I Hi All!

I had surgery on July 15 so I’m just about a month out. I’m panicking because I started out at 250 before my 2 week preop diet. During my preop diet I lost 9 pounds. I went into surgery at 241 pounds. I’m now almost a month later 226 pounds. For the last week it’s been at 225 and today it jumped to 226.6. Last night I had about 600 calories…previously it’s been between 350-500. I decided to jump it up some to see if I could get over my stall and I gained!! Ugggggh…what am I doing wrong? I got this surgery to better my health and to lose weight of course and I feel Im on an up and down cycle again. Please help with advice. I figured adding more calories would help with weight loss…guess my body said nope! Feeling a little defeated!

On 08/12/2021 at 13:07, Lorey_a said:

Don't give up. Stalls happen to all of us. Make sure you are drinking Water, eating healthy and staying active and you will be fine! Best of luck to you

Thank you!!?

I'm just started my puree diet today and I was worried about the same thing. I had my surgery on the 26th of July and I lost about 10 pounds pre-op, and I lost about 20 pounds since my surgery. I would hate to see the scale go up, but I understand that my body is just running its course to get back to "normal."

On 8/11/2021 at 9:25 AM, Ready21 said:

I Hi All!

I had surgery on July 15 so I’m just about a month out. I’m panicking because I started out at 250 before my 2 week preop diet. During my preop diet I lost 9 pounds. I went into surgery at 241 pounds. I’m now almost a month later 226 pounds. For the last week it’s been at 225 and today it jumped to 226.6. Last night I had about 600 calories…previously it’s been between 350-500. I decided to jump it up some to see if I could get over my stall and I gained!! Ugggggh…what am I doing wrong? I got this surgery to better my health and to lose weight of course and I feel Im on an up and down cycle again. Please help with advice. I figured adding more calories would help with weight loss…guess my body said nope! Feeling a little defeated!

I had surgery in the same day as you and. Just went through a similar experience. I was stalled with no weight loss and gaining and losing the same pound or two for a week and a half. I just kept following my regimen and suddenly yesterday ai was down three pounds.

I figured my body was just adjusting to the until weight loss and just trusted the process. That was really hard for me because on previous diets a stall like that would totally derail me.

I am pretty proud of myself for sticking it through.

My doctor said everyone's experience is different except for that first stall 3-4 weeks out. She said universally everyone experiences some sort of stall.

On 08/12/2021 at 18:08, Bluebonnetgirl said:

I had surgery in the same day as you and. Just went through a similar experience. I was stalled with no weight loss and gaining and losing the same pound or two for a week and a half. I just kept following my regimen and suddenly yesterday ai was down three pounds.

I figured my body was just adjusting to the until weight loss and just trusted the process. That was really hard for me because on previous diets a stall like that would totally derail me.

I am pretty proud of myself for sticking it through.

My doctor said everyone's experience is different except for that first stall 3-4 weeks out. She said universally everyone experiences some sort of stall.

That’s a great drop in weight! I think I’m constipated also which could be affecting my true weight. I’m anticipating a nice drop soon!

I had my surgery three days before you and I just got out of my infamous three week stall a few days ago. And in three days I dropped almost six pounds. I was expecting the stall, but it still SUCKED.

Don't second guess yourself, you're probably doing AMAZINGLY. It will break soon and you'll be back to losing.

Your body is still healing and adjusting its too early to worry about stalls.

I am also going through this and it as made a bit sad because I am really trying

Thought of you this morning because my weight went up one pound and I realized what I do to calm my fears when this happens. I have a log of my weight In the notepad on my phone. I log it daily and at the end of the month I delete it all except for the 18th which was my first entry at pre op appt. I look back at that and see the overall trend downwards and I feel better. Perhaps you could do something like that.

Edited August 14, 20214 yr by ShoppGirl