Don't let the title of this thread fool you.. didn't hate the mushy meal due to taste. Scared to death tomorrow I won't see the scale go down. Had a muscle milk today. Took me from 8 am to 3 pm to drink. Had water in between. And meal was egg salad pureed like baby food. 22 pounds lost since surgery 10 days ago. Now terrified scale will increase instead of decrease

You'd be surprised how well your body will handle some real food! Remember that your body isn't meant to survive off of all liquids. You will hit stalls along the journey- but don't give up on real food. I'm 3.5 months post op and have lost way over 50 pounds in that time... And I eat real food for every meal. I haven't had a shake in about a month and I have NO problems getting in all of my protein. You'll do great

Really need the support. Funny family was worried I would make this surgery an extreme obsession and instead of packing pounds I would never eat. Very emotional eating something so simple. Don't wanna be a failure with this

You won't fail, I promise. I can't say the scale won't go up as I gained six pounds at this stage and stalled for weeks. I was as sad as could be. But then when it broke I was losing line two pounds a day. So your body might try to hold on to anything you give it after weeks of nothing but liquids. But the scale will be your friend again soon. Hopefully this won't be what happens at all to you! Good luck you will succeed!

There will be stalls in this journey and probably some gain during TOM but I promise you'll never fail! This tool is not designed that way. Whatever you do, you cannot match your pre-surgery intake with your sleeve. It will send all kind of signals and alerts your way that are hard to miss when you overeat. You'll learn the 'full fealing' soon enough - and your signal may be anything from burps to belches, from aches to reflux - but believe me when I say that is a great thing to learn the 'full' fealing sooner! You'll do more than fine!

At this point you are soooo early in with your sleeve, I would get rid of the scale. Seriously. What is it going to tell you? You are still healing. Your body is going to be retaining fluids ... letting them go ... retaining again ... it is in a very confused state. If you get on tomorrow and it is higher, what does that mean? That you actually gained fat? REALLY? How many calories are you eating in a day ... and you think you are going to gain fat? Sorry ... I don't think so. What does it mean if you drop a pound or two? Did you really lose fat? Are those two pounds going to come back again? What if they do?

Do you see my point here? You could spin your head around this so bad you won't know which way is up. And for what good?

Think about it ... you just had 85% of your stomach removed. Do yourself a favor and focus on doing the right thing with your eating and drinking. The scale WILL take care of itself.

Don't let the title of this thread fool you.. didn't hate the mushy meal due to taste. Scared to death tomorrow I won't see the scale go down. Had a muscle milk today. Took me from 8 am to 3 pm to drink. Had Water in between. And meal was egg salad pureed like baby food. 22 pounds lost since surgery 10 days ago. Now terrified scale will increase instead of decrease

You are not eating enough food right now to worry about gaining! I am 15 weeks out and still can't get 800 calories a day in, so I will continue to lose until I get to my goal.