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Hardly any weight loss after week 2 post op? Is this normal

Hi so in the first week after surgery I lost 6 kg, but then in week 2 I lost about 0.5kg and in week 3 barely 0.5 kg. Starting week 4 and feel a little upset because so hear about how people literally shed weight first few weeks. Why is this happening so slow?

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It isn't slow. You lost 7 kilos in less than a month! Everyone stalls at this point. Your body has to recover.

5 hours ago, Fati64 said:

Hi so in the first week after surgery I lost 6 kg, but then in week 2 I lost about 0.5kg and in week 3 barely 0.5 kg. Starting week 4 and feel a little upset because so hear about how people literally shed weight first few weeks. Why is this happening so slow?

It would be useful if you filled in your profile: weight and height, helps with context to some questions/posts.

I wouldn't say it was slow either, 6kilos in three weeks is good, you are doing great. Your body has been through a surgery, there is swelling and inflammation, its healing. If you read through a lot of the posts here or use the search link for stalls you would see that stalls are a common factor in weight loss surgery even in the first few weeks. The infamous three week stall that can happen at two or four weeks too, for some people the first stall may last a short time for others it can be a few weeks. There will be other stalls along the way.

If you lost a lost of weight pre surgery in the pre op diet, this typically lessens the weight loss in the immediate post op phase as you've already lost all the bloat and fluid retention.

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