The extra liquids would help you the first few days when getting enough liquids in you may be challenging.

My only regrets from early post op - not drinking enough liquids with electrolytes. We often forget how important sodium, magnesium, potassium can be to us.

I concentrated on drinking protein shakes and flavored water, but during first few months I did not get enough sodium. When we are on a low calories, low carb diet - our body would lose a lot of stored water. Water in our muscles, organs is bound to glycogen (stored carbs) and minerals (sodium). That's why people on keto get "keto flu" - not enough minerals as they transition from normal to low carb diet. Even so far out, I try to make sure I get enough sodium and other electrolytes.

Some people may advise you to cut sodium as low as you can for a fast weight loss, but unless you have high BP, or tendency to retain liquids - the loss you are going to see on a scale would be jus****er loss.

Very low carbs combined with a very low calorie and sodium diet may lead to practical dehydration, since your body can't retain water. And the more plain water you drink, the more thirsty you may become. Dehydration can lead to muscles spasms, orthostatic hypotension, headache, nausea, and even hunger.

I buckled and got on the scale. Surgery alone made me gain 9lbs. So there's that. Lol

but like you said, we will pee and walk it out. I'm not stressing.

I had to get on the scale right before surgery and during my first walk after surgery.

I gained 19 pounds. When I asked the surgeon about that, he laughed,

He said just do home and pee it out.

Had my robotic VSG w/bonus hernia repair (had no idea I had a hernia) this morning at 7:30. Got up to walk and potty right when I got back to room. Walking was surprisingly easy? I had "braced myself" for major pain(knocking on my table lol) I'm feeling more of the gas pain now. Passed a giant scale on my walk, in what seemed to be a vacant wing of the hospital (lol) and argued with myself but kept truckin. Didn't want to see how much surgery itself made me gain but still kinda curious lol. May step on it in my next go round. My incisions are not causing too much discomfort. I do have a pretty gnarly headache. My dr did not do pain pump. Just alternating toradol and Percocet. I braced myself for the pill swallowing pain too, but it slid on down. I'm pretty scared all the pain I'm not feeling will hit me at once when I'm by myself at home :-/ or HOPEFULLY I just won't experience much pain. Weirder things have happened right? lol I can't believe I really got this done. I'm so excited and feel so blessed.

Maybe a good idea to see a doctor. Hair falling out may be an indication that something is off. It can be diet, hormonal changes, or something as simple as "just because" - as some docs try to tell us.. when they have no clue what is happening.

You did not have any surgery in the last 4-5 months? Post surgical hair loss is well-known and I'd is caused by surgery stress on the body.

A long time ago I followed Atkins type diet. And that included soy. Soy proteins, soy milk, etc. The Atkins diet and soy affected my hair, I started seeing hair falling out. Detailed blood work showed symptomatic hypothyroid. My TSH was normal - high, but my T4 and T3 were both low, below normal. Plus I had other typical hypothyroid symptoms, like being tired, feeling cold, having very heavy periods...etc... Some soy products - like soy proteins, soy milk, tofu, etc. can bind to iodine in our system and make us iodine deficient. Our thyroid needs iodine. T4 and T3 are build from iodine.

When I stopped all soy proteins, and supplemented more natural iodine (seaweed) within 6 months I started feeling better.