Has anyone gone back to shakes for a week jus to 'shake' things up on the scale? I was thinking about doing this for 2 meals and having one regular meal at lunch time just to shock my body back into moving. I have a doctors checkup tomorrow so I will discuss it with them but I'm curious if anyone else did this and if it worked?

Thanks in advance!

3 hours ago, kozyjozie said:

Hi. I do three shakes a day. This replaces my meals. I do that for two weeks. Then go to purée stage and regular food afterwards. It's the "post-op diet". Do you have the pamphlet from when you did the surgery? My surgeon told me this will shrink my stomach again and start anew. I have lost 7 pounds somince august 25. I also make sure to get my Water in and I use the eas carb control shakes. 100 calories each. 0g sugar. 17g of Protein. I get them in the case load at sams club. I've also seen them in Walmart and shoprite. Hope this helps.

Does it get easier as . you go? I am finnishing day 1 ( only plan to do a few days, but I opened the fridge today and it smelled so good lol very tempted.

One thing I noticed i EXCEEDED my water goal today when I have never even met it apart from a couple of times lol so it does help !

I will be honest. It is hard. Every time I open the fridge I jump on the treadmill. Try to keep busy with cleaning or something

[mention=194772]jess9395[/mention] How many shakes a day do you do? How many calories? I think I need a reboot. I am 15 months out now. How long do you do it for?

When I do it I use it as part of a 5:2 type of intermittent fasting so I do 4-5 "normal" days and 2-3 "fasting" days in a week. On the fasting days I drink 3-5 shakes during an 8 hour window so like between 10am and 6pm. Nothing before 10 or after 6.

I'm loving the idea that there's hope to get things going again- thanks for the info
But since you go so low in calories - when you go back to normal again, do you gain since you put yourself I. Starvation mode?

No. It's the same as when you had your surgery and started the diet.

Thanks for posting this. I have been in a stall for 2 weeks now going on 3. I had my surgery on 7-21. I am losing a lot of inches but the scale doesn't move. Wondered if I needed to do just shakes and water. My doc appt isn't til the 13th. Thought of calling the nut. That eerie fear keeps creeping over me that this is all I will lose....scary.

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My NUT says to vary your macros to shock your body into moving again and that works for me. I will up my calories for a few days, drop them down low for a couple days (those would be shake as meal days) and then bring it back up to where I was maintaining previously. Usually if I do 5-7 days of this, my stall will break.

My NUT says to vary your macros to shock your body into moving again and that works for me. I will up my calories for a few days, drop them down low for a couple days (those would be shake as meal days) and then bring it back up to where I was maintaining previously. Usually if I do 5-7 days of this, my stall will break.

I will try that!

For those of you that are early out (less than 2 months) your stall will break without resorting to this type of reset. Stalls are very normal especially the 3 week stall. I didn't do anything to break mine except make sure I was on point with my plan and they all broke eventually within 2-3 weeks.

Just saying, but I am sure it doesn't hurt to try to hurry them along.

For those of you that are early out (less than 2 months) your stall will break without resorting to this type of reset. Stalls are very normal especially the 3 week stall. I didn't do anything to break mine except make sure I was on point with my plan and they all broke eventually within 2-3 weeks.
Just saying, but I am sure it doesn't hurt to try to hurry them along.

Thank you! This makes me feel do much better. Even though I panicked on the first stall..now I am panicking again, but less...lol. I just want to see the scale move again...i,am trying to be patient. ..[emoji19]

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Oh gosh yeah if you're early out no need. It's more for 9+ months out or even years out.

And yeah vary your calories/macros. I'm not a big fan of going back to shakes for two weeks. Just a couple days a week and eat sensibly according to your plan the other days.

I've been debating going back to shakes for 1-2 weeks. I've been practically stalled for the last few weeks. Losing less than 0.5lbs a weeks. I'm almost 6 months post op. I've been struggling to get under 200lbs and getting so frustrated. I'm going out of town for a few days, but I think when I get back I'm going to do it. Do you have to do the full post op diet? Or is 2 weeks shakes sufficient then just go back to eating small amounts as normal? I hope it will start me losing better again.