Any Success Stories After a Real Slow Start?

[TigerLily 3]

I need some reassurance, please.

If you had a very slow start and then pulled through down the road or know of this, PLEASE, PLEASE post!!!

I was down 7lbs since surgery on 8/25 but am now up a .5lbs. So it's a total of 6.5lbs.

My husband cannot stand the Diva Hysterics any longer and as of this morning has hidden the scale.

The hubby through his back out and I had to take him to see his doc on Wednesday. I was explaining my situation and the tiny weight loss.

He asks me what I have been cheating and/or binging on??!!?? I told him I am still on full liquids and take in (maybe) 500 calories a day if I am lucky so there is no cheating.

These kinds of comments make me sooooo mad!! I have been judged my entire life over my weight and now this?

[peanut 0]

No worries I had surgery on 08/18 and the first 2 weeks I

Couldn't tell I had lost anything but I am on the 3 rd week.

And wearing pants that are 1 and 2 sizes smaller than I

Started out with. Now I have not weighed my self so

I don't have a clue how much I have lost I am trying not

To worry about the pounds right now

[ILKrista 36]

My doctor told me I shouldn't weigh myself until a month after surgery. I didn't listen of course & when I got home from the hospital, I was up almost 10 pounds! That took a week to go away (it was Water weight from surgery) & then during the 3rd week, I didn't lose a pound (very common. If you search 3 week stall, you'll find a ton of posts about this.) Let me just encourage you to not focus overly much on how much you lose this first month. It is not an indicator of how things are going to go for you. Plus, even if you only lose 10 pounds a month, in a year you will have lost 100 pounds! Just focus on eating how you are supposed to & letting your body heal. The weightloss will come!

Krista

[coops 1,790]

Hey!

Please try not to worry about those pesky scales... After 6mths my weight loss has slowed down to a snail's pace... but I am still losing. I am 14mths out and my weight is still going down, albeit slowly. I have come to realise that different people will lose at different rates, and that is absolutely fine with me as long as I get to where I want to be, Yes, I have to work at it and take on board good food choices which I do 95% of the time. Regardless of whether I do high or low carb, up or lower my exercise, increase my Water etc my weight loss pace does not change, so now, I stick to the guidelines and wait for my body to get rid of the fat at its own pace.

I like to think I am a success story... I'm down 70lb and that is 70% of my excess - my personal goal - and more for my surgeon's goal...

Keep doing what you are doing, follow the guidlines and work through each eating phase and you will see a difference. Let your body and mind recover from this major operation and most of all, be kind to yourself!

Good luck and keep us posted on your progress...

[To Be Thin 2011 80]

The dreaded scales.... one of the worse things we can do to ourselves is be on those scales too often. It is so hard to stay away, but please try!!!

I started off only weighing myself once a week and I am soooo thankful!

[Penpen 28]

I am now at almost 3 months out and for a long time, I felt as though I was a slow loser....sometimes I still do. I'm now on my 3rd stall. But I'm already past my 3 month goal which was to lose 35% of my excess weight. That would have been 52.5 lbs. I'm now down 55 lbs. and still have about 2 weeks to go before I hit 3 months. Try not to get discouraged...I know that's hard because I get frustrated and discourage myself, even knowing all that I know at this point about stalls and such. At my last nutritional class, my dietitian gave me a whole new perspective on things. If you want to read about it, here it is: http://sliceofhealthyplease.blogspot.com/2011/08/excess-weight-and-goals-and-am-i-really.html

I hope this helps to encourage you! I was ready to throw my scale out the window and sometimes I still think that the dang thing is broken but eventually it starts going down and then I love my scale!