Stall

[babish 19]

I'm 11 days post op and starting to feel normal again (thank god!!!) I'm anxiously waiting for Wednesday when I can start including eggs, fish and canned veggies to my diet. I can actually cook a meal! I'm a little frustrated cause I feel like I'm not taking in enough food to maintain my energy but for the last 2 days I haven't lost any weight.. In fact I gained .5. Here is what I had yesterday. Protein Shake for Breakfast that had a low fat yogurt, a banana and 3 strawberries cottage cheese around 1230 3/4 a sugar free pudding around 4 Slice of reduced fat American cheese and cottage cheese around 530. I drank plenty of fluids. If I'm not losing with only that going in what is gonna happen when I start eating normal food?

Oh and when can I have salad?

[odesa 90]

Hi and welcome!

Just a quick comment cause your not the first in the last 2 months that I've seen post about a stall. The founder Alex wrote an ezine article on plateau's you should read too but here are my comments...

First don't weigh yourself daily, weekly at most, trust me on this. Water weight fluctuates and daily is too obsessing imho. Also I too hit a small stall when I started reintroducing some foods into my diet and it turns out it was most likely Water weight as sodium gets added from all kinds of sources. Once my sodium level balanced out I resumed my weight loss at a rapid weight until about week 6 then it scaled way back from like a 6 pound weekly loss to about 2 pounds now.

I can't comment too much on the diet as we are all different but I will say that for day 11 the amount and types of food you are eating was not typical for me. My surgeon and nuts had me on a liquid diet for 14 days, no cheeses, yogurts, fruits etc. I drank only Protein shakes and water for 14 days then started adding the yogurts, soft purees etc. I say this not to criticize yoru diet but you posted it and it surprised me that you could stomach that much food and that type that early but again we are all god's creatures and different in what we can and can't do/eat. Even now at 10 weeks I try to keep my calorie count to 1k-1.2k, Protein at 50-60g and water/liquids above 60oz. These are guidelines my doctor gave me.

As for salad my food sheet that my Nutritionist gave me said fruits and vegetables at day 45 for I started my salads with iceberg lettuce then and it goes down fine.

Energy level is a tough one. I am struggling to just stay warm, my pregnant wife and I have completely changed positions, I was always hot and she cold, now she is cranking the AC and I am bundling under the covers. It appears pretty obvious to me that my body just doesn't have enough calories to maintain itself and so it just gave up trying to keep me warm. Energy to move around is hard to come by cause it has to be metabolized first from fat so I'd say get use to it but try to remember the reason for it, your using fat stores now not carb/glycerin stores in your muscles so your body has to work harder to just survive.

Anyway I wanted to let you know that your not alone, stalls are common enough and the key is to work through them. Again read the article on Plateauing by the founder Alex, he has some great ideas there and best of luck on your journey!

[marmello 77]

We all get stalls. Ive had about 2 so far and im 7 weeks out. Just make sure your getting your Water and Protein. May sure your not getting constipated too

[andreamy7 55]

Weigh weekly. Not daily.

You are doing fine.

Salads are not my favorite and I had a hard time digesting, would go right through me so to speak. Everyone is different, some can tolerate it, I could not early on.

I can have like a little lettuce but am good with veggies-carrots and cucumbers and ranch. I waited about 4 mos before I could really eat a salad.