Day 3 post op !

[2muchfun 8,927]

You may not lose any weight till you're filled. It's just the way this works. This is one of those dirty secrets they don't tell you about before surgery. You may lose some weight but don't count on it. This is a time to heal and do not pay attention to the scale.

If you lost a lot of weight prior to surgery, your after surgery weight loss will probably be much less. Most of the weight we lose the first month will be fluids retained. Once the excess fluids are squeezed out you may lose 4-8 lbs a month. And you can go weeks without losing any weight at all. Sorry for the tough love

tmf

[enuf 19]

I strongly suspect that the weight that we lose immediately after surgery is phantom weight anyways. What I mean by that is that it is a result of our system being completely absent of any food but Water weight. When my hubby goes on the Atkins diet and then tries to tell me after 4 days that he has lost 10 lbs I just silently roll my eyes. Because I know, from experience, that it is nothing but Water and as soon as he starts to eat again, the scale will be back up. So I don't really look at the 11 lbs i have supposedly lost since my surgery as anything but an illusion which will be gone as soon as I open my "pie hole". Strike that: "my Kale and other nutritionally acceptable food hole"

I really do agree that as much as we want and need to see the scale go down, this month is to ensure that the band has settled in and proper scar tissue has developed. It is only after that - that the real work starts. Easy to say....but so tough

I am now 6 days post surgery.

I eat a shake for Breakfast and then for lunch and dinner I eat a cup or so of the boxed Tomato Soup etc.. I water it down with chicken broth so that the calorie count is lower since the Tomato Soup is about 100 cal per cup and chicken broth is 10. I do take the isogenix shakes for the Protein. 2 scoops is 240 calories though and only 21 g of Protein. Anybody know any other shakes that are less cal with more protein?

No doubt about it though - I want to eat more! Whether it is head hunger or stomach hunger - it feels almost overwhelming. I am afraid to go to the kitchen.

I had the isogenix around from one of my 500 prev failed diet attempts...

[bluegudren 156]

I used to do the Isagenix shakes, then I switched to powders?utm_source=BariatricPal&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=CommentLink" target="_ad" data-id="1" >unjury vanilla and chocolate, PLUS a canister of the unflavored Protein that I can add to a shake, OR I often add it to my Tomato Soups and cream of chicken soups. It's 90 calories and 21 grams of Protein. You can even add it to coffee, but I don't drink coffee.< /p>