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Ann8615 · 11-03-2006, 09:31 AM

I am one week post op as of today. Weighed 222.5 on surgery day, 236.5 post surgery, today 222.5 what the heck? I have been on full liquids for a week, & I know I haven't been able to get more than 250 cals in in a single day, help?

ann

Zenomia · 11-03-2006, 10:01 AM

Totally NORMAL!

Surgery adds ungodly amounts of fluid...which means weight...<GASP> gain!

*L*
I gained 15#'s from surgery alone...

There is a bright side though!! Do what your supposed to...keep walking and by week two...You will be right as rain and will have lost this freakish amount of weight!!

Odds are, you left the hospital with 10-15 more #'s than you went in with!! Be glad you didn't get on the scale before now!!!!

No...worries Mate...breath and just hold on for next weigh in...you will be happy then!!

LisaBoston · 11-03-2006, 10:09 AM

Ann, congrats on your surgery. I know its very hard right now, but remember that your body has gone through a trauma and it likes to hold onto fluids to try and fight what it went through. Its very hard, but try and be patient and in a few weeks, you will see a big drop in a matter of days. Its totally normal. I didn't get on the scale for the first 2 weeks as I was told that I would not like to see the number.

Take care and once again, congrats on having your surgery!

Olusha · 11-03-2006, 10:12 AM

I'm almost three weeks out and haven't lost anything in 4 days even though I know I'm not eating too much. I think maybe I'm not eating enough!

I'm not gonna freak though, I'm sure that it will level off eventually and it will for you too!

MiladyB · 11-03-2006, 10:41 AM

YEP, NORMAL!!! Laura and Lisa have said it all!! Just stay off from that scale awhile. I didn't weigh for 2 weeks. I don't own a scale and haven't bought one to force myself not to be weighing myself all of the time. In the beginning I only weighed at my doctor's post-op appointments. I had an appointment every 1-3 weeks so that was often enough.

The weight will start to go down. Just follow the rules and it will!!

Dyann · 11-04-2006, 06:59 AM

I agree with all of the above. Expect a little pause at 3-4 weeks as well. I think we all had one.

goingslimfast · 11-04-2006, 08:49 AM

The day will come when your weight will go "whoosh"

Jennimaria · 11-04-2006, 09:25 AM

You will do fine. Before you know it the pounds will be falling off and you will forget about the terrible first week. I just had my gallbladder taken out and I gained 7 lbs. from the surgery alone. I know it will come back off though. Hang in there!

ShmennaJ · 11-05-2006, 09:22 PM

I remember the night of my surgery when they weighed me for the first time post op and I had gained 10 pounds! Personally, I think that they should hide the number from you while you are in the hospital

. Anyways, I kept weighing myself the first couple of days and found that I was driving myself absolutely crazy. I'm almost 7 weeks out and I only let myself weigh in once a week. The way I look at it is I know for a fact that I am loosing weight and as long as I'm feeling good I don't need to know what the scale says everyday. Good luck!

~Jenna

JulieJaneway · 11-05-2006, 09:36 PM

Give your body time to recover. It has been traumatized and it wants to hang on to everything it has, fat, organs, skins, fluid, anything. It will come off. Do not make the mistake, however, of thinking that if you just eat less calories it will make it come off faster. If you don not give your body what it needs to heal itself and the fule to run its engine, it will not do what it is supposed to do. You need to be getting in a heck of a lot more than 250 calories a day. Your body will stay in starvation mode on 250 calories and store anything it can get as fat. It will munch on its own muscle tissue before it will burn that fat. Get your protein in, get at lest 750 calories a day, drink that water, and get lots of sleep. Stop stressing, and do what everyone told you to do about staying off the scale. The scale is only your friend at the doc's office for the whole first year. Until you can lern to make friends with one at home and to have some self control with it, you should just get rid of it. You will drive yourself crazy. Take more interest in how you feel, how your clothes fit, what you can do. The scale is not the be all and end all. You can still be shrinking radically and not even see the scale move, so go with the shrinking! The body is a weird thing. Give it a littel time to get with the program here.

Hang in there. Let us all know how you're doing.

Julie Janeway
Little Victories Support Specialists
Little Victories Support University

RNYGB - 3 yrs out - 188 lbs gone

Dr. Randal S. Baker
MMPC -Michigan Weight Loss Specialists
Grand Rapids, Michigan