one week post op....
Surgery does crazy things to our bodies. I lost around 45 lbs the first month...but alot of it was loss of hydration. Right after surgery when we come home from the hospital if you get on the scale most of us way more than before surgery...because we were pumped full of fluids at the hospital. Then it becomes the difficult chore of keeping hydrated. I think every gallon of water weighs 8 lbs. At two months I had lost around 65 lbs and I was dissapointed because I had lost so much more the first month...then my surgeon told me I was doing better than expected and the slowing of weight loss was because I was actually keeping hydrated. You'll lose alot at first and as time goes by it slows and slows until it creeps and crawls. Remember to track the inches you've lost. I hope your doing well as you come up on your one month since surgery mark!
On March 14, 2008 at 12:05 AM Pacific Time, dionysus_star wrote:
Surgery does crazy things to our bodies. I lost around 45 lbs the first month...but alot of it was loss of hydration. Right after surgery when we come home from the hospital if you get on the scale most of us way more than before surgery...because we were pumped full of fluids at the hospital. Then it becomes the difficult chore of keeping hydrated. I think every gallon of water weighs 8 lbs. At two months I had lost around 65 lbs and I was dissapointed because I had lost so much more the first month...then my surgeon told me I was doing better than expected and the slowing of weight loss was because I was actually keeping hydrated. You'll lose alot at first and as time goes by it slows and slows until it creeps and crawls. Remember to track the inches you've lost. I hope your doing well as you come up on your one month since surgery mark!Although the bank is just on the south side of the apartment complex I live in, I began to wonder if that short distance was enough to possibly cause me to come down with some kind of cold which could possibly threaten to cancel the surgery.
Suffice to say (And most fortunately), it never came to pass.
I also found it quite amazing that I had actually LOST a little bit of weight just before the surgery too (But I'm sure some of that depended on the scale too as the one at CBSI is off by a pound or two from the old fashioned ones my PCP uses. I know this because I once had back to back appointments with them. CBSI one day and my PCP the next).
Anyway....I hope I haven't *confoozed* anyone by all of this
Apologies in advance if I did.
Cheers
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