Finally broke the stall!

[Maggie1955 158]

The posts on this site are great! After being in a stall for nearly two weeks, I upped my Protein intake and also upped my fluids and it paid off! (I also walk at least 2 1/2 miles every other day). From 1/21/18 until 1/30/18 I weighed 195.2. I now weigh 193.4 and I am so happy!!!!

Laparoscopic VSG: 1/2/18

HW: 229

SW: 209

CW: 193.4

GW: 140, but will reassess when I get there

Height: 5’3”

[Lisanne18 0]

hi, you just had surgery a month ago? Are you really worried about not losing weight so soon? I am about to have surgery (sleeve) in a few days. been on a Protein liquid diet. how was your experience up until this point?

Lisanne

[Maggie1955 158]

hi, you just had surgery a month ago? Are you really worried about not losing weight so soon? I am about to have surgery (sleeve) in a few days. been on a Protein liquid diet. how was your experience up until this point?

Lisanne

Yes, I just had surgery a month ago. After reading many posts here on BariatricPal I discovered that many, many people hit a stall at three weeks. My sleeve journey started in April or May 2017; it was at that time I first spoke with a weight management center in my local area. I weighed 209 pounds at the time (my highest recorded previous weight was 240, but I was able to drop a lot of weight on a combination of a Belviq and phentermine, but then the meds stopped working). Of course there are prerequisites to having the sleeve performed and I spent months satisfying all of the requirements. Around September or October 2017, I was concerned that if I stayed on a low fat, low carb diet that I would lose too much and no longer qualify for the surgery because my BMI was going to dip below 35 (I have comorbidities including sleep apnea). When I called my weight management center and discussed my concerns with them, they said that I didn’t have to be really strict with my diet because I still did not have a surgery date. Well, very foolishly, my diet became a free for all and I gained 20 pounds in a few months. Finally, on December 14, 2017, I met with my team and when the dietician saw the weight gain she immediately had me go on the pre-op liquid diet. I had weighed in at 229 pounds. My surgery was scheduled for 1/2/18, so I was on that pre-op diet over the holidays and for longer than the usual 2 weeks. In retrospect, I am grateful that my team made that decision and I am glad that I stuck with it because by the day of surgery I was back down to 209. Today I weighed 193.4 - that’s a total weight loss of 35.6 pounds in about 7 weeks. I think that’s outstanding!