Ok, its me again! I was banded on wednesday and it is now sunday and according to my scale I am down 11.4 pounds. I am a glass is half empty kinda thinker so I am assuming it has to be water because its so hard to see a difference. Will I gain that all back when I move on to the next food stage? Did I actually lose that much weight or is it mostly deyhdration? Or should I shut up and be excited?

I can only share my experience with you. I lost 16 pounds my first week. I fully expected to gain it back when I started on solids, but never did. Now I'm 3 months out and down 31 pounds. It will really slllooowww down, so being expecting that. I've been at 31 pounds for 3 weeks now. I'm okay with that though.

have you had a fill yet?

nope, no fill I only had surgery 5 days ago. I am on a clear liquid diet until tomorrow.

People also carry stores of glycogen around in their liver - this is the excess stores of energy your body calls on when your calorie count is down. It can weigh around 6 pounds. This often accounts for a lot of initial weight loss.