DroppingOneHundred

Hello all, this is my first post and I hope you all can shed some insight! I have read a few posts (on this site and google) about this topic and no real answer has come to be! I had my gastric bypass 4/4/17, and was doing great the first week! By my one week check up I was getting in 3 protein shakes a day, water in between, and a few spoonfuls of yogurt and apple sauce through out the day! I was proud of how good I was feeling. Happy with my decision. Got my staples out (those things are the devil) and was happy! Almost immediately the next day or so I started getting nauseous sipping my shake. Would set it down. Put back in fridge. Try to finish later. Same thing. Bubble a bite of yogurt. And vomit. I was so confused. Would sip some water... then same. Walked away from everything for hours and then try again and same results. Vomit. All day long. Those first couple of days that it started (right after my one week mark) I was very confused and still trying. Now, at 3.5 weeks out I am down to one protein shake very slowly sipped over 2-3 hours and barely 30-40 oz of water sipped through out the day. That's it. Zofran was called in for me last week and no change. I've tried food again (pudding, yogurt, apple sauce) and all come back up and if I drink my shake "fast" and by fast I mean over the course of ONE hour it also gives me the same gagging nauseous feeling. I feel so sick all day long! On the flip side, I'm perfectly fine with just water, herbal tea, even gaterade, but it's ANYTHING thicker that causes issues. i am a mom to FOUR kids. It feels exactly like the all day morning sickness I had with my two girls for nine months straight. I feel like I'm failing as a mother because I'm so energy depleted my patience wains fast. I love them dearly, and they are all younger than the age of six, so they have no clue what I'm going through. I keep telling them "mommy is sick" but they obviously don't know why. I can't live off just water and a sip or two of protein shake. Help!

Literally everyone is different and depends on their fitness prior to surgery as well. Someone who has never been active, has surgery, and then finally starts walking (which is still awesome) will drop pounds more rapidly than someone who had some muscle prior and has some athletic prowess. I fall in the second category. Currently all my weight loss (I'm four weeks out) has been from my muscle burning and depleting, not fat. If I had just been all fat and no muscle I have a feeling I would be dropping faster. its going to be a long road to gain strength back. And likely a much slower weight loss for those of us with muscle prior to surgery.

How far out from surgery are you now? I'm a goal setter (and try to be a goal crusher lol) so I need time frames in mind vs "some day it will be better" lol. At least with morning sickness I knew it would end when I delivered my babies!! Haha