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I just want you to know I read this post often. Thank you for being so frank, and funny!!

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-MyFitnessPal tells you repeatedly: "You are getting too few calories. If every day were like today, you would be DEAD in 5 weeks."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :D

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Love love this!! Thank you for this. I will be getting my surgery in 4 weeks and beginning to worry of the aftermath. Needless to say, I will print it and it shall become my bible lol! thank you thank you thank you!! ♥

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Oh yes the stitch in my right side!!! Please go away. It hurts to laugh, sneeze, move and sit in a chair at work for 8 hours. Other than that I'm doing great.

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I had to come back and re-read as I'm just about 3 weeks out and need to know I'm "normal". Feeling the frustration of a stall despite eating 400-700 calories a day. Not enough energy to exercise yet. Just frustrated. I love this thread. Thank you Merely Human!

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I'm on week 4 and literally SO happy, best decision of my life even with the stalls and emotional roller coaster the first month takes you through.

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@@Steph W-O well you must be one of the very lucky ones I'd say. My experience is similar to the post here. After four weeks I finally felt close to normal again. You didn't say your age. I think the younger you are the faster you may recuperate and how healthy you were prior to surgery and your activity level as welll before surgery. I think the majority of people feel like crap for the first two weeks at least... :) I didn't have pain on the incision sites but my pain settled in my back for some reason...... Some of us have other health problems as well so everyone isn't going to be able to do what you did after surgery. It would be a miracle for me to have done what ou did with my pre existing arthritis which probably will improve greatly with a big weight loss. I am already moving better now that i've lost over 20 lbs.

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<p>Hello all -</p> <p> </p> <p>I know several of us are hitting our 1 month mark this week. Mine is today. </p> <p> </p> <p>The body is an incredible thing, truly. It's a healing machine quite frankly. </p> <p> </p> <p>At one and two weeks out: </p> <p>-you wonder what you have done to yourself and you are pretty sure you will never feel quite normal again</p> <p>-you can't imagine yourself ever sleeping anywhere but the living room recliner</p> <p>-the thought of driving or going back to work seems like an unrealistic commitment you made Way Back Before Surgery</p> <p>-you can get in so little Water and Protein that it dawns on you that THESE are the weeks that will cause Hair loss several months from now</p> <p>-you learn what "sliming" is (ewwww)</p> <p>-MyFitnessPal tells you repeatedly: "You are getting too few calories. If every day were like today, you would be DEAD in 5 weeks." </p> <p> </p> <p>At three weeks out: </p> <p>-you feel better but not really there yet</p> <p>-you need extra naps on the weekend</p> <p>-getting in your water and protein can be done with the effort of a full time job</p> <p>-you have a strange painful stitch in your side that you've resigned yourself to bravely live with the rest of your life</p> <p>-you accidentally sleep all night with the heating pad on your largest incision site on its highest setting</p> <p>-you walk 20 minutes on the treadmill and then come onto this site and disbelievingly post, "WHEN did they say I should start exercising????"</p> <p>-your body decides you must be on a grueling episode of Survivor and goes into starvation mode yielding the world's most devastating weight loss stall prompting you to decide that you are a failure and did this all for NOTHING</p> <p> </p> <p>At four weeks out: </p> <p>-you sleep in your own bed in whatever position you want</p> <p>-the fire-hazardous heating pad gets put away</p> <p>-you walk 2+ miles at lunch and think maybe you could have done more</p> <p>-you have enough energy to really start cleaning the house again and get totally aggravated at hubby and kids for how little they managed to do for the past month</p> <p>-you randomly feel happy, mad, silly, sad as hormones and emotions take their toll</p> <p>-you have to pack up the first set of clothes which are now too big</p> <p>-you feel healthy....dare I say...normal?</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Yep, the first month is kind of amazing. </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>

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I'm 2 days post op and feel like there is no end in sight and I will never feel normal again. Thank you for posting this, it's really encouraging especially for those of is stuck in the first 2 week rut!

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Fantastic read I'm almost 3 weeks po-op I was in hospital for week after surgery was recovering fantastically when I got home with no issues then boom back In hospital for another 5 days :( but today was my first day back at work after almost 3 weeks of and I certainly didn't realise I would be soo tired after today but worth it cause I'm back into a routine bring on the next couple of months it's gona be one hell of a roller coaster that I can't wait for especially when I get to eat again purée diets just ain't fun :)

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