Weightloss stall?

[Rumbletumbleinmytummy]

I had a gastric sleeve almost 3 weeks ago, to start with I lost quite a bit of weight. 21lb off in a week and a half, then for over a week, my weight has stalled.
I'm gutted. I'm still on liquids. I've given up all of the foods I love, and I'm not losing any weight.
I am petrified of everything involved with the surgery. When they were putting me out for the surgery I was so worried I was going to die, my last thought was, if i die, atleast things dont continue the way they are.

I was crying about it the other day after I weighed myself, my husband started laughing at me. Because he thought I was being ungrateful expecting the weight to keep falling off, but the point is, whilst I'm on liquids only, and in the tiny amounts I'm having, the weight should be falling off.

I wasnt prepared for this. I thought that move more, eat less was supposed to work?

I'm sorry, I'm just feeling quite gutted.

It can stall for any reason. My scale sometimes shows 0 loss, but next week it shows double🙄
It can be water etc. You lost a lot at the begining, just wait and see what will happen next week.

Much of your initial 21lb loss will be fluid. As your body adjusts to eating less, it will replenish the fluids, so that will mask the loss of fat to begin with. Once your body has rebalanced itself, you'll start seeing a consistent weight loss as long as you stick to your eating plan.

Best of luck.

try not to get bogged down about it all. I dont know much about weightloss when it comes to gastric sleeve but i do know that weight plateaus are very common. i often stay the same for ages then suddenly i have the WOOSSH effect as i call it lol

stick with it and i guarantee you will start seeing a decrease again soon :)

A stone and a half in a week is a lot. Your body has hit a plateau and it will rebalance itself then your weight loss will continue. You don't want to be losing too quickly otherwise your skin will not tone up as well and you might get loose skin.

Don’t lose hope. Am sure the weight loss will kick in again very soon. If you are due your period that can create a stall too.

Please contact your aftercare team. They will have the correct information and advice for you.

Thanks everyone. I'm just worried that this may have all been for nothing, the amount of liquids I'm getting in is so minuscule I'm just stumped as to why I've not lost recently.
I have just sent a message to my aftercare team.
Bricking it that when I go onto mushy foods tomorrow itll make me lose weight, but I'm having less than 500 calories a day so I should be dropping weight like crazy at this stage.

Thank you all for the information. Xx

I follow a woman on Instagram who had a VSG in October and has lost 10 stone since then. I’ve looked back at her posts and it looks like she had a BIG loss right after the surgery, a couple of much smaller losses and then another big one (weekly weigh in).

You might be the same. Follow the advice of your medical team and the results will come. I’m assuming you lost weight on your pre-op diet as well so your body will be adjusting to the loss of fluids.

How are your bowel movements? If you're backed up it could mimic stalling.

I hope by now your weight has dropped immensely. I have lost 4,7 stone 6 months post sleeve surgery. Some people loose more and some less. Don't be too hard on yourself. Stick to your diet and a bit of exercise and it will come off.