I don't think those scales are super accurate - it's more ballpark. I don't know that there's ANYTHING that'll be 100% accurate, but those DEXA scans that you can get at university sports labs or commercial places like DEXAfit are pretty good - much better than the home scales. That being said, though, it should be better than the scale you have - that sounds way off to me.

AlyssaBiddle, I had my only gastric surgery on October 31st.96..by an experienced teaching surgeon..n Memphis Tn.

...Yes i ate thanksgiving lunch.. I had a tablespoon(15 cc.) of moist turkey breast, a teaspoon(5cc) of my MIL's turkey dressing, a half teaspoon of cranberry sauce., a single bite of sweetpotato(tasting spoon bite),combined cran/sweetpotato= less than 4cc.

total meal less than 25cc. ... at 6 weeks i could eat ..45cc. I could not eat more than 60 c****il 16 weeks? post op... MY Volume went from 60oz to 1.5 oz./6 weeks.

I had an early open surgery that included a bypass, gastric banding, esophagus banding a hiatial hernia repair, a duodenal ulcer repair,a small bowel resection, a cholecystectomy(gall bladder was bad)and a large bowel resection...( removed all but 2 ft of colon.)+ 3 other female related surgeries..

The problems you are having is why my Surgeon did the banding..of esophagus and at base of pouch. He explained that experience taught him people often will under-judge the size of a bolus they are swallowing.He said if something got stuck it could be retireved with standard ER/OR equipment and no internal surgery..The first 6 weeks you will have more edema/swelling inside.. as it goes down your tolerance will increase .

Here is how you correct it. Here was his instructions.

Be careful not to gulp air when swallowing.People who are chronic air swallowers will have more difficulty with lquids and reflux/backfeeding.

Eat with a baskin robbins tasting spoon

....chew every bite 20 times... this will slow you down.

.. before you eat hold all liquids a minimum of 30 min, and do not drink anything until at least 30 min after you eat.

Other tips.

Get prescribed amount of water minimum..

. I was allowed to count all liquids-and used sugar free hot cocoa mix with a special protein supplement that was very low in carbs..to get protein in.and it counted as both protein and fluids.

Nothing carbonated.filtered water.

Make sure you get enough calories.. I lost 50 lbs in the first 4 weeks. i was weak and occassionally dizzy, and really tired. I was getting my rx'd protein of 90 grams(using the supplement) and the prescrbed water. but my calorie count was too low .

Nutritionist in office did an eval on my diet diary-and increased my carb intake by adding a half-serving of carbs to every meal.(One serv. of carbs is 15 grams.. my carbs were still under 25..).within 2 days my energy level came up.and i stopped being dizzy...

Be patient with yourself and your body as it adjusts to the massive changes. The hardest thing for me was learning to eat foods i had always consumed hot-cold. e..by the time i would eat 2 bites it was cold.

If something you try does not sit well- go back to basic diet.. liquid proteins for a day or so. and find on food to try and master foods one at a time.

.. if a meat is very dry , I can still have trouble with them mash with a fork and add a few drops of the cooking liquid will help things like a dry chicken or turkey breast...the mashing with a fork will help you break it ins smaller bites as well.

Well, since I'm a DSer, I don't know if I can comment on what you are going through with your RNY, Veggie .. I know with us DSers "fat malabsorption" results in the "orangies" in our stools. Basically it looks bright orange, kind of like that stuff our mothers used to put on our cuts back in the day (mercurochrome? methiolate?). And of course it SMELLS (but not as bad as the actual stools, i.e. digested food remnants). As to "black liquid", I have no idea .. but IMHO that doesn't sound good. What does your surgeon ('s office) say?

I have the Garmin Index scale. I paid $150 for it when it was introduced in 2015 I thought the price would go down, but it is still $150. I do not have edema.

My issues are nowhere near as severe...

for me scales don't work because I live in a hundred year old house where I can scoot the scale along the tilted floor and lose or gain thirty pounds in a single day ... so it's essentially worthless.

I don't know what's wrong with me ... I keep throwing up and not being able to eat . What comes out of my butt is black liquid mostly ? And yellow ( fat malabsorption) when I eat lowfat cheese . I can't eat meat or seafood at all .