Help I need advice!

[UndercoverBariatricGal 167]

Today I went back on liquids because for more then a week now my scale keeps going back and forth from 230-231 and no weight loss I am taking in between 600-824 calories a day is this to much? am i doing something wrong? I hear we will go through stalls but so soon? I started at 258 and am now 229 but only because as of yesterday I went back on liquids.. If not I may still be 231.. So my question is, is it normal to go through a stall so soon? I mean i know with the 2 weeks of liquids its expected to have rapid weight loss and this is not good I know but on puree i was okay for the first week and only 1 pound on the second and not nothing and I will be a week on soft/ground as of tomorrow.. Am I rushing it? should I just eat what I been eating or trick my body by doing liquids and going back on puree again.. I know the average weight loss should be 1-2 pounds a week but 0? I did not get my stomach cut off for 0 so soon after surgery!!! I dont want to hurt myself but I have no one to talk to since I decided to keep this to myself.. Help... I need some advice from someone who knows! my daily average food intake is 3-4 oz of oatmeal made with skin milk then maybe a low fat greek yogurt then a may have 4oz of baked salmon and then again for then 3-4 oz of ground turkey and then baked salmon again I can only get about 6. 8oz glasses of Water in a day i am trying for 8 but 6 has been my average.. is this okay?

[lilbearzmom 584]

I would not go back to the liquid diet unless I was not tolerating the purreed or soft diet. You are supposed to be retraining your stomach to eat normally. Call your NUT tomorrow and let him/her know what's happening. Good luck!

-Kendra

[UndercoverBariatricGal 167]

Lol yes a room of folks just told me the same thing so as of tomorrow I will be back on food but i wish the scale would move!

[TheCurvyJones 721]

There is normally a stall around week three or so and you will stall-- I call them PAUSES, actually--- now and again throughout your journey. I read somewhere that we don't lose pounds and inches at the same time. While you're 'pausing', you're probably dropping inches from all over. Your body needs some time to adjust itself. You just dropped 30 lbs. It can't keep going like that without some kind of recovery.

Push through the break, stay on food and keep advancing your diet. Focus on Proteins and get in your Water. It will pick back up!

[lilbearzmom 584]

I am only three weeks out and I have had a couple of stalls, but the way I see it is this- if you are only taking in 500 or so calories a day, is it logical that if you maintain that caloric intake, you won't ever lose any more weight? No, it isn't. Stalls are totally natural and normal. Our bodies think we are starving, so it hangs on to the pounds for dear life, until it can't anymore. We have not evolved much past the caveman days, if at all. LOL

-Kendra

[gmanbat 5,889]

http://www.livestrong.com/article/309453-how-many-calories-do-i-burn-a-day-by-just-existing/

You will burn at least 1,300 calories a day just existing. What's my point? It is physically impossible for you not to lose weight if you burn more than you eat. What you are lacking is patience.

You question is the most frequent one asked here, I think. We think that bodies will give up the fat like a vending machine gives up a can of pop. The body is a very complex mechanism with many safety features. Security against starvation is over-zealous for sure but we have to deal with it. Give it time, it will get the picture.

I had many stalls and gains throughout my drop. Don't be a slave to the scale. Stress brings on appetite, ignore the scale for a while.

[UndercoverBariatricGal 167]

Thank you so much everyone I will take your advice I guess i need to allow my body to adjust to its new environment.. I will go back on food first thing tomorrow! I feel better now knowing I am not doing anything wrong.. ty again all!

[Mich grand 35]

Don't weigh yourself - try maybe once or twice a month.