Question:
Please help......

Hello all you awesome people, I am about to embark on 3 more surgeries by the first of the year. I had the lap RNY on the 8th of October. Two of the surgeries are on my knees a few weeks apart and then the other is on my left arm...... My question is......Will being sendentery while on the mend for the next two months stop or drastically reduce my weight lose? This is driving me nuts to think It is going to slow me down at all....but hey I have to do this. So what do you guys think???? Is it gonna mess me up too bad???? God, I hope not!!! Are there any suggestions??? God Bless, Mary~    — mrysmth1 (posted on November 7, 2003)

November 7, 2003
hi mary, well right now, i am being somewhat sedidary due to the fact its been super cold here in canada...and i am still losing, your body also burns more cals while healing...just do what u can and catch up later..i hope u a speedy recovery. hugs Dawn
   — sweetdarling_ab

November 7, 2003
I was partially confined to a wheelchair when I had my sugery. I was sedentary for the first 3 months post op and I still lost weight. Depending on your knee surgery, your orthopedist may not want you sedentary. My legs and knees ahv been operated on 5 times so I could walk again. With the excpetion of rebuilding my right ankle, they MADE me get up and start walking after each of the 4 other surgeries. Evene after my ankle they had me getting around after 2 weeks. Good luck!!
   — M B.

November 7, 2003
The first six months or so, you continue to lose with or without exercise, though probably more so with exercise, so I wouldn't worry about it. Take care of yourself, heal, and when your ready get back into exercise...
   — Cindy R.

November 7, 2003
At about five months post-op, I had to quit exercising for about a month due to a medical procedure. I quit losing altogether and plateaued during that time, but at least I didn't gain. Once the procedure was over with and I was able to resume exercise again, the weight loss started up again. I know it drives you nuts thinking that you're losing part of your "honeymoon" period to other medical procedures, but like you said, you gotta do what you gotta do. On another occasion, I had a surgery that knocked ten more pounds off of me *after* I reached goal (even though I wasn't able to exercise for awhile because of that). So, you never know how these things will go. As long as you pick up where you left off once you're cleared to do so, any slowdown won't be a big deal, in the long run. Good luck with your surgeries.
   — Suzy C.

November 7, 2003
I'm just curious--why are you having knee surgery now, instead of waiting until you take some weight off? I've been having trouble with both my knees for some time now, and my doc's already said that I'll need at least one of them replaced. But he strongly advised me to wait until I took off some major pounds before scheduling knee surgery, since he said the less I weighed, the easier it would be for me to get back on my feet and the more readily my knees would heal.
   — MsBatt

November 7, 2003
What worries me here are your protein & iron levels. It's hard enough on us to do the WLS, but with compromised absorption, you may not have enough "fuel" on board to heal well. Are you pre-loading for these surgeries? Gotta have "glue" to heal.
   — vitalady