Kellykellykelly

Yes! Google “weight loss whoosh”. Basically your body is retaining water so that even if you are losing fat, the scale doesn’t change. Then one day for some unexplained reason, your body decides to release all that water. This is actually the only way that I lose weight- I’ll be at the same weight for 2-3 weeks then wake up one morning 7 lbs lighter. It’s very consistent and super strange but I’ve gotten used to it by now! I’ve also noticed that I’m more likely to have a whoosh the morning after I’ve cheated a little bit on my diet (shhh don’t tell ;)

THANK YOU! I too have PCOS and I have never heard from another’s experience with IR and PCOS, I can’t even tell you how helpful this is and how much hope it gives me. I too have been eating 1300/1500 calories for years and still gained. In the past it seemed that there was *nothing* I could do to make the scale budge, no matter how patient I was. My main motivation for the surgery was bc I have read quite a lot about how sleeve can immediately improve IR. As soon as the scale stopped last week my first thought was “oh no, here we go again”. Your story gives me so much hope (something I haven’t had in years)! Thank you!!!!

I've heard about the 4 week stall, but I'm only 11 days out from surgery... could I have stalled already?!! I haven't lost anything in 6 days now, which is completely insane because I'm maybe taking in 200 calories a day on this liquid diet. Can someone tell me this happened to them too and it will pass? I was prepared for the 4-week stall; I wasn't prepared to get discouraged this quickly! (And I'm insanely jealous of all the people I'm reading about that are 20-30-40 lbs down already!!!) I’m also secretly concerned that my doc took me off my metformin (insulin resistance) - which has been my biggest barrier to weight loss in the past. Anyone else that had IR but has been able to lose weight without their mettformin?

I’ll try thinning them though- hadnt thought of that! Thanks!

They make me nauseous if I drink too quickly so I’ve been baby sipping to get as much as I can down. Nut seems ok with that as long as I’m getting other liquids in.

Thanks for the response- right now the most protein shake I’m able to get down is about 1/2 in the morning and 1/2 in the afternoon (otherwise still drinking clear liquids per dr instructions). I don’t even know how’d I’d get more calories in at this point