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So, maybe this is normal? I don't understand it though. How can i be losing weight without losing weight, right? I've been trying to find all the posts about this, but haven't really found anything. At least I'm not the only one with this "problem" so maybe it is just a part of the deal!

Before my surgery my therapist recommended a book called The Emotional First-Aid Kit: A Practical Guide to Live after Bariatric Surgery. It's a great book and perhaps you can find answers to he'll you move forward.

Ok, I'm just over two weeks post surgery right now. The first week i lost about ten pounds which was great. Then i haven't really budged since then. Just hovering back and forth within two pounds. Here's my question...even though the scale gives me nothing right now, my clothes are completely huge on me suddenly, my face is obviously trimmer and where i used to be all heavily packed in, I'm getting soft, if that makes sense. What's the deal with the scale?? Is there a reason the numbers aren't going down even though my body's showing me that I'm losing??

Thank you so much, both of you for your help! This is absolutely a last chance attempt to get my life back and i really don't want to screw it up.

Help, Please! I had the gastric sleeve on Thursday so I'm six days out. I'm doing well, hardly any pain, getting my fluids, most days my protein and waking. Go me! BUT here's my worry and my question! Last night everyone was being ready to go off to a Christmas party as i was mixing up my evening protein shake. It was eleven ounces. Anyway, chaos in the house everybody wanting something or telling me something blah blah blah...I'm not paying much attention and then i realise in about ten minutes time I had consumed that entire shake! Then i started freaking out because before surgery we are told we could hold two ounces at a time and that would increase over time to where we could take in four. I'm wondering if my sleeve is wrong or did i stretch it out? Now I'm noticing that i can drink a few ounces of water at a time without feeling restricted much at all. I don't want to have gone through this surgery and not have it give me results because it's too big or i stretched it out! Am i missing something?

Thanks everyone for the replies. You guys are right, it didn't matter as much as i thought it would and everything went well. Surgery Thursday, home Friday not much pain to speak of, i think I've taken the pain medication twice since I've been home, but honestly at the times i took it pain was completely manageable,but it was there so i wanted to stay ahead of it, then i figured out it wasn't getting worse so i quit taking it and it's fine. My surgeon ordered a block before surgery and i think that is what really made it so much easier. I was nervous about the block, it was a huge production in the pre op area, several needles and really really huge ones. Again, no big deal. A little lidocaine, then the huge needles I didn't even feel. So, on the rest of my life I guess!

Oh my goodness, thank you so much. I was really getting worried that I'd screwed everything up before i even got started! I'll relax than and just get ready. I'm nervous but excited at the same time.

I'm worried suddenly. First of all, my surgery date was set for December 13th on November 30th. So I was told to start the pre op diet on December first, but then they couldn't get me in to a Pre op diet class until December 6th. I did start on the first, but that was not two weeks out, then when i went to the class i found i was not doing it quite right. I was eating 2% cheese, but "not the right kind" and my protein drinks had to many calories. My powder is fine,but then adding it to a drink made it more calories than they allow. So what I'm saying is, I'm basically only getting one week of pre op diet before my surgery this Thursday. Should i consider asking my surgeon to reschedule so I can try again and get that liver all shrunk up like they want? I want to do everything right, this is kind of a kind about thing! I'm worried 😟!