Weight gain!
I'm still in the hospital being treated for dehydration and severe intestinal swelling. This morning, my IV and drain were finally disconnected. Taking the opportunity to weigh myself, I was dismayed to find I'd gained about 10 pounds since surgery, after eating literally almost nothing. My nurse assures me this is fluid weight. Did any of you experience this? How long did the setback last?
--Lenore
Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run it is easier.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
HW - 320, SW - 277, CW - 144, GW - 137
5' 2.5"; 120 cm. common channel; 3-4 oz. sleeve
You have had no setback whatsoever in your weight loss. The numbers are completely meaningless right now. Stay OFF the scale and focus on recovering from major surgery. You're going to be fine. The single most important thing in life for you right now is FLUID. Get single minded about this and focus on healing. In a couple of months you can be all happy about the scale again if you must. But right now the scale is a total liar and needs to be evicted from your life.
How are you feeling?
On day 11, I weighed the same as before I began the fast. I knew it meant nothing. My hands and feet were swollen, as was the rest of me, it just didn't show as easily as the hands and feet.
Your nurse is right, and stay off the scale.
"Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. "
"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before." ~Jacob A. Riis