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so let's be realistic here, could you have kept up, for the rest of your life, the diet you were on the week before surgery (I certainly could not have spent any longer living on clear liquids and Protein shakes). Also keep in mind that when you first start a strict diet you lose a bunch of Water weight, it's still weight, but it comes off much differently and won't continue to come off like that. Seventeen pounds in 3 weeks is amazing. It's over 5 pounds a week! What exactly were you expecting? You've got a LONG road ahead of you, plus a lifetime of bad eating habits to overcome. I encourage you to set some realistic goals for yourself and not expect miracles and to embrace your success!!!! You are doing great. When's the last time you lost this much weight without starving yourself??? Enjoy the journey, stop focusing so much on the goal and enjoy the trip, it's a wild one!!!!I wasnt expecting to wake up from one day to the next and suddenly be 150 lbs but I'm not quite sure how I lost more before the surgery rather than after but the water weight you mentioned is pretty understandable. I know that the surgery was a just a tool and not a "miracle" Im ready to embrace anything that comes at me along this long road even stalls or whatever. I wasnt saying that I regret the surgery or anything. I just though that this is what this thread was for. I seemed to think I was losing slowly. But anywho Im ready to accept whatever weight loss that comes my way

I feel like Im also losing very slowly had my surgery nov 13th almost a month ago. My heighest weight was 276 . I was 258 on the day of the surgery and now only 241. I seemed to lose faster without the surgery.. because in a week before the surgery I lost 18 lbs and since the surgery (3 weeks) only 17lbs.

Water protein shakes and water lol

That sounds delish Im not even 2 weeks out yet til tomorrow so Im still all liquids. Cant wait to try all these healthy choices though!

Had my surgery on the 13th of november. I had a bit of a rough patch down the road. I got an ifection in the iv site and had to bd hospitalized again to recieve antibiotics through the iv but its all better now. I feel like Im losing weight slowly however. My heighest weight was 276. Day of surgery I was 258 and now Im 248. So I've only lost 10 lbs since the surgery

I feel it too not mentally but in my belly Im only a weeek out but to my undrrstanding they are actually trapped gas still from surgery try walking it out

Thats great!

Thanks!

Hello everyone! I had my surgery on the 13th of this month and I feel good. Unfortunately I got a staph infection and had to be hospitalized again but I pushed through my starting weight was 276 and now I am 253. I feel great and am excited to start this new thin life!

I had my surgery on 11/13/2013 heighest weight 276 and now a week and a day out of surgery I weigh 253. Im excited about my weight loss