400+ LB Vets advice

[Sarah Perkins 1]

Hi everyone! Hope all is well. I was wondering if there were any Bypass vets out there who's highest weight was the in the 400's. Mine was 437LB and I just want to know how much weight have you lost and about how long did it take you to lost it after surgery? Im curious because I am 3 weeks out and have only lost 5LBS. But I am not eating hardly anything. So just curious. Thanks.

[James Marusek 5,244]

The three most important elements after RNY gastric bypass surgery are to meet your daily Protein, Fluid and Vitamin requirements. food is secondary because your body is converting your stored fat into the energy that drives your body. Thus you lose weight.

Weight loss is achieved after surgery through meal volume control. You begin at 2 ounces (1/4 cup) per meal and gradually over the next year and a half increase the volume to 1 cup per meal. With this minuscule amount of food, it is next to impossible to meet your Protein daily requirements by food alone, so therefore you need to rely on supplements such as Protein shakes.

When you are in the hospital for surgery, many people actually gain several pounds due to the fluids they pump into your body. So by the time you leave the hospital you actually weigh more then when you entered. So you need to lose this weight first before you see results.

[Daenerys Targaryen 109]

I wouldn't consider myself a vet, but hopefully this will help. My highest weight was 426 and I was 390 surgery morning July 20th. I am a little over 7 months post op and down to 273. Because of the high weight, the first six months of weight loss went fast. I went through the 300's pretty quick. Now things are going a bit slower at month 7 and I am having to work a little more for it, but that is normal from what I've read. I revised to bypass from a lap and, and it was one of the best decisions I ever made.