~Weekly Weigh In~

Hi Peeps~

Yep, its that time again-for those of you newer post ops, your scale is probably moving more than mine-LOL...Ive been pretty much at the same weight for the last month, give or take 1-2#. They say the further out you are-the harder it gets and the slower it is coming off-and its proving to be the situation with me!! Anyway-here goes-and Good luck to all of you~

Weight Day of Seminar (07/08/06)=438#

Weight Day of Surgery (11/29/06)=394#

Weight today=188# Total Weight Loss this week= 0, zip, nada pound!!

Total Weight Loss to date- 250# WOOOOO HOOOOO-Ive lost more weight than I weigh- (doing my famous baby circle dance!!!)

I think i probably have reached the weight my body wants to be. They say there is a place that your body likes to be and you can do all things right and maybe get it down some more but when you stop dieting strickly you will gain back to the level it wants to be.  starting weight  262 day of surgery 262 todays weight 150 same as last month last week and yesterday lol  oh well not bad weight loss of 112 pounds ....

Mornin' Jan and all-

As of this morning I've lost 25 pounds on the liquid diet.  I carry so much fluid on my body that I know 20 pounds of it was fluid.  It's funny cause I drink drink drink all the time.  Odd how drinking fluid will remove fluid, guess our body sort of 'flushes' its self! ha!

I think you are a perfect size now Jan- at some point you have got to level out.  I hear you get compliments on how great you are doing and I know that makes you feel good.  I'd bet you drop some more this summer because of working outside and sweating.

I just can not believe how much better I am today.  The cold is still in my head, but my chest is 80% better, so one more day of improvement like this and I believe the Lord will get me past this and ready for Monday's surgery for sure.  This is such a blessing, it is nothing for me to take 3 or 4 months to recover from a cold...so this is super speedy for me!  Praise the Lord!!!!  Thank you sooo much for all your prayers!  I have been praying for your needs too-

I have got to get myself down stairs and on the sewing machine to take up my PJ's I bought for the hospital stay.  The tops are nice and big, but the pants are massive huge.  So I'll put side seams down them.  Simple job, it's just making myself get down there and to it.

My feeders seem too have kept a swarm of red birds intrested this year, boy are they ever bright too.  I have two new feeders and the birds are not eating out of them...wonder what's up with that?  We have a lot of birds around here.

I have something I'd like discussed.  Dehydration...what are the symptoms or signs of it, and what is the fastest way to get rid of it? (water verses some sort of drink)  I'd just like to be prepaired.   I drink constantly now - but everything is going to change Monday- and I can't wait!

I am so tired of this liquid diet I'd just as soon not drink my shakes.  But I know I need to.  Did anyone else get like that before the two weeks was over?

Much love to all,

Brenda

 

 

The earliest "symptom" of dehydration is dry mouth. If you get to that point you are already dehydrated. Don't wait until you are thirsty to drink. Another easy way to check your hydration is to observe the color of your urine. The darker your urine is, the more dehydrated you are. I know that my vitamins turn mine orange (and I mean ORANGE), but, the darker it is the worse off you are. You know you are gettin close to the danger one if you start to have a headache, feel lightheaded,  get diarrhea (sp?), or a combination of any or all of those. At that point you should sit down in some place cool and start drinking and not stop until you can urinate at least a pint of fluid. The BEST thing to drink to alleviate dehydration is water. Anything else is just giving you things you don't need. Stay away from caffenated beverages. Caffiene is a diaretic, and causes you to lose water and needed salts. If you have no water to drink, drink SOMETHING to get your fluids back up and then find some water. Better something bad to hydrate you short term then nothing at all. I learned all this in basic training and it was drlle into our heds until we thought we had a permanent hole. 

Thaks for the great responce.....I knew most of these, but wondered if it was still the same post surgery.  Lots of things change and I wondered if that was one of them.  I'm sure we get dehydrated fast with smaller stomachs- right?

Today, I just got sick of shakes.  Several of those nector shake flavors are just terrible!  Some are pretty good.  Mixing the shakes with water and not milk sure isn't very good....but I'm doing it.  For super I warmed me up some Campbell's tomato soup and I think it was the most wonderful thing in the whole wide world!  I just had to have something hot!  But I didn't want to totally blow it either.  I'm not even sorry, I planned it, my belly is sooo happy right now- I'm satisfied and will keep doing my liquids like I should.  Sure would have loved to have had some crackers with it...but knew better.

Better get busy with laundry tonight- we will leave for Sedalia Sunday mid morning.  I told preacher we'd be missing church and he understood.

Brenda

I had my band on the 21st and did the ten day pre op liquid diet.  I was so tired of the shakes too.  But now that I have had the surgery I actually look forward to my drinks every day.  Weird.  Anyway hang in there.  It is totally worth it.  I am four days out and I really can tell such a difference in the way I feel.  I have also been following the board somewhat  and I am so glad you are feeling better.  I was a little worried about that.  Good luck and best wishes to you! Gay      

Friday again already... Janet thank you for posting this. I weighed in at 312.5 last dr. visit and gained to 315 (water weight) feet and leggs swelled up to miserable... but today I weighed in at 309.. it is nothing for me to yo-yo around 5 to 7 lbs.  I need to lose another few lbs before my dr. visit on the 5th... my 4th of the 6 months supervised diet.  So I have joined the ranks of the liquid dieters... Brenda I'm feeling for you... I am on my third day now and my head is "busting a move" like Janet says ~tee hee When I think about me "busting a move" it just too funny!  Things would go "where no man has gone before" and NEVER come back!  It just lifts my spirits to see such success with so many... "keeps me keeping on" if you know what I mean. bec

ok Janet here goes..hightest weight was  308  before surgery now 165 with nothing on but a smile   little more with clothes on.. this week 0, zip, nada pound....lol....vesta

Hey Vesta, Could you e-mail me at  [email protected] I have a couple questions I want to ask you. Thanks Brenda

Brenda I sent you my email on here, I couldnt get yours to go through..so check yout messages....vesta