I hate it when people post just to post.....

[luluc 6]

Can someone pls explain to me how I've been on liquids for 7 days and have only lost 1 pound!?! GRR!!!

ummmm - take your scale and hide it.

come back in 2wks - then weigh. :biggrin:

[Gracey 7]

:biggrin: It just sucks b/c I still have hunger! But I'm being a good girl; though it may kill me!!!

[smsmithart 4]

They load u up with saline in the hospital...I took a bunch of cold meds today not feeling well pls excuse any crazy post today....o I added new pics to my profile check them out there's a great 1 of my son pouting because I was making him watch justin timberlake in concert on hbo...

[smsmithart 4]

Hey yall hit me up on myspace...smsmithart@tmail.com

[MacMadame 81]

Posting just to post...

[*slim* 2]

I'm posting just to post, too.

[She Smiles 2]

my ultimate goal is 130

but if i get to 140 i will be jumping for joy .....

Well we can get this last 20-30 pounds off together! This the second attempt for me after an unfill/gain situation a few months back. I got down to about 145 last time and gained back to almost 170 when I was unfill/finding god restriction again. Its coming off sloooooowly......

I took a bunch of cold meds today not feeling well pls excuse any crazy post today....

You and me both. I'm off work today. I had an ear/throat thing a few weeks back, finished the medication last week for it and it seems my body just doesn't want to let go of it. Off to the Dr at 3pm today for me :biggrin:

[She Smiles 2]

:biggrin: It just sucks b/c I still have hunger! But I'm being a good girl; though it may kill me!!!

But, what doesn't kill you will only make you stronger, right? Or in this case, thinner!!! Stick with it, you'll have such a sense of personal satisfaction if you make it through the diet your Doc set for you. You can do it! *hugs*

[smsmithart 4]

Drink lots of hot green tea no sugar it reall helped me..with the headdunger and should help to rid tha saline they filled u up with...or take a diurex they make me pee like cray

[smsmithart 4]

I think I'm drunk on cold meds...sorry.puttin my sidekick away...

[smsmithart 4]

Thx for the add bbk..u look fab

[Boo Boo Kitty 3]

Thx for the add bbk..u look fab

Ty! You do as well!

Add my pin up profile and you can see the good pin up pics. :biggrin:

Ginger Rayne

[Fanny Adams 7]

Can someone pls explain to me how I've been on liquids for 7 days and have only lost 1 pound!?! GRR!!!

There are several reasons. Firstly, a percentage of the weight you lost on the pre-op diet wasn't actual fat being lost, it was losing the contents of your digestive system as it empties and isn't replaced, except by the small volume of the Optifast or whatever you used. That gives you a "false high" reading, which makes you think that rate should continue, except that now your digestive system is largely empty and you won't see that rate of drop again, because what you're seeing now is actual fat loss.

Secondly, they put you on a saline drip for the operation, which boosts the Fluid levels in your body and Water is really really heavy (much heavier than fat). Thirdly, your body is swollen from the operation. All that swelling is even more fluid retention, masking the weight loss that is occurring.

Gradually your body will let go of the fluid and return to a more normal balance. At the same time, you gradually move on to thicker liquids and then mushies, which fill your digestive system again. This often means that you have a couple of weeks of plateauing or even a small regain in the post-op weeks. You are losing weight, probably at the expected rate of about 2lb per week, but while your body is going up and down with fluids and solids all out of whack, the scales are going to be really inaccurate, firstly showing a faster loss than was really there (pre-op) and then hiding the real loss that is continuing (post-op).

By the time you get back onto solids at about 4-6 weeks post-op, all that will have balanced out and you can start to trust the scales again. At this point, take measurements instead. Your bust, hip, thigh and arm measurements will show the losses more accurately. Your waist measurement is much more subjective to fluid, bloating, swelling and other factors, so it isn't really accurate yet either.

Take heart, it IS happening beneath the surface and it will all show up in the end. Congrats again on arriving in Bandland!

Edited October 20, 2008 by Fanny Adams

[*susan* 1,709]

Hey, SNT, glad everything went well. Be patient, the weight will start coming off soon enough.

Fanny, congrats on hitting onederland, save a place for me please!!

[Froggi 4]

I said a brat beef kilbasa hot smoked sausage cheddarwurst

haha those hillshire farm commercials drive me insane