Jolanda

Same here: the anti nausea medication in the hospital didn't help, but the pain meds did. Perhaps my body was just confused. For me it ended pretty much a day and a half after the surgery. Good luck and I'm sure you'll be fine in a day or two.

Yes, I agree. I don't weigh myself every day: once a week on average. And before my period, not even that as I always retain water. I had a definite stall of nearly three weeks just a couple of weeks ago (three months post surgery) but now I've lost four pounds in just a week. You need to set yourself up to succeed, not to fail!

I will not weigh myself every day, it's just setting myself up for disappointment... At my doctor's advice I weigh myself once a week, and because I tend to retain some water the week before my period starts I don't weigh myself then. Sometimes I forget and so there may be ten or fourteen days between my weigh-ins. I do however use an online calorie counter (it also tracks protein and fat intake) every day so I know I'm not getting too many calories. I love weighing myself after a week as there has always been a lower number on the scales than last time! So far. I am definitely prepared for a stall, too. But having averaged 850 calories a day for the past two months, there is no way a stall would be permanent.

I had a leak from one of the incisions and had a lot of clotted blood removed the day after surgery so yes, I had humonguous (spelling? is that even a proper word?) bruising on the left side of my abdomen for a week or two after surgery. Wasn't pretty, but it wasn't alarming either. I don't look at my stomach a lot in the mirror anyway...

Glad I'm not alone - though I wouldn't wish those cramps on anybody else. Ugh. Hope things get back to normal when I've lost the excess weight - but still, I'd rather be slimmer and have cramps than fat without... That's how good this feels

Hi, it's been three months since my sleeve and weight loss wise everything is fine. Two questions for you all: last time I had my period I had a bout of very severe cramps. Never had that bad cramps before. This time it was "cold sweat & nearly passed out" bad. I suppose there may be hormonal changes with this rapid weight loss or something. Gyn exam said everything normal. Second question, this week suddenly I got an outbreak of acne on my face. Hasn't had that in years! Is this common at this point or just me?

Oops, this should have gone in the POST VSG forum.

Thanks for the link, it was an interesting read. I'm one of those who haven't told anybody except my boyfriend, and I think I'll keep it that way. People may guess, but I feel it's a personal thing. When someone asks how I've lost so much weight I generally say "I eat less" - which is true, in a way... I haven't told my family because I didn't want to worry them before the surgery, and I'm a pretty private person in all respects.

I'm a week off from 3 months and had lost 49 pounds the last time I stood on the scales so I expect to be about 50-51 pounds down at 3 months. I started at BMI 36 and am 5ft9. I do exercise a bit: Pilates and stretching, and I run for about a quarter of an hour three times a week.

I was sleeved in October and no regrets so far. I had lost about 60 pounds earlier by dieting and it took all of my strength & then I yo-yoed for several years. The operation wasn't fun, especially as they had to go in again and remove a huge amount of clotted blood the day after the surgery, but I've recovered well. I was pretty tired for the first three weeks. No real pain, some discomfort the first week. Didn't take any pain meds past one week post surgery. The stitches itched slightly at some point. Now, nearly three months later, I've lost about 49 pounds after the surgery and living is easy. I'm cleared to eat any food and I do, but stay away from Cookies and cake and anything below 70% chocolate. Don't eat Pasta, rice or potatoes. I feel great, stomach feels normal, but I don't get hungry (yet, though I hope it's permanent...) and once I've learned to eat slowly it's been easy to feel good after eating. Learning to eat slowly, chewing a lot more, and to buy less food (it feels like I buy one tenth of the amount of food I used to) has been the steepest learning curves for me. I've been eating on average 850 calories a day for the past two months and one of the things that annoy me slightly is that I do feel a bit weaker than I used to. Doing something that really takes strength, like shovelling snow, makes me tire a lot quicker. Probably has to do with both calorie intake and muscle loss. I do Pilates twice a week and have taken up running, so hopefully I'm building strength again. On the other hand, having lost so much weight already, moving around is so much easier!

I feel for you - I hate throwing food away. Luckily I have three greedy dogs so almost anything except stuff with onions in it, they can have. But I would rather lose weight than be economical... It has just taken me a long time to learn how little food to buy. At first I had to throw out tons of stuff. I've sort of calculated that the sleeve will have paid itself back financially in around 7-8 years because I'll be eating less. Not bad...

