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[hopeful2 be slim 121]

hello, I too am a revision from band to sleeve...we have to be more careful as it was a longer surgery...my weight loss is very slow...i had started weights at 6 weeks but got a lot of swelling.. first few weeks are tough but soon you will forget them.

so now i am being careful.i dare not ruin things by being careless...what is the hurry..i can wait few weeks...

all the best to you both.

[my2bys9799 26]

Hopeful, did you have the clearance to start lifting weights? I wonder what caused the swelling?

I have heard that the weight loss for us can be slower, but I don't understand why. I have had my band unfilled for a couple weeks now, and can eat without any restriction - so it isn't just that my body is used to smaller quantities of food.

hello, I too am a revision from band to sleeve...we have to be more careful as it was a longer surgery...my weight loss is very slow...i had started weights at 6 weeks but got a lot of swelling.. first few weeks are tough but soon you will forget them.

so now i am being careful.i dare not ruin things by being careless...what is the hurry..i can wait few weeks...

all the best to you both.

[Malsr 49]

I have heard that the weight loss for us can be slower, but I don't understand why. I have had my band unfilled for a couple weeks now, and can eat without any restriction - so it isn't just that my body is used to smaller quantities of food.

My doc never have me the impression that weight loss would be slower for me because I had the band. Since starting my pre-op diet 2 weeks ago and being sleeved last week, I've already lost 20 lbs.

[hopeful2 be slim 121]

Hello..no I did not take clearance.for my doc for weights..i was reading these posts and many were doing weights... But I think we have scar tissue and other things..so stomach takes more time to heal..

I feel my weight loss is slow because...earlier with the band i was having a high Protein diet of 1000 cals.I was taking a shake daily....so my body is used to all these things...I have lost only in the liquid diet phase...now I have to try harder...I recently read that the body looses 10% of its weight easily..after that it takes time to adjust...

my doc also never told me...but i have reached that conclusion that my weight loss will be slow...

so I am being patient...all the best.