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I was banded on 2/7/11. Lost 11 pounds in the first 6 days - woohoo - that was great. Started on mushies 2/12. Have been checking calories and Protein since starting mushies. Sunday ate 700 calories of food, yesterday had 765 calories. Well this morning I gained a pound. What the heck!! Talk about major depressing. Any ideas what in the world is going on? I just want to sit down and cry !!!

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I was banded on 2/7/11. Lost 11 pounds in the first 6 days - woohoo - that was great. Started on mushies 2/12. Have been checking calories and Protein since starting mushies. Sunday ate 700 calories of food, yesterday had 765 calories. Well this morning I gained a pound. What the heck!! Talk about major depressing. Any ideas what in the world is going on? I just want to sit down and cry !!!

I can understand your frustration, however, you have to be able to see what is going on with your body right now. It is fighting you tooth and nail, and if you had any trouble losing weight before surgery, you can bet your sweet bippy that your body will make sure it puts up its best resistance now.

Your metabolism is freaking out right now, because suddenly, out of the blue, you are on a VERY small amount of calories. In the real world, that's called starvation, and to your body, it means conserve every bit. So, in order to do that, metabolism has to sloooooowwwww way down. Now, if you're walking or incorporating exercise into your day, your body is quickly going to figure out that you are not in "hibernation mode" and will look to your fat cells for fuel in order for you to have energy to exercise. Then you will begin to see a more steady pattern of weight loss.

This is a process that takes time and patience. We did not lose weight easily BEFORE the band, we should not expect to do so right away after. You will begin losing weight, it may be slow but you will. My doc said it's not so much the calories as when you eat them. Three meals and NO SNACKING or grazing. He said people who follow that have the most success.

Good luck!! You will do fine I am sure!! :D

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Thanks for the info. I do need to start exercising and haven't yet. I will do that tonight and hopefully it will get better. I never thought about the starvation mode but i'm sure you're right. Going from 2500> calories a day down to under 1000 must feel ridiculous to my body. I wish i could keep off the scale everyday and just get on once a week but i just cant. I think i'll just track my weight on a graph or something once a week - maybe that will show more of a steady decline. I'll get on the exercise tonight.

I haven't been snacking but i do have a Protein shake mid morning and mid afternoon. It not i would never be able to get that Protein in. I'm only eating about 4-5 ozs of food a meal so it's hard right now. I'm supposed to be at 3/4 cup (6 ozs) but i'm afraid of getting that too full feeling of pain. I haven't quite got the gest of this "full" feeling and knowing when to stop eating yet. I think next week i get to move up to 1 cup/8 oz so maybe that will help cut out the Protein shakes too. I make sure that i don't have anything to eat after dinner which is so not like me :).

I appreciate the help - this is hard to figure out and being able to come on hear and get feedback from people who've been there sure does help.

Thanks so much

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