I week Post op - any tips on accelerating the weight loss?

So it has been 1 week since surgery. This week I lost 8 pounds. Which is great, I just feel I have so much to lose. My recovery went well and although I have week moments I am doing well on the post op diet. Any tips on accelerating the weight loss process?

I would encourage you to be patient.  You are healing.  I remember it took a while for my weight loss to gain momentum, then I felt like a stick of butter in the summer heat.  Follow the diet: get your protein, water and vits.  Exercise as you can tolerate.  It will go.  Meanwhile, enjoy each day, they go by so fast before you realize, you're there.

Congrats!

The best way to lose weight and maintain it is:

1. TRACK EVERYTHING!
2. Fiercely love yourself and accept no substitutions for good health.
3. Follow the plan stages as you are supposed to without accelerating them.
4. Follow a low carb, high protein diet.
5. When you eat solid foods, eat protein first.
6. Don't drink while eating.
7. Don't drink alcohol.
8. Don't drink calories, period.
9. Drink at least 64 ounces of water a day (more is better on a low carb diet).
10. Take vitamins as directed; don't take iron and calcium together.
11. Don't eat items with added sugar.
12. If food is not protein rich, it's probably not a good idea to eat it for a very long time.
13. Make a behavioral support network for the hard times.  
14. Accept that there will be hard times.  There are for every WLS patient.
15. Get a counselor before you think things are bad if and when they first start going south - it saves time later.
16. Eat slowly at first, and carefully, while the sleeve heals.
17. Remember that you just had major surgery - most of an organ removed! - and be kind to yourself.

Stick to the plan and you'll reach your goal.  

Thank u

Holy crap! 8 pounds in one week? I lost almost 300 pounds, and never lost as much as 8 pounds in one week.

Most weeks, you'll be very happy to lose 3 pounds.

Donna has a great list of things to do to promote weight loss and take advantage of your surgery. As for accelerating the loss the best advice is to give it up - the natural physiological trend is a decreasing loss rate over time, and particularly early on. The first thing that you are fighting over the long term is a gradually declining total metabolic rate as you lose - it simply takes fewer calories to move your body around 24/7 when you weight 100, 200 or whatever pounds less than you did before, so your loss rate naturally declines as you proceed. A few can counter that trend by seriously ramping up their exercise as the months move on (as in marathon training level, not just an extra block or so of walking per day!) The other physiological factor that you are fighting early on is that most of your initial loss (beyond added fluid weight from surgery) comes from using up your short term energy stores of glycogen (basically stored carbohydrates) which burn quite rapidly. Once that is depleted and your body frequently goes into a stall (look up the three, or third, week stall) it will start drawing from your longer term energy reserves of stored fat, which burns more slowly, but is what we are here to do - burn up the fat. So, don't be surprised to see a stall and decline in your loss rate in the next couple of weeks, no matter what you do.

Omg! I just looked up the 3 week stall...no I'm scared but at least I will expect it.

Try to be patient.  Early on in my weight loss process, one of the old-timers on the site told me that "this is a marathon, not a sprint."  We have to be in this for the long run.  The surgery is just the start of a life-long commitment to managing our obesity. 

If every month, we are getting healthier, feeling stronger with more and more mobility, does it really matter how long it takes to get to goal?  6 months, or 1 year, or 18 months?  If we stick to the plan we will get there.  And the only way we will keep the weight off is if we "stick to our plan." 

I used to drive myself crazy with wanting to lose weight faster, and when all was said and done, I lost 225 pounds in 18 months.  In retrospect, it was pretty amazing.  So try to enjoy the process and appreciate your successes.  I think you'll be very happy with your results if you make the commitment and keep to the plan.

best wishes,

Carol

Thank u and what your saying makes sense.