thumbup:

I had the same stall at 4 weeks. Just this week I started seeing the scale move again. Just need to keep your chin up and know that this was the best thing to do and it does work.

I feel so much better after reading all your posts. I hit a stall at 3 weeks and it was discouraging. I felt like that was all I was going to lose. I am at the end of the 3 weeks and after reading your posts; I am encouraged that "this too will pass".