Weight loss journey.

[Wendyfm 494]

It took me one long year to go from wanting a Gastric sleeve to getting one. There were many reasons that I wanted one . The two main reasons were, I was so sick of feeling and being fat and not being able to move well and take care of myself as well as I wanted and a fear of getting fatter as I got older. The second reason and more important reason is my fifteen year old son who is Autistic and will need my support his entire life. I was and am afraid of leaving him too early.

After some initial resistance to diet ,I changed my diet and lost thirty pounds before surgery and lost thirty more after surgery and am about half way to my goal already.

Surgery went well. There was some pain following surgery, I had a headache for about a day after and the day following surgery I had some issues with vomiting and not being able to keep Fluid down. By the second day after surgery I could keep liquids down and was discharged the following day.

Once I was home there was some pain,but easily managed with just Tylenol even though I had a prescription for a pain killer. I did have to take an injectable blood thinner for ten days.

One of the hardest part of recovery was the liquid diet which lasted three weeks,soft foods never looked so good!

I have been on a solid diet now for almost two months and haven't had any major problems,although I have had some problems eating meat especially pork. Ground meat, chicken and fish digest well.

I am experiencing some hair loss right now and worry about losing too much hair, but not sure what I can do about it.

[JamieLogical 8,708]

There's probably not a whole lot you can do about Hair loss at this point, other than keep up your Protein intake. Your hair loss is most likely due to not getting enough protein right after surgery, as well as the trauma to your body from the surgery. It just takes about 3-5 months for those things that happened around your surgery to effect Hair growth. As long as you started getting enough protein shortly after surgery and have kept it up, your hair loss should taper off on its own.

[Wendyfm 494]

That's what I figured. Thanks, off it gets worse I can always shave it.Lol!

[Qtpie28 51]

Thank you for sharing and great job on your weight-loss so far.