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16 hours ago, SouthernBella said:

My surgery was on July 17th. I have been losing slow and steady. But today I weighed and I gained 1.5 pounds. Now I am in full panic mode. Has anyone else experience a weight gain?

I personally have not. But I have seen around.

Are you weighing same time , in the morning after a pee? Not today morning tommorow evening ( we weigh more in evening)

Is it time of the month?

Are you drinking enough?

Not having too much sodium?

What is your daily eating like? Our weight does fluctuate so giving mre time between weighing may help :)

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12 hours ago, Sclark8756 said:

Still in extreme pain in my abdomen but all I am told is this is normal. I truly regret what I have done if I have to continue with the unexplainable pain 4 weeks out. :(

Told by who? I would have been back in with my surgeon by now.

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I called their office week 3 and was told this is normal. My next appt is 6 weeks.

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The nurse said it was normal and not to be alarmed. I'm sure she is able to sleep without feeling like there is a knife in her abdomen though.

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Today is the day after my one month surgi-versary.

I am down 45 lbs.

Still haven't dropped shirt sizes. Pants sizes have dropped. I'm in this weird phase where my shirts are bog on me, I'm swimming in them, but if I go down one sixe from 3xl to 2xl , they don't quite fit yet.

Poop.

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My surgery was on July 17th. I have been losing slow and steady. But today I weighed and I gained 1.5 pounds. Now I am in full panic mode. Has anyone else experience a weight gain?





I was also sleeved on 17th. Our nutritionalist did an experiment about how you can gain 2 pounds in 5 minutes. He drink 5 - 8oz glasses of Water and then weighed again and weighed 2lb more. You'd be surprised at what fluctuations your body can go through. I've gained as much as two pounds overnight depending on what I ate. I'm very sensitive to sodium. Don't let it get you down. Just go your course and it will start dropping. I also went through a three-week stall was stuck at 270... then started going down again. But did dropped inches even though I wasnt dropping on the scale. You've got this. GrInS

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Wow! Down 37 in 4 weeks!? I must really be doing something wrong! I had my procedure 7/24 and am down only 8 lbs! Great job! Very excited for you!



You're not doing anything wrong. If you're following the program you will start losing weight. Everybody loses in different amount. If you weigh more you might lose it a little quicker than someone who weighs less. I was told that true weight loss really doesn't start till after 6 weeks. That anything you lose before this is considered bonus weight. It will happen. GrInS

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On 8/23/2017 at 6:48 PM, Sclark8756 said:

Still in extreme pain in my abdomen but all I am told is this is normal. I truly regret what I have done if I have to continue with the unexplainable pain 4 weeks out. :(

I have NEVER had extreme pain ever since surgery. I don't think that is normal. Please get that checked. I haven't even had any pain except tenderness after surgery and after eating or drinking some fullness discomfort that is not pain.

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18 hours ago, Half-Tum said:

Today is the day after my one month surgi-versary.

I am down 45 lbs.

Still haven't dropped shirt sizes. Pants sizes have dropped. I'm in this weird phase where my shirts are bog on me, I'm swimming in them, but if I go down one sixe from 3xl to 2xl , they don't quite fit yet.

Poop.

Exciting, actually. Focus on your pants! New sizes! Being a low BMIer, it's coming off so slowly I haven't dropped a size yet. I've measured and I am losing volume, lol, but not enough to get into even the 1X's. Losing is VERY SLOW. Hope it's at least steady! For all of us!

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On 8/25/2017 at 4:46 PM, Half-Tum said:

Today is the day after my one month surgi-versary.

I am down 45 lbs.

Still haven't dropped shirt sizes. Pants sizes have dropped. I'm in this weird phase where my shirts are bog on me, I'm swimming in them, but if I go down one sixe from 3xl to 2xl , they don't quite fit yet.

Poop.

Congrats! That is awesome - a huge accomplishment! Today is my 1 month surgi-versry too...its so odd, some days I feel like my world changed so drastically and on others, I feel like nothing happened. I am down 28 lbs since my pre-op diet. My clothes feel bigger on me but no noticeable difference in size. I just got cleared to start exercising and looking forward to it. Congrats again on the awesome milestone! Keep up the good work :)

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On 8/25/2017 at 7:37 PM, mama3beartn said:


You're not doing anything wrong. If you're following the program you will start losing weight. Everybody loses in different amount. If you weigh more you might lose it a little quicker than someone who weighs less. I was told that true weight loss really doesn't start till after 6 weeks. That anything you lose before this is considered bonus weight. It will happen. GrInS

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slow and steady wins the race! I lost 15 lbs the first 2 weeks the nothing 2 weeks after! once i realized it was the week before my period and the week of my period I didnt over analyze it too much and now I only weigh myself once a week. Now im down about 22 lbs since my surgery on July 17th but ill take it! My husband says he can see it and I am wearing jeans I havent been able to get into in years. I have to remember to get my Water intake in! Thats something I havent been doing!

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surgery was on July 17th has anyone tempted oatmeal yet? Thoughts? I have one my kids eat with 10g or Protein in it.. yay or nay?

Im very slow with chewing and eating everything and have not thrown anything up. (knock on wood)

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On 8/24/2017 at 7:19 AM, anigerm41 said:
On 8/23/2017 at 4:22 PM, SouthernBella said:

I was sleeved on the 26th of July and yesterday I went and I had gained 2 pounds. I was so frustrated. The dietician explained to me that looking at the scale analysis that for some reason I had a 10 pound increase in Water but a reduction of 8 pounds in fat mass. For some reason I am retaining Water. This helped me a bit but I was still discouraged!

Thanks....I have increased my water and stayed off the scale for a few days. I am praying that it was just water retention.

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On 8/24/2017 at 8:46 AM, dreamingsmall said:

I personally have not. But I have seen around.

Are you weighing same time , in the morning after a pee? Not today morning tommorow evening ( we weigh more in evening)

Is it time of the month?

Are you drinking enough?

Not having too much sodium?

What is your daily eating like? Our weight does fluctuate so giving mre time between weighing may help :)

I was getting on the scale every morning. I am praying that it was Water retention. I decided to stay off the scale for a few days. I have been really fortunate....No pain, no nausea and no gas.

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16 hours ago, nycteacher said:

surgery was on July 17th has anyone tempted oatmeal yet? Thoughts? I have one my kids eat with 10g or Protein in it.. yay or nay?

Im very slow with chewing and eating everything and have not thrown anything up. (knock on wood)

I was sleeved on the 17th as well. I've eaten oatmeal I've bought off this site. It's also got more Protein than regular oatmeal with less carbs and stuff. I've had no problem. Hardest thing for me is I used to love LOTS of butter so that makes it different for me and I also find the higher protein makes its mushy and less oatmeally. LoL if that makes sense. But no problems with the tummy. But everyone is different and handles things differently. I've had no problem with anything I've eaten except Jello it just hits like a brick for some reason.

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