Don't go beating yourself up you haven't done anything wrong. Remember, you had major surgery and they rearranged your insides. Swelling takes a while to go down and it's not unusual to hit a plateu early on. You said you feel and look like you've lost and I'm sure you have. Stay off the scale for a while and just go by measurements and how your clothes are fitting. The scale will catch up and show the loss (and much more to come) soon enough. You're going to do awesome!!

If your clothes are looser, you are probably still loosing. It could be a couple of things keeping the scale the same.....water weight, gaining muscle. Don't get discouraged.

Oh hon.... please be kind to yourself!! You just had surgery, you cannot be beating yourself up! :)

Did you take your measurements pre surgery???? If not, do so now!! That way you have another way to check your progress.

I am so thankful my NUT made me take mine.... Now I will always have that to refer to while on my journey!

CHIN UP babes!! This is just a very small moment on your journey thru the rest of your life... in a bit, you'll be posting on here about smaller sizes, smaller #'s, and a ton of NSVs! I promise!

I am kind of the same way it seems the more I try to eat healty the more stalls I have. My Doc said that as long as your doing what you need to the scale will move again. Remember muscle weighs more than fat so sometimes when we build muscle we tend to stall, but also muscle burns more fat :). So just hang in there the scale will move again :D

It's that stall at week 3 everyone talks about....

My weigh didn't move since more than a week and sometime I am desperate not to see results. Anyway, I keep going, walking and I just ordered a shake. I am going to win, not matter what! ;-)

plain speak here...
you didnt gain your weight in a few weeks and you wont lose it that quickly tam...its GONNA happen..people all jump start at different paces...pacience is a virtue remember :-)

Even when you are not dropping lbs you are losing inches. Take your body measurements and record and then remeasure every month or so. I found that obsessive weighing is counterproductive. I would weigh every ten days or so and when at the docs. I had my surgery on the 6th of the month so I would weigh on the 6th, 16th, and the 26th. It saves alot of angst. Get used to the idea that there will be stalls/plateaus it does not mean you are doing something wrong. It just means your body is resting and recalibrating before continuing to drop lbs. d

Tammi,
I'm sorry that you are so down! I went 2 weeks without it moving. When I went and spoke with my doctor he told me it could be three things....1) a natural stall that will resolve itself, 2) not enough calorie intake (I really wasn't hungry and wasn't eating a lot at all), and 3) not enough protein intake (I was struggling getting up to 80 grams a day). That day I went to GNC and found shakes with 50grams of protein, it has been recommended here. That was last Wed. I weighed myself on Monday morning and I had lost 7lbs in 4 days! It still could have been any of the three...or a combination of any of the three, but I learned a big lesson. I have to eat...even if I don't feel like it...and I had to find a way to get up to 80 grams of protein in a day...instead of merely feeling overwhelmed and just "trying". I had to be very aggressive about it and in control. My clothes were loose too, and I would think that surely I had lost...but nothing. Are you eating enough calories to loose? Are you getting close to 80grams of protein a day in? I completely underestimated how important those are for our "tool" to work the way it needs too!
I will be praying for you today, that God will lift your spirits and help you feel more in control of things! It will move soon, don't give in to the discouragement being whispered into your heart!
lisa

The best thing you can do for yourself and your peace of mind is to stay OFF the scale. Follow the program and your body will do the rest. Sometimes the loss is not in the numbers on that nasty scale, but the inches on your tape measure. Plus, you are not that far out of surgery. Your body is trying to figure out what the heck you did! The scale will catch up to you soon! Trust in that!

Oh Tami... Hang in there... It has all been said... I plateau'd at three weeks for almost three weeks... I couldn't understand it all.... But I finally took some measurements and true as everyone said, my inches were dropping...

I also found I wasn't eating enough... I struggle to get in enough food still cause I really am not hungry.... But I am working on getting enough food so my body can do what it needs to...

You are doing everything right... Your body will catch back up.... Keep the faith, and put this in God's hands... The scale will move...

And I too had to change my "scale" habits... I weigh myself on Wednesdays and always before a doc appt.... My scale never matches the docs so i want the numbers from the same scale I have used pre and post op...

Try and be nice to YOU today.. Do something special... Even if its picking up some flowers to set on your table... You are worth it...
Love you my friend... Big Hugzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Right now your body is basically like "Hold up, what the heck did you do to me!" It will hold on to everything but then eventually it will be like, ok so I guess we aren't going back to normal and then it will create a new normal. The beginning is the hardest when you don't lose weight. You think you are doing something wrong and you hear about all the people losing tons of weight. But trust me IT WILL WORK! My weight has hit a bunch of stalls, but I'm 11 weeks out and down 64lbs. trust me. IT GETS BETTER!

In tears, thank you all for encouraging me because I instantly got a headache last night and all I could do was go to sleep and sleep off the anixety and I didn't wake up much better today. I am struggling getting food in even with the puree stage and yes sometimes i don't meet the daily protein levels but i will go at it harder - i just felt like I was the one it was not going to work for and my spirit was crushed it still is - but i will work my way out of feeling like a failure because thats where i am at. I wish i could have gotten up this morning feeling better but i don't. I am going to try to find the protein shake with the 50 grams because i know right now i'm not getting it from the food. Please keep me in prayer i didn't expect the disappointment to hit me quite this hard - thanks and love you all.

oh and i don't weight myself everyday - i never brought a scale for my house and i only weigh in when i visit the doctor - i did that purposely so i didn't become a victim to the scale. And i didn't realize you could stall as early as three weeks either - that makes me feel a tad bit better.

Hey Tam,

I stalled at 7 weeks. I mean, dead stand still, no numbers changing, not even the one after the decimal point. BUT...I knew that this was coming at some point, and just had to wait it out.

Keep you chin up! Your body goes into conservation/starvation mode because we are getting so little in. This is NORMAL! You are NOT broken and neither is your new tool!

Your body will continue to shrink :) I am at another stall. Dead stand still again. It's a bummer but it's going to be okay! I just keep telling myself (as do others around me who say I am literally shrinking before them) that the next time I get on the scale, it will drop.

Hang in there beautiful! You got this! Don't let those dark cloud boogers mess up your sunshine!
xoxo
Tracie