Nicole0425

I use sparkpeople.com to track my food and I under 1000 calories every day, it's usually 600- 900 calories a day. I haven't talk to the doctor yet I see him Friday, so I guess lets see what he says.

So I am almost 3 weeks post op and I eat very little. I get full quickly and stop eating. I notice that I am still not losing much weight. I figured if I'm eating 1/4 of the calories I use to so I should be losing weight. I'm following my portion sizes and most of the food suggestions, the doctor has given me, but still the weight loss is way way slow. I've lost 17 lb total from start of the pre op diet and until now which is about 4 weeks of eating completely differently. I know I shouldn't complain, I'm just wondering what difference a fill is gonna make. I'm not hungry as is and I'm not eating more then I should, so when I get a fill and I gonna be eating even less?? I thought I understood this whole process, but I'm starting to feel like I'm missing something? Any words of wisdom out there would be greatly apprieciated, Thank you ! Nicole

Maybe ask your doctor cause it might be different. Mine is 32 oz protien shake divided up into eight times a day, which turns into 4 oz 8 times a day. Right now its very hard for me to get all that in, but that will change in due time. I'd check with your doctor just like not everyones pre op diets were the same either. Good luck !

My goal is to get all my protien in each day! Baby steps ! )

I'm back at work today. I have a desk job so it's not too bad, but I can tell you sitting in my office chair and wearing a bra is so far been the most uncomfortable. My bra just feels tight and and restricting and the chair well its a office chair need I say more !

I had my surgery Oct 6 th and it went as it should. The pain meds they gave me in were not initially working and the nurses finally started listening after I got real nasty with them. Other then that everything in the hospital was good. My biggest complain is the gas OMG THE GAS!!!!! I'm 4 days post op and it's still killing me! It travels around my lungs and it make fill like I can't breath at times. I have used Gas X and walked and walked and walked a ton, but it's still trapped. I pray every day and night to just burp or fart and get it out already. Otherwise I feel pretty good, my insicion where my port is is really the only sore spot, so I super happy about that. I am finding it very hard to get in all the Water and Protein shake my doctor said I should be drinking. 64 oz of water and 32 oz of Protein shakes. I find this hard at the point, maybe when more swelling goes down I'll do better. How about everyone else any problems getting your water and protein shakes in for the day?

The day of surgery was terrible for me. The pain meds were not working for me and I damn near ripped a nurses head off. After they realized I wasn't kidding around they upped the dosage, and I was better not pain free but I would say around a 3 or 4 on a scale of 1 - 10. I found the absoulute worst thing was the gas not the actual insicions. I had surgery Oct 6th so I'm 4 days post op and I still have terrible trapped gas in my chest and stomach which can make it really hard to breath at times. I've used Gas X and walked and walked and walked and still I'm in pain with the gas. I haven't taken any pain meds since Friday night so I'm healing good and feeling sore but everyday gets better. I find that if I keep a heating pad on the stomach and chest the gas is at bay but as soon as I take it off it's there again. Good luck to you I'm sure C-section recovery is far worse, but I don't know all my babies were born vaginally, and that was a breeze for me.

Good luck to you too!

So tomorrow it's my turn to get banded. I'm strangely kinda calm and relaxed. I guess because I already had my flip out a few days prior, but I'm shore I'm gonna get nervous and have another flip out when they are bringing my into surgery. So please everyone pray for me that eveything goes perfect and I have great experience. I won't be home until Friday because the doctor requires banders to stay overnight in the hospital but I will let you know how everything goes when I get home ! Good luck to all the others getting banded tomorrow and there after !