Just to say hang in there to LAN2k!!! I'm pretty happy with how everything went and am on a huge mental high, feeling much better about myself already though I have a lot of weight to lose still.

Pilates is good. I started it - a combined class with deep stretching too - about a year and a half ago and now I'm losing weight it's fun to see the muscles I've already built coming out. That said, I tried running today and it was fun, so I'll be adding that to my schedule. I've also lost weight on top first, but I think it's just the way it goes naturally. Looking forward to seeing how I end up...

Yes, I'm cold too - especially when going to bed at night. I started doing five minutes on the elliptical machine before bed, it sort of got my circulation going and made it a little better.

I got mostly the right things, but by far too much of everything! Smooth Soups and broths were good. Also drinkable yoghurt (we have it over here, don't know about you). sugar free juice concentrates. I also had stocked up on fruit smoothies but that turned out to be one of the few things I don't feel ok after having. Perhaps too much sugar too rapidly? Anyway, I get queasy. One of my favourite things later on for Protein is German quark - it's basically a mix between sour cream and fresh cheese. Low in calories, high in protein, and tastes good. Wikipedia info on it: Quark (cheese) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'm not a lot of help in this, you will get better replys I'm sure, but: hang in there and best wishes for it getting better ASAP!

This was so funny, I read an article online about the British TV cook Nigella Lawson and she said about her husband: 'If I lose a bit of weight, he says: "You're looking gaunt," and I say: "Please don't say this in front of people, they'll think it funny." ' So it is a universal response to weight loss :thumbup:

Wow!!! Good for you!!!

We celebrate on Christmas Eve, so dinner was basic Swedish Christmas style: I had one slice of turkey, one small potato, mixed green salad and "gravlax" (cured salmon). Plus three chocolates along the evening. I was going to write down the menu but it looked quite weird, with liver paste and beet salad and turnip casserole!

You look fabulous! I got that same reaction from my lover when I first lost a lot of weight in a short time. Well, he didn't say I looked sick, as he's a pretty smart guy: he said he gets a gut reaction of worry that something was terribly wrong because I'm losing weight so fast. We sort of came to the conclusion that during evolution it's probably always been an indication of illness when someone loses a lot of weight and that the concerned response is hard wired into us. You know, if someone is sick and the family members take care of him/her, that has increased the rate of survival in that particular family (with similar behavioural patterns) and so has been a good intuition to have. Those whose family members didn't give a damn, didn't always survive... So while it's not a very polite or nice thing to say that you look gaunt, the emotion behind it is probably such a basic survival thing that you can't really get too mad at them either :thumbup:

Ugh - I haven't had pain (yet...) and am pretty good with my portion sizes, but a couple of times I've eaten too much of something or too fast and felt so horribly sick for the same 20 minutes that I never eat that food again. I actually tried to brainwash myself yesterday and while I was feeling sick I repeatedly imagined all kinds of stuff I would like never to want to eat again (cookies, cakes, chocolates, pie) over and over again in the hope that my brain would make the connection cookie=nausea, pie=nausea etc.

It'll pass: I remember that phase very well as I only had the operation in October. I must have slept for 12-14 hours a day at one point. I took it as recuperating from the operation: it's still a big surgery and your body needs time to heal. But it does pass, for me at least one month past surgery I started to feel really energetic and now, two months almost, it's still like that in spite of eating approximately 7-900 calories a day. I think it's because the weight is dropping off so fast that moving becomes easier by the day, it counterbalances any other fatigue. And of course the human body is amazing and adjusts to different diets.

Um, I only weigh myself once a week and the two weeks before my period, I don't weigh at all. I seem to collect a bit of fluids before, so it would only depress me to see the gain or stall on the scales.

You're not being silly: your concerns are important to you and therefore valid! In my opinion prettiness is a question of bone structure more than filling, so if you're pretty now, you'll be pretty when thin, too. But of course the important thing is that you'll have a better chance of staying healthy then. I did wrestle with some thoughts along the "scared of being skinny" lines: mostly because when I get thin, then I only have myself to blame if something stops me from being successful at what I want to do. Of course it's always been that way, but it's still a scary thing.