Am I losing weight too slowly?

Hi-

I had surgery on 1/23/17 and I'm down 34 lbs (9 lbs before and the rest after). After looking at everyone else's weight lost on this site, I too, was comparing myself to them. I had to stop doing that.

1) Water and exercise play a part in weight loss (as well as protein). Drink at least 64 oz of water.

2) Everyone loses at a different rate. If you have more to lose, it seems to come off quicker in the beginning.

3) I haven't gone over 600 cals yet. I use fitday.com and I put in everything I eat (usually make them custom foods) so that it's accurate. I didn't like Fitness Pal. I make sure my carbs are under 20 or not much over. I don't care about fat. I usually get about 60 grams of protein.

Hope this helps. Everyone is different. You just have to find out what works for you.

-Jan

I'm in the same boat. I'm 3 weeks out from surgery and I've lost only 15lbs since then. It's frustrating. I'm hoping it is just a stall, but I figure that maybe going slow isn't so bad either because maybe the excess skin won't be too bad when I reach goal. I've also started to prevent myself from using the scale as much as I have and trying to do it weekly because I'm going to drive myself crazy if I see no progress day to day.

I'm 3 weeks Wednesday and have lost 15 since surgery too. I gained a 1/2 pound from yesterday. I think we're normal!

Surgery 1/17/17. I drop and then I don't. I had a week where I did 1.4lbs and then the next week was 4lbs, this week was 1lb. It comes and goes. Keep on, keeping on!