30 days out need advice

You and I had surgery on the same day Elaine! Happy 5 week anniversary to you! I feel your fustration about the scale. Last Saturday i weighed myself and it had said I had actually put on a pound and a 1/2. I know it takes 3500 calories to put on a pound and I don't even eat that in a couple of days together. I stepped on again and I was back to where i was before the 1.5 gain but that meant no weight loss for the last week or so. That is fustrating! Ya know what is funny... how different our surgeons ideas of what we should be eating are. I am 5 weeks out and my surgeon told me I could eat anything I wanted except: bread.. raw vegatable.. fruit with skin on it and sugar. Have a great day! Kimy

Hi Kimy, What is the thing with so eating salad and raw vegatables? Why cant you . I went back and looked in my book and it said zip about salads or raw veggies. I t does say not to eat the skin off thing but I did not anyway. I hope thing get moving for you soon . I am 6oz below 200pd and I am happy about that. I went to weigth watchers for years and have done evey diet know to man. I get to 199 and stop I always have . But not this time I will push through this and do feel so blessed that I had the wls. All info welcome.Elaine

Hello! New to this side of the board! My name is Stacey and I had the lap RNY on 11/2. I am down 40+ lbs and feeling fantastic! Although it did take about 4 weeks for me to feel like this! It's amazing from state to state and Dr to Dr! My Dr would flip if I touched any fruit before this point. Also, how do you get salad down? That's not even in my little booklet for another year! Also, just an fyi~I thought that I should have lost more weight at my one month check up and here's what my Dr had to say....The shorter you are the slower it's going to come off. Also, if you hit a plateau, walk and excersice...Your bodies metabolism has basically slowed to a crawl and in order to speed it back up it requires a little extra work. Good Luck to you and congrats on the weight loss so far! Looking forward to getting to know everyone! Stacey

Hi Stacey , I am so happy for you and that big 40 plus. I am short I am 5ft.1 . Why no fruit? I and threr is not anything I can not it or get down . I wi**** was the other way. I feel like I just not moving as fast as I think I should and my Dr. did not have near the no no's as everyone else. Keep up the good work

Hi Elaine! I am 6.5 yrs. postop. My beginning weight was 360lbs. I am now 54 yrs. young. When my journey began, I too was frustrated when the scale did not move as quickly as I wanted it to move. Especially in those first weeks...it seemed to be stuck...and I too felt I would be the one it wasn't going to work for. Well, I am here to tell you to be patient! I now weigh 140 lbs. If I could do it, so can you! I had faied at every other weight loss attempt. Stay off the scale in the begiining, just weighing once a week or less. You will be able to tell that you are loosing, by the way your clothes fit and the way your body will feel. I also am surprised that you are eating salads. Are you sure that it is on your list of foods allowed by your surgeon at this stage? You must adhere to the protocol that the surgeon gives you as far as what foods are allowed at different stages. Know that each person loses weight at a different rate. If you exercise daily and burn more fuel than you take in, and eat your proteins the weight loss will come. This is a period that you must modify your behavior, by building good habits for the rest of your life this journey will eventually be much easier. Habits are something that you don't have to think about, they come naturally without thought. Eventually you will not even need to think about what you need to do. I am a support group leader for Crown Bariatric Surgical Group in Murrieta, and have seen many patients suffer through the first weeks of stagnant weight loss. I also found that be sticking to a schedule of taking in your meals and snacks (protein) every 2 hrs. that it can even out those plateaus, as it keeps the fire burning. Best of luck to you! Stay honest to yourself!

Yolanda< Thank you for the for the info. I am trying to understand the thing with salad. Do you know why I should not eat it? I do a lot of salad with chicken on top. I want to do this right and all of you that have deen through it will help us as well. God Bless I pray I can say the same thing to some one in 6 years. Thanks Elaine

Hi Elaine, I like the name Elaine so much that I named my daughter Elaine. Any how, My nutritionist just told me that if I don't get in between 700 and 900 calories that I won't continue to lose weight. She said the body think's it is starving and will hold on to all the fat stores it can. When you start getting the calories in you will start losing weight. Hope this helps. God bless you, Annette

Hi Annette, I am glad to know that the name Elaine is still going. You do not hear of it very much. It is all the new names I cant spell or say. I think thats part of just getting old for me that is. It make's me wonder about how much I am taking in I may need to check on that. Thanks Elaine

Elaine I am so jealous! I wish I could eat that darn salad. I have not one clue why I can't and ya know... my nutrionist she is kinda... I don't know what the word is I am looking for maybe odd... I hate to question her. She is the expert I am the student. I have to tell you thou... every Tuesday night has always been our pizza night. We get the whole deal.. pizza.. breadsticks and a big chef salad. My family has been putting it off for a couple weeks cause they didn't want to hurt my feelings. (See.. sometimes they can be sweet) Anyhow.. I didn't want that pizza at all when we got it I wanted that darn salad with all the meat and cheese on it. Still want that thing! I have no idea when I can have salad thou... I am hopeing around my six week check up they add it! KimY

Hi Elaine, I am a slower loser. I cried on the way home from my 2 week checkup after finding out I had lost only 9 lbs. Now, at one month out, I'm at around 15 lbs or so. I refuse to get on a scale again until my 6 week checkup, and my hubby actually reminded me that losing slower is better in a few ways...less clothing replacement (like that will stop me) and it is easier on the skin. My Dr. told me I might lose slower as a result of my lifestyle (working FT, married, 2 kids, 1 w/special needs, constantly being on the go for the kids, etc.) since I won't be able to devote a huge chunk of time to serious exercise. My nutritionist told me not to skip meals, to sip constantly and focus on the inches, not the pounds. I know that is true, because I look like I've lost more than what the scale says. I know how frustrating it can be, but just know you're not alone...I'm told there are many slower losers out there! Christine