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Sometimes exercise will cause a temporary gain from fluid shifts.

I spent a week camping and walking at least 2 miles a day. I got home excited to see how much I lost and actually gained. Really I gained weight. I am in my 4th month and know about the stall, but that doesn't make it any easier. How long will this last? Thanks for letting me vent.

Sandra, that sounds very frustrating! I didn't know it would slow down at 4 months like that. I'm sorry you are going through that, but thanks for the information. Keep up the hard work, though! You have a lot to be proud of already and as soon as you are past this slow-down, the weight loss should start again! You got this.

Hey there! I am 5 months post-op from my VSG and have hit my goal weight of 135 lbs. However, I have continued to lose weight & am now at 128 lbs. I'm starting to have some issues with my hair coming out (usually only when I'm brushing or washing it), but enough that it concerns me. Can I get some input on what vitamins or supplements may help? What do others do in this situation? I live in a small town & have minimal access to shopping. Any good OTC vitamins out there? I feel good; I have a good appetite. I'm trying to eat more often since I can't eat more quantity.

I gained over 20 lbs. in the hospital !!! But a week and 2 days later I had not only lost all that but I also lost 13 " real " pounds !!! Now I am at a stall since Monday but everyone including my Dr. Say it's normal... Also, my stomach is still bigger than before surgery and I'm told in time that will go away. So don't fret over the weight, it's totally normal !

Starting around 2.5 months out my sleeve definately was healed and the swelling was all gone and I can eat perfect sizes now! one egg and half an english muffin is a typical meal for me. It takes me about 20 mins to eat. Loving it! I was a little sad to eat half an egg in the beginning so now I feel like its much more reasonable and the weight loss is great!

Ill be honest and tell you that in my case i have a TON of loose skin. I have bat wing arms, major saggy thigh skin and a good bit of tummy flab and boobs that are deflated. Ive decided to wait till im at my goal and then decide if i want to correct any of it. The fact is (as told to me by my physician) with an EXTREME weight loss there is only so much exercise alone will do. I can hide all the loose skin under the new pretty cloths i can now wear, but there was no way i could hide weighing 359lbs. So im a happy camper loose skin and all.

Your body is going through a ton of changes right now, but I promise you, the weight will start coming off. Like BonBon said, you have a lot of swelling from the surgery, maybe retaining water and who knows what else. But, relax, it will happen. And don't compare your weight loss to anyone else's, because everyone loses differently.

The first week I was so frustrated because I was in the hospital 2 nights and came home to weigh myself and I had GAINED 10 pounds! I realized later that much of it was swelling from the surgery. I didn't start losing any weight until about 9 days post-op. I'm sure it's different for everyone. Don't worry! It's still very early. You'll see the scale move, almost before your very eyes! lol

Immediately after surgery, the 3 most important requirements are Protein, Vitamins and fluids. These are key. food is secondary, especially because the volume of food is very limited in the beginning. Your body is converting your stored fat into energy that drives you body. As a result you are losing weight. In my opinion most of the protein shakes taste terrible. But it is very important that you take in the required protein each day. As time goes on and your meal volume increases, you can gain most of your protein from your meals, provided you consume high protein meals. But that is not the stage you are in, so experiment and find the protein shakes that you can tolerate. There are a wide variety of powder and premix protein shakes available. For me Muscle Milk Light powder mixed with a half a banana in a Ninja single serving size blender worked well. Your protein requirement is a combination of the protein you consume from meals combined with the protein from supplements (protein shakes, protein bars). It is equally important that you take in the required amount of fluids each day. I use to like to drink a glass of Water with ice cubes several times a day prior to surgery. But that changed after the operation. After surgery, I found that flavored water (Crystal Light) was good. Also I began drinking fine teas. The Fluid requirement is the total amount of fluids that you take in each day. It included the fluids you consume in your protein shakes. It is also equally important that you meet your Vitamin requirement. Your body does not convert food into the essential vitamins that you need. That is why you must use supplements. In the area of foods, I found that Soups and chili went down easier. Therefore that is what I used. I wanted to get off the protein shakes as soon as possible, so I made my own soups and chili with about twice the protein as store bought variety. I have include some of the recipes in the link below. It also gave me good control over the volume of the meals that I consumed. I would make up a pot of food and store it and eat it all week. http://www.breadandbutterscience.com/Surgery.pdf

I am not really a fan of Dr. Oz so I take everything he says with a grain of salt. I remember I was all excited about the raspberry ketones that he said were safe for everyone. I went to the health food store that sold them here and I talked to the owner. She asked me for a list of my medications and then went to her computer to check my list against her info. As it turned out it would be dangerous for me to take raspberry ketones because I am on an anti depressant. They would react negatively with my meds. Those were my pre banded days when I was desperate enough to try anything and everything to lose weight.

