After liquid food

[Dayita 9]

I dont know why after the transition from liquids to soft or mooshie food i only lost 3 pounds its being 3 weeks and im stuck. I dont know if i should go back to liquids to loose more weight or this is normal. The difference now is that I eat fish, ground beef, chiken, refried Beans, cheese, and before was only broth and liquids. I dont know if i should keep eating broth again, instead of Beans Soup and panera bread Soups.

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[Armygalbonnie 643]

Search the topic "3 week stall" and that will provide you with some valuable information. It's common. Your body is adjusting to the caloric intake.

[fd319 86]

I'm on the heavier side, but the first 3 weeks i lost 10+ every week. then i dropped down to about 6 pounds and now i'm averaging about 3-4 pounds a week. Which is normal. Stay on track with your diet. Talk to your nut. Plus every week is different, loosing 8 lbs one week and then 2 lbs the next is very normal.

I mean I could hardly get 300 calories a day when I was on my liquid diet, now I'm up to about 1000-1200 cal at 2 months post op. The important thing is to get your Protein in.

Good Luck and Congrats on the weight loss. 3 pounds is still something to be pround of !!

[TheCurvyJones 721]

I dont know why after the transition from liquids to soft or mooshie food i only lost 3 pounds its being 3 weeks and im stuck. I dont know if i should go back to liquids to loose more weight or this is normal. The difference now is that I eat fish, ground beef, chiken, refried Beans, cheese, and before was only broth and liquids. I dont know if i should keep eating broth again, instead of Beans Soup and panera bread Soups.< /p>

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Nope, stay the course! It's just your body adjusting. You won't lose a ton of weight every week or every day... it's more of a flux. Stay on your plan and prepare for lots of pauses. Your body needs time to adjust to everything happening inside. And also track your non scale losses-- a change in how your clothes fit, watches flopping around, shoes coming off of your feet, etc.

The Sleeve works. It's very hard to screw this up. Hang in there !

[RickM 1,753]

Yep, stay the course as this has absolutely nothing to do with what diet phase you are in or are changing between - those of us who never did a liquid diet phase go through the same thing.

Overall, your loss rate will decline as you progress (so don't get too excited by initial loss and think that you can pork out and still make it to goal!) Long term, there is simply the matter that it takes fewer calories to move your body around when you weigh half what you did before, so those last pounds to goal can be slow ones. Early on, the first 2-3 weeks sees us burning up our quick energy reserves of glycogen, which are basically stored up carbohydrates and burn fairly quickly (around 2000 calories per pound lost). After the glycogen is depleted and your body gets the idea that you still aren't going to feed it like before, it starts drawing on its long term energy stores of fat (which is what we are here for!) but fat burns more slowly,(around 3500 calories per pound) so the loss rate that we experience will now be slower, but it's doing what we want it to do - burn off the fat.

[laceemouse 631]

After big losses the first week or two it is normal for things to slow down, even as slow as 1-2 pounds a week, just like a normal diet.