Weight loss stall

Jul 10, 2011

So, as of two weeks post op, I was losing at a good clip. Then I entered the 3rd week. Tomorrow will be 3 weeks exactly. I've not lost a single pound this week.

I'm not freaking out. It's normal. I'm consuming 500-700 calories per day at this point. I am NOT going to be the only woman in the world to not lose weight on that low of a calorie intake.

So, I'm not freaking out. But I AM annoyed! 

I also feel like I'm eating constantly. I'm supposed to have 3 pureed meals per day, but still meet my 70 protein requirement. So, it takes me a while to eat, then I wait, then I drink a protein drink. Then it's time to eat something again. And I'm eating like 2 oz at a time. Argh!

So far, everything I've eaten goes down pretty good. The fist food I had was chicken and my tummy didn't like it, just made me feel icky, but since then, it's been fine. I do have to go slow or I get icky feeling. Slowly introducing new foods and so far, nothing has been a real problem though.

I started with adding cheeses like cottage cheese, laughing cow, ricotta and have moved on to beans and tuna (my sleeve LOVES tuna salad!) and eggs. Just keeping at it. I purred up some soup the other day. I'm not a big soup eater so it's not my favorite thing to do, but it was nice to get some flavor going (it was creole chicken). I also added hot sauce to my scrambled eggs. I seem to want really well flavoried stuff. I figure this is because I'm eating so little that when I do eat, I want max flavor. *laughing*

I have a business trip coming up in a few days. I'll be gone four days. This should be interesting... I did get a fridge in our room and I'm driving so I plan on bringing protein drinks, individual containers of yogurt and cottage cheese and just doing the best I can. 

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