Ive been on a liquid diet for 3 weeks.. 4 if u count pre op diet and im about to move to pureed foods so by incresing my calories a bit will i start to loose slower or stall?? I lost around 20 pounds post op and around 17 pre op.. I lost alot of weight the first week but it slowed down after moving from clear liquids to full liquids... How can i not gain or stall when adding more food???? Any tips or advice???

I just went through a "stall" and today was my 3 week post op date. I can't say that I was really having any more calories, and I have upped my exercise but I went days without any weight loss. I then read some posts on here (one of them like an article explaining the stall) and realized that this is quite natural. I am thinking that it's time I weigh once a week instead of everyday. Today, I was finally down another .5 lbs. My total is 17.5 since surgery and 19 since preop. I didn't have to do a liquid preop, but just needed to cut my carbs. So, didn't have a great loss with preop, but I wasn't too concerned with that since my doctor wasn't either. I am moving into the second week of mushies. I was on liquids for 2 and will do mushies for 2 and then on to regular food. I'm also walking more and trying to up my activity level so that my body doesn't go into some type of "starvation mode".

My main tip would be to continue to concentrate on the Protein rich foods and watch the carbs with the mushies. I have had some sweet potato, and some regular mash potatoes, but usually only a small amount and once a day. My other meals consist of eggs, tuna salad, chicken salad, cottage cheese, Protein shakes, protein sugar free jello/pudding.

Keep up the good work!! We can do this!!!