So, 1 pound = 3,500 calories. If the scale says you are two pounds heavier than yesterday, does it mean you ate 7,000 calories more than you expended?

No.

There are other forces at work here. Water weight being one of them that can fluctuate so quickly. If your glycogen stores were depleted when you weighed yesterday i i, and are fuller when you weigh next, that alone can account for several pounds.

Weighing less and burning fat are two different things. Know this and don't let the scale get you down. A continual defecit will result in fat being burned and permanent weight loss with the sleeve.

Just keep doing the right thing and you will be fine.

Hi PdxMan,my logical mind knows that you are right.My "have only lost 4 pounds this month while having a calorie deficit of at least 1200-1500 per day" mind,still goes nuts.I think having being stuck just above 200 pounds for quite some time now (also its right here I always get stuck at) is driving me slightly dotty!

O,and that part of the old self rightious me that still believes that if you stall you must be cheating,is not helping my sanity at the moment.

However,I only allow myself 30 minutes per day on the boards and time to think about food and weight loss at the moment to help regulate is madness.

The fear that my weight loss have stopped and that I will fail at this is really intense sometimes,thus the boundary of 30 minutes.

The rest of the day when I just plod along I am quite happy.

This has made me sooo much more sympathetic to people that say they are in a long stall.I always just felt they must be doing something wrong,are not tracking,eating too many carbs,yada yada....I dont think that anymore.

O,and people at the pilates class asked again how much weig have I lost since I've started there and when I tell them only 2,5kg's they say impossible,my shape has changed a lot...even your face looks very different now!So I suppose it is a matter of the body getting back the homeostasis it always needs before the weight loss might show more.

I wish weightloss was linear! We'd all be happy with our sizes if simple math would work. How are you liking the bodybug?

Hi Cherrybombknits (big name..lol)

Well,I use to love my bodybugg.When I went on the "learning to eat normal" with the shrink it worked fantastically.I would eat between 1500-1700 cals per day and burn 3500 and the weight loss corresponded exactly with the deficit.I weighed 279 when I started,lost 70 and fell off plan.(now I am dead stuck at almost the same weight for the third time in my life...seems crazy!)

Ayhoo,since the sleeve the bugg is a bit useless as nothing works the way its suppose to.I exercise loads and burn about 3000 cals a day,eat between 700 and 1000 a day and have been stuck for 8 weeks (have lost the odd pound here and there,no significant weight loss)

I still wear the bugg but its not the help it use to be before....shoot at this point Short of converting to the duodenal switch I have no idea what might help.