I lost 10 pounds the first week post op. This week though I am up 3 pounds!!! I don't understand? I was really dehydrated the first week could that be the reason?

Yeah that's just fluids. I gained 20 pounds from all of the fluids they pumped into me. But I lost that pretty quickly. The scale makes people crazy. I've stopped weighing myself daily.

Agree. After surgery I waited 2 weeks to get on the scale at my post-op appt.

After that I only weighed in once a week at home.

It could be all sorts of weird fluctuations - yes, dehydration will make your body hold on to fluid, could be normal water retention from TOM, you could need to poop, it might just be one of those weird inexplicable things. Unless it turns into a long term trend, I wouldn't worry.

I'm pretty frustrated my self. I had surgery on nov 18 and lost 10 pounds the 1st week during my clear liquid stage. Now a week and a half later I have lost nothing else. Finally I decided to put the scale up in the closet so I won't stand on it everyday. I'm beyond frustrated. Everyone says this is very normal and your body is just trying to play catch up. idk

My husband hid the scale from me and I'm thankful he did - I was weighing every day and sometimes mid-day as well. It's just not healthy.

We rejoice when we lose 2 pounds overnight - it's physically impossible to do...you'd have to have a 7000 calorie deficit in order to achieve that. And we lose it when the scale says we gained 2 pounds - again, it's not possible. It's completely irrational on both sides! And most of us do this. I berated myself the other day because I "only" lost .5 pound the day my husband took my scale away. (I'm eating about 600 calories a day right now and I'm exercising...yet I still came down hard on myself for failing.)

Please hang in there - you have lost over 50 pounds so far. Be proud. Most of all be patient - your body it's own timeframe on losing pounds and it's rarely on the same schedule as your brain.

Take care of yourself!!!!! Sending hugs.