I wanted to see if anyone has had a problem with insurance approving revision surgery. I feel like an absolute failure. I had a band placed in 2010 and had to have it removed because of complications and converted to a sleeve in 2015. For some reason my body just didn’t let me lose the weight as easily as I did with the band. I’ve put back all the weight since then. Im going to see my surgeon on Monday. When I called to make the appointment the lady told me that I may have a hard time with approval since I hadn’t continued to follow up with the office. I went to all my scheduled appointments and was never told I needed to continue checking in. Im just trying to mentally prepare for my appointment. Im afraid they will tell me there is nothing they can do to help me get healthier. I just feel defeated.

I went to the church to the walking track tonight and my daughter wanted to go, so I said whatever. When we got there she said she had to use the restroom and I went ahead and started walking. I was on Lap 4(16 laps is a mile) and she walked with me but kept telling me to slow down I was walking to fast. She finally gave up on lap 12 and started playing on her iPhone while I finished my three mile walk. That made me feel very good!!! I am 40, current weight 214.4, I have lost 46 lbs to date. I can not Believe that my 13 yo could not hang with me, kinda makes me laugh!!

There are so many factors regarding skin after weight loss. Heredity, elasticity, age, how rapid weight loss is, can all effect whether or not your skin shrinks. I have a 130 pounds to lose and have lost 30 so far. I don't know what to expect as far as my skin. I am preparing myself for at least a breast lift and possibly a TT.

That just shows how judgemental people truly are. I was thin until I hit 30, then it all went down hill. But even at my smallest I NEVER treated anyone badly due to their weight, maybe because I had a 350 lbs. aunt (who is now 150 after her RNY). All I can say is what comes around goes around and those people will have their own heartache eventually.

I am going into this surgery feeling that whatever eds feeling are , are agrivation over getting something done that i am just going to fail at. yet another thing in my life that i will fall on my face and he will have to be there to pick up the pieces or to throw up his hands and say that is "enough i have had it and i am correct in saying so because of all the situations that i have obviously gone thru with her. I am correct and justified in my decision and anyone would come up with the same solution." there is no caring no encuragement no helpfullness, just aggrivation that his day has to be interupted by someone or something else other than what he wants to do. if we are driving somewhere and the person in front of us is going to slow, it is not because he is driving to fast, it is because the person infront of us is an idiot. how dare they interupt his plan or goal or direction of travel. he has love and kindness and understanding for everyone else in the world but me. yes he loves me yes he cares about me, "he told me that on the day we were married, why the hell would he have to show it or tell me that any more. I told you once already, and i dont need to be bothered with showing or telling you that unless i deem it necessary or proper in the current situation." Maybe ed was given to me to teach me to tuffen up. to stop having so.... no goddamnit no. why do i have to be the one that is wrong, why do i have to be the one that is to clingy or needy. why am i the one that always makes the wrong decisions. I have supported every goddamn decision he has ever had that has put us further and further into debit. if there is money available than that is what must be done with it. there is no reason to save up for anything. i want it and i am going to buy it. and since no one has a good enough reason, and no you cant doesnt count, i am going to get what i want with no respect to anyone around us. And if all our money is not taken care of properly than we have to get raging mad because i am so stupid i cant even handle money. I dont know what i can handle any more. i am such an emotional person and have such outward emotions and he is so hard uncaring swift to anger and judgemental. he has no patence for me so i am wrong and there is no time in his life or schedual for someone who is wrong, so he gets mad. And that is what i am left with. I just love him. I see all the good things in him but all i get is the short temper the lack of patence and the feeling from him that all i do is never good enough. how can i get over dealing with his emotions when he means so much to me. he can hurt me so much and act like he doesnt have the time or want to care about my reaction, if it does not fit into his schedual. I am sitting here typing and soon he is going to say something to me in an exasperated tone about me getting up and doing the things that i need to do before i have this goddamn unnecesary surgery that he is against and has no patence for because it does not fit into his ideals of how to handle the situation. all you need to do is eat better and excersize. I am not a mean or vendictive person, that is not who i am or who i want to be, but the eating right and excersizing thing has worked real fucking good for you hasnt it. you have not even been on the treadmill or that goddamn weight machine in god knows how long. But dont do as i do, do as i tell you to do, that is all that matters. And if you have any questions about what i just said than re read it again. now get out of my way because i have no more patience for you and you are an idiot for speaking to me and taking up all my time with this stupid nonsence that i have no interest in since it is not on my agenda. you are taking up my time that i do not wish to waist on you by listening to your nonsencical bull shit. If i feel like it is worth my time or effort i will be plesant to you and interested in what you are doing, so untill you see those emotions there is no reason for you to be speaking to me or bothering me because i will only be irritated and bothered and i have no time for you or that in my day. if such time should arrize that i feel that what you have to offer is interesting you shall be acnollaged with kindess and interest. If i do not wish to be bothered by you and what you are offering ends up to be of interest or value to me it is to be treated as a fluke, a situation that does not repeat itself, an off beat chance and nothing more. You will be informed when i feel it is necessary to inform you that you are loved or needed or valued or thanked for whatever reason or situation that i deem neccessary to do so. Untill then you are of no interest to me and you should not bother me with your trivial shit. And do not take politeness as interest because my politeness only lasts a few seconds with you and if you cannot convey what ever useless bullshit you wish to convey in a very brief amount of time, then you will be instructed that what ever the hell you are doing is boring or unimportant or worse waisting my time and you should stop and leave before i get angry. and further, if there are any accomplishments that i have done they should be recognized with joy and praise. any firther emotions i do not wish my time waisted on. any deviation from said stated is not allowed.

Hi! So after reading about everyone's insurance struggles I called me Surgeon's office to find out if they submitted to my insurance company yet. They said that hospital will submit for authorization on the day of my surgery. Um what? LMAO what if I get denied? I shouldn't, my BMI was high enough that my insurance waived the 6 months weight loss plan and I completed the psych eval and med clearance pre reqs......but now I'm starting to freak out. My Surgery is on Friday. Has anyone else been told that this is what their hospital does?

NewbieGirl, you've got a lot of things going on. I think you're going to have trouble with that cocktail of pain meds and managing post op recovery. My suggestion is that you look for professional help. Under the circumstances, you may be able to get the treatment covered. A psychologist with experience in chronic pain management working with a Neurofeedback therapist can work miracles in helping you take back control of your life. It would be very empowering to get control of your body AND lose the weight. Taking advantage of every available option for help is one way to boost the chances of successfully changing your whole life. Been there, and done that.

I really feel for you @GradyCat on this one. My fear is the same so I got rid of my scale. Now I only weigh in at Dr. appointments. I have at least one appointment every couple months until next year, so I know I will be weighed each time. I think spacing out measurements is going to help me with my obsession over this. It was definitely becoming a problem and now getting rid of the scale feels like a weight off my shoulders, no pun intended...

Hi , I want to ask please if anyone had weight loss surgery done in Turkey ? I am considering going to istanbul for Gastric Sleeve surgery but still confused about which clinic and if Turkey is a good choice for doing like this surgery ? I would be most grateful if you can share your experiences and advices. Thank you

Hello everyone I'm currently 30 weeks out and have lost 75 pounds. I was wondering how much weight everyone who's about this far out has lost. What was your starting weight & goal weight. I need 25 more pounds to be at my goal weight

Hi folks, this has been an incredibly smooth and uneventful procedure, to the point where I almost didn't want to say it because I hear of so many problems on here. But it's been a breeze knock on wood. So here are the two things: 1) the unanticipated great pleasure is crossing my legs. When I sit and cross my legs now the experience is completely different as my legs don't splay out, the fold neatly and the folded over leg just goes straight don along side the other leg, if you can see what I mean here. It's no longer uncomfortable. But it's something I would never have thought of. 2) Has anyone heard of people reaching their goal weight in TWO months? Well I'm about to do that. Granted because I lost 45 before surgery, I didn't have as much to lose but now I've lost another almost 35 and so in a few weeks I imagine I'll be there. Just strikes me as strange but utterly wonderful... I'm 6'2", highest was 305, and now I'm 211, goal is 195 or 200.... this is a trip!! wow

Hello fellow bandsters I have been banded 2.5 months and I'm feeling FABULOUS! The weight has been coming off pretty consistently (except for a two week period where I plateau'ed, but then got a fill and started losing again). I went to go see my family doctor to get a prescription refill, and he had asked me if I know of any blood tests that I should be doing. At first I thought that was an odd question, since I would think I should be asking him that question. However, it made me think that maybe I should be. so, I called my surgeon the next day and asked him - he said that there aren't any tests we need to do, other than if we have some problems. Again, at first, I thought that was an acceptable response. However, after reading a NAWLS e-book, and doing a bit of research online, I have found out that some things like Vitamin B1 deficiency can result in permanent neurological deficits (including the loss of the ability to walk) and that there aren't too many warning signs and that once you have the problem, it can't be reversed. So, I wonder how many other things like this exist out there that I should be looking out for? So, my question is: Do any of you get blood work? and if so, could you please let me know what you get tested for (obviously weight loss related only.. don't need to know about tests for other reasons)??? I live in Canada so the tests are free if my doctor recommends that I get them done. THANKS!!! I hope you are all doing great!

I was a little upset day 4 post op. I had lost my best friend...food! Upset again week 5. One fill and didn't.lose any weight in 2 wks . Fill #2 plus added Mfp and have lost 3 lbs in 4 days! 6 wks post op 31 lbs total. Im a happy girl. I think i found green zone. Fingers crossed! Please share yalls info