So, I am back at home and back at work. My surgery was Jan. 10. I switch between my shakes and pureed food. Initally I was losing major weight. I haven't really been checking my weight except for maybe once week. Well, I stepped on the scale after work and it showed me 2 pounds up. I tried not to panic, took a deep breath and was down two pounds. I breathed a sigh of relief and told myself that I wasn't going to check again until a full week had passed. Well, I didn't. I checked and I was only down a pound. I know I don't take in 1,000 calories a week. I am recently sleeved. What is going on? Shouldn't I be dropping weight like mad now? Is this a dreaded stall? What has been your experience?

Try not to sweat it - some lose slow - like me! I can go 10-14 days and not show any loss, then the next day I will be down two pounds. Then another 10 days or so and nothing and bam down two pounds. That averages out to 1 to 1 1/2 pounds per week. Not 3-4 lbs like some other folks. I am learning not to "freak" out about it. I am only out 10 weeks (I think) and that is how it has been for me since the day I came home from the hospital. But I look at it this way, I am not gaining! I am losing, just slowly. And without the sleeve, if I didn't lose weight after a week, I would have quit and gone back to overeating and then gaining. Now I don't. I only eat about 750-900 calories per day and little to no carbs and that is still my slow loss. So hang in there because it all adds up

I am in the same predicament! I am going to increase the walking and see if it helps, but I stood on the scale today and was up by 1.5 lbs....don't know why! And I only lost 2 lbs last week but at least it was a loss. Still feel down though because I am not able to eat a lot of food let alone a variety of food so I think my body is just revolting against me.

Slow losers unite!

I was banded Dec 4. Lost about 14 pounds first 10 days. in the past 6 weeks... only 10 more. i bounce up and down all week long. Heck, all month long. Up a pound, down .6, up .2, down a pound. And so on. Stall? Maybe. but the net effect is I'm losing.

I have tried several different things - up calories, down calories, up cardio, down weights, up Water, up Protein, just about every combination out there. There is no rhyme or reason to my fat butt.

I just had to tell myself this morning as I was adding up last month's loses that even if I lose "only 6 pounds a month", I will still be down 80 pounds at the one year mark. I'll take it!

I'm losing slow too! Lost 14 lbs my first week out! Have lost nothing going into my second week and am up a lb this morning! I've read it's normal though, and over time the weight comes off