Friday Morning Weigh In - 14 NOV 08

[krtork 0]

I have been playing up and down with the same 2lbs for two weeks now. So, I stayed the same - stuck at 212.

Went for my 3rd fill today, slightly less aggressive, only added .5cc, that puts me at 5 total. On liquids for the next two days - want to make it through the weekend without an episode, I think I am close to being "just right".

Congrats to all you "losers"!

[*wnt2lose* 0]

I am down .4 this week. I had my third fill on Monday. I was hoping to have lost more this week.

[liquidbluegal 0]

Hey Everyone! I have been MIA. I started a new job two weeks ago and it has been kicking my butt...lol...Last time I weighed in i was 217 today well saturday because I was half dead at 5am yesterday to remember, I am 213.8lbs. Slowly but it is going.

So I am down 3.2lbs!

[ShrinkyDink 0]

Last week 238

This week 240

I'm so discouraged, this isn't just a daily varience, it's been there for several days now and I don't understand why. I'm not cheating, yet there's those 2 pounds. Blah.

[kristenmh 68]

i think sometimes it just happens -- our bodies rebel. my scale had been up 4lbs all week (despite me feeling like my clothes were too loose) and then bam! i weighed in this morning and it was all gone plus some.

i sometimes think this surgery is an exercise in learning to have faith in ourselves. and to practice patience.

anyway: yesterday was my three month bandiversary. i'm down about 45lbs total -- 6 more and i'll be considered a statistical success. (i.e. lost 50% of my excess body weight.)

[Shamrockgirl60 1]

i think sometimes it just happens -- our bodies rebel. my scale had been up 4lbs all week (despite me feeling like my clothes were too loose) and then bam! i weighed in this morning and it was all gone plus some.

i sometimes think this surgery is an exercise in learning to have faith in ourselves. and to practice patience.

anyway: yesterday was my three month bandiversary. i'm down about 45lbs total -- 6 more and i'll be considered a statistical success. (i.e. lost 50% of my excess body weight.)

Boy I relate to you...I have 3-4 lbs. to go before my "success" and I have been losing and gaining the same two pounds this past week. As long as the scale keeps going down I am happy. Three months out from banding also...

take care

pati:thumbup::cool::thumbup:

[heartfire 4]

This is just bizarre. I haven't changed my signature/ticker b/c I just don't want to!!

I gained back the exact 2.7 that I'd lost last week. Then this AM I'm up another whole pound! How is that even possible?!?!

Is my scale freaking out on me? It's about 5 years old. Could it just be "going" on me?

I've been sooo tired (still have no energy since surgery and I have a very active and in full-blown terrible, 2 year old!) so the exercise is more hit than miss but this week has been just wrong with the weight stuff.

I have restriction, yet can eat anything, just a lot less of it. I don't know, maybe I ate too much sodium this week without realizing it and I'm retaining too much Water again. Got a flu shot at the beginning of the week. Don't feel good today, headache, stuffy nose, tight chest. I don't know, I have no answers. I'm frustrated. Actually I guess more sad than anything else. Feeling like even with surgery I can't get this weight off. I've always been a slow loser but this is nuts.

UGH! Should've probably just blogged this instead of bringing all of you down. Sorry about that.

Have a good week everyone.

[Shamrockgirl60 1]

I would get a new scale. They have a neat one at Wal-Mart that tells digital weight and also BMI and can keep track it's on par with my hospital one. Same weight by about an oz. when I was weighed last week and at home.

[lellow 1,713]

It sounds like for a lot of us, the weight loss has either slowed or we're plateauing. That it's happening to so many of us at the same time, you have to wonder if it's a stage that happens 4 months or so out of surgery.

I've gained up to 3lbs for two or three days at a time too. It's so depressing. And I use one of those digital, gives-you-your-BMI-and-fat-percentage, really expensive ones too. I guess if you're eating well and exercising (even moderately) you'll eventually shift it. I usually do. If you're bloating or retaining Water for a few days, it may explain why your scales are reflecting that, too. All in all, on a month by month basis, the overall trend is for me to lose, so those days of gaining, while depressing, hopefully IS just a fluctuation.

I know that for me, the weight loss is definitely starting to slow down, too. I think I'm going to have to increase my exercise and really watch my eating to ensure I keep losing.

Edited November 15, 2008 by lellow

[Azlife 0]

Sorry so late this week, guess I was busy, and didn't realize it. Weighing late this evening instead of in the morning. Down 2.5lbs this week. I am off to Vegas to work next week, so hopefully it will be a good loss week, last month I did great losing there, so hoping for more of the same. Good Luck everyone!