Weight Loss?

RhondaD · July 10, 2008

I am 2 1/2 weeks post banding and I have lost 23 lbs so far which I'm really excited about, but for the past week I have not lost anything and I'm following the diet completely. My Barriatric Coordinator wants me to loose about 2 lbs per week.

How can you not loose weight when I'm on a full liquid diet and not eating that much?

Am I doing something wrong?:confused2:

saubrey · July 10, 2008

I am 41/2 weeks post banking. At my 2 week check up I had lost 21lbs. For a week after that I did not lose any weight. I was really getting discouraged because I was following the diet exactly. I thought how could I be eating so little and not lose any weight. Then I started losing again. I just went for my four week check-up and I am down a total of 34lbs. My nutritionist said that when you lose so much weight so fast like I did in the first 2 weeks your body thinks yor are starving to death and kicks into the survival mode. So don't worry just hang in there and you will start losing again.

Northwest_Nance · July 10, 2008

The same thing happened to me. My nutritionist told me I lost a lot of weight in a short period of time and it's normal for your body to react to that by hanging on to the pounds for a little while. Eventually the body gets back into gear and is ready to let go of more weight.

Also if you're not getting enough calories your body can go into starvation mode and hold onto the weight as a means of self-preservation.

Don't worry, right now you're in the healing stage of the journey, not the weight loss stage.... any weight lost between surgery and your first fill is just bonus weight loss!

Brandy~ · July 10, 2008

You just hit starvation mode. You will come out of it shortly. Its even very common to gain a few pounds back once you start eating solids again.

I had lost 28 pounds and it completely died off for 4 weeks nothing. Then I was filled and dropped 7 pounds and up to 35 lost now after 2 months of banding.

No worries.