2 weeks post op stopped losing weight!

[Zanstt 3]

Had Gastric sleeve on 1/30. Felt good losing week 1. Haven’t lost anything in the last 4 days and even gained 1 lb back. What am I doing wrong? I drink a Protein Shake in morning, have Soup (4-6oz) with added Protein for lunch and dinner and one snack of sugar free pudding with added protein. I sip Water all day long. I feel like my surgery is a failure already😓.

[Strivingforbetter 246]

Just keep being consistent. Your body is adjusting and wondering what's going on. Be patient. Your weight loss will start again. This happens to about 98 percent of people. Just scan the forum for older posts about stalls. There's a whole party going on about the three-week stall.

[Introversion 1,876]

You aren't doing anything wrong with the exception of weighing yourself every day and perhaps expecting to post daily weight losses.

Sleeved weight loss occurs in a non-linear pattern: we lose a few pounds, then stall/plateau on occasion. We may even retain a few pounds of Water weight before the pounds start dropping again.

Also, look up the third week stall. Many sleevers stall sometime between the second and fourth post-op week, but it typically occurs in the third week.

Good luck to you.

[blizair09 3,250]

Google three week stall. Everything about this journey is a marathon and not a sprint. And, in my experience, post-op weight loss was more of a step function that a linear function.

Keep to your plan, make good decisions, and do what you are supposed to do and the weight will come off.

[chycky 671]

Well, I weighed myself twice a day for probably first year post-op. You should understand that 1-3 pounds can fluctuate from day to day at times. You will have slower weeks and faster weeks. Try to keep them in perspective. Track everything to make sure you are staying on your plan for diet, but also track weight so you can see how far you have come over time! Hang in there!

[michaeli 5]

I stalled twice in 5 weeks already. First time I stalled I stayed the same weight or gained a bit of weight each day for like 3 days - then all of sudden 1.5lb lost, 1lb lost, 1lb lost days after.

Remember there's so many things that go into your weight:

1) How much Water you are retaining

2) How much food is in your digestive tract?

3) All the hormonal changes you are going through throw weight retention patterns off.

4) Your body is adjusting to metabolic caloric intakes and carb intake levels it's not used to.

Here are things I read / researched before - not an expert like others:

1) Being dehydrated can cause you to gain weight in the short term oddly enough. The body says to hold on to it's water when you start becoming dehydrated and it's only after a couple of days that it changes.

2) You may be hovering in and out of ketosis which can be a problem. Just try to avoid carbs and sugars completely and trust in the system.

Here's my number 1 advice:

Don't watch the scale that hard - still track it so you can see your amazing progress over time - but a better thing to do is to find a perfect spot where you can take a bathroom mirror selfie every day then just scroll through the pictures when feeling discouraged. It's hard to see the results in the mirror as they slowly happen but when you scan through 30 days of pictures you can really tell the difference. My sides are shrinking, my face is shrinking - it's awesome!

Edited February 12, 2018 by michaeli

[NewBeginnings2018 81]

The same thing happened to me. I lost the first week then stalled for 2.5 weeks. It was very frustrating but I really did just try and focus on healing and figured it was my body trying to figure out what was going on. The scale has started moving again, but I am definitely the person that drops then goes up 1 or 2 pounds hangs there for a bit, then drops lower - repeat cycle. I had dreams of the weight just falling off every day but I have adjusted my expectations. You're doing great!