I am just 3 weeks banded and lost 18 pounds at first then nothing for 2 weeks, I eat less than 600 calories a day and have been wallking 1 hour on my treadmill for the last 4 days I am so discouraged I can't even tell is this normal? I only get hungry 3 times a day and a little food is all I need to fill up? Please help me:frown:

You need to eat more calories. Your body is in starvation mode and won't allow you to lose. Try in creasing your calorie intake by 400-500 more and see if you won't start losing again!

Weight loss often happens in steps down, rather than a continual slope. If I'm constipated that also slows down the weight loss, so keep up your fluids and moving around. It's very common to hit a plateaus around this time. It will pass. I didn't lose anything from 3 to 7 weeks post surgery but now I'm losing 10 lb per month pretty steadily.

I have heard that but I am so afraid this just won't work for me....

You're burning about 300 calories on the treadmaill and taking in 600, so your body is trying to live on 300 calories. Not enough.

Drink one or two extra Protein drinks to get in needed protein and calories, if you feel too full to increase solid food.

Relax, if you're eating right and exercising the weight wil come off.

You've lost an average of 6 pounds a week, you don't think that rapid weight loss pace will continue, right? Some weeks will be more lost and some weeks nothing, that's the way it is.

Agree with shortgal - 18 lb'sver 3 weeks is amazing. That 18 lbs the first week was a lot of water weight probably so just the fact that you are stable is great. I was (am) the same way - lost 30 lbs first two weeks and this week nothing. But I am eating healthy, excercising and generally feel great. Weight loss will come. As mentioned, be sure you are eating enough !

I agree with the other posts about the amount of weight you have lost and the need for more calories. I was very similar to you. I lost about 15 pds. in the first three weeks and then nothing, not one pound. I had my first fill about 5 1/2 weeks after my surgery and then started to lose a little more. I had my surgery on 12/26/08 and as of today I've lost about 27pds. I'm happy with that! Some people have lost more than I have in the same amount of time and some have lost less. The important thing is to not become too focused on what the scale says right now. Technically, the weeks before your fill aren't considered weightloss weeks so you're ahead of the game. It's great that you're exercising but you need to have enough calories to burn. I eat between 900 - 1100 calories a day and that's exactly what the nutritionist has recommended for me.

Hang in there, the weightloss will continue but as you know, it's a slow and steady process.

Jenn

I understand where you are coming from, I was banded 1-24 and lost 11lbs on the liquid diet one week before and 12lbs the week after surgery and not a pound since. But on week 3 I began to get hungry and started eating "off the diet", so I am to blame for some of it. I am having issues with fluid retention also, so my weight fluctuates daily. Hang in there, I am going for my first fill next week, so I hope to drop a couple of pounds before March ends. You are doing well already and I understand your frustration, but you are already ahead of the expectations.

I lost 25 before surgery and since surgery (2/25/08) 1/2 pound. Talk about fustrated. I am sticking to my liquid diet and not cheating. For you, you have lost some since the banding so at least you know it works. I am not sure if this is going to work for me at all.

I lost 25 before surgery and since surgery (2/25/08) 1/2 pound. Talk about fustrated. I am sticking to my liquid diet and not cheating. For you, you have lost some since the banding so at least you know it works. I am not sure if this is going to work for me at all.

Don't worry. The IV, the anesthesia and the gas they use can bloat us, it takes time for all of that to go away.

You lost 25 pounds in a short time. Before the band, how many times did that happen?

We all worry the band won't work becasue everything else we tried failed, but this is different. Once your band is adjusted ( after healing) and you get the right fill, you'll lose more weight.

We're not the msot patient people, we all want to lose this weight, yesterday! But just go through the whole band process and before you know it, one day you'll wake up and be at or near goal!

Just keep sticking to the plan and you'll be ok. Expect that some weeks you'll lose great and some weeks, you won't. That's just the way it is.

Almost every person on the forum has had the same complaint at some point.

Shortgal, thanks for that. I just seem to be very fustrated right now. I get even more so when I hear people complain that have already had success with their bands.