Weight loss stall already - 3 weeks post op?? How can this be? Input please.

Hi everyone.

I had my sleeve surgery on 10/12. I lost a total of 17lbs since. All within the first 2 weeks. My weight has been stuck at 240.4 for a week now with zero movement. Is this common? I am doing exactly what my dr said with regard to eating soft foods, getting as much protein as possible and started walking on my treadmill. I am drinking all zero calorie, sugar free drinks. I am extremely depressed and frustraed. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Please help with some advise. Is this normal? I am waiting for my dr. to call me back. I am at a loss.

Search the forums for 3 week stall....quite normal! Just keep doing what you're doing...sounds like you're off to a great start! The scale will move again....and again...and again!!

Perfectly normal! I'm in a stall too but am REALLY working on not caring so much what the scale says. I feel good, clothes are getting loose, I have more energy, etc... I decided that I am only weighing myself once a week for now and possibly even moving to once a month if I continue to let the scale dictate my progress.

I have just measured myself today. Didn't do it before but from what I have read sometimes when the stall occurs that is when the inches are lost. Weird but seems to perhaps be the case. So I will at least have a good starting point to go from here on out. Today I will put the scale in the closet and not check it again for at least a week.

I had my surgery on 10/5 and have been stalled for over a week also. I guess it seems common for that 3 week mark. I am also putting the scale away and going to try to only weigh weekly. It's hard because it felt good to lose 20lbs in the first two weeks. Then nothing! Let's be confident that it will come! Exciting!

Totally normal :) I had a 3 week 5 day stall that started several weeks after surgery, then one day it broke and I dropped 6 pounds. It is certainly frustrating, but it will pass. Hang in there!