I am so frustrated this morning. As if yesterday morning wasn't bad enough when I weighed and the scales had not moved - this morning I got on and they still haven't moved. (I lost 15 pounds in the first 8 days) I am only 10 days post surgery and it seems I have already hit a stall and I don't understand. I am still on liquids and barely consuming anything. This week I have tried to add in a little more Protein via sipping two Protein drinks throughout the day - (160 calories each and 1 gram of sugar) - I have added a little greek yogurt, and sugar free Jello as well..... (about a tablespoon a couple times a day).... Plus I am trying to increase my walking each day - yesterday my Fitbit registered just over 6500 steps...... I don't get it. How can I possibly not be losing? It just doesn't make sense to me...and very hard to wrap my head around mentally. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Remember all the fluid and air they pumped you with. Your body think its starving right now so it needs to re-calibrate. I am 5 days post op and have only weighed myself once because I was up 5 pounds from surgery date because they pumped me with extra fluids because I was dehydrated. I can also tell I am still swollen. My advice would be to stop weighing yourself everyday. Weight fluctuates throughout the SAME day, you are going to make yourself crazy. Good luck!

Before I left the hospital I asked my surgeon "so how soon should it be before I weigh myself" he looked at me and said with a very serious tone "2 years, don't even think about the weight I want you think about getting you healthy, weighing can be counter productive and undo all the good that we are working on here".

Of course my reply was "well you now I am going to weigh myself"

But he is right we went into this with the ultimate goal to lose weight but why because we wanted to be healthy, we wanted to be around for our kids, to have kids, to fall in love to move from the bad and to be fit to run marathons or just walk to the mailbox with out needing an oxygen tank and a knee replacement.

Your weight loss is amazing at this very early stage, stop discounting it and think "hey before the surgery losing this amount of weight in this amount of time was impossible and now look at me go".