Same weight for 3 days!

I am only two weeks and two days post- op, and I've weighed the same thing for 3 days!  What am I doing wrong.  Please don't say "You shouldn't be weighing yourself every day".

You're not necessarily doing anything wrong.   The first 6 weeks (or so) after surgery are supposed to be about healing, not weight loss.

Sometimes our bodies release weight in fits & spurts.  Sometimes we're reshaping instead of losing pounds.

Follow your doctor's guidelines/orders/rules/"whatever you want to call them" as closely as you can, get some sort of exercise (doesn't have to be the "knock yourself dead" kind.. just move more than you did pre-surgery), get your fluids in and be patient.

If you had to do a pre-op diet and watched pounds just fall off.. it's particularly hard to see them not come off now.  It will happen.

Thanks for the encouragement.  Yes, I did lose well in the pre-op diet.  I was afraid I couldn't lose on "real" food since I just started the mushy diet.

My weight loss was very slow on mushy foods. When I was allowed real food is when the loss picked up for me.

The main reason this happens is that mushy foods tend to be higher in calories and less satisfying.  Real food is usually denser and we are satisfied on smaller amounts.  :)

Thnks again.  That makes sense.  I haven't had a fill yet, and just yesterday I started to feel hungry for the first time since surgery.  Scary.

Don't be discouraged!! I know that I have a cycle of weight loss.  I've had this cycle my whole life!! I will weigh one thing one day and then be down two pounds, then up one, then down one.  You get the idea!  At the end of a few days the weight goes down a few pounds and then the whole cycle starts again!!! 

Look at this realistically! You know you can't be gaining weight, so let your body relax and settle in.  The weight will come off!!

As far as weighing every day, heck I do it first thing in the morning and right before i go to bed.  It doesn't mess with my head so I can do it.  You have to decide if this is something you can live with!

keep up the good work, follow the "rules" and you'll be fine!

Thanks for the encouragement.  I'm glad to know you weigh yourself every day too.   I was worried because I just started mushy food, and was afraid my body wouldn't let me lose on "real" food.

If only my stalls lasted only 3 days!!  LOL

Hang in there, your body is recovering from a trauma, surgery.  Give it time to adjust and you will see a drop again.  You will see stalls periodically, unfortunately.  Eventually physics takes over.  Good luck!!

Thanks for the encouragement.

You need to pay attention to your byline, one day at a time. Patience is a virtue!