Pre-opp diet staalled, please help

I need to lose 30lb before surgery, I have lost 15lb but for several days now I have been bouncing back and forth between 265 and 264.  I am only eating half a cup of minestrone and two protein shakes a day.  I have cheated a few times but no more then 75 calories extra a day.  Nothing fried or with sugar in it and I stopped soda two weeks ago. Are the cheats causing the problem?  Also my husband suggest because I a working out almost every night for about 40 min or more that it is muscle growth, I am not that optimistic.  Any advice????

 

I'm wondering if you need more food. You aren't having much. What has worked for me is 4-5 small meals (to keep my blood sugar and metabolism level), high protein, low carb and medium fat.

Did your doc give you a nutritionist to talk to? They should be able to help!

As for working out a lot...muscle doesn't build as fast as fat comes off. I had my body fat % done once, and in three months I had it done again. In that time I lost 17 lbs of fat and gained one pound of muscle. So that's when I realized when we all say "well, we're gaining muscle!" it's not really one-for-one, or very fast.

Just keep following your plan, quit "cheating" so you don't beat yourself up or spend so much head space on this. They just want our livers to de-fat. So think about that--you want to do your best to support the surgeon and de-fat your liver. If you just follow the plan they've given you, you won't have to think about it and whatever happens with your body is exactly the right thing.

I kind of planned some healthy cheats to get me through the first two weeks with them tapering off the second week and stopping the third.  I just started the third so no more, but I did get a hold of the nutritionist just to be safe. 

The diet offered cheats just not ones that I could do, I had to figure out alternatives.

Hang in there and stay strictly on your doctors diet. It is worth it in the end :o

Thanks, I am trying.