Hope..

From: Heather:
HELP!!
Lesley HELP!!! So I am into week 2 of eating, the 29th of April was my surgery came in and weighed in for 1st breakfast on the 6th with a weight loss of 19lbs...Which I was ecstatic about. Now a week later and following the guidelines on food I have actually gained a pound. I am so full of emotions I don't know what to do. Is this normal? I know I need to work on getting my 64oz of water each day, and I am really working hard on this, but this pound thing is really killing me. I have started working out since last week and been doing really good at getting 30+ minutes in a day, but this is discouraging. Any words of wisdom will help. Thanks Heather

From: Sandi.Birch
RE: HELP!!

Hi Heather,
Don’t worry about the scale going up slightly during the full liquid diet; that almost always happens. Before surgery (very low calorie diet) and after surgery (clear liquid diet) you depleted all of your glycogen (the carbohydrate stored in your liver and muscles). Now as you begin to consume some carbohydrates again you will rebuild some of that (and that is a good thing). That carbohydrate is linked together with water so you weight will go up slightly, but the increase on your scale is not fat gain. Don’t worry – just follow the diet recommendations – you will continue to lose weight over time (even if the scale fluctuates some day to day.) Thanks for your good questions, always feel free to contact us for answers, support, and whatever else we can do to help.
Best of luck,
Sandi