First of all, congratulations on your surgery and your weight loss.

Second--and this is important--you are perfectly normal. Your weight loss is fine. Many of us actually stall during the first weeks after surgery as the body goes into a kind of shock/adjustment. I for one stalled for four weeks. However, while the scale wouldn't budge, I was melting fat rapidly. I suggest that you begin to take weekly body measurements. It is really encouraging to see the inches disappearing even when the scale doesn't move.

As for the nutrition, every program has some variations. But this is how mine went:

liquid for two weeks after surgery. Week three, soft foods were okay, introduced one new item at a time. By week four, I was permitted to begin to introduce solid foods, very, very well chewed. Again, it was one new food at a time. Caution was necessary to see how the body responded. Some things were difficult for me (chicken, for example) while others were fine (beef--go figure).

I pretty much stuck to protein and avoided carbs while I was losing weight. When I reached my goal weight, I begin to introduce a little carb here and there.

I'm a little more than four years post op, and I still have to watch the carbs. They can cause me to have low blood sugar episodes (I really hate that!), and they can pack the weight back on.

I still keep a daily food diary (I use a smartphone app) to keep track of calories, protein and carbs and fats.

Hope this helps.

Thank you for your comment. It did help I just want to do whatever it takes to reach my goal. What type of exercise did you do?

Sounds to me like you are doing fine and working really hard. Just don't give up! I read once that when we work out we lose fat and gain muscle. That the muscle is twice as dense as fat so we may not see the loss in fat on the scales.
The previous reply gave a lot more info than I have to offer. Keep on keepin on!

Congrats on your weight loss! Sounds perfectly normal to me. I found that I would not lose for a couple of weeks then all of a sudden would lose 5 pounds at once. Everyone is different and loses at a different rate. You are doing all the right things, just hang in there and the results will come with time. Keep up the good work!

It sounds like you're doing things right. It's early on, so don't put your weight loss on a "timer." We gained the weight over years and years, and it may take a little time to lose it, but you will lose.
For your nutritionist, if she's not clear, perhaps ask for someone else. If you only have the one, ask her for charts or a book to help you understand. They get into the business to help, so ask her for help. She may not know you don't understand yet.
The short list of what we need, besides our supplements, and you MUST take your supplements, is this:
Proteins, minimum of 60 grams, up to 100 grams per day. Protein comes from meat, milk, fish, eggs, beans and other legumes, soy, nuts, cheese, protein shakes, and such.
Liquids, minimum of 8 cups per day, more if you're active or it's hot.
Veggies and Fruits for nutrition and fiber. There are high sugar/high carb fruit and veggies, like bananas and carrots to avoid, and low sugar/low carb fruit and veggies like melon, berries, cucumbers, peppers, cauliflower and greens. Those are the ones you want to fill up with after you get your proteins in.
For excellent recipes and ideas visit this website:

http://theworldaccordingtoeggface.blogspot.com/

Shelly's been sharing great recipes for a long time.
Lastly, stay away from the so called "white food group:" bread, potatoes, rice and other starches. They are loaded with carbs, and carbs act the same as sugar in the body. The only white food I regularly eat is cauliflower, and the green and purple varieties are prettier. LOL.
Let us know if you need anything else and welcome to the losers bench!!

You asked about exercise. I have a treadmill that I use regularly. I also have some hand weights that I use occasionally, and some yoga dvds.

Hi I had my surgery the first week of Dec as well. I have lost 35 pounds. Check those inches wow. I am thinking I am eating so much less why haven't I lost more myself. I think we are ok. I am not obsessing. My body is balancing out so it will be fine. Farm girl always rocks with good information. This group rocks! carbs....
I like the points made but I still like the refried fat free beans maybe this is the reason the scale slowly moving!

I prefer strength building by working out with weights. Muscle burns fat even at rest. I bicycled until I read a recent study that found errors in the original study that found cardio to be best for weight loss. It suggests that the opposite is true.

You don't want to lose too much too soon because then your hair can fall out and you may get really sick especially if you are diabetic. I know it can be frustrating but I think a lot of people expect instant results. After the first few weeks you will notice some weight falling off but a lot of it is psychological, I think we expect too much of ourselves. I know right after I got the surgery even after I lost 70lbs, I still felt I looked the same in the mirror. In my mind, I still feel fat but that's my issue I need to work on.

As Farmgirl said, protein is key at this stage. Here's why.... in addition to water, our bodies need 2 kinds of energy. The first type comes from carbs - but if you don't give your body carbs, it will convert the stored energy (fat) into what it needs (and this is what we all want, yes??). The second type of energy comes from protein. Again, our bodies are amazing and if we don't give it enough protein, it will take from what it has handy... your muscles! Most of us would prefer to keep our muscles, thank you very much!! (although we don't need as much muscle to move through the world at a healthy weight as we do to move through the world as a super-morbidly obese person.)

The key to eating dense protein (like chicken, beef, turkey, etc) is to make sure it is moist (I can only eat dark meat) and to chew the heck out of it! I only swallow what I can chew into a liquid, so there are times I spit out gristle or some meat that only chews into a wad.

At your stage, I ate a lot of egg salad (low-fat mao), tuna salad, and cottage cheese. I also really liked the pre-cooked, shredded chicken or beef they sell at my neighborhood Fry's (I'd use a little low-fat sour cream to moisten it). Of course, I had a protein shake every day, too (still do).

Although I tried to move as much as I could every day (and did "counter push-ups, leg-lifts, etc), I didn't start to formally exercise until after I'd hit my target weight.

JJ