Disclaimer: If you're having a rough week and you're only wanting to read up and positive blogs, then SKIP this entry...it will probably drag you down and I don't want to drag anyone down just because I'm grouchy.
So...here I am, on mushies...back to eating regular food, of which I have religiously tracked every single bite, lick and taste, and today is weigh in day and I have lost: not one ounce. I am EXACTLY the same as I was 10 days ago. I am eating less than 1200 calories a day, and I have lost nothing. How is this possible?
I know some will say that my body is in starvation mode, but I don't buy it, because I had to have been in starvation mode during the liquids phase, and I lost. My TOM is almost here, but I don't buy that excuse when you're eating like I am. Or you might think that I wasn't careful about my intake and logged it wrong, but I used scales and measuring implements for every meal. And believe me, I could be eating SO much more than I am, but I'm being so ultra good because I am terrified to fail. I have my appointment at the SWLC to check my wounds today...I think I'll make an appointment to see the nutritionist. I've spent so many years trying to lose weight that I think of myself as an unlicensed nutritionist, but maybe I'm not...maybe I'm wrong about everything I think I know.
I'm not going to let this de-rail me, as it might have done previously. But the thing I wonder...the thing that really troubles me is this: if I can't lose weight by eating very very low calorie and low carb...then what the hell was this surgery for??
It's the strangest thing but it happened to me too. I think it's pretty common so hang in there. Don't get discouraged, the band will work for you!
ReplyDeleteI know exactly what you mean though, I always wondered about this: When I used to eat I don't even know how many thousands of calories a day, I didn't GAIN a pound a day, yet when I'm eating 1200 or less, I don't lose? I don't get it either.
Oh, and not to be a downer - but to tell you my experience...
When I started eating mushies again, I gained a few lbs. immediately. Don't worry though, it goes away..but let me tell you how frustrating that was!! UGH!
Just hang in there - you are doing great!
Jennifer...that was lifesaving!! I don't know why, but that was totally EXACTLY what I needed to hear! And the nurse at the check up told me pretty much the same thing...except she told me that it's often this way with WOMEN not men. Weird.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for telling me your experience!!
:-) Glad it helped. It can be very frustrating!!
ReplyDeleteWelcome back to food, but as someone a few weeks ahead of you, don't freak out it you gain a pound or two as you start eating the real stuff. It will go away again, don't worry!
ReplyDeleteBTW, I have been tracking my food compulsively, so you can see what I ate that worked and a few things that didn't...
Thanks Yana :) I follow your food diary with a lot of interest (and jealousy...NYC food...yum! lol!)
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