I was sleeved on July 9th

Start of pre-op diet: 212

Day of surgery: 197

Lowest weight since surgery: 179.2 on 7/26

Since then: gained back up to 185.2 by 8/10. This happened around the time I went off full liquids and onto soft, mushy food. I'm wondering if part of it was related to increased sodium.

As of today, I am 183.2. Which basically puts me back to where I was on 7/20, over 3 weeks ago.

Total weight loss is 28.8 pounds, which is great. But I feel like I am in an almost month-long stall.

I'm getting between 500 and 1,000 calories per day. Lots of Protein and fluids. And I've just added exercise back into the equation. I burn about 450 - 550 calories on the elliptical in an hour.

Do I need more calories or less at this point? What suggestions do you have for me? I really want to continue to see progress.

Thanks in advance.

By the way, I'm 5'3". :-)

I would call your nut to be sure, but you may need to increase your calories. What did they recommend?

I agree with JerseyGirl -- track your intake and show it to your NUT. I use sparkpeople and it lets you export to excel so you can print it out. I would think that MyFitnessPal probably also allows reporting, if that's what you use. I know sparkpeople will let you track sodium, just in case that's the culprit as you suspect. If you feel like you're doing everything right but don't get the results you want, take the data to your NUT and let the expert review it. that's what the NUT's for!

Are you eating a lot of carbs? If so, try going very low carb. Also, as the others have said, call your nutritionist. She/he will be able to give you specific advice.

I have found that I lose less weight when my calories are too low. Anything under 600 isn't good for me. If the highest you are taking in is 1000 calories and you burning 500 of those calories on a workout day, you are only gettin 500 calories. I agree with checking with your NUT. In the meantime, try gettiing taking in more calories on your workout days at least.

I'm not eating many carbs at all. I would say low carb, in fact...