Re: 8 weeks post and not losing!!!

[Guest guest]

Jody,

I have seen posts like this over and over again. Look at the big

picture, in 9 weeks you lost 38 lbs, or over 4 lbs/week. That is a

very fast rate. What has happened is you became dehydrated when you

were sick and some of those 33 lbs lost were water weight. Then as

you re-hydrated you lost fat weight but gained water weight, hence

the slow loss. The weight of weight loss depends on your starting

weight. Typically one looses about 1/3 of their excess weight over

the first 13 weeks. This means that if you are 100 lbs overweight to

start with you would loose only 33 lbs in the first 13 weeks. If you

were 150 lbs overeight you would expect to loose about 50 lbs in the

first 13 weeks. You are on track to loose about 50 lbs by week 13,

so you are doing fine unless you started out several hundred pounds

overweight.

I expect you will start dropping again within a week or two.

Hull

> My name is Jody and I am 2 months post-op and I do not seem to be

> losing weight. I was very sick with complications the first 3

weeks

> and hardly ate or drank anything and lost 33 lbs. Then I only lost

4-

> 5 lbs in 6 weeks. I am very scared and afraid I will never lose

the

> weight. I can eat alot!!!! Not as much as pre-op, but too much I

> think. I am hungery all the time. Could you please help by e

> mailing me about what amounts of food you could eat both now and At

2

> months out.

>

>

> Thank you!!!!! Jody

> E-mail mrsjdcass@y...