I'm so upset. I lost 20 pounds on my 2 weeks pre-op and 1 week post-op liquid diet. Then on Friday, 11th, I started mushies and I gained 1.5 pounds. I tried to tell myself it was Fluid (I did notice my rings were tighter), then I tried to tell myself it was because I wasn't going potty like I should, but I fixed that with Milk of Mag and still NOTHING. Tomorrow is 1 week on mushies.

I am eating three 4oz meals a day. That's it! No cheating, no sugar, low carb, high protien.

What gives? Did this happen to any of you?

This happened to me too. I gained 3 lbs. My dr said it was my metabolism.... whatev. I eventually lost it again when I started getting fills.

Thanks for letting me know. I can't wait for my first fill!!!!

So, can we expect to keep gaining until the first fill, even though we are only consuming 600 or so calories a day? I have stuck to the rules and thankfully only gained one pound since starting mushies. But I am really worried that I will continue to gain. It just doesn't seem right! haha I mean, are we really going to consume even less then 600 cals a day after a fill? Just wondering....

I guess it is different for everyone, but for me that regain/stuck time lasted about 10 days, in which I regained 3lb quite quickly and then lost/regained 1lb a day. As I came off mushies and got into eating more solid food, increasing from around 600 cal a day to around 800, my weight started to drop again before I had a fill. I think it is still dropping now (post-first fill), but I don't know as right now I don't have access to a set of scales.

Thanks everybody for the encouragement and it was really cool running into Leeanghaden at the Dr. office today!

Turns out that during my first full week on mushies, I gained 2.5, lost 2.5 for a net loss of ZERO.

This week, I'm down .5 so far. :-

Suzanne, you WILL get there, it is tough and disheartening to not see the scale move, but keep doing what you are doing, log every bite and EVERY sip of whatever you take in (so you can see not only calories, but carbs/fat/protein, etc) in something. There are many sites out there if you haven't found one yet:

sparkpeople.com

mydailyplate.com

calorieking.com

fitday.com (I use this one)

and many more.

If you haven't started using one, it's a great thing!

I'm pulling for you!

Yes, Suzanne, it was divine intervention!!! :wink2:

Anyway, I had a thought and was just wondering... do y'all think maybe, just maybe, or bodies are holding everything they get because it thinks we're trying to starve ourselves and our bodies need to adjust to this new way of life and realize we're ok... like protecting us? Sounds corny, I know, but with Weight Watchers you're told "Eat your points, even if you're full, eat your points" and kind of for this very reason. And, if we were doing WW, for most of us, we're in NO WAY eating our daily allowance of points and therefore our bodies are rebelling against us...? Holding what we're putting in? I'm doing a poor job of forming words around my thoughts, but if any of you can read my mind... do you see what I'm saying? Make sense to anyone but me? I guess I'm trying to rationalize this weight gain thing, if only temporary... because it seems common among most of us.

One of the reasons we have weight challenges is that we want IMMEDIATE GRATIFICATION. The same impulse that made us grab that cake or pull into the fast food drive-thru makes us want to see pounds OFF FAST. We need to think about lifestyle changes..which take time. But all good things take time. Even God took 7 whole days to create the Universe. lol And some say a little...well...longer than that even. :smile:~

leeanghadn, I think you hit the nail right on the head. Things have started to turn around for me. The funny thing is, we went on a trip last week and I ate out 3x a day for 7 days and lost 2 pounds! I even splurged a little as we were celebrating and had some things I would not normally have like chips and desert.

However, I'm now paying the price since introducing more carbs into my diet, my blood sugar is unstable (I'm hypoglycemic) and I'm hungrier.

Had a post-op appointment yesterday and everything is going well. I'll get my first fill 2/15 (with you I think, what time is yours? Mine is 1:30).