My scale is stuck!!??!!

I am so frustrated and my mind is running amuck! I am five weeks postop and my scale hasn't budged in nearly 7 days. I know that plateaus are common, but this early in the process? It's maddening. It's like you are on a high for weeks and the weight is just falling off, then it (for no apparent reason) comes to a screeching halt. I've been trying to keep a tab on the amount of calories that I'm taking in and on most days, it's between 400-750. I'm not hungry, just trying to make myself eat small, nutritious, high protein "meals" several times a day. when I'm not working, I can pull of 4-6 mini meals a day. When I'm working, it's more like 3 mini meals. I just don't get it! Victoria

Honey sometimes scales are evil. Only weigh yourself once a week and that will help. Sometimes your body need to rest and catch up. Keep on doing what you are doing and the weight will come off. Everyone is in such a hurry to lose, be a little patient and do what you should be doing and you will be successful. Hide your scales and weigh once a week and remember ladies can have a little water weight gain one time a month and it you eat too much salt you retain water. Just chill a little and go to support group meeting to meet other post ops and be happy for what you have lost so far. Have you ever lost this fast before?

Hi Victoria, I had the same thing happen right around the same time. You should see my personal journal entries during that time! I even gained 4 lbs once! Remember it's not as important what you're losing daily or even weekly. If we can focus on those monthly totals we are a lot more encouraged. I have gone as many as two weeks with no loss and still at the end of the month averaged 15 lbs lost. Keep doing what you know to do in terms of protein and water and the scales will start moving again. I honestly thought I wasn't going to be a success story. But here I am at two and a half months post op and I'm down 51.5 lbs (from the week before on a liquid diet). This time next year, you'll be smiling about this 5 week out blip in the road. Keep the faith Tracey Bateman

Hi Victoria, I'll share something my ex-mother-in-law taught me many many years ago. I was obsessing about something that I thought was so major and she said "five years from now you'll wonder what the big deal was" and quite honestly she was so right. It's hard to believe it when you're in the moment but God blesses us when we least expect it and then we tend to forget how we were stressing once it's gone. Actually, I find it's more like five weeks later!!! Hope this helps you like it did me. Lana