I am just curious as to if this is normal. I was sleeved last tuesday so I am officially one week out and I have lost 20 lbs. I am estatic, however, is this normal lol.

I was down 26 lbs at 10 days....so I guess it is normal

You are both faster losers - I have been told that 20 lbs. is average for the entire first month. I lost 30 lbs. my first month and my surgeon was blown away, so 20 lbs in one week - AMAZING. 26 lbs. in 10 days also amazing!

That's quite a big loss!!! It could be part water loss and dehydration as well as Iknow the first week it is impossible to get in your 60 oz...so don't be hard on yourself if the scale sticks for a week or two then you drop again. Or, you are just one lucky girl.lol

So, here's the deal with that. The first week or so, with such limited intake, your body is going to burn through the glycogen stored in your body. If you don't remember what glycogen is from high school bio class, Google it. Glycogen is initially stored in your liver, hence the reason for the pre-op diet most surgeons put us on, to shrink the liver. After the liver's glycogen stores are depleted, the body moves on to the glycogen stored in your muscles. In order for the body to store glycogen in the muscles, it must be bonded with Water in a 4 to 1 ratio, meaning 4 grams of water bonds with 1 gram of glycogen. When glycogen from the muscles is used, both the glycogen and water are taken. So, you burn through 1 pound of glycogen, you also use 4 pounds of water for a total loss of 5 pounds. Depending on how much glycogen your body has stored, you could drop 10, 15, 20 pounds very easily and quickly. Something I always did when doing an Atkins like diet.

So, this is a bad news, good new kind of thing. The bad new is you haven't been burning very much fat at this point. Yes, you weigh less, but it's the fat burning that we really want to get to which leads to the good news. Once your body has depleted the glycogen stores, it must turn to your fat and muscle reserves and convert them to glycogen for your body to use as energy. Notice I said fat and muscle reserves. Your body will burn muscle as well as fat and this is one of the reasons why it is so important to get your Protein in. You want fat burned and muscle to be replaced.

So, rejoice in the loss of 20 pounds never coming back, but this will not last. You are at the point, now, where the weight loss will not be at the same rate, so do not get discouraged. It will continue and you must remain steadfast following the guidelines your Dr laid out for you.

I lost 22 pounds my first week. Then 8 lbs my 2nd week. The scale hasn't moved in about 5 days now, though, so I think your experience is not too far from normal. I got really excited when I lost so much the first week. I was on the scale everyday watching it go down 3 or 4 pounds. Now with it not moving in 5 days I am feeling pretty depressed. So, be happy with what you do lose. Just don't count on losing at that rate for very long. Best of luck to you!

Don't worry-the numbers start going down slower, but down they go! Some weeks I'll lose more than others depending on activity level and water but I notice my clothes getting bigger every day whether the scale moves down or not. As long as you keep the carb consumption low and get protein in and take vitamins, the pounds will come off. I'm excited to begin exercising (sleeved on 10/11/12 but also had hernia repaired) to step up my weight loss. I'ld love to be down 100 by Aug. 15th- exactly one year after starting Pre-op diet. I'ld weigh 178 which I haven't weighed in 17 years!

I as down 20-lbs my first week and a total of 26-lbs after 2 weeks. I'm 6 months out now and have been weighing and plotting my weight every day just for curiousity's sake. I've attached the latest pdf. You can see some dramatic up's and downs with holidays and birthdays, etc., but it always seems to find it's way back to the trend line. And I am not a big exercizer and am known to have a nip now and then (OK two nips). Graphing my weightloss has helped me to be patient and look at the big picture.

My Diet Track.pdf

Oh wow!!! Thats amazing!!! My weight loss has been so slow!! But I can't complain! However I wish mine had came off just as fast